The past is both public and private
Some things are lost, some things we hold dear
Things that matter to you, may not matter to me
These things happened this day – do we care what year?
The US Patent system was established
Paved the way, the safety pin patented
An IRA bomb in London’s Baltic Exchange
91 hurt, and 3 lives ended
Biological warfare banned by 70 lands
Columbia space launch ceased, malfunction fears
The Northern Ireland Peace Accord, “Good Friday Agreement”
Signed after 30 years
Gibraltar’s closed borders were opened
The Titanic started its fateful cruise
The Genoa conference planned Europe regeneration
After the First World War bruise
Austria declared war and entered Bavaria
The Netherlands made assisted suicide legal
House of Wax was released, the first 3D film
108 died in a plane crash in Basel
The Louvre closed for a day in protest of pickpockets
Hawaii opened its first hotel on the beach
Halley’s Comet made its closest pass to Earth
Omar Sharif was born, rest in peace
Napolean was defeated at the battle of Toulouse
We produced the first synthetic rubber
Russian troops recaptured Odessa from the Germans
Mount Tambora began a 3 month volcanic blubber
Scott Fitzgerald published the Great Gatsby
Rod Steigar got a Hollywood Star
Big Bens cracked bell got a shiny new model
Whilst 13 tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma
The Beatles split up
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