Tuesday 25th June DID YOU KNOW THAT TODAY: In 1667 Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, a French doctor, performed the first blood transfusion? In 1903 Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell) was born in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India? In 1953 John Christie was sentenced to hang for murdering his wife and then hiding her body under the floorboards of their Notting Hill home in London? In 1985 Thirteen people were arrested in connection with a suspected IRA bombing campaign uncovered by police two days previously? In 1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher died in Paris at the age of 87?
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:39:05 +0000
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