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#OnThisDay @themichaelowen scored the injury-time winner against @ManCity.
and went on to solidify his status with "if you can't beat them, join them" after @ManUtd secured the Premier League the season after.
#smsports #sportsedits #mufc #michaelowen
#OnThisDay 1693 the first HMS MEDWAY was launched in the @RoyalNavy Dockyard at #Sheerness Today the name is still strong in the RN in it’s newest warship the River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel @HMS_Medway who is the 11th ship to carry the name.
#onthisday in 1806 Aberdeen Artist William Dyce was born
Beatrice, 1859 by William Dyce will hang in Gallery 18 of the newly refurbished Art Gallery, reopening 2 November!
Find out more:
https://t.co/2sTSVTLN5L
Happy birthday, Trajan!
#onthisday in AD 53, the emperor Trajan was born in Italica, Spain. During his reign, the Empire would reach its largest extent after his conquest of Dacia and much of Parthia.
#OnThisDay September 17, 1995, "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part Two)" first aired on the Fox network. Dir: Wes Archer. Wr: @thatbilloakley @Joshstrangehill. EP: @DaveMirkin.
This pencil drawing on card is of Potter Heigham, Norfolk and was drawn #onthisday in 1928, by King's Lynn artist Walter Dexter. #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1620, the Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England.
https://t.co/sQ7iy2mHTe
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, -invented the thermometer-, died #OnThisDay in 1736.
Today in #history: Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy. (668 CE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/HjprZRQV4v
Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died #onthisday in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died. #GloriousGeorgians
🎨 Anselm Feuerbach, "Paolo and Francesca", 1863 #Art #Painting #BornOnThisDay
#TodayInMystery 2010
Explorers discover the wreck of the legendary City of Everett in the Gulf of Mexico. The whaleback freighter, the first steamship to circle the globe, sank while hauling Cuban molasses to #NewOrleans in 1923.
#mystery #discovery #archaeology #OTD #OnThisDay
#StarTrek TOS, first aired #OnThisDay in 1966 @StarTrek @StarTrek_DST @WilliamShatner @ShopLLAP @GeorgeTakei @NichelleIsUhura @roddenberry happy Anniversary! 🖖🏼
#OnThisDay in 1939, the Principal said "If we can, we shall go on with our University duties... Both during and after the war our country and the world will have need, more than ever, of the best service of well trained minds and characters." More: https://t.co/YEWrdVtO6E #WW2
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: #Swedish #politician Count Carl Gustaf #Tessin (1695-1770)
#Portrait by Louis #Tocqué (1696-1772), 1741
#FrenchArt #Portraiture #Rococo
#Nationalmuseum
#OnThisDay in 1857, Joseph Paton Maclay, 1st Baron Maclay and chairman of the shipping company Maclay & Macintyre, was born. After the death of two of his sons in World War I, Maclay gifted what today is Maclay Halls of Residence to the University in their memory.
#OnThisDay in 1666, the Great Fire of London broke out.
It burned more than 10,000 buildings, which represented the 80% of the city. However, just 16 people perished.
The Great Fire of #London broke out #OnThisDay 1666.
Lord Craven was one of those to help fight the blaze & afterwards appointed himself unofficial 'fire marshal' for the city. He also offered to fund rebuilding the Royal Exchange out of his own pocket
#twitterstorians