HISTORIC TITBITS
 

  The list of items here were found on sachets of sugar from the restaraunt at Lewisham hospital that I used whilst my wife was a patient at the hospital. They took around 11 weeks, in four separate spells, to collect. (My wife was there for a further 12 weeks after I completed the collection).
  I hope these snippets prove interesting and useful.
 

1 The Eiffel Tower 1889 Constructed by Alexander Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 Paris Exhibition
2 Roger Bannister 1954 Runs the first sub-four-minute Mile
3 Rocket 1829 Robert Stephenson built the first successful Steam Locomotive
4 Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973 One of the most prolific talents in 20th century art
5 Nelson Mandela 1918 - South Africa's first black president and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
6 The Wright Brothers 1903 Orville and Wilbur made the first powered flight
7 Alexander Fleming 1928 Discovered Penicillin
8 Sir Isaac Newton 1668 Invented the mirror telescope
9 Alexander Graham Bell 1876 Invented the telescope
10 Red Rum 1977 Wins the Grand National for the third time (Previous wins 1973 and 1974 and finished 2nd in 1975)
11 Queen Victoria 1837 - 1901 Reigned when the British Empire was at the height of its power
12 Christopher Columbus 1492 Crosses the Atlantic Ocean
13 The Bayeux Tapestry 1066 Depicts Harold being killed at the Battle of Hastings
14 England's Soccer team 1966 Winners of the World Cup (Jules Rimet trophy)
15 Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Great artist and designer/inventor
16 James Watson and Francis Chick 1953 Discover the structure of DNA
17 Charles Darwin 1859 Published the Theory of Evolution
18 The Suffragettes 1905 - 1915 Campaigning for womens rights at the beginning of the 20th century
19 The Crystal Palace 1851 Built by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition
20 Berlin Wall 1989 The wall was finally demolished
21 Mahatma Gandhi 1869 - 1948 Political leader during India's struggle for independence
22 William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 Poet - '...with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.'
23 Che Guevara 1928 - 1967 Latin-American revolutionary hero
24 Sir Walter Raleigh 1552 - 1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier to Elizabeth I
25 Earnest Rutherford 1919 Split the atom
26 Abraham Lincoln 1863 Announced the Freedom of slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation
27 Television 1936 The British Broadcasting Company began the first regular TV service in the world
28 Henry Ford 1868 - 1947 The Model 'T' was the first car to be mass produced
29 Space Exploration 1981 The maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle
30 James Watt 1736 - 1819 Developed the steam-engine that made the Industrial Revolution possible
31 Henry VIII 1491 - 1547 Created the Church of England, splitting from the Papacy in Rome
32 Charles Dickens 1812 - 1870 Author of many popular stories
33 Martin Luther King jr 1929 - 1968 U.S. civil rights campaigner, black leader and Baptist minister
34 Big Ben 1858 Cast on 10th April, the bell within the World's most famous clock
35 Winston Spencer Churchill 1874 - 1965 Wartime Prime Minister 1940 - 1945
36 Ludvig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827 Great composer
37 Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) * Olympic and World Champion boxer
38 Empire State Building 1931 Built and was the tallest building for 40 years
39 Concorde 1978 The Anglo-French Supersonic airliner entered service
40 World War 2 1939 - 1945 An estimated 55 million lives were lost
41 Guglielmo Marconi 1874 - 1937 In 1895 first used radio waves for communication
42 Duke of Wellington 1769 - 1858 British soldier and politician who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815
43 The Guttenburg Press 1455 The first printed book was produced by Johann Gutenburg
44 Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910 Easing the pain and suffering of soldiers in the Crimean war
45 Man on the moon 1969 On 20th July, Buzz Aldrin set foot on the Moon
46 William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Probably the World's best known playwright
47 Horatio Nelson 1758 - 1805 Defeated the French fleet at Trafalgar in 1805
48 Christiaan Barnard 1967 Peformed the World's first human heart transplant
49 Industrial Revolution 1779 The Iron bridge built in Shropshire
50 Auguste Rodin 1840 - 1917 Sculptured the Thinker in 1880

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