BEF

The British Expeditionary Force, the part of the British Army sent to fight in Europe in the First World War and the Second World War.

Fact of the Day

The UK's first ever parking ticket was issued to a doctor, Thomas Creighton, who was helping a heart attack victim.

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

~ Cardinal Richelieu

1598 Playwright Ben Jonson was put on trial for manslaughter after killing fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.

1692 The last people accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem were hanged.

1735 Robert Walpole became the first British Prime Minister to occupy 10 Downing Street.