On This Day..... in History
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Hi Friends...
I have always been intrigued by what was going on in the past on a particular day... more like a history buff or bookworm, I decided to check it up on the net.... and Wow... I came up with amazing events unholding before me... ::)
So, here's the story for you....
I hope you like this post :)
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6th February 1958: United players killed in air disaster
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Seven Manchester United footballers are among 21 dead after an air crash in Munich. The British European Airways (BEA) plane caught fire shortly after take off this afternoon with 38 passengers and six crew on board.
The footballing world faced loss of some of its most talented young players - known as the Busby Babes.
Their average age was 24 and they included Roger Byrne - the captain - Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Tommy Taylor, Liam Whelan, David Pegg and Geoff Bent.
Queen was reported as 'deeply shocked'
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6th February 1971: Man plays golf on the Moon
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The first manned mission to the Moon since the near-disastrous Apollo 13 is on its way home after two successful moon walks.
There was just one moment of serious concern: as Apollo 14 left its orbit around the Earth for the Moon, a docking probe failed to work, putting the mission's ability to return in jeopardy.
In the event, a manual docking went perfectly.
There were also light-hearted moments. At the end of today's moonwalk, Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golfball on the Moon, using a ball and golf club head he had smuggled on board inside his space suit.
He hit two balls just before lift-off, and drove them, as he put it, "miles and miles and miles".
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6th February 1997: Widow allowed dead husband's baby
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The Court of Appeal has made an historic judgement in favour of a widow being inseminated with her dead husband's sperm. Stephen Blood caught meningitis in February 1995, two months after trying to start a family with his wife. He lapsed into a coma and died before agreeing in writing for his sperm to be used, although two samples had been removed at Mrs Blood's request.
The 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act banned Diane Blood, 32, from using her husband Stephen's sperm without his written consent.
The court said Mrs Blood should be allowed to seek fertility treatment within the European Community but not in the UK. In passing judgement -on what would have been Stephen Blood's birthday - Lord Woolf said: "the case raises problems for which there are no clear precedents and in relation to which the law is only clarified by the passage through the courts."
Mrs Blood, a freelance advertising executive from Nottingham, called the decision, "a victory for common sense and justice".
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Awesome post Shagun..........karma pending O0
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