Robert Walpole, the Whig leader whose career was a byword for corruption, moved into the new house for Prime Ministers, Number 10, Downing Street, today in 1735. Next door was one of his cronies, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (oh, no, wait a minute - that was Walpole too). Everybody else in the street was so appalled by their new neighbour that they not only left, they had their houses demolished.
In other news ...
It was today in 1980 that Idi (The Last King of Scotland) Amin told Uganda's 80,000 Asians they had 48 hours to leave the country.
The whites were given six minutes.
