President Nixon described him as “the most dangerous man in America”. He popularised the 1960s counterculture phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out”.
The Great Bell (Big Ben) first rang out on July 11 and the quarter chimes on September 7 in 1902 the second Boer War, which had started on October 9, 1899, ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging by Britain, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State in 1996 Timothy Leary, a US psychologist and advocate of psychedelic drugs, died aged 75. Clowns from all over the world pay their respects at his graveside in Islington, London, on the anniversary of his death in 1859 the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower, Houses of Parliament, started for the first time. The diary had been started in 1660 and contains more than 1.25 million words in 1837 the famous pantomime clown Joseph Grimaldi died.
In 1669 Samuel Pepys wrote the last words in his diary, declaring “thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my journal”.