3 August

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 3 August:

1. On this date in 1492, Christopher Columbus, with a $67,000 endowment from Queen Isabella and accompanied by a crew of 90 set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain, with three ships – the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
2. The première of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot took place at the Arts Theatre, London on this date in 1955. Half the audience walked out during the performance.
3. In 1879, 3,700 panes of glass in the glasshouses at Kew Gardens were destroyed by Lightning during a violent hailstorm.
4. A British expedition led by Francis Younghusband, became the first group of westerners to enter the Forbidden City of Lhasa, Tibet, on this date in 1904.
5. Miriam Hargrave from Wakefield finally passed her driving test on this date in 1970, Wakefield. She'd failed 39 times in 8 years.
6. In 1971, Alan Shepard became the first man to play Golf on the moon.
7. In 2007, Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his astronomy PhD thesis – 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.
8. In 1958, the world's first nuclear powered Submarine, USS Nautilus, began the first crossing of the Arctic Ocean under the ice cap.
9. In 1858, the source of the Nile was found by English explorer John Hanning Speke.
10. In 1985, the mail service was re-instated at Paradise Lake, FL – a nudist colony, on condition that residents promised to put some clothes on or stay out of sight during the postman's visits.

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