Layout4 – The Retrospectors

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
America's First Bank Robbery
DAY BEFORE:
The Birth of Ladybird Books
DAY BEFORE THAT:
The Man Who Lived in the Airport
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
The Godfather of Graffiti

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
America's First Bank Robbery
DAY BEFORE:
The Birth of Ladybird Books
DAY BEFORE THAT:
The Man Who Lived in the Airport
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
The Godfather of Graffiti

OLLY MANN

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REBECCA MESSINA

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ARION MCNICOLL

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3 Sep: Becoming Frederick Douglass

Posing as a sailor, with a borrowed ‘Protection Pass’ in his pocket, Frederick Douglass boarded a train from Baltimore to Philadelphia on 3rd September, 1838 - and escaped the slavery into which he had been born. To formalise the process, he had to dodge slave-catchers, change his name and pay…

31 Aug: America's First Bank Robbery

The Bank of Pennsylvania opened to discover that an astonishing $162,821 (around $3 million today) had vanished without a trace on 31st August, 1798. With no smashed windows, and no blown-apart safes, suspicion naturally fell on someone with inside knowledge. But Suspect #1 in America’s first bank robbery - Patrick…

27 Aug: The Birth of Ladybird Books

The British Museum Library registered the legal deposit of the first ever 'Ladybird Series' titles, from publishers Wills & Hepworth (later 'Ladybird') on 27th August, 1914. The books - 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales' and 'Tiny Tots Travels' - didn't look at all like the classic Ladybird books we think of…

26 Aug: The Man Who Lived in the Airport

The inspiration for Steven Spielberg movie ‘The Terminal’, Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri, began his incredible 18-year stint inside Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport on 26th August 1988. With hopes of flying to Britain, he had found himself trapped in a bureaucratic no-man’s-land after travelling without documents. Answering to ‘Sir…

24 Aug: The Godfather of Graffiti

Darryl McCray, better known as ‘Cornbread’, was honoured at the Graffiti Hall of Fame in Harlem on 24th August, 2013. But it was in 1960s Philadelphia that he’d made his name… by spraying it all over the city, becoming street art’s first serial ‘tagger’ in the process. Unlike gangs, who…

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