April 21 - A day for the brits

 As a big fan of Snoopy in my youth, he was often pretending to sit on his doghouse and be a WW1 ace pilot after the Red Baron.

But it was on this day in 1918 that a Canadian fighter pilot shot the famed pilot down.

Chalk one up for King & Country.  Now, while Arthur Brown was Canadian, I still imagine he settled his nerves after that dogfight with a good cuppa.

Which is good as today is the UK's National Tea Day.

And chief of all things British is the Queen.  Queen Elizabeth II was born this day in 1926.

She's 96 today.

December 16 - Tea flavoured chicken is a classic

 No taxation without representation!  That was the cry of the patriots as they fought back against the British Empire and led to the "Boston Tea Party" where they threw a bunch of tea into the harbour.

That happened this day in 1773.

The harbour wasn't frozen in December?

British love their tea, but the yanks love their.. chicken?  Colonel Sanders is a well known image of the south and Kentucky Fried Chicken.

He died on this day in 1980.

I still held on to the idea that he wasn't actually a real person, rather just some persona.  Guess I can be wrong some days.

Another famous image that shares an important day today is the child prodigy and a name synonymous with classical music - Ludwig van Beethoven.

He was born today in 1770.

The famous 'hard of hearing' composer started to learn at age 5, but with his hearing issues stopped performing at age 41 - yet he still went on to produce some music up until his death at age 56.

His Moonlight Sonata is still a very moving piece for me... maybe it's because it was used in Resident Evil.