JiuJiu Icebreaker -GBD Bartenders bi-weekly blog -25th April 2019

Love makes the world go round but whiskey makes it go around twice as fast – Compton Mackenzie

A is the brother of B. B is the brother of C. C is the father of D. So how is D related to A?

Patient – “Doctor, I’m addicted to twitter.”

Doctor –  “Sorry I don’t follow you.”

April 26, 1986 – At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, an explosion caused a meltdown of the nuclear fuel and spread a radioactive cloud into the atmosphere, eventually covering most of Europe. A 300-square-mile area around the plant was evacuated. Thirty one persons were reported to have died while an additional thousand cases of cancer from radiation were expected. The plant was then encased in a solid concrete tomb to prevent the release of further radiation.

April 26, 1994 – Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa. With approximately 18 million blacks voting, Nelson Mandela was elected president and F.W. de Klerk vice president.

April 28, 1945 – Twenty-three years of Fascist rule in Italy ended abruptly as Italian partisans shot former Dictator Benito Mussolini. Other leaders of the Fascist Party and friends of Mussolini were also killed along with his mistress, Clara Petacci. Their bodies were then hung upside down and pelted with stones by jeering crowds in Milan.

April 30, 1789 – George Washington became the first U.S. President as he was administered the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in New York City.

April 30, 1948 – Palestinian Jews declared their independence from British rule and established the new state of Israel. The country soon became a destination for tens of thousands of Nazi Holocaust survivors and a strong U.S. ally.

April 30, 1967 – Boxer Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world heavyweight boxing championship after refusing to be inducted into the American military. He had claimed religious exemption.

May 4 1945 On 4 May 1945 at Lüneburg Heath, near Hamburg, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, in north west Germany including all islands, and in Denmark and all naval ships in those areas.

On 6 May 1954, Roger Bannister becomes the first man to break the four minute mile.

May 9 1886 The syrup for Coca Cola is invented by Atlanta Pharmacist John Styth Permerton. (1886)

May 10 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa’s first black president. (1994)

21-28: Table tennis – World Championships, Budapest, Hungary

27: Formula E – Paris, France

27-28: Football – Women’s Champions League semi-final second legs

28: Formula 1 – Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Baku

28: Athletics – London Marathon

30: Football – Champions League semi-finals, first leg

1: Football – Champions League semi-finals, first legs

1-5: Equestrian – Badminton Horse Trials

2: Football – Europa League semi-finals, first legs

7-8: Football – Champions League semi-finals, first legs

8: Cricket – England v Pakistan first one-day international, The Oval

9: Football – Europa League semi-finals, second legs

10-26 May: Ice Hockey – Men’s World Championship, Slovakia