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Also this month…

• Telex, phones and telegram cables go quiet
  
• Castle Cornet surrenders to Guernsey
  
• Alderney’s evacuees return to their island
  
• Herm bribery case comes to court
  
• Victor Hugo flees France and Napoleon
  
• Air UK Fokker overshoots Guernsey runway
  
• The Guernsey Tapestry is completed
  
• French fishing boats prepare to invade
  
• Guernsey held its first full marathon
  
• A plane crashed on Crevichon
  
• Horticultural painter William Caparne was born
  
• Jethou’s tenant fell off his own cliff
  
• Guernsey Yacht Club was founded
  
• Guernsey optician Specsavers was founded
  
• States of Guernsey hired its first independent vet
  
• Sark’s vineyards were vandalised
  
• The first lighthouses were built on the Casquets
  
• Sir Charles Hayward buys Jethou for £91,000
  
• Hitler ordered the Channel Islands’ fortification
  
• Channel Television saw off a rival broadcaster
  
• Island FM brings commercial radio to Guernsey
  
• The Channel Islands’ king set sail for England
  
• Sark was the target of Operation Basalt
  
• Guernsey Post Office was established
  
• Herm tenant Major Peter Wood died
  
• “Let em starve,” said Churchill
  
• Trudy, Guernsey’s biggest ever import, was installed
  
• Guernsey and Jersey considered merging
  
• Guernsey commando Hubert Nicolle died
  
• Guernsey holidaymakers head home itching
  
• Schoolboys and teacher went missing off Sark
  
• Guernsey was struck by a hurricane
  
• Ship sinks in St Sampson harbour
  
• Renoir arrived on Guernsey to paint
  
• A Guernseyman cycled to Herm
  
• Queen Victoria visited Guernsey
  
• Trident VI ran aground on its return from Herm
  
• Charlie Chaplin played in St Peter Port
  
• Hanois Lighthouse’s foundation stone was laid
  
• Police found a bomb in Bluebell Wood
  
• A minister was found dead at Icart Point
  
• Alderney experienced a total eclipse of the sun
  
• The RAF bombed Guernsey Airport
  
• The Beatles played at Candie Gardens
  
• Human remains were found on Lihou
  
• A tomato ship and a tanker collided
  
• Jethou tenant was rescued from an up-turned boat
  
• Earl Grey was appointed Governor of Guernsey
  
• Guernsey bought Herm from the mainland
  
• Alderney to Guernsey radio connection established
  
• Victor Hugo plants his United States of Europe oak
  
• A Guernsey man posted himself to Sark
  
• First Commando raid of the Second World War
  
• Victor Hugo statue is unveiled in Candie Gardens
  
• Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Museum opens
  
• Guernsey hosted the Island Games 2003 closing ceremony
  
• Seigneur of Sark, Michael Beaumont, dies aged 88
  
• Alderney is occupied by German forces
  
• G-JOEY completes his last flight
  
• Guernsey coffee trader William Le Lacheur died
  
• Guernsey bought Fort Grey from the War Office
  
• Guernsey celebrated Queen Victoria’s jubilee
  
• Guernsey joined the Football Association
  
• Aurigny founder Derrick Bailey died
  
• Guernsey was invaded by Colorado beetles
  
• Victor Hugo’s house is opened to the public
  
• Laura Kennington kicks off Channel Islands triathlon
  
• Jethou was put on the market
  
• First arrests were made at Guernsey Airport
  
• St Johns undertook its first Guernsey rescue
  
• Cricketer Charles Grieve died in Shropshire
  
• Head of Guernsey CID is shot in St Peter Port
  
• Game of Thrones actor Roy Dotrice was born
  
• Hauteville House is bequeathed to the City of Paris
  
• Herm goes back on the market
  
• Alderney was liberated at the end of the second world war
  
• The States of Guernsey bought Aurigny
  
• Guernsey plays Tottenham Hotspur
  
• A Guernsey retiree’s £1m offer attracts 57,000 requests
  
• Guernsey was liberated from German occupation
  
• Final issue of Deutsche Guernsey-Zeitung was published
  
• Alderney debated in the House of Commons
  
• Guernsey Airport opened for business
  
• The States of Guernsey registers the gov.gg domain
  
• Aurigny pilot Ray Bowyer spots a UFO near Alderney
  
• Guernsey Airport’s new terminal opened for business
  
• Battery Mirus was test fired for the first time
  
• The first ever Guernsey stamp is issued
  
• Birth of Stone de Croze, the original Guernseyman
  
• An occupation-era minefield is discovered at L’Ancresse
  
• A French fisherman is arrested and escorted to St Peter Port
  
• Guernsey and France tackle the Amoco Cadiz oil spill
  
• Guernsey adopts Sterling currency
  
• Guernsey Post Office is established
  
• Condor Liberation enters service
  
• Guernsey to UK telephone connection inaugurated
  
• Guernsey votes for equal age of consent
  
• Famed printer Thomas de la Rue born
  
• Alderney arrest sparks a “riot”
  
• Soldiers staged a mutiny at Fort George
  
• Guernsey issues banknotes featuring famous locals
  
• BBC Radio Guernsey takes to the air
  
• The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is published
  
• Building work starts on Guernsey Airport
  
• First publication of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea
  
• Guernsey emergency services prepare for a disaster
  
• Plans for St Sampson power station approved
  
• Murder inquiry ends with suicide
  
• Aurigny Air Services founded
  
• HMS Guernsey launched in Aberdeen
  
• Birth of concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houedard
  
• Guernsey gets its own flag
  
• Blue Islands takes to the skies
  
• Alderney gets its first full-time radio station
  
• Guernsey’s last execution didn’t go according to plan
  
• Guernsey gets its first postbox
  
• Guernsey Language Commission formed
  
• Guernsey watchmaker helps Stone of Scone manhunt
  
• Guernsey suffers its worst storm in 35 years
  
• St Martin’s parish church consecrated
  
• Death of Sir Charles Hayward
  
• Birth of Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann
  
• The States of Guernsey proposes a new airport
  
• Sark is awarded Dark-Sky status
  
• Hanois Lighthouse is cut off by the weather
  
• Work begins on the Val des Terres
  
• Guernsey opens its wartime files
  
• Guernsey Zoo is sold as a going concern
  
• Guille and Alles open their library
  
• Alderney elects its first president