Today in 1983, after 11 seasons, the final episode of the sitcom M*A*S*H airs. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital aka M*A*S*H The final episode had over 106 million viewers watching across the world, which was 77% of the television audience at the time. Ending the story of the front line medical unit supporting the American army…
Category: February
27 February…
The youngest co-discoverer of insulin was born today in 1899. Charles Herbert Best was born in West Pembroke USA, to Herbert and Luella Best. After enlisting in the Canadian Army in 1918, Best returned home in 1919 and completed an undergraduate degree in Physiology and Biochemistry. By spring of 1921, he had graduated from his…
26 February…
French author, poet and playwright, Victor Hugo was born today in 1802, in Besancon, France. He is best known for his novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Miserables (1862) Do you know what Hugo’s cured for writers block was? He would enter a empty room, with a pen and paper and be completely…
25 February…
Today in 1475, the last male heir to the House of York is born. Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick was born in Warwick, England. The only surviving son of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence. George Plantagenet was the brother of King Edward IV and later King Richard…
24 February…
One half of the Grimm’s Brothers is born today in 1786. Wilhelm Carl Grimm was born in Hanau, Germany. The third child to Philipp (a lawyer) and Dorothea Grimm. The Grimm Brothers are famous for their fairytales and folktales, which are still in publication today. At 26 years old Wilhelm and his older brother Jacob…
23 February…
In the cold cells of York Castle, John Palmer is identified as the elusive Richard “Dick” Turpin in 1739. Dick Turpin originally followed his fathers trade in 1730’s as a butcher, but began to lose track of a civil life when he joined a gang of deer thieves. Thieving became poaching, which turned into burglary,…
22 February…
Do you know what covered the newspapers in England today in 1997? The birth of a little sheep called Dolly. What makes Dolly special is that she is the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell – a thought that was previously deemed impossible. Whilst her media birthday is 22nd February 1997,…
21 February…
Everything in life must start somewhere, including the symbol for peace. The world renowned symbol of peace was designed today in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a British artist and designer. Now more commonly know as the peace symbol, the symbol was originally created for and known as the logo of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament…
20 February…
Today in 1935, Caroline Mikkelsen is the first woman to set foot on the Antarctic island. Caroline was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who jointed the 8 crew members of the whale oil tanker M/S Thorshavn to Antarctica. The Captain of the ship was Klarius Mikkelsen, who was also Carolines husband. in light of the Norwegian discovery,…
19 February…
A few days ago, in 1600, loud booming noises were reported from the Huaynaputina volcano in southern Peru. Fog-like gas was then seen coming from the crater with ash being blown into the air. “Local Wizards” tried to appease the volcano by offering the sacrifice of pets, flowers, and more worryingly, children. But nothing could…
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