which was accepted by the club. Carroll, 22, travelled down to Merseyside for talks with their Premier League rivals and finalised the move to Anfield just before the 11pm transfer window deadline.

Liverpool football club also confirmed the signing of Luis Suarez from Ajax in a five-and-a-half-year deal, which will keep the Uruguayan International at Anfield till 2016. The fee is reported to be around the region of €26.5m which was agreed on Friday. However, the deal was subject to a medical which the player completed on Monday. Suarez has been handed the No.7 shirt for Liverpool, which was once worn by his current manager Kenny Dalglish.

However, the much touted Charlie Adam was valued too much for Liverpool's liking, with their offer of £6.3m falling well short of the"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
Edmund Burke. What happened on this Day in History?

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

This Day in History: Jul 16, 1935: World's first parking meter installed

The world's first parking meter, known as
Park-O-Meter No. 1, is installed on the southeast corner of what was
then First Street and Robinson Avenue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on this day in 1935.

The parking meter was the brainchild of a man named Carl C. Magee, who moved to Oklahoma City from New Mexico
in 1927. Magee had a colorful past: As a reporter for an Albuquerque
newspaper, he had played a pivotal role in uncovering the so-called
Teapot Dome Scandal (named for the Teapot Dome oil field in Wyoming), in
which Albert B. Fall, then-secretary of the interior, was convicted of
renting government