On this day

May 13 2009
Babestation is on Freeview for the first time.
It started at midnight on ch33.
The girls on the show were Donna, Geri and Megan.

1796 - Edward Jenner became the first British physician to carry out a successful vaccination; on an eight year old boy against smallpox. His pioneering work laid the foundation for modern immunology techniques.

1847 - HMS Driver completed the first circumnavigation of the world by a steamship when it arrived back at Spithead on the Hampshire coast.

1894 - Blackpool Tower Circus first opened to the public and 30,000 people paid a 6d entrance fee.

1536 - The trial of Anne Boleyn. She was accused of incest, sleeping with 4 men and an assassination plot against her husband, King Henry VIII. She was found guilty and executed four days later.

1718 - The first machine gun was patented by London lawyer James Puckle who, as a keen fisherman, intended to use it at sea! He began to manufacture it in London in 1721.

1957 - Britain's first hydrogen bomb was exploded on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. The effect of the radiation on some of the British soldiers who watched the test only came to light many years later.

1990 - Home produced beef was banned in UK schools and hospitals as a result of concern over 'mad cow disease' (BSE).

1220 - Henry III of England laid the foundation stone of a new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, thus beginning the new abbey-church which was completed in 1245.

1568 - Mary Queen of Scots fled to England. Disguised as an ordinary woman, she crossed the River Solway and landed at Workington, Cumbria, spending her first night at Workington Hall.

1908 - Britain’s first diesel submarine was launched.

1943 - The famous ‘Dam Busters’ raid by the 617 Squadron of Lancaster bombers led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson breached the Mohne, Eder and Sorpe dams in Germany using the ‘bouncing’ bombs developed by Dr Barnes Wallis. They practiced their techniques at the Derwent Dam in Derbyshire where there is a memorial to them. The Eder was Europe’s largest dam, and massive damage and loss of life were caused by flood water, as well as a serious loss of hydroelectric power for the German industrial area of the Rhine.

1861 - A group of holidaymakers set off from London on the first foreign 'package trip' arranged by Thomas Cook. It was a six day holiday in Paris.

1899 - Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

1916 - The Daylight-Saving Act (Summer Time) was passed in Britain.

1978 - The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin, missing since his grave was pillaged nearly two months previously, was found.

2000 - Two Royal Marine commandos (Corporal Alan Chambers, 31, and Marine Charlie Paton, 29) became the first Britons to reach the geographical North Pole.

1951 - Britain’s first four-engined jet bomber, the Vickers Valiant, made its maiden flight.

1954 - The European Convention on Human Rights came into force.

1991 - Chemist Helen Sharman from Sheffield was the first Briton to go into space, as a participant in a Soviet space mission.

1536 - Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII's second wife, was beheaded in London. She was 29 years old. Although the evidence against her was unconvincing, the charges brought included incest with her brother and no less than four counts of adultery.

1935 - T E Lawrence, English soldier and writer (known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia) died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

1962 - Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1191 - English King Richard I 'the Lion Heart' conquered Cyprus on his way to join the Crusaders in north west Israel.

1867 - Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone for the Royal Albert Hall.

1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

1993 - Britain finally ratified the Maastricht Treaty which allowed greater co-operation between members of the European Union.

1471 - Henry VI, King of England, was murdered in the Tower of London where he had been imprisoned by Edward IV, who then resumed the throne.

1956 - The United States exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb, over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

2007 - The Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London. She was the last surviving clipper.

1859 - Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1960 - A magnitude 9.5 earthquake, the strongest on record, struck southern Chile. Approximately 1,655 people were killed and 3,000 injured.

1981 - Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, was sentenced to life imprisonment after the judge described him as 'an unusually dangerous man'. He was found guilty of killing 13 women and the attempted murder of 7 others.