October 17, 2020 - What is special On This Date

Some of today's special days are described below. In which today's day is described in full. 

•“Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation dwells in the cottage; and unless the light of your constitution can shine there...you have yet to learn the duties of Government.”

John Bright, Liberal MP, was born #OnThisDay 1811.

•#OTD 1897. Birth of Nye Bevan in Tredegar, South Wales 

Bevan rose through the trade union ranks as a miner to become Labour Health Minister in 1945, overseeing the introduction of the NHS.

“He was, I believe, the most principled great political leader of the century in the sense that to sustain and apply his principles in practice was the motive power of his life.”

Michael Foot on Aneurin Bevan, Labour Party politician who was born #OnThisDay 1897.

•Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Curie was born OnThisDay in 1867.

•Karen Harrison was born #OnThisDay in 1960. 

She was the first woman to be accepted to train as a driver on Britain's railways.

In addition to her role as a driver, she fought for the rights of other women, and minorities, in the rail industry and active in @ASLEFunion On twitter.

•#OnThisDay in 1904, King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade.

•#otd 16 November 1272

Henry III died

He was king of England, Lord of Ireland & Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

•Happy Born Day John Earl Warren Jr

Nov 16, 1946 – Jan 14, 1969

Warren was a U.S. Army officer (First Lieutenant) and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.