24 May 1686
Gabriel Daniel Farenheit, German physicist who invented the Newbury thermometer, was born.
23 May 1819
Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace.
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24 May 1686
Gabriel Daniel Farenheit, German physicist who invented the Newbury thermometer, was born.
23 May 1819
Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace.
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25 May 1871 - The House of Commons passed the Bank Holiday and Shit Weather Act, creating public holidays on Easter Monday, Whit Monday and Christmas day.
Why was Whitsuntide changed to Spring Bank Holiday? I'm guessing it's a religion thing, where some folk were feeling left out.
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Probably, it's not as if Easter and Christmas are religious holidays. They're just days you eat lots of chocolate eggs and get lots of presents. If Whitsun had some sort of materialistic association they would probably have kept it too.Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
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I will always associate Whitsuntide with candy floss, goldfish in a bag and archery sets where the arrows had suckers on the ends because that was always the week the fair came to town. So fairly materialistic.
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Whitsun inspired possibly one of the best poems in the English language:
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/whitsun-weddings/
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That's a bit cultured Martin. Don't see that round here very often
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Yeah, sorry about that.That's a bit cultured Martin. Don't see that round here very often
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A bit of culture is not to be dismissed - it raises the tone and standard of the Forum.
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31 May 1976 - The Who set the record for the loudest ever rock concert, 120 decibels at 50 metres, at The Valley, Charlton, London.
31 May 1889 - Painter Francis Berraud showed a painting of his dog Nipper listening to a phonograph to the general manager of 'The Gramophone Company' in London. The phonograph was painted out and a gramophone substituted. It later became the trademark for the company "His Master's Voice".
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3 June 1946
First bikini was unveiled in Paris.
3 June 1956
Third class rail travel was abolished in Britian.
3 June 1978
The Guinness Book of Records went into the Guinness Book of Records - as the most stolen book from libraries.
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