Monthly Archives: October 2009

1998: Witchcraft was blamed when a bolt of lightening killed all 11 members of a soccer team in the African Congo village of Bena Tshadi during a game in which both teams were evenly matched 1-1. 1998: a superbly preserved granite sphinx with the head of Cleopatra’s father was winched up by divers in...

1998: 77 year-old JOHN GLENN become the oldest astronaut in the world when he blasted off from NASA’S lauch site in Florida in space shuttle DISCOVERY, on its nine day flight to study the sun. (Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962) 1996: 2,000 sheep went on the march in...

2002: in 2002 Irish actor RICHARD HARRIS died in London after suffering from Hodgkin’s Disease. 1998: in 1998 PRINCE CHARLES and CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES issued their first joint statement rejecting any suggestion that they collaborated with author PENNY JUNOR on her biography CHARLES:VICTIM OR VILLAIN? which sought to shift the blame for the Prince’s...