


If Yorkshire had been an independent country in the 2012 Summer Olympics it would have finished twelfth in the medal table.He was a member of Britain's National Diving Squad for twelve years. Actor Jason Statham competed for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.Jane Austen was also the first writer to use the phrase 'dinner party' (in Mansfield Park, Chapter 41). The earliest recorded use of the word 'baseball' in an English novel is in Northanger Abbey, written by Jane Austin in 1798-1799.She was Canada's 'Centennial Baby', having been the first baby born on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada's official founding Actress Pamela Anderson's first press coverage came right after her birth.She is the mother of musician Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. In 1956 typist Bette Nesmith Graham invented the first correction fluid (liquid paper).'Routes to anywhere in mainland Britain by road from Letchworth', 'Cremation practice and law in Britain' and 'The banana industry' have all been rejected as specialized subjects by Mastermind.Edwin was John Wilkes Booth's elder brother! A year later, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington. The stranger was Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert. Circa 1864, Edwin Booth saved the life of a stranger who fell between a train and its platform in Jersey City.John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third Presidents of the United States, and the Founding Fathers of the Decleration of Independence, died on the same day - July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of American independence!.Their final resting places are an extraordinary coincidence as they are the first and last British soldiers to die in combat during the First World War. British soldiers John Parr and George Ellison are buried facing each other just 5 yards away in Belgium’s Saint Symphorien cemetery.
