Headstone for centenarian Annie Clamp, aged 101, in St Nicholas' churchyard.
Born in 1894 -
"Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal) (until 2 March),
Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) (starting 5 March)
Events of 1894:
15 February — 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London with a bomb.
1 March — Local Government Act (coming into effect December 1894–January 1895) creates a system of urban and rural districts with elected councils, with elected parish councils in rural areas, reforms the boards of guardians of poor law unions, and gives women, irrespective of marital status, the right to vote and stand in local (but not national) elections.
3 March — William Ewart Gladstone (at the age of 84) resigns as Prime Minister over high Navy estimates.
5 March — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister and forms a minority Liberal Party government.
11 April — Britain establishes a Protectorate over Uganda.
12 April — The annual Budget establishes death duties.
21 April — Debut of the George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man in London.
14 May — Blackpool Tower opened in Blackpool, Lancashire.
21 May — The Manchester Ship Canal is officially opened, linking the previously landlocked city of Manchester to the Irish Sea.
23 June — A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, kills 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground.
30 June — Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic.
2 August — Death duties introduced.
September — British Association for the Advancement of Science inaugurates an Ethnographic Survey of the United Kingdom.
28 September — Michael Marks forms the partnership of Marks & Spencer with Thomas Spencer, opening its first store in Manchester.
13 October — Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs meet in the first Merseyside derby.
December — Frederick Bremer, a plumber and gasfitter from Walthamstow, runs the first British four-wheeled petrol-engined motor car (self-built) on the public highway."
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Passed away Feb 25th 1995 -
"Monarch - Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – John Major (Conservative)
Events of February 1995:
1 February - New domestic electrical appliances must be supplied with an appropriately fused pre-wired plug.
7 February - Rumbelows, the electrical goods retailer and former sponsors of the Football League Cup, closes its 311 stores with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs.
14 February - Sizewell B nuclear power station, the UK's only commercial pressurised water reactor power station, is first synchronised with the National Grid.
15 February -
- The manufacturing sector has reported its biggest rise in employment since the Conservative government first came to power sixteen years earlier, although the national unemployment total rose slightly last month, still being in excess 2,500,000 - it has not been below this level since late-1991.
- The England football team's friendly match against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin is abandoned due to the behavior of a section of English fans, believed to be members of far-right activist groups.
16 February - Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour Party, resigns from parliament after twenty-five years to take up a new role as a European Commissioner, sparking a by-election in his Islwyn constituency in South Wales. Labour holds onto the seat with new candidate Don Touhig, who gains nearly 70% of the vote.
17 February - The famous MG sports car brand, not seen on a volume sports car since 1980, is revived when the Rover Group unveils the new MGF sports car which will go on sale this autumn.
21 February - George Graham, who has won six major trophies including two league titles in nearly a decade as manager of Arsenal F.C., is sacked over allegations that he accepted illegal payments from an agent when signing two players in 1992.
24 February - The Football Association bans Eric Cantona from football for eight months, meaning that he will not be able to play competitively until after 30 September.
26 February - Barings Bank, the UK's oldest merchant bank collapses following $1,400,000,000 of losses by rogue trader, Nick Leeson.
28 February - The Diary of Bridget Jones column first published in The Independent."
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