On This Day

[Mackka]

Ah yes, Prince Andrew was there as a chopper pilot, things certainly changed for him from hero to zero.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1817, a man in England sold his wife to another man for two guineas.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel in to outer space. Manning the Russian spacecraft Vostok 1, Gagarin was blasted in to outer space on a flight that lasted 108 minutes to become a national hero and help Russia leap to the forefront of the Space Race.

 

[Mackka]

O.J. Simpson died.

 

[kiwifred]

 

[grubstake]

Whoever wrote the caption for that pic has made a crucial error, as the Kon-Tiki had a six-man team aboard the raft. Heyerdahl was the leader of the group, but he was most certainly not "by himself".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition