This month’s dose of trivia and anecdote sees a Yorkshireman insulting an England cricketer, the young Beyoncé training her voice in an unusual way, and Keith Floyd taking revenge on a table of diners who’d made one of his waitresses cry…
All three female Prime Ministers of the UK have had the same initials, albeit one of them with the order reversed
- 1 September 1969 – Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya. He subsequently abolished all military ranks above his own one of Colonel, because he was fearful of people launching a coup against him.
- 2 September 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out. It famously started in a baker’s shop on Pudding Lane, which might lead you to assume that the lane was named after the shop. Not so: the lane, which slopes sharply down towards the Thames, was in effect an open sewer, and the ‘puddings’ were… well, let’s just say they’d emerged from people’s bodies.
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