Saturday Scenes

The 18th of April may not sound like an exciting day but a little bit of research shows that it is a day when seriously important things happen!

• 1025: Boleslaw Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland
• 1480: Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, was born
• 1775: Paul Revere begins his legendary midnight ride to warn his compatriots that British troops were approaching
• 1783: Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
• 1881: Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
• 1906: An earthquake, followed by fire, destroys most of San Francisco, killing 3000 people
• 1915: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
• 1949: Eire formally withdraws from the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
• 1956: Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1968: London Bridge was sold to an American who thought he was buying Tower Bridge.
• 1977: @vaxanta was born
• 1980: The southern African nation of Rhodesia is renamed Zimbabwe after it is granted black majority rule.
• 1982: Queen Elizabeth II signs the Constitution Act of 1982, which replaces the British North America Act of 1867 as Canada’s Constitution.
• 2009: Excellent photographs taken by people all over the world for SatScenes!

Seriously, this is just such a fun set of photos, I think you should click through on every single one!

You should take a look at the twitter streams of all of our talented Saturday Scene submitters:

• redalexred
• wolfgang
• capo42
• brack101
• pixelfreund
• pewari
• adhon
• akrabat
• PCurd
• embee
• ruhi
• illuminancy
• LannaGirl
• UKMelia
• joannayoung
• elibrody
• drewbenn
• vaxanta
• akaSylvia
• carocat

It’s easy to take part:

1. Take a photograph on a Saturday
2. Upload the photograph
3. Send a tweet to @SatScenes with the url

I’m looking forward to seeing your Saturday Scene in the next edition!