1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, it's Eves checking in here to let you 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: know that you're going to be hearing two different events 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: in history in this episode. They're both good, if I 4 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: do say so myself. On with the show. Hi, I'm Eves, 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: and welcome to this Day in History Class, a show 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: that uncovers a little bit more about history every day. 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: The day was March second two. A man named Roderick 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: McLean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom 9 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: outside of the Windsor rail station at around four o'clock 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: on that Thursday. The Queen had left Buckingham Palace, traveling 11 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: in her carriage through Hyde Park and to Paddington Station 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: to board her train to Windsor. The train got to 13 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: Windsor station at pm. As the Queen got off of 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: the train and into the carriage that would take her 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: and Princess Beatrice to Windsor Castle, spectators cheered, but McLean, 16 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old Scotsman, fired a shot at 17 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 1: the Queen's carriage. The queen later wrote the following. At 18 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,559 Speaker 1: the time, there was the sound of what I thought 19 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: was an explosion from the engine, but in another moment 20 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: I saw people rushing about and a man being violently 21 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: hustled rushing down the street. A bystander rested the pistol 22 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: from mc lean's hand. Boys from Eton College, a nearby 23 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: boarding school, beat up McLean with their umbrellas before several 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 1: police snatched him up and took him into custody. The 25 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: carriage windows were drawn up and the Queen rode away, 26 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: but the carriage soon stopped and the Queen asked her attendant, 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: John Brown, what had just happened. From Windsor Castle, the 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: Queen sent a telegram to the Prince of Wales. It said, 29 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: in case an exaggerated report should reach you, I telegraphed 30 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: to say that as I drove from the station here 31 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: a man shot at the carriage, but fortunately hit no one. 32 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 1: He was instantly arrested. I am nothing the worse. McLean, 33 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 1: on the other hand, was not doing so well. Chief 34 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Officer of the Windsor Police, Superintendent Hayes, and Inspector Fraser 35 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 1: of the Royal Household Police Force captured McLean and took 36 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: him into custody. McLean was charged with shooting at the 37 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: Queen with the intent to murder her. After a search, 38 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: they found on McLean a six chambered revolver of German manufacture, 39 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,679 Speaker 1: with two empty chambers, two chambers loaded with ball cartridges, 40 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: and two chambers with cartridges that had been discharged. The 41 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: bullet he'd fired at the Queen's carriage was found the 42 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: next morning in the station yard. McLean was tried for 43 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: high treason on April nineteenth, eighteen eighty two, at reading 44 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: in England. At the trial, a surgeon named Charles Vernon 45 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: Hitchens said that McLean had been declared insane years earlier 46 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: and sent to an asylum. The jury took only five 47 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: minutes to deliberate. McLean was found not guilty but insane. 48 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: He lived the rest of his life at Broughtmore Asylum, 49 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: and he died in June of nineteen one. After the trial, 50 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: Queen Victoria asked whether there could be a change in 51 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: law so that defendants could be found guilty but insane. 52 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: That led to the Trial of Lunatics Act eighteen eighty three, 53 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: which said that a verdict could deem someone guilty but 54 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: insane and allowed that person to be kept in custody 55 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: as a so called criminal lunatic. Apparently, Queen Victoria had 56 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: pursued this legislation because many of her assailants had been 57 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: deemed mentally ill. The March second two incident was the 58 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: eighth and last attempt on Queen Victoria's life. Edward Oxford, 59 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: John Francis, John William Bean, William Hamilton's Robert Pate and 60 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: Arthur O'Connor had also tried to kill the queen. Only 61 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: one of those attempts had injured her, when Robert Pete 62 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: hit her in the head with a cane. Nevertheless, Queen 63 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: Victoria turned out to be the second longest ruling British monarch, 64 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: only behind today's Queen Elizabeth the Second. She reigned for 65 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: a whopping sixty three years. Queen Victoria once wrote to 66 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: her daughter, it is worth being shot at to see 67 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: how much one is loved. I'm Eve Jeff Cote, and 68 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: hopefully you know a little more about history today than 69 