Headstone for centenarian Elizabeth Walker, aged 104, in St Denys' churchyard.
Assumed born 1906 -
" Monarch – Edward VII
Prime Minister – Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal)
Events of 1906 -
8 February – the Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
10 February – HMS Dreadnought is launched and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
15 February – representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
10 March – Bakerloo line of the London Underground opened.
15 March – Rolls-Royce Limited is registered.
22 March – first international rugby match. England defeats France 25–8.
21 April – Manchester United F.C., known as Newton Heath until four years ago, secure promotion to the Football League First Division.
15 May – Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London.
26 May – opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.
30 May – Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.
22 June – the present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway.
27 June – Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.
30 June – Salisbury rail crash: a London and South Western Railway express train suffers derailment and collision passing through Salisbury station at excessive speed; 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen are killed.
31 August – 3 September: Heat wave reaches its peak.
19 September – Grantham rail accident: a Great Northern Railway sleeping car train suffers derailment passing through Grantham station at excessive speed; 14 are killed.
30 September – the first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris; the winners, in the balloon United States, land in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
October – new City Hall, Cardiff, opens in Cathays Park.
8 October – German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.
23 October – suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.
2 December – HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
10 December – J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."
13 December
Trade Disputes Act legalises picketing.
Workmen's Compensation Act entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.
15 December – Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened.
21 December – Education (Provision of Meals) Act allows local education authorities to provide free school meals to the poorest children."
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Passed away Jan 25th 2010 -
"Monarch - Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – Gordon Brown (Labour) (until 11 May)
Events of January 2010:
3 January – the prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that full body scanners would be introduced at UK airports following the failed attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009.
5 January – the country was once again deluged by heavy snowfall as it endured its worst cold spell since the winter of 1981–82.
10 January – the Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.
12 January – Alastair Campbell, former government advisor, was interviewed by the Chilcot Inquiry, and said he was prepared to defend "every word" of the September 2002 dossier on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction which led to the invasion of Iraq.[4]
18 January – following the collapse of strike talks late last year, British Airways cabin crew decided to vote again on possible strike action.
20 January – unemployment fell for the first time in nearly two years, with the national total for November 2009 dipping by 7,000 to 2,460,000. However, some regions of Britain were still enduring a rise in unemployment, and experts said that the slight reduction in unemployment was largely due to an increase in people taking part-time work and work in occupations largely unrelated to their skills and experience.
26 January – the Office for National Statistics announced that the UK was no longer in recession, with gross domestic product having grown by 0.1%, a weaker rise than many economists had expected.
29 January – former Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared at the Iraq Inquiry and was questioned in public for the first time about his decision to take the United Kingdom to war against Iraq."
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