Re: [OT] Happy Birthday To Oz (was HAPPY NEW YEAR!)

>At 03:13 PM 1/2/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>On Tue, 02 January 2001, Ground Zero Games wrote:
>>
>>> Ditto to those in Oz, but also, BTW, a Happy 200th Birthday to the
United
>>> Kingdom.....  ;-)
>>
>>Ummm... huh? *L*
>>
>>James VI of Scotland became James I of England, thus uniting the
crowns,
>in 1603. But it wasn't until 1707 that the Act of Union made it
"official".
>>
>>So what happened in 1801???
>
>Well, according to the CIA World Factbook
>(http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html, *love* this
>site), "the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was
implemented
>in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great
Britain
>and Ireland".	Though since the name changed to "The United Kingdom of
>Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in 1927...?

Yep, that's about it - January 1801 was also apparently the date that
the
Union Jack (more correctly the Union Flag in non-naval useage) was
designed
and adopted.

Jon (GZG)
>
>					Aaron Teske
>					ateske@HICom.net