26 July 2009

Daily Chat 26/07/09


Incan emperor Atahualpa was executed by Spanish conquistadors in 1533. The first recorded women's cricket match was played near Guildford in 1755 between sides from the villages of Hambledon and Bramley. The event was reported in the Reading Mercury, which noted, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game." In 1963, an earthquake near Skopje, Yugoslavia, left 1,100 dead. Celebrating birthdays today: Darlene Love, Mick Jagger, Helen Mirren, Roger Taylor (Queen, not Duran Duran), Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock and Kate Beckinsale. It is Independence Day in Liberia and the Maldives.