25 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 January:

Anne Boleyn

1. In 1753 a woman named Ruth Pierce and three friends got together to buy a sack of Wheat. Two of them paid up, but Ruth insisted she had already paid her share. “May I drop dead if I have not,” she declared. No sooner had the words left her mouth than she fell down and died, with the money hidden in her hand. This story is recorded on a stone monument in the Market Square at Devizes, Wiltshire.
2. In 1533 the Bishop of Lichfield secretly married King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the second of his six wives. She was pregnant with Queen Elizabeth I at the time.
3. A bottle of Old Tobermory Whiskey, believed to be the oldest in existence at 130 years old, was found in a Mull pub on this date in 1999.
4. In 2011 A former Miss Canada finalist became the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy, 53, was one of the first students to sign up for the course when it launched at Liverpool Hope University in March 2009.
5. In 1895 the first hockey international was held at Rhyl. Wales lost 3-0 to Ireland.
6. In 1989, John Cleese won damages for libel at the High Court over an article in the Daily Mirror, which claimed he had become like Basil Fawlty.
7. In 1999 a games addict named John Stirling changed his name by deed poll to Sony Playstation.
8. The world’’s first “theft-proof pocket” was patented by John Brown in 1812. Its efficacy lay in reinforcement with chains, metal rings, bolts and screws to deter pick-pockets.
9. In 1991, a 13 year old boy in Piru, California, was arrested for throwing a Chihuahua at his mother.
10. In 2002 a London court ruled against a Chinese shopkeeper who'd claimed that poor feng shui would ruin his business if he was forced to relocate.

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