Love him or hate him, on this date in 1953, Tony Blair was born.  He served as UK’s prime minster from 1997 to 2007. He is one of two modern-day  UK prime ministers that I know by name. For more information:http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/tony-blair.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Blairhttp://www.tonyblairoffice.org/pages/biography/

Hopefully we all recognize this as the flag of the UK, and it was on this date in 1606, that  royal decree was made for this Union Jack flag to be the official flag of Great Britain.  While the term “Union Jack” was not a part of this, it is what we now call this flag.  It took the Cross […]

I remember learning about Sir Francis Drake when I was in school, and on this date in 1581, he was knighted.  Queen Elizabeth knighted him because he had circumnavigated the world.  He was the second person to accomplish such a feat.  There is much more I could write about him, but I will let you, my wonderful readers check out […]