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@JAJRobertson Happy birthday Jeremy.

Have a great day.

“Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it.”

#OTD in 1872, Roald Amundsen was born in Norway 🇳🇴.

One of the greatest explorers in history, Amundsen was the first man to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and to navigate the Northwest Passage.

#OTD in 1916, the Arab Revolt began.

T.E. Lawrence advised attached British officers:

“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.”

#OTD in 1671, Thomas Blood tried to steal the Crown Jewels.

A newsletter recorded:

"5 men coming on horseback to the Tower...went into see the Crowne...& when admitted 2 of them...bound, wounded and gagged Mr. Edwards who had the custody of it and carried away the Crowne..."

#OTD in 1816, Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire.

Brontë is best remembered for Jane Eyre, her 1847 masterpiece.

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

#OTD in 1580, the Dover Straits earthquake occurred.

An eyewitness recorded:

“Churches, Pallaces, houses, and other buildings did so quiver and shake, that such as were then present in the same were toosed too and fro as they stoode, and others…driven off their places.”

#OTD in 1809, the Berners Street hoax was played.

Theodore Hook bet Samuel Beazley he could make any house in London the most talked-about address in a week.

Hook wrote thousands of invitations, letters and orders in the name of Mrs Tottenham of 54 Berners Street, Westminster.

Today is #NationalPoetryDay.

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me."

From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Grey.

#OTD in 1356, the bloody Battle of Poitiers was fought in France.

An English army led by Edward of Woodstock (the Black Prince) defeated a much larger Franco-Scottish army led by King John II of France.

King John, his youngest son and many other French noblemen were captured.

#OTD in 1918, the decisive Battle of #Amiens began.

Amiens was the start of the Hundred Days Offensive - the last 100 days of the First World War, when Anglo-French forces drove back and essentially defeated Germany.

Ludendorff called today “the black day of the German Army".