On This Day In History

[Piper]

1980-cricket umpire Fred
Goodall is struck in the back
by West Indian fast bowler
Colin Croft. Croft was angry
at decisions going against his
team in this test versus New
Zealand at Dunedin.


2009-Heath Ledger posthumously
wins the Best Supporting Actor Academy
Award for his performance in
The Dark Knight.

[Piper]

1965-British comedian Stan
Laurel dies of a heard attack.
He was 74.

[Bikkie]

1983-The final episode of the TV series M*A*S*H screens in the United States.

[Pursang]

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[Bikkie]

1973-Pink Floyd release the album Dark Side Of The Moon.

2006-British actor Jack Wild ( Oliver!.H.R.Pufnsuf ) dies of cancer.
He was 53.

2013-Bonnie Franklin ( One Day At A Time's Ann Romano ) dies of cancer.
She was 69.

[Piper]

1963-US country singer
Patsy Cline, 30,dies in a
plane crash in Tennessee.

[Bikkie]

1965-New Zealand's Bruce
Taylor scores 105 v India in
Kolokata in his first cricket test.
He later takes five wickets in
an innings (5-85) to become
the only test cricketer to
achieve this double on debut.

[Bikkie]

1986-The Young Ones and Cliff Richard
release a new version of the hit
Living Doll.

[Piper]

1945-Anne Frank.who wrote
a diary of her World War ll
experiences, dies of typhus.

[Piper]

1942-A Japanese reconnaissance plane
flys over Auckland, New Zealand


1956-New Zealand record their
first test cricket victory, bowling
the West Indies out for 77 on the
final day of the fourth test at
Eden Park to win by 190 runs.


1974-New Zealand gains its
first cricket win against
Australia with Glenn Turner
scoring two centuries at
Lancaster Park, Christchurch.


1984-The Cars released their album
Heatbeat city.

[Piper]

1872-The first English
FA Cup final is held with
Wanderers defeating Royal
Engineers 1-0 in London.

[Piper]

1897-New Zealand boxer
Bo Fitzsimmons becomes
World heavyweight champion
when he knocks out Jim
Corbett (US) in Carson City.

[Piper]

1969-Beatle John Lennon,
28,marries Yoko Ono, 36,
in Gibraltar.


1970-Musician David Bowie,
23,weds model Angie Barnett,
20,in London.


1994-I Love Rock 'N Roll by
Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
hits number one in the US.


2020-US country singer
Kenny Rogers dies, aged 81,
at a hospice in Georgia.

[Piper]

1974-The Eagles released their
album On The Border.

[Piper]

1896-sixty five people are
killed after an explosion at
the Brunner mine on New
Zealand's West Coast.

[Piper]

1940-New Zealand prime
Minister Michael Joseph
Savage dies,aged 68,of
cancer while in office.


1952-The film Singin' In The
Rain premiers in New York.


1980-The Mt St Helens
volcano in Washington state
erupts after 123 years

[Piper]

1955-New Zealand are
dismissed for a record low
score of 26 in their cricket test
against England at Eden Park

[Piper]

1959-The movie Some Like
It Hot is released in New York

[F5 Dave]

On this Day in history we celebrate the murder of jesus.

What? That's what we're doing right?

[Piper]

1903-Richard Pearce,of South
Canterbury, reportedly flies a
monoplane several hundred
metres near Timaru New Zealand.


1981- At the first Golden Raspberry
Awards, Can't Stop The Music wins
worst Picture.


1993-US actor Brendon Lee,28,dies
in a firearms incident on the set of
The Crow


2016-British comedian Ronnie Corbett
dies, aged 85,of motor neurone disease by

[husaberg]

On this Day in history we celebrate the murder of jesus.

What? That's what we're doing right?

sounds like a deep state conspiracy ....Were the Jews involved?
Seems like there is only circumstantial evidence anyway....

[F5 Dave]

Well, thank Judas for the 4 day holiday. :2thumbsup

[pritch]

X is in uproar because Biden declared Easter Sunday to be Transvestite Visibility Day. TVD is 31 March every year. Easter Sunday is a moving target. Next year Easter Sunday falls on Adolf Hitler's birthday 20th April. Obviously a cunning plot.

[R650R]

On this Day in history we celebrate the murder of jesus.

What? That's what we're doing right?

