Father Frances Xavier came back from two years in Japan today in 1551. He was the first Westerner to live among the Japanese and said of them '... no finer people will be found.'
That's because he wasn't building the Burma-Thailand Railway.
In other news ...
Today in 1906 a man died in Glasgow when 300,000 gallons of whisky burst out of vats. He had to get out three times to go to the loo.
What do you mean, you've heard it before? It was pretty new in 1906.
