On 28th February 1405, during his uprising against the rule of Henry IV, Owain Glyndwr agreed the Tripartite Indenture with Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland and Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, to divide Wales and England between them.
* Glyndŵr was to have control Wales, and the English portions of the Welsh Marches
* Henry Percy was to have received the north of England.
* Edmund Mortimer was to have received southern England.
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On the last day of February, 1539, Thomas Forret, Vicar of Dollar, John Keillor and John Beveridge, two black-friars, Duncan Simpson a priest, and a gentleman named Robert Forrester, were all burned together on the Castle Hill on a charge of heresy; and it is melancholy to know that a king so good and so humane as James V. was a spectator of this inhuman persecution for religion, and that he came all the way from Linlithgow Palace to witness it. ….
……1874Arthur Orton, who claimed to be the long lost heir to the wealthy Tichborne estate in Hampshire, was found guilty of perjury after a trial of 260 days, the longest trial in England. He was sentenced to 14 years’ hard labour, as the real Sir Roger Tichborne had perished at sea in 1853.
1888In a Belfast street, a small boy named Johnny Dunlop was riding his tricycle under the supervision of his father. The two rear wheels of the tricycle were the world's first pneumatic tyres and he was testing them. The test was so successful that his father was granted patent number 10607 on 23rd July.
1958 The last episode of the British radio comedy programme 'The Goon Show' is broadcast. Although there was a one off revival many years later.
1958 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks.
1966The Cavern Club, Liverpool, where the Beatles and other pop groups began, was forced into liquidation.
1970, Led Zeppelin are obliged to play a gig in Copenhagen as The Nobs after Eva von Zeppelin, a relative of the airship designer, threatens to sue if the family name was used in Denmark.
Did Eva think it would damage the Zeppelin family's reputation? I think the bombings in WW1 might have done that already, not to mention the Hindenburg disaster!
