Tag Archives: the english

February 10, 1840

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1840, Queen Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha. Queen Victoria was a carrier of the hemophilia gene, from which the ‘bleeding’ disease appeared among a number of the nine children and descendants. A famous case history in genetics was derived from the Victoria/Albert family tree. … Continue reading

Posted in 19th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

February 3, 2015

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 2015 the British House of Commons voted to approve letting scientists create babies from the DNA of three people. Dolly III, the grand-ewe of the original Dolly the Sheep, approved of allowing this scientific breakthrough in cloning and telepathically sent her approval from her throne room located at the … Continue reading

Posted in 21st Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

July 16, 1439

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1439 the Parliament of King Henry VI banned kissing. The was in response to a particularly virulent infection that was being spread and after having determined that evil spirits, the evil eye, and smoke-free air were not the cause, the doctors of the time determined that it had to … Continue reading

Posted in 15th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

March 22, 1906

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1906 France lost the first ever rugby game played against Britain and the Brits have never let them forget it.

Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

March 1, 1784

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1784, E. Kidner opened the first cooking school in Great Britain. He didn’t try and teach how to make the traditional Steak and Kidney pie, the blood puddings, bangers and mash, bubble and squeak, or spotted dick. Instead he concentrated on French and Italian cuisine because nobody really knew … Continue reading

Posted in 18th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

February 25, 1974

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1974, Veronica and Colin Scargill of England began a tandem bicycle ride that began in New York City and lasted until August 27, 1975 and saw the couple cross the entire world and spanned 18,020 miles. What is truly amazing was that as of 2012, the Scargills were still … Continue reading

Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

February 6, 1997

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1997, Diane Blood, age 32, of Worksop, England, won the right to use her dead husband’s sperm to become pregnant. Her husband, Stephen, died from bacterial meningitis in 1995. At the time of his death, he had been in a coma for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Blood had … Continue reading

Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

January 30, 1647

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1647, the Scots sold King Charles I to Parliament for the princely sum of 400,000 English pounds. Charles had lost the English Civil War and had run to the Scots hoping they’d thumb their noses at the English and give him sanctuary. The Scots did, until the English Parliament … Continue reading

Posted in 17th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

December 25, 1914

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1914 during World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce to celebrate Christmas Day. It is believed the Germans made the first move. During the evening of December 24 they delivered a chocolate cake to the British line accompanied by a note that proposed a cease … Continue reading

Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

December 18, 1912

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1912, the discovery of the partial skull fragments of the Piltdown Man in East Sussex was announced. This controversial discovery was declared by many in the scientific community to be the missing link between apes and humans. It was later proved to be a hoax in 1953 when scientists … Continue reading

Posted in 20th Century, Historical Facts | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment