Today in history

3 rd October 1892

   Wigan Central station :
                                   Wigan Central station was on Station road some way
from the two main stations ( Wallgate and Northwestern ) , wich are on the
western edge of the town centre . Wigan Central was the eventual terminus of
the Wigan junction railways from Glazebrook west junction , it was built by
Manchester , Sheffield ,  and Lincolnshire railway , ( later to become the great
central ) and open on 3 rd October 1892 , when it replaced the Wigan Darlington
Street terminus , wich opened on 1 st April 1884. Central was about a third of a
mile nearer the town centre than Darlington Street .


       
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan_Central_railway_station


      http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wigan_central/



  with many thanks to Lolly

Blackpool early tomorrow , so here's weekends history


   4 th October 1957

              First satellite :
                                 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial
satellite to orbit the earth .

                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
   

   
 5 th October 1936

    Jarrow march :
                         The Jarrow march , an organised protest against the
unemployment and poverty , suffered in the English , Tyneside town of
Jarrow , during the 1930s , leaves for London


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March













 

6 th October 1985

Broadwater Farm riots :
Police Constable Keith Blakelock
is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Keith_Blakelock

7 th October 1988

Operation breakthrough :
A hunter discovered three grey whales
trapped under the ice near Alaska , the situation becomes a
multi - national effort to free the whales


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Breakthrough

8 th October 1952

The Harrow and Wealdstone train crash :
A three train collision at Harrow
and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone Middlesex , ( now greater London )
during the morning rush hour , kills one hundred and twenty people and
injures three hundred and forty others , ( eighty eight of these being detained
in hospital ) . It remains the worst peacetime rail crash i the United Kingdom


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash

This story featured on Heir Hunters concerning a very distant relative from the Wigan area whose mother and other family members were among the dead.They were en route to Southhampton to see off her brother who was emigrating.He survived and did later emigrate.

Thanks for your post, myg....and welcome.

Thank you Admin. I am looking forward to this site flourishing without the dubious behaviour seen elsewhere.

Nay fear, myg, WE have a Lolly on board....

9 th October 1986

Phantom :
The phantom of the opera , eventually the
second longest running musical in London , opens at
her Majesty's theatre


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1986_musical)



and also on this day

9 th October 1971

Administrators :
A great administrator was born who was to be a
key component in Wigans greatest forum


a happy birthday to the peer's Lolly


Have a geat day young lady

Seconded...

10 th October 1957

Windscale power plant :
A fire at the Windscale nuclear power plant
in Cumbria becomes Britain's worst nuclear accident . The fire burned
for three days , and there was a release of radioactive contamination
that spread across the United kingdom and Europe


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

11th October 1937

Edward and Wallis Simpson :
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
tour Nazi Germany for twelve days , and meet Adolf Hitler on the
22nd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_and_Duchess_of_Windsor%27s_1937_tour_of_Germany

12 th October 1984

The Brighton hotel bombing :
A provisional Irish Republican Army attempt
to assassinate the top tier of the British government , at the grand Brighton
hotel in Brighton . A long delay time bomb was planted by I R A member
Patrick Magee , with the purpose of killing Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet ,
who were staying at the hotel for the conservative party conference , although
Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped the blast , five people in the conservative
party were killed , including a sitting conservative party M.P . The blast also
injures thirty one people


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing

13 th Octoner 1917

The miracle of the sun :
The miracle of the sun was an event by an
estimated 70,000 people who had gathered in Fatima , Portugal to witness
a prophecy made by three shepherd children , the prophecy was that the
virgin Mary would appear and perform miracles on this date


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

14 th October 1066

The battle of Hastings :
The battle of Hastings was fought between the
Norman - French army of William Duke of Normandy , and the English army
under the Anglo Saxon king Harold Godwinson and ended in a decisive Norman
victory , beginning the Norman conquest of Britain. It took place seven miles
north west of Hastings


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

15 th October 1888

 The " from hell " letter :
                                   Also known as the Lusk letter , was a letter posted
along with half a human kidney , by a person who claimed to be Jack the ripper .
the letter's writer claimed to have eaten the other half of the kidney .


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter


   also today

15 th October 1969
   Fifty p :
              The fifty pence piece turns fifty today , brought in on this
day in 1969 to replace the " ten bob note "

                  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/14/newsid_3151000/3151539.stm

16 th October 1939

World war 11 :
During world war 11 , number
603 squadron R . A . F , intercepts the first
Luftwaffe raid on Britain


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._603_Squadron_RAF

17 th October 2000

The Hatfield rail crash :
The Hatfield rail crash was caused by a metal
fatigue induced de - railment , killing four people and injuring more
than seventy others . Reports of the accident found major flaws in the
communication and maintenance aspects of Railtrack , and eventually led
to the collaope of the company


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_rail_crash

18 th October 1954

   Transistor radio :
                           Texas instruments announces the first transistor radios ,
the pocket sized transistor radios sparked a change in popular music listening
habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio

19th October 1216

   Britains worst monarch :
                                      King John of England , allegedly Britains worst
Monarch , dies at Newark - on - Trent , and is succeeded by his nine year old
son Henry . Soon after his death , numerous , probably ficticious rumours
circulated that he had been killed by poisoned ale , poisoned plums or a
( surfeit of peaches ) . The official cause was dysentery . king John is mostly
associated with his clashes with the outlaw Robin Hood


        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John,_King_of_England

20 th October 1982

Luzhniki disaster :
In Moscow during a EUFA cup match
between F.C Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem sixty
six people are crushed to death in a stampede . This is
Russia's worst sporting disaster


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster

21 st October 1954

     Royal visit :
                     This was a short duration visit by Queen Elizabeth
and the duke of Edinburgh in order for her majesty to perform the
official opening ceremony of the John McCurdy hall for further
education at the Wigan mining and technical college , located in
Parsons walk . The visit slotted into the royal couple's busy two day
tour of south Lancashire . The Schedule being their arrival at Wigan
North west station at 10.00 am and onto Parsons walk for the ceremony
commencing at 10.10 am , and their departure by car at 10.30 am ,
travelling through Ashton in makerfield to the east Lancashire road and
onwards to Wingle , St Helens and Knowsley hall . The afternoon visits
were to Bootle , and Liverpool , and the following day to Bolton , Bury
Salford , Manchester Oldham , Shaw , and Rochdale




     https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Leisure/Museums-and-archives/archives/Royal-visits/Royal-Visits-to-Wigan.pdf


  with many thanks to lolly