TODAY’S FACTS: 1st September :
England dished out a long overdue 5-1 defeat to Germany on this day in 2001.
In Luxemburg it is Kermesse today. It means ‘carnival’, and it’s a bacchanalian celebration of horse racing, cycling and eating chips with mayonnaise. Probably.
Canadian PM Mackenzie King held a séance on this day in 1939, in which spirits told him that Adolf Hitler had been shot dead by a Pole. (That is someone from Poland, as opposed to a long bit of wood).
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse” W C Fields.
..."Thank you, come again"...
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