On This Day In History

[Piper]

1945-US President Franklin
D.Roosevelt dies in office of a
stroke.He was 63.


1961-Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin is the first person
to orbit Earth (in Vostok 1).


2004-West Indian batsman
Brian Lara hits 400 not out
against England at Antigua to
record the highest individual
score in test cricket.

[Piper]

1865-US President Abraham
Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes
Booth in Washington,DC.He
died a day later.


1912-RMS Titanic hits
an iceberg at 11.40pm off
Newfoundland.It sank
2.27am the next day with the
loss of more than 1500 lives.


1969-In a first at the
Oscars, there is a tie for Best
Actress -Katharine Hepburn
(The Lion In Winter) and
Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl).

[Piper]

1964-Gale Wise was the first
woman in the U.S to buy a Mustang Convertible
for $3,447.50 (and she still owns it today).
The first Mustang to be sold in the world was
in Newfoundland a few hours be before Gale
bought hers.

[Piper]

1964-Ford launches the Mustang.

[Piper]

1906-San Francisco is
struck by an earthquake, and
subsequent fire, which kills
almost 4,000 people


1955-Physicist Albert
Einstein dies, aged 76.


1956-Grace Kelly and
Prince Rainer lll of Monaco
marry in a civil ceremony in
Monaco,followed by a church
ceremony the following day


1998-The Full Monty wins
Best Film at the Baftas.


2913-The movie Iron Man 3
premierers in London.

[Piper]

1967-The James Bond film
Casino Royale, starring David
Niven, premieres.


1993-A 52-day siege of the
Branch Davidian religious
sect compound in Waco,
Texas ends after FBI raid,
Seventy six people died,
including leader David Koresh.

[Piper]

1981-Allison Roe wins the
Boston marathon,the first
New Zealand woman to do so.


Also in1981-The TV series Soap
screens for the last time.


1992-Comedian Benny Hill,
68,dies of a heart attack.

[Bikkie]

1976-Barbara Walters
becomes the first female
US nightly network news
anchor ( on ABC News ).


1994-Richaed Nixon,81,the
37th President of the United
States, dies of a stroke.


2012-TV political comedy
Veep premieres on HBO.


2017-US actor Erin Moran
( Joanie on Happy Days )
dies of throat cancer.
She was 56.

[Bikkie]

1967-The single Respect
by Aretha Franklin is released
and becomes Billboard's song
Of The Year.


2005-The first offical
civil union ceremonies are
performed in New Zealand.


2011-Prince William and
Kate Middleton are married
in a ceremony held at
Westminster Abbey London.

[Bikkie]

1917-William Sanders wins
the Victoria Cross for bravey
during a German U-boat
attack on his ship.He was the
first and only New Zealander
to win the award in
naval action.



1940-Air New Zealand,then
known as TEAL,makes its
inaugural flight from Auckland
to Sydney



1989-The World Wide Web
is launched in the public
domain by English scientist
Tim Benners-Lee.



1993-Monica Seles is
attacked by a knife-wielding
fan during a tennis match in
Hamburg,Germany.She did
not return to tennis for more
than two years.

[Piper]

1931-The Empire State
building opens I New York.


1939-Batman first appears
in Detective Comics.


1967-Elvis Presley,32,weds
actor Priscilla Beauleu,21,at
Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.


1974-The film Lords Of
Flatbush is released in
New York city
New York


1994-Three-time F1 driver
champion Ayrton Senna,34,
of Brazil is killed in a crash at
the San Marino Grand Prix at
Imola, Italy.

[Bikkie]

1937-US novelist Margaret
Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize
for Gone With The Wind.


1991-The 356th and final
episode of the US TV Soap
Dallas screens on CBS.


2007-Three year-old British
girl Madeleine McCann
disappears from her bed in a
holiday apartment in Praia da
Luz,Portugal.