13 October lives on and on.

13 October ……..
When What
54 Nero became emperor of the Romans. The rest is history.

1792 George Washington laid the cornerstone of the White House, which was completed eight years later. John Adams was the first president to occupy it. Seen that.

1933 Sydney’s first ‘electromatic vehicle actuated controller’ (traffic light) was installed at the Intersection of Kent and Market streets. Waited there. (In 1965 Canberra got its first set.)

1958 The bear was found in Paddington Station. Been there but no bear was sighted.

1983 Back when greed was good the first public cell phone network began operations in Chicago using the Motorola DynaTAC phones the size of a brick. The company was Ameritech. Mine’s smaller than yours!