99 years ago today 30/1/1917: Private MP Crayton (Age 40) Leicester (Gilroes) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Husband of Agnes Crayton, of 62, Peel St., Burslem, Staffs.

Private Colin Stanley Moore (Age 26) 9th Bn. Puchevillers British Cemetery, France. Son of Edwin and the late Jessie Moore, of Castle Northwich, Cheshire.

Meanwhile in World War 2:

1945: Private John Fredrick Morrall (Age 18) Redditch (Abbey Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom. Son of G. H. Morrall and Edith M. Morrall, Of Redditch.

also…

1649 – Charles 1 beheaded

1933 – Adolf Hitler bcomes German Chancellor (mmmmm….wonder how that will work out?)

1945 – the German ship ‘The Wilhelm Gustloft’ torpedoed in Blatic, killing 9,500 (worst maritime disaster)

1968 – Tet offensive launched in VietNam

1972 – Bloody Sunday in Derry, Northern Ireland (British Paras fire on marchers)

happy birthday…

58BC – Liva (poor lass, blamed for everything) http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

1882 – FDR

1912 – Barbara Tuchman (writer of the excellent ‘Guns of August’)

1915 – Joachim Peiper SS officer