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January 30th

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January 30th

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Postby Bink333 » January 30th, 2018, 3:36 pm

Dear CBB Widdy Voters.

Today, as you may or may not have noticed is January 30th. Our dear friends at wikisubscribes would like you to note that this date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Today being a Tuesday, therefore makes it a quite remarkable Tuesday, for reasons that many might not have remarked upon and probably still won't.

In this date in 1908, Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. Exactly 40 years later, on this date in 1948 that same man, now known as Mahatma Gandhi, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

Hindu extremism has a neologism, used to describe acts of violence motivated by Hindu nationalism. That neologism is "Saffron terror." Saffron Terror is, of course, very different from Saffron Walden, mainly on account of Saffron Walden being a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, which isn't the slightest bit terrifying, unless of course you are terrified about the prospect of nothing much ever happening, because, well, nothing much ever really does nowadays.

Things were very different in Saffron Walden during the 17th Century, however, when it was at the centre of the Eastern Association during the English Civil War. While the town was the headquarters of the New Model Army, Lieutenant-General of Horse, Oliver Cromwell paid a 19-day visit in May 1647, taking part in debates to seek a settlement between Parliament and the army. He is thought to have stayed at the Sun Inn.

A little under 2 years later, on this day, January 30th 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded. Twelve years later, on January 30th 1661, that very same Oliver Cromwell, now known as the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed (more than two years after his previous death), on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch that he himself deposed.

And that, dear reader, is how the Saffron Walden became a direct link between Mahatma Gandhi and Oliver Cromwell

This has been me, Bink 333 with "Rare Tuesday Facts"

Tune in next rare Tuesday, for some more rare facts.

And now it's over to Crypto Pimpin' for the Sport.

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Re: January 30th

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Postby madhatter » January 30th, 2018, 5:53 pm

A further, though perhaps unsurprising fact about Saffron Walden is that they used to grow saffron plants there in 16th and 17th centuries.

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Re: January 30th

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Postby CryptoPlankton » January 31st, 2018, 2:53 am

Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Football League Premier Division:

Saffron Walden Town 0 Stanway Rovers 3

The result leaves "Town" second from bottom of the top half of the league, which, the manager Oliver Gandhi was at pains to point out, is a whole two places better than second from top of the bottom half.

Elsewhere, moles have caused havoc on the ladies' tee at the fifteenth hole of Saffron Walden Golf Club. As a consequence, ladies are advised to play from the men's tee until order is restored. The hole should be treated as a par 5 instead of the usual 4. "We haven't suffered this much disruption since the Great Rabbit Dropping Menace of '97" said a teary-eyed Indira Cromwell, the Senior Ladies Vice-Captain.

And finally, Saffron Walden resident, and former World Rally Champion, Stig Blomqvist has vehemently denied ever having a role in Top Gear. "I am a Stig, but not the
Stig. Nej, nej, nej!" he insisted when asked by someone with a vague interest. Doth he protest too much?

It being a rarish Tuesday, there were no other sporting events of note in the Uttlesford District...


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