Bad boy rapper Chris Brown arrested for GBV.
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. | Chinese Proverb
When the pyramids in Egypt were being built, mammoths were still alive.
1525 At the battle of Frankenhausen, a German peasant army is surrounded and 5 000 of their number are slaughtered, effectively ending the peasants’ uprising.
1536 Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England, and her brother George, Lord Rochford, stand trial, accused of adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially selected jury, freeing King Henry VIII to marry again.
1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
1793 Spaniard Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for 360m, at a height of 5–6m, in one of the first manned flights.
1900 Boer War: General Buller’s troops capture Dundee and Glencoe from the Boers.
1911 More than 300 Chinese immigrants are massacred when Mexican revolutionaries take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
1936 Amy Johnson sets a record London-Cape Town-London flight (12 days, 15 hours).
1940 McDonald’s first opens in California.
1990 Brothel keeper Lindi St Clair, aka Miss Whiplash, loses her 15-year battle against Britain’s taxman, who was prosecuting her because it considered prostitution to be a trade, prompting St Clair to say the taxmen were “nothing more than Her Majesty’s pimps”, a sentiment that might be widely agreed with.
2010 Jessica Watson, 16, becomes the youngest person to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world.
2019 Findings from China’s Chang’e-4 moon rover suggests a huge asteroid created the giant crater on the moon’s far side with an impact so great that it cracked its crust and reached the mantle below.
2023 Martha Stewart is Sports Illustrated's oldest-ever cover model, appearing as part of its swimsuit issue. The 81-year-old is a pioneering expert in cooking, entertaining, gardening, and home renovation and felon.
2025 Bad boy US R&B singer Chris Brown, 36, is arrested and jailed in Manchester on a charge of Grievous Bodily Harm after ‘smashing a tequila bottle over music producer Abraham Diaw’s head at a London nightclub in 2023’. Two more charges have been added. The trial is set for October 2026.
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