Example sentences of "on this day " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this day he was gliding home to our airfield and only just made it back with less than a hundred feet as he arrived flying downwind over the boundary . |
| 2 | On this day : Saladin entered Jerusalem , 1187 ; the Duke of York captured Alkmaar in the Netherlands , 1799 ; Rome became the capital city of Italy , 1870 ; Brigham Young , Mormon leader , was arrested for bigamy , 1871 ; the first Royal Naval submarine was launched at Barrow , 1901 ; the first rugby football match was played at Twickenham , 1909 ; Italy invaded Ethiopia , 1935 ; the liner Empress of Britain , bound for Canada with refugees , was sunk , 1940 ; the British Council received a Royal Charter , 1940 ; 338 people died when the Queen Mary liner collided with the British cruiser Curacao , which sank off the coast of Donegal , 1942 ; a new island , with a volcano at the centre , appeared off Fayal Island , Azores 1957 ; Guinea became an independent republic , 1958 ; the first London performance of the musical show Promises , Promises was presented , 1968 . |
| 3 | On this day : the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes was renamed Yugoslavia , 1929 ; the first British atomic device was exploded in the Monte Bello islands in the Pacific , 1952 ; the Bolshoi Ballet appeared at Covent Garden for the first time , 1956 . |
| 4 | On this day : Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated , 1238 ; Miles Coverdale 's translation of the Bible was published , 1535 ; William Smith founded the Boys Brigade , Glasgow 1883 ; the first public escalator was opened , Earl 's Court underground station 1911 ; Hitler and Mussolini met at the Brenner Pass , 1940 ; the USSR launched Sputnik 1 , the world 's first artificial satellite , 1957 ; the first transatlantic passenger jet service started operating , 1958 ; USSR 's Lunik III , took the first close-up pictures of the moon , 1959 ; Pope Paul VI visited New York , the first pope to visit America , 1965 . |
| 5 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 6 | On this day : Captain Cook landed in New Zealand , 1769 ; the Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser newspaper was first issued , US 1796 ; the Rainhill trials of railway locomotives began , 1829 ; the Mormons in Utah renounced bigamy , 1890 ; Sir Henry Wood began Promenade Concerts at the Queen 's Hall , London , 1895 ; Manchester University was opened , 1903 ; Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina , 1908 ; 243 people died when the US freighter Ticonderoga was sunk by a German U-boat , 1918 ; the Jazz Singer , the first feature-length talking film , began showing in New York , 1927 ; Chiang Kai-shek became president of China , 1928 ; the first production of the musical show Nymph Errant was presented , London , 1933 ; the Berlin airlift ended , 1949 . |
| 7 | On this day : the Battle of Lepanto was fought , 1571 ; The Independent was first published , 1986 . |
| 8 | On this day : King 's College , London , was opened , 1831 ; Charles Nessler first used a permanent waving machine on a woman 's hair , 1905 ; Britain 's tallest building , the Post Office Tower in London , opened , 1965 ; Britain 's first legal commercial radio station , LBC , started transmitting , 1973 . |
| 9 | On this day : Louis XII , King of France , married Mary Tudor , sister of Henry VIII , 1514 ; the first Luddite riots against the introduction of machinery for spinning cotton started , Manchester 1779 ; Hobart , Tasmania , was founded , 1804 ; the Universal Postal Union was founded , Rome 1875 ; the first petrol-driven motor bus began operating in London , 1899 ; the Labour government fell , 1924 ; King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou , French foreign minister , were assassinated by a Croatian terrorist , Marseilles 1934 ; the first London production of the musical show Porgy and Bess was presented , 1952 ; the breathalyzer test came into force in Britain , 1967 . |
| 10 | On this day : Lucius Plancus founded Lyons , 43 BC ; rioters burnt down Nottingham Castle , 1831 ; Henry Morton Stanley met Dr Livingstone , Ujiji 1871 ; the Savoy Theatre opened with a performance of Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan , London 1881 ; Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess opened in New York City , 1935 ; Tristan da Cunha islanders were evacuated following a volcanic eruption , 1961 ; the XVIIIth Olympic Games opened in Tokyo , 1964 ; Fiji became independent , 1970 ; Sir John Betjeman became Poet Laureate , 1972 ; Spiro Agnew resigned as US Vice-President after being fined $10,000 for income tax evasion , 1973 ; in the General Election , Labour was returned with an overall majority of three , 1974 . |
| 11 | On this day : the Order of the Bath was constituted , 1399 ; Pope Leo X conferred the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ on Henry VIII , 1521 ; Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia , 1669 ; the Chicago Fire ended , having almost completely destroyed the city at a cost of $196m , 1871 ; the Anglo-Boer War started , 1899 ; Czechoslovakia became an independent republic , 1918 ; inflation overtook German currency , with the mark dropping to an exchange rate of 10,000m to the pound , 1923 ; fighting broke out in China between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Tse-tung , 1945 ; Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Ecumenical Council , 1963 . |
| 12 | On this day : Christopher Columbus discovered San Salvador , 1492 ; the first Morris Minor car designed by Alec Issigonis was produced at Cowley , 1948 . |
| 13 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 14 | On this day : the Battle of Hastings was fought , 1066 ; Mary , Queen of Scots was tried , 1586 ; Marie Antoinette was tried , 1793 ; bread riots took place in Hyde Park , 1855 ; Oxford degrees were first conferred on women , 192050-pence coins were issued to replace the 10-shilling note , 1969 . |
| 15 | On this day : the new calendar , as promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII , came into force in Italy and Spain , and 5 October became 15 October , 1582 . |
| 16 | First he had to sustain the shock of getting up at eight am , then he had to wash and transform his carefully arranged untidy hair into real tidiness , for on this day , the bucket hat was taboo . |
| 17 | On this day , early in 1940 , the hut was still there and a few deckchairs , but that was about all . |
| 18 | But on this day , an unusually cloudless Sunday late in October , I had travelled from Cornwall ; the train was two hours late , and I rushed , humping my case , past the mute crowds gazing up at the information board , towards the taxi rank . |
| 19 | We did so on this day . |
| 20 | Capel was the captain on this day and he ordered up his brother to take the important penalty kick . |
| 21 | It is the happiest of coincidences for them that on this day when the mind of thinking adults in this country is concentrated on whom not to vote for , the Masters opens at Augusta . |
| 22 | Even Gideon didna begrutch the food on this day . |
| 23 | On this day we would come to the other end of the running spectrum , to the fastest men and women on earth whose triumphs would depend upon mere hundredths of a second in the 100 metres . |
| 24 | Past champions also watched , wondering if history would be made on this day . |
| 25 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 26 | The Huddersfield Weekly Examiner stated that ‘ more people visited the town on this day than on any previous Feast Sunday for many years … ’ |
| 27 | The ‘ ordinary ’ on this day was Adel War Memorial Hall , where a three course lunch awaited . |
| 28 | Feast day in Bellerby used to be the Wednesday after Whitsunday , but in 1933 it was moved to Whit Monday as people no longer had a holiday on this day . |
| 29 | On this day I drank : … glasses of water … cups/mugs of tea … cups/mugs of coffee … glasses of fruit juice … other drinks , including alcohol This makes … litres . |
| 30 | Helen had agreed to help us out on this day of days , and she and I rescued the trolley and staggered around , heaving Changez 's junk into the back of the big Rover . |