Happy Birthday Basil, Fawlty Towers is forty | A year in anniversary dates
Month by month, Kate’s keeping an eye on the anniversary calendar for you. With July and August out of the way this time Kate’s had a good look at September and October and is sharing some of the best anniversary dates here with you. As ever, there’s a real mix of humorous and serious events, so there’s something for everyone to celebrate. So, let’s kick off with September’s poor old King Edward II.
Interesting Fact | On the 9th September Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest reigning British Monarch having sat on the thrown for a record breaking 23,227 days.September was a terrible time for fourteenth century King Edward II who met his fate “Poker Style” murdered by his jailers, but there’s plenty more happier events to celebrate this month like Horacio Nelson being born on the 28th and it was on the same day three years earlier, in 1745, that God save the Queen was sung for the first time. September was also the month that Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, moved into number 10 downing street, Fawlty Towers was first broadcast forty years ago and chewing gum was produced commercially for the first time in 1848 – happy days.
"Happy 40th Birthday Fawlty Towers!"
Interesting Fact | Edward II, medieval King of England, allegedly met a grisly death by having a red-hot poker inserted into a particularly sensitive area of his anatomy...
In October The Post Office Tower is fifty this month and it would be very European to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of German unification and the Berlin Wall coming down. It’s also the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations being founded, but it’s not all so serious as we’re also celebrating twenty years of the hit teen TV series Hollyoaks and October is Pizza Month. Of course, it’s October’s annual Halloween fright fest on the 31st and while we’re thinking about ghosts goulies, wizards and witches, on October 20th the J.R.R. Tolkien classic The Lord of the Rings, is sixty. Oh, and don’t forget it’s National People’s republic of China day on the 1st October, but since it’s on a Thursday this year what better way to celebrate is to stay in and have a ‘Chinese’ – sorted.
"Happy 50th Birthday Post Office Tower!"
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Interesting Fact | Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is the second bestselling novel of all time with 50 million copies being sold. Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities came top selling 200 million copies worldwide.
See you again next time when Kate will be celebrating November and looking forward to Christmas...
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