Actually it seems he was sentenced to death after breaking a known law (claiming to be king of the Jews)and apparently all due processes were followed. It is said he sacrificed himself to absolve the sins of others (basically all of humanity) by offering no defence during the trial.

Then God breaks out the duct tape and defibrillator on Sunday morning as Jesus has lived a true sinless life and was worth saving etc.

Once you do a bit of reading there’s lots of debate even about the actual dates but my brief synopsis above seems generally accepted among majority.

The Roman’s stole all his clothes as soon as he was up on the cross so it’s wonder he wasn’t arrested for public indecency coming out of the cave naked to repeat the process. Guess clothes were optional back then.

[pritch]

Actually it seems he was sentenced to death after breaking a known law (claiming to be king of the Jews)and apparently all due processes were followed. It is said he sacrificed himself to absolve the sins of others (basically all of humanity) by offering no defence during the trial.

Then God breaks out the duct tape and defibrillator on Sunday morning as Jesus has lived a true sinless life and was worth saving etc.

Once you do a bit of reading there’s lots of debate even about the actual dates but my brief synopsis above seems generally accepted among majority.

The Roman’s stole all his clothes as soon as he was up on the cross so it’s wonder he wasn’t arrested for public indecency coming out of the cave naked to repeat the process. Guess clothes were optional back then.

The date we use is more to do with a northern hemisphere fertility festival blessing the crops they just planted. Eggs and rabbits have nothing to do with Christianity, but they are rather obvious symbols of fertility. It would seem Easter as we know it was merged with an existing pagan festival.

[F5 Dave]

Eostre was a northern goddess that often appeared in hare or rabbit form. That's the true meaning of what we now call Easter. And of course where we get the bunny.

And that's more believable than the other nonsense.

[Piper]

1974-Tatum O'Neal, aged 10
years and 148 days,wins Best
Supporting Actress for her role
in Paper Moon,to become the
youngest winner of an Oscar

[Piper]

1968-The movie Planet Of
The Apes premieres in the US


1989-The Holmes show
starts on TVNZ.


2010-Matt Smith appears
for the first time as the 11th
Doctor in Doctor Who.

[Piper]

1968-Civil rights activist
Martin Luther King is
assassinated by James Earl
Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.


1975-British sitcom The Good
Life debuts.


1995-British TV personality
Kenny Everett dies, aged 50.


2008-Beyonce Knowles, 30, and
rapper Jay-Z, 43 are married in
New York.


2015-Thunderbirds, Are Go,a
reboot of the Thunderbirds
series,premieres on TV.

[Piper]

1932-New Zealand horse Phar Lap,Who
won 37 of his 51 career starts dies in
mysterious circumstances in Atherton
California.


1965-At the Oscars,My Fair Lady wins
Best Picture and Actor (Rex Harrison)
while Mary Poppins Best Actress (Julie Andrews)
and Song (Chim Chim Cher-ee).


1987-TV sitcom Married...With Children
premierers on the Fox network.


1994-US grunge rocker Kurt Cobain of
Nirvana commits suicide.He was 27.


1997-Steve Irwin's TV series The Crocodile
Hunter debuts.

[Piper]

1896-The first modern
Summer Olympics open in
Athens, Greece.


1974-Swedish band Abba,
singing Waterloo,win the
Eurovision Song Contest,in
Brighton.


2009-The Star Trek movie
reboot, directed by JJ Abrams,
premieres in Austin Texas.

[Piper]

1739-Highwayman Dick
Turpin is excited in York,
England for horse stealing.


1963-US golfer Jack
Nicklaus, aged 23,wins the
US Masters for the first time.


1970-Maggie Smith wins the
first of her two Oscars-The
Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.


2003-Actors Russell Crown,
39, and Danielle Spencer,32,
wed At his cattle farm in Nana
Glen,New South Wales.

[Piper]

1943-Glenn Wallichs launched
Capitol Records in the US.


1964-The Supremes record 'Where
Did Out Love Go' At Motown studios
on Detroit.

[Piper]

1972-Kiwi cricketers Gienn
Turner (259) and Terry Jarvis
make a test opening stand of
387 against the West Indies in
Georgetown (still a NZ record)

[Bikkie]

1968-Fifty one people die
when the interislander ferry
Wahine hits rocks and sinks
in Wellington Harbour.


1970-Paul McCartney
officially announces the split
of The Beatles.


2015-Aussie cricketer and
broadcaster Richie Benaud
dies,aged 84,of skin cancer

[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.

