Tag: Health and Safety

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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

31st January 2023
Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Health and Safety, Law, Legislation, United Kingdom

The modern 3-point seat belt was created by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin, who was a safety engineer for car manufacturer Volvo.

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17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people

17th October 2020
Tagged as: Alcohol, Beer, Britain, Drowning, England, Health and Safety, London, Poverty, Slum, United Kingdom

On the 17^th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.

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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

3rd June 1989: Tiananmen Square protesters fired on by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army

2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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