The most bizarre incident in History occurred occurred today in 1950 when an American soccer team beat an English football team 1-0. You must understand, younger reader, that this was a time when nobody beat a British team, still less the Americans.
The reason, by the way, why no one has ever beaten an American football team playing American football (as opposed to soccer) is that no one understands the rules.
In other news ...
On this day in 1914, a 19 year old student, Gavrilo Princip, was sitting outside a cafe in Sarajevo. He was a member of a revolutionary gang, the Black Hand and was feeling pretty pleased with himself because he had just heard bombs going off across the city and felt pretty sure that his terrorist group's target, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, must be dead.
Imagine his surprise then when an open-topped car drove slowly past carrying Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. So what did Gavrilo do? He shot both the car's occupants dead and caused millions more deaths in World War One.
