Today is a momentus day!!! Why? Not only has the new royal baby been born.....finally.... but it is my Great Grandmothers 90th Birthday :)
And she is still a fit and healthy young lady!
90 years young
Fingers crossed she will share her birthday with the new royal!
Significant Events of 1923
First outside broadcast from BBC
Howard Carter opens the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
Wedding of The Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) in Westminster Abbey
Law to stop under 18s buying alcohol.
The BBC Broadcasts the chimes of the big ben for the first time!
Greece adopted the Gregorian Calendar
Time magazine hits the shelves for the first time.
Warner Bros. was founded
The Irish Civil War ended
Mt Etna erupts making 60,000 homeless
The Great KantÅ earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research centre report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead
A major fire in Berkeley, California erupts, consuming some 640 structures, including 584 homes in the densely built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California.
Roy and Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company
And finally a congratulations to Prince William and Kate on the birth of their new son, third in line to the throne; born at 4.42pm weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces.
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