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: you did yesterday. If there are any upcoming days in 70 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: history that you'd really like me to cover on the show, 71 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: give us a shout on social media at t D 72 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: I h C podcast. Thank you so much for listening, 73 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: and I hope to see you again tomorrow for more 74 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: tidbits of history. Greetings, I'm Eves and welcome to This 75 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: Day in History class a show that believes no day 76 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: in history is a slow day. The day was March second, 77 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, the supersonic airliner called the Concorde took 78 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: its first test flight. Years later, the Concord went into service, 79 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: completing passenger flights for nearly three decades. The Bell X 80 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: one became the first crude airplane to exceed the speed 81 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: of sound in level flight when Chuck Yeager piloted the 82 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: craft in nineteen seven. Engineers continued to work on developing 83 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: supersonic aircraft for research and military purposes through the second 84 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: half of the twentieth century. One focus was supersonic airliners, 85 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: or aircraft that could carry passengers. In November of nineteen 86 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: sixty two, Britain and France signed a treaty to jointly 87 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: develop a supersonic transport. The British Aircraft Corporation and the 88 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:38,119 Speaker 1: French company Irospascial were responsible for creating the airframe. Rolls 89 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: Royce and France's National Society for the Study and Construction 90 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: of Aviation Engines were in charge of developing the jet engines. 91 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: Construction of two prototypes began in France and England in 92 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. Four Olympus five turbo jet engines powered 93 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 1: the aircraft. Each engine produced thirty eight thousand pounds of thrust. 94 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 1: It had double delta wings and a droop nose for 95 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: better landing visibility. The Concorde was shown to the public 96 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: for the first time in to Lose, France in nineteen 97 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: sixty seven. The Soviet Unions tu was the first commercial 98 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: supersonic transport. It took its first flight on December thirty one, 99 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight. By this point, the Concorde was nearly 100 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: ready for its maid in flight as well. Poor weather 101 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: conditions caused a couple of test flights to be canceled, 102 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: but on March one, nineteen sixty nine, pilot Andre Turquotte 103 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: flew the Concorde OH one from Toulouse. The plane was 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: in the air for twenty seven minutes before it landed 105 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: using a breaking parachute and reverse thrust. The t u 106 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: Ono also went into commercial service before the Concorde in 107 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: December of nineteen seventy five. Still, airlines around the world 108 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: placed orders for the Concorde. The jet did face some 109 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: setbacks before it could to commercial service. The jet was 110 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: extremely loud, so people who lived near airports voiced concerns 111 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: about the level of noise the Concord generated, and the 112 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three oil crisis led airlines to drop their 113 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: Concord orders, but in the end seven Concourse entered service 114 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: with the British Airways and seven with Air France. On 115 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: January one, nineteen seventy six, two Concords took off on 116 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: the plane's first commercial supersonic flights with ticketed passengers. One 117 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: was from British Airways and it left Heathrow Airport in 118 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: London and headed to Bahrain. The other was from Air 119 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: France and left Paris Orly Airport bound for Brazil, with 120 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: a stop in Senegal. The Concorde began completing daily flights 121 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: from Europe to the US. The jet reduced flight times greatly. 122 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: It had a maximum cruising speed of mock two point 123 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: oh four, or more than twice the speed of sound. 124 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: The airlines continued operating safe passenger flights of the Concord 125 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: for years, but in two thousand one caught on fire 126 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: just after taking off, and the crash killed one and 127 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: thirteen people. The Concordes were temporarily taken out of service 128 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: and return to service by two thousand one. The airlines 129 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: did not recover from the incident. The Concorde took its 130 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: last commercial flight in two thousand and three. The TU 131 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: had made its last flight in so there are companies 132 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: planning to revive supersonic transport. There are no supersidic airliners 133 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: in commercial service today. I'm eaves death code and hopefully 134 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: you know a little more about history today than you 135 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: did yesterday. 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