WHAT YEAR DID IT HAPPEN
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Gas turbine car gets road test
Car manufacturers Rover have unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.1950
Since a groundhog (or woodchuck or “whistle pig”) hibernates for the winter, its coming out of the ground is a natural sign of spring. In Europe centuries ago, people watched for other hibernating animals, including badgers, bears, and hedgehogs, as signs of winter’s end. Germans who immigrated to Pennsylvania began keeping an eye on the groundhog.
What year or time frame?Football games of various types were played long before the 19th century but it was not until the middle of that century that rules were formulated and codified. The history of the game known as rugby football can be traced to three documented events: the publishing of the first set of written rules in 1845; the Blackheath Club decision to leave the FA in 1863 over the rejection by the FA of the rules of running with the ball in hand and hacking; and the formation of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. The game was known simply as rugby (football) and it was not until the schism with rugby league in 1895 over broken time payments that the moniker rugby union was generally applied to differentiate it from the 13 man code. Rugby union stuck to its Corinthian ideals of amateurism and it was not until the end of the 20th century under growing commercial pressure that the game turned professional.
:dunno:A car ferry has sunk in the Irish Sea in one of the worst gales in living memory claiming the lives of more than 130 passengers and crew.
The Princess Victoria, a British Railways car ferry, bound for Larne in Northern Ireland, had left Stranraer on the south-west coast of Scotland an hour before when the stern gates to the car deck were forced open in heavy seas.What year?
(OK I`m going for my walk now, catch you all later. I`m glad it`s not raining 🙂 )
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