2 NM (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east by northeast of Uxbridge in the London
Borough of Hillingdon, West London. Approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) north
of London Heathrow Airport, the station also handles a large number of
private civil flights; its location near to the A40 road link with
central London and close proximity to Ruislip Gardens tube station has
also made it popular with business people and politicians. Northolt has
one runway in operation, spanning 1,684 m × 46 m (5,525 ft
× 151 ft), with a grooved asphalt surface. Originally established for
the Royal Flying Corps, it has the longest history of continuous use of
any RAF airfield. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the
station was the first to take delivery of the Hawker Hurricane. The
station played a key role during the Battle of Britain, when fighters
from several of its units, including No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron,
engaged enemy aircraft as part of the defence of London. More recently
the station has become the hub of British military flying operations in
the London area. RAF squadrons, including No. 32 (The Royal) Squadron
are based at RAF Northolt.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Northolt>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1227:
High Duke of Poland Leszek I the White was assassinated during
a diet of the Piast dukes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_I_the_White>
1642:
A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached present-day
Tasmania, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Tasman>
1863:
American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga Campaign in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping
them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lookout_Mountain>
1922:
Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine
Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a
semi-automatic pistol.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Erskine_Childers>
1976:
The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey killed at
least 4,000 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_%C3%87ald%C4%B1ran-Muradiye_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
scriptorium:
A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of
manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scriptorium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one
form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another
to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for
himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged
only by its fruits; each would then obey God freely with his whole
heart, while nothing would be publicly honoured save justice and
charity.
--Baruch Spinoza
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza>
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