[Bikkie]

1944-The movie Gaslight,
starring an 18-year old Angela
Lansbury in her film debut,is
released


1979-Margaret Thatcher
becomes the first woman to
be elected Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom.




Star Wars Day:

The first recorded reference of the phrase being used was on May 4, 1979, the day
after Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in
the Evening News saying "May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations."



2021-New Zealand netballer
Margaret Forsyth,who won
the World Cup with the Silver
Ferns in 1979 and 1987,dies
of cancer.She was 59.

[Bikkie]

1962-The West Side Story
soundtrack album goes to
number one in the US charts
and stays there for 54 weeks.

[Piper]

1950-Actor Elizabeth Taylor,
28, marries for the first time -
to hotel heir Conrad 'Nicky'
Hilton,23.


1960-Princess Margaret
marries Anthony Armstrong -
Jones (later Lord Snowdon) at
Westminster Abbey.


1992-Actor and singer
Marlene Dietrich dies of
kidney failure,in Paris.She
was 90.


2004-US sitcom Friends
screens it's final episode in
it's 10th and last season
(watched by 52.5 million
People).

[Piper]

1846-A landslide on the
southwest shore of Lake
Taupo strikes the village of Te
Rapa, killing 60 people.


1987-Bar worker Diane
Chambers (Shelly Long)
makes her final regular
appearance on the sitcom
Cheers.


1998-US country singer
Eddie Rabbit (I Love A Rainy Night)
dies, aged 56,from lung cancer.

[Bikkie]

1981-The children's TV show
What Now begins.It was originally half-an-hour long
and screened on Saturday mornings.



1986-Tenzing Norgay,who
along with Edmund Hillary was
the first to reach the summit
of Mt Everest in 1953,dies of
a cerebral haemorrhage.He
was 71.



1992-The final episode
of the sitcom Golden Girls
screens on NBC TV

[Bikkie]

1940-Winston Churchill
succeeds Neville Chamberlain
as British Prime Minister.


1994-Nelson Mandela is
sworn in as South Africa's
President,the first black man
to take the role.


2004-Ben Lummis,25,wins
the inaugural NZ Idol.

[Bikkie]

1956-Elvis Presely enters
the UK charts for the
first time,with his single
Heartbreak Hotel.


1969-British comedy troupe
Monty Python forms,made
up of Graham Chapman,John
Cleese,Terry Gilliam,Eric Idle,
Terry Jones and Michael Palin.


2020-US comedian Jerry
Stiller,the father of actor
producer and comedian Ben
Stiller,dies aged 92.

[Bikkie]

1937-The coronation of
King George VI takes place at
Westminister Abby,London.


1975-New Zealand soap
Close To Home,which
followed the fortunes of the
Hearte family,begins on
Television One.It was set in
Wellington and it would run
until 1983.


1994-The movie Pulp
Fiction,directed by Quentin
Tarantino and starring John
Travolta,Uma Thurman,Tim
Roth and Samuel L.Jackson,
premieres at the Games Film
Festival in France.

[Bikkie]

1899-The ship called The Nelson, sank on Lake Superior
Central North America.



1981-Pope John Paul II is
shot and seriously wounded
by Turkish gunman Mehemet
Ali Agca in St.Peter's Square
Vatican City.


1995-New Zealand wins
the America's Cup with Black
Magic beating Stars and
Stirps 5-0 in San Diego.


2019-US actor Doris Day
dies,aged 97,of pneumonia,

[roogazza]

On this day 50 years ago !!!! I graduated from Police College. 50 bloody years I tells ya !

354675 Bottom row second from left !!

[Bikkie]

1870-In the first recognised
official rugby match to be
played in New Zealand,about
200 people at Nelson's Botanic
Reserve,as Nelson College played
the Nelson Football Club,with
18 players on each side.
The 'town' team won the
match 2-0.


1989-The final episode of
US sitcom Family Ties,which
starred Michael J.Fox,screens
on NBC.


1998-US actor and singer
Frank Sinatra dies,aged 82,
of a heart attack.

[Bikkie]

1928-A version of Micky
Mouse appears in the Watt
Disney silent cartoon Plane
Crazy but his full official debut
occurs six months later in
Steamboat Willie.


1963-At the Grammy
Awards,Tony Bennett wins
Record Of The Year for I Left
My Heart In San Francisco.


