October 25 in History: Taiwan, George III and a UN Seat
October 25: Taiwan handover, George III's jubilee, a UN seat changes…. The whole segment, as it aired. What happened on this date, retold by people who were not there.
What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Gloria VanceWikipedia's On This Day has October twenty-fifth, nineteen forty-five: fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends, as the Republic of China assumes control.
Dale BearmanFifty years of paperwork, handed over in one day. Someone had a very full filing cabinet.
Gloria VanceI was there. Very moving ceremony. Terrible chairs.
Dale BearmanGloria, in eighteen-oh-nine, George III celebrated his Golden Jubilee, the start of his fiftieth year on the throne. You weren't at that one.
Dale BearmanThat makes you over two hundred years old!
Dale BearmanAnd in nineteen seventy-one, the People's Republic of China replaced the Republic of China at the United Nations. Were you there for that too?
Gloria VanceOf course. I had the same seat for all three, Dale. It was the only one nobody asked me to give up.
