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Speeding Trial 1876

At Marlborough-street, Mr. Gregor Friswell, advertising agent, Huntley-street, was finally examined charged with causing the death of a child by running over it. Mr. Alsop prosecuted; Mr. M. Williams was for the defence. The evidence on the previous occasion was to the effect that, as a young girl with an infant in her arms was crossing Regent-street she was knocked down by the defendant’s trap, and the infant was killed by the wheel of the trap crushing its head. Since the last examination a Coroner's jury have brought in a verdict of manslaughter against the prisoner. There was a discrepancy between the evidence of the witnesses and the police as to the rate of the speed the prisoner was driving at, the first stating that the horse was going at about 12 or 14 miles an hour, the latter about six or seven. Mr. Petrocochino, of Nr. 3, Hanover-street, who witnessed the whole affair, gave it as his opinion that the speed of the horse was at a rate of 14 miles an hour. Mr. York, rate collector, St. James's, considered the occurrence an accident, the horse was not going at more than five or six miles an hour. The prisoner was discharged.

The Times, 5 October, 1876, Section "Police", P. 11

I give them a year

On 9 February 1964, The Beatles gave their first live US television performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households or 34 percent of the American population. According to the Nielsen rating service, it was "the largest audience that had ever been recorded for an American television. Ray Block, the show's musical director, commented: "The only thing that's different is the hair, as far as I can see. I give them a year."

New York Times, 9 February, 1964