1987-The last episode of
The Late Show With Joan
Rivers screens after the host
is fired by the Fox network.

[Bikkie]

On this day 50 years ago !!!! I graduated from Police College. 50 bloody years I tells ya !

354675 Bottom row second from left !!


Police have a very thankless job,but we need them to keep things in line.

[Bikkie]

1929-The first Academy
Awards are held in Hollywood.


1986-Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy)
returns from the dead
on Tv soap Dallas a year
after being killed off.


1990-US entertainer and
Rat Packer Sammy Davis
Jr. dies aged 64,of throat
cancer.

[Bikkie]

1973-Stevie Wonder
releases the single You Are
The Sunshine Of My Life,
which goes to number one in
the US charts and wins him a
Grammy Award for Best Male
Pop Vocal Performance.


1997-Actors Sylvester
Stallone and Jennifer Flavin
tie the knot at London's
Dorchester Hotel.

[Bikkie]

1897-Dracula,by Irish
author Bram Stoker,is
published in London.


1944-The Battle of Monte Cassino ended
in Italy.


1995-US actor Elizabeth
Montgomery (best known
for playing Samantha in
Bewitched ) dies,aged 62,of
cancer.


2014-At the Bafta TV
awards,crime drama
Broadchurch wins best drama
series and Olivia Colman wins
Best Actresss.

[Bikkie]

1920-Montreal Canada's XWA broadcasts the
first scheduled radio program in North America.



1964-The Drifter's lead singer Rudy Lewis is found dead
on the morning the group is scheduled to record "Under The Boardwalk."
He is replaced by Johnny Moore.



1974-The song by Elton John,Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me,is released'



1996-English actor John Pertwee,who
played Worzel Gummidge and was the
third Doctor Who,dies of a heart attack.
He was 76.


2003-The reality TV series America's Next
Top Model,which was created by Tyra
Banks,premieres.


2012-Bee Gee Robin Gibb
dies,aged 62,of colon and
liver cancer.

[Bikkie]

1931-Amelia Earhart
becomes the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic,
landing in Northern Ireland
15 hours after leaving.


1980-The Empire Strikes Back,
created by George Lucas and
starring Mark Hamill and Harrison
Ford,is released in cinemas in the
UK and North America.


2000-Acclaimed British
actor Sir John Gielgud dies
aged 96.

[Bikkie]

1994-Pulp Fiction,directed
by Quentin Tarantino and
starring John Travolta and
Uma Thurman,wins the Palme
d'Or at the Cannes Flim
Festival.


1996-New Zealand mountaineer
Rob Hall dies of exposure on Mt
Everest.He was 35.

[Piper]

1930-English pilot Amy
Johnson becomes the first
woman to fly solo from
England to Australia.

[Bikkie]

1967-EMI releases The Beatles album
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
in the UK.


1975-The single Rhinestone Cowboy
by Glen Campbell is released.
It was Billboard's Song Of The Year.


1994-Pop star Michael Jackson,35,and
Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley,26,are
married in La Romana,Dominican
Republic.


2005-Eddie Albert,who starred in the
sitcom Green Acres,dies of pneumonia.
He was 99.

[Bikkie]

1930-The 319 metre Chrysler Building
in New York,then the world's tallest
human-made structure,opens to
the public.





1937-The Golden Gate Bridge,connecting
San Francisco and Marin County,California,
opens to pedestrians,with 200,000 people
walking across on opening day.




1964-The Beatles might have made waves with their so-called "mop top" hairstyles, but
it didn't take long for parents and authority figures to get over their shock – and find new tonsorial targets in the Rolling Stones.
The Stones' more unkempt look made headlines in May 1964, when the headmaster of a British school sent nearly a dozen students
home and ordering them to get haircuts. The Rolling Stones: Off the Record quoted a news article about the incident, which
said "a headmaster ruled yesterday: Beatle haircuts are IN – but Rolling Stones haircuts are OUT. The head, Mr. Donald Thompson, has
suspended eleven of his boys from Woodlands Comprehensive School, Coventry, because they wear their hair like Mick Jagger and co. of
the Rolling Stones pop group. 'Long and scruffy,' Mr. Thompson calls it. But yesterday he said they could return if they cut their hair neatly – like the Beatles.






1994-The Eagles reunited for the first time
in 14 years to kick off their Hell Freezes Over Tour at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, California.



