Inigo Jones the architect was born today in 1573. At his death, 79 years later, he fell out of a window in the banqueting hall at Whitehall that he was working on. a colleague standing nearby saw the dreadful accident and shouted 'Inigo!' Iniwent.
The above joke was first broadcast in The Seven Faces of Jim starring Jimmy Edwards and Ronnie Barker c 1966. The old one are the best.
In other news ...
Edward Boeing set up his Pacific Aero Products Company today in 1916. Many years later somebody wrote a play about him. It was called Boeing Boeing and was set in his home town of Seattle Seattle.
