Random Fact: New! Grab iGoogle gadget for FactsCollection.com!
British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman. 
/
- 0 / 0
/ - 0 / 0 Facts in category: ALL
| The 1954 syndicated TV series Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as a railroad detective, was the first western to win an Emmy. |
| Zhou Youguang is credited as the "father of pinyin", the official romanization in the People's Republic of China. |
| The four rowhouses at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York, are the only ones left along that street in the city's Fifth Ward. |
| Three species of sea turtle, including critically endangered Hawksbill turtle, visit the Hikkaduwa coral reef. |
| William Blake's The French Revolution calls for the destruction of the Bastille (pictured) and sees the revolution in apocalyptic terms. |
| Charles de Saulles coached an undefeated football team of workers from a Kansas zinc smelting works that defeated the Carlisle Indians and was dubbed "the oddest football team in the country"?. |
| In 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections. |
| During World War II, Jan Dahm, Leif Utne and Bjarne Thorsen helped operate an illegal radio transmitter in Bergen codenamed "Theta". |
| The Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad was the last railroad in America to use steam locomotives exclusively in common carrier freight service. |
| All twenty of David Bowie's solo studio albums from Hunky Dory (1971) to date have reached the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. |
| Rob Smets suffered a broken neck three times before retiring for good from the sport of rodeo bullfighting in 2006. |
| Letters on a Regicide Peace, by Edmund Burke (pictured), criticises the British government for seeking peace with the Directory of revolutionary France when France threatened to invade Britain. |
| although the NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes has announced the induction of three sets of "brothers", only George and Sandy Scott are actually related. |
Page 30 of 2206