2011-US actor Jeff Conaway,who starred
in the movie Grease and the sitcom Taxi
dies of pneumonia and sepsis.
He was 60.

[Bikkie]

1951-Radio programme Crazy People
( later titled The Goon Show ) premieres
on the BBC,created by Spike Milligan.



1972-The former Edward VIII,who was
king until his abdication in 1936,dies
aged 77,of cancer.



1988-Actor Lucy Lawless,30,and producer
Rob Tapert,43,are married in Santa Monica.
Los Angeles.



2010-Diff'rent Strokes actor Gary Colman
dies,aged 42,of a brain haemorrhage.

[Piper]

1942-Bing Crosby records
White Christmas.


1953-Edmund Hillary of New
Zealand and Tenzing Norgay
of Tibet-part of a British
expedition -reach the summit
of Mt Everest,the world's
highest mountain.
( And it was also Tenzing Norway's birthday )



1969-Crosby,Stills and Nash released their
self-titled debut album.


1984-Tina Turner releases Private Dancer,
her big comeback album.



1992-Concerned that students are identifying
with Freddie Mercury,who has recently died of
AIDS,the principal at Sacred Heart School in
Clifton, New Jersey doesn't allow 8th graders
to perform the Queen song "We Are The Champions"
at their graduation ceremony when students flood
the radio station Z100 with requests for the song,it
is re-released as a single.


2018-ABC TV network
cancels the sitcom Roseanne
after its star Roseanne Barr
posts a racist tweet.


2021-US actor Gavin
MacLeod ( captain Stubing
on TV series The Love Boat
and Murray on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show ) dies,aged 90.

[Piper]

1431-Joan Of Arc is burned at
the stake in Roueñ ,France.


1959-The Auckland Harbour
Bridge opens, after four years
of construction.


1966-US singer songwriter
Dolly Parton,20,weds Carl
Dean 23,in Georgia.

[Piper]

1968-Movie star James
Stewart retires from the
United States Air Force after
27 years of service.


1974-Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown
album is certified Gold.


2004-British children's
animated series Peppa
Pig , created by Astley
Baker Davies, premieries on
television.

[pete376403]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

[Stylo]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

Perfect. He should be imprisoned.

[Piper]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

A new surname for Donald should be felon.

[Piper]

1960-New Zealand's first
official TV transmission takes
place from the Shortland
Street studios in central
Auckland.The broadcast,
which started at 7.30pm,
lasted just three hours and
could be seen only in the
Auckland region.


1964-The Rolling stones make
their first trip to the United States,
arriving on British Airways Flight
505 for their first American tour.



1968-American author
Helen Keller,who was the first
deaf-blind person in the US to
earn a BA,dies aged 87.

[Bikkie]

1953-Elizabeth II,27,the
elder daughter of King George
VI,is crowned Queen of the
United Kingdom at London's
Westminster Abbey,having
taken thr throne upon her
father's death in Febuary
1952,




1955-Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California. She is an early member of The Runaways, an all-girl punk rock group.




1964-The day after arriving in America for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first US TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."



1970-New Zealand F1 driver
Bruce McLaren dies during a
test-drive on the Goodwood
circuit in England.He was 32.



1972-Pink Floyd release their seventh album, Obscured By Clouds, in the UK. It is released in America on June 17.



1973-The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts a four-week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.



1973-Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek kicking off in San Diego.




1978-Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel.




1981-Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom in London. He does not play the UK again for five years.




1983-The 12-inch remix of "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.

[Piper]

1937-The Duke of Windsor, the
former King Edward VIII,marries
the divorced Wallis Simpson in
France


1968-The Rolling stones perform
for the first time on American TV
when they're guests on a variety
show called Hollywood Palace,
which is hosted by Dean Martin.
They play their cover of Buddy Holly's
"Not Fade Away," and endure ridicule
from Martin,who quips,"Their hair is not
that long -it's just smaller foreheads."


1970-Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys
is certified.


2014-New Zealand singer
Lorde releases her debut
single Royals,the 2014
Grammy Song Of The
Year .


2016-US boxer Muhammad Ali,the
former heavyweight champion of
the world,dies of respiratory illness.
He was 74.

[Piper]

1943-Twenty one people die
when the Cornwell -Dunedin
express details while rounding
a curve of track near
Hyde,in Central Otago.


