On This Day

[crystal ball]

Three police officers shot dead 60 years ago, we were on holiday down south, my dad was sitting on a bench waiting for me and mother, he was approached by two constables and questioned, he did have a passing resemblance to Harry Roberts

 

[Odds]

In 1916, on his fourth attempt, explorer Ernest Shackelton successfully returned to Elephant Island in Antarctica to rescue 22 of his stranded crew members, who had survived on the barren island for four and a half months after the sinking of their ship, the Endurance.

#hardcoreheroes - (not one of them so much as thought about eating another bloody seal.)

 

[JohnD]

On this day we remember the famous French footwear designer, whose beach shoe bears his name.

Phillipe Féloppe