Happy Anniversary: Rome calls it a day
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Your support makes all the difference.Some memorable anniversaries in the coming week, with Tuesday a particularly good day for nakedness.
23 August:
410: Visigoths sack Rome to put an end to Roman civilisation.
1977: Bryan Allen makes the first mile-long man-powered flight.
24 August:
79: Vesuvius shows that it is not extinct by burying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.
1906: Kidney transplants performed on dogs and cats at a Toronto medical conference.
1946: At Newquay, Maisie Dunn becomes the first to wear a bikini on a British beach.
1975: Annabel Hunt becomes the first actress to appear nude on British television during a broadcast performance of the opera Ulysses from Glyndebourne on STV.
25 August:
325: The General Council of Nicaea decide on the rules for working out the date of Easter.
1928: Anfield's Kop terrace is opened, named after the Battle of Spion Kop (from the Afrikaans Kopje, a hillock) during the Boer War. On the same day Ahmed Zog becomes the first King of Albania.
26 August:
1346: At the battle of Crecy, English soldiers become the first to use the longbow in warfare on the European mainland. They also pioneer the two-finger insult.
1959: First firing, in New Mexico, of an anti-missile missile.
1987: A sex-crazed elephant, running amok in Bangkok in search of a mate, is shot after killing two people and flattening a radio station.
27 August:
1883: Krakatoa erupts killing thousands in the resulting tidal waves, later inspiring the film, Krakatoa, East of Java. Actually, Krakatoa is west of Java. 1913: Lieutenant Peter Nesterov, of Russia, becomes the first pilot to loop the loop.
28 August:
1207: Liverool is created a borough by King John.
1988: The Yan Hee Polyclinic in Bangkok claims that pressing lettuce seeds in your ears 10 times before a meal kills hunger.
29 August:
1882: England lose to Australia at cricket for the first time.
1897: Chop Suey is invented by a New York chef to appeal to both Chinese and American tastes.
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