Living in the Dakota building, John Lennon and Yoko Ono apparently employed a man 'whose sole job was to polish the apartment's brass doorknobs' .
Fact of the Day
Quote of the Day
"No-one loves armed missionaries
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~ Robespierre, 1792
On This Day
1455 The Wars of the Roses began with Richard of York's decisive victory over the Lancastrian forces at the First Battle of St Albans.
1906 Two American brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, were granted a US Patent for their 'Flying Machine'.
1915 227 people were killed in Britain's worst rail disaster at Quintinshill, Gretna Green, in Scotland.
1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between known as the 'Pact of Steel'.