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14 unusual facts about Golden Jubilee


1954–55 Chelsea F.C. season

The 1954–55 season was Chelsea Football Club's 41st of competitive football, their Golden Jubilee and their 20th consecutive year in the English top flight.

Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College

The school held a Jubilee Anniversary party in September 2008 (50th Anniversary).

Andrew Gant

He has led the Chapel Royal choir at, among many other events, the funeral of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Golden Jubilee service in St Paul's Cathedral in 2002, the 10th anniversary service for the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the wedding of H.R.H. Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, the annual Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph and the annual Royal Maundy service.

Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm

At the Jubilee of Mother Angeline Teresa in 1964, she said that in the 1920s, while working among the aged in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, she came to dislike the institutional flavor of existing homes, and sought to provide greater freedom for the residents.

Hetty Feather

When Hetty is a little older, the children at the Foundling Hospital go to the Queen's Golden Jubilee.

Kaiapoi

The Kaiapoi Bulldogs won their first Premiership title in 2007, the club's Jubilee 50th season.

Langkawi

On July 15, 2008, Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah had consented to the change of name to Langkawi Permata Kedah in conjunction with his Golden Jubilee Celebration.

Nation Media Group

The Daily Nation and the Sunday edition of the same newspaper, the Sunday Nation, are currently celebrating their 50th anniversaries, branded by the Nation Media Group as 50 Golden Years.

Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge

The queen did, however, promote Francis to the rank of Highness in 1887 in celebration of her Golden Jubilee.

Rochdale Town Hall

The first stone was laid by Thomas Schofield JP, Alderman and Rochdale Borough Councillor, on 19 October 1885 and the tower was declared complete on 20 June 1887, the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Showa Memorial Park

It was established in 1983 as part of a project to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the Shōwa emperor.

Stamp vending machine

Booklets were first tried out in 1935 as mixed-value booklets of King George V Jubilee stamps in panes of four, interleaved with advertising.

Wall box

Only 70 were made before this mistake was rectified, with the introduction in 1887 of the Queen Victoria Jubilee boxes.

Watermouth Castle

He built the Wiener Riesenrad ("Vienna Giant Wheel") in Vienna in 1897, still standing in 2012, for many years the largest in the world, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria.


London Buses route 11

On 4 June 2002, Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, the Metropolitan Police flagged down a Number 11 bus and used it as temporary transport for twenty-three peaceful anti-royalty demonstrators whom they had arrested after the demonstration, most of them in a nearby pub.

Nayer Nagui

As a composer, Nagui wrote many compositions and arrangements for choir, orchestra and soloists, performed in Egypt and in several international festivals around the world, amongst them the music for the celebration convened by the Ministry of Culture marking the Golden Jubilee of the nationalization of Suez Canal.

Sveti Stefan

On 13 July 2010 Montenegrin Statehood Day, Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli gave a concert at the resort, to mark the Golden Jubilee of the hotel.