On This Day 1908 The Ford Model T went on sale in America at a cost of $825. Known as the Tin Lizzie it sold in great in great numbers and in a recent international poll it was voted the most influential motor car of the 20th Century. The saying you can have any colour you like as long as its black stems from the Model T 1910 Bonnie Elizabeth Parker American outlaw was born. (In her short two year life of crime with Clyde Barrow they committed over 100 armed robberies and killed 13 people including 7 police officers. They life of crime has been the subject of several films and even pop songs. Bonnie was just 26 years old when she died in a hail of gunfire. I will also post a video of their car filmed after they were killed) 1864 Rose ONeal Greenhow American socialite and spy died. (Rosie used her position as a well known socialite mixing with high ranking Unionist officer to gather information for the Confederates forces in the American Civil War. Her death came about when the ship she was on hit a reef and was stuck, afraid of arrest she escaped in a rowing boat but it capsized and she was weighed down by the about of gold coins that she had sewn into her underwear and she drowned)
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:42:32 +0000
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