On This Day…
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!
- Hameln
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Rorschacherberg
- Vashon Island, WA
- Herzliya
- Gourock, Scotland
- Nebraska
- Atlanta
- Maui, HI
- St Louis MO
- Cairo
- Reading
- Worcester
- Rorchacherberg
- Worcester
- London
- St. Gallen
- St. Gallen
- Vienna
- Birmingham
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:
- Take a photograph on a Saturday
- Upload the photograph
- Send a tweet to @SatScenes with the url
I’m looking forward to seeing your Saturday Scene in the next edition!