On This Day – 15 October
Posted on: Mon 15 Oct 2018
On This Day…
In 1581, the first ballet was staged in Paris. It was called Ballet Comique de la Reine meaning ‘The Comic Ballet of the Queen’.
In 1860, 11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard.
In 2017, actress Alyssa Milano tweeted, ‘If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write “me too”‘, which prompted a flood of replies across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and sparked the Me Too movement.
Breakfast producer, Zoe Kounadis, joins Tom Mann to discuss these events from this day in history.
Produced by Zoe Kounadis
Image Sourced: Pixabay
