Walk In Dry Places

Friday, 26 June 2020

ON THIS DAY JUNE 26th - JUST FOR FUN

1925  -"The Gold Rush", directed, starring and written by Charlie Chaplin, is released

1870 Richard Wagner's opera "Valkyrie", second in his Ring Cycle premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"

1977 - "The Yorkshire Ripper" Kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne McDonald in Leeds. This saw a change in public perception as she was the first victim that wasn't a prostitute.

1974- The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio


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