Brit Quote: People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it. - Noel Coward More Quotes
On this day:
Drake completes the first circumnavigation of the globe - 1580, 1st British Open Golf Championship - 1861, Blackpool illuminations light up for 1st time - 1925, 1st Birds Eye Fishfingers go on Sale - 1955, 21 IRA men escape from Maze Prison - 1983 More dates from British history
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