1951-Actors Tony Curtis,
26,and Janet Leigh,23,
are married in Greenwich,
Connecticut.


1984-The album Born In The
USA by Bruce Springsteen is
released.

[Bikkie]

1870-A huge section of the city of Constantinople, Turkey, is set ablaze When the smoke finally cleared, 3,000 homes were destroyed and 900 people were dead.



1944- more than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries placed at the Normandy assault area, while 3,000 Allied ships cross the English Channel in preparation for the invasion of Normandy—D-Day.


1949-Enid Blyton's wooden toy character
Noddy first appears-in The Sunday
Graphic.


1968- Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot in the head and died early the next morning.


2015-Former All Black Jerry Collins dies after
his car collides with a bus near Beziers in
Southern France.
He was 34.Collins'partner Alana Madill also
died in the crash.

[Bikkie]

1892-Chicago's elevated Loop train line (commonly known as the “L”) began operating, and it became one of the longest and busiest mass transit systems in the United States.



1925-The automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation was incorporated, with Walter P. Chrysler as president.


1944- Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern France, commonly known as D-Day. By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground.


1960-The RIAA gives Bing Crosby a special platinum record to signify career sales of 200 million records, many of them "White Christmas."



1962-The Beatles record at Abbey Road for the first time, demoing three songs they wrote themselves: "Love Me Do," "Ask Me Why" and "P.S. I Love You."


1964-An anonymous ad taken out in six American music trade papers states: "In the public interest, watch The Rolling Stones crush The Beatles!"



1969-Rod Stewart signs to the Mercury label.



1971-The Ed Sullivan Show airs its final show, going out with guests Jerry Vale and Gladys Knight & The Pips after 23 years on the air.



1971-John Lennon makes his first stage appearance since 1969 when he and Yoko Ono jam with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Fillmore East in New York. The show is recorded and released as a bonus disc with the Lennon/Ono album Some Time In New York City.



2014-The BBC broadcasts You've Got A Friend: The Carole King Story, named for her 1971 song.


2022-Jim Seals of the duo Seals & Crofts ("Summer Breeze") dies at 79.




2004-For her performance in A Raisin in the Sun, Phylicia Rashad became the first African American to win a Tony Award for best actress.




And the New World supermarkets in New Zealand is 60 years old today

[Piper]

1924-English climber
George Mallory,37,
disappears 245 meters
from the summit of Mt.
Everest.

[Piper]

632-A.D,the prophet Muhammad
died in Medina.


1942-The Imperial Japanese Navy
submarines 1-21 and 1-24 she'll the
Australian cities Sydney and Newcastle.


1867-Modern American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in
Richland Centrer Wisconsin.


1953-The US Supreme Court ruled
unanimously that restaurants in the
District of Columbia could not refuse
to serve Blacks.

[Piper]

1934-First appearance of
Donald Duck in a cartoon,in
The Wise Little Hen .



1963-Andy Williams is the
mystery guest on TV's What's
My Line.


1970-Bob Dylan receives an
honorary Doctorate of Music
from Princeton University.


1971-McCartney's second solo
album,Ran is certified Gold.



1995-A flight attendant and
three passengers die when
Ansett New Zealand Flight
703 from Auckland crashes
in hilly terrain,16km east of
Palmerston North Airport.


2014-British comedian and
actor Rik Mayall (who played
Rick in The Young Ones) dies,
aged 56,of cardiac arrest.

[Piper]

1886-Mt Tarawera erupts, killing
around 120 people.
Nearby villages were destroyed, along
with the pink and white Terraces



1934-At the second Football World Cup, Italy
beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the final, after
extra time in Rome.



1995-Acclaimed New Zealand actor
and musician Bruno Lawrence dies, aged
54,of lung cancer.

[Bikkie]

1770- Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia during his first voyage.



1776-The Continental Congress appointed a committee, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin, to draft the Declaration of Independence.



1837-The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, as a result of tensions between nativists and Irish immigrants.


1935-Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio, providing a support network for individuals struggling with alcohol addiction.



1957-Elvis Presley releases "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" b/w "Loving You."




1962-Three inmates ( Frank Morris
and brothers John and Clarence Anglin )
flee from Alcatraz Island Prison in San
Francisco Bay.
They were the only prisonsers to escape
the jail and were never recaptured.


1971-A drunken Dennis Wilson, drummer for The Beach Boys, accidentally puts his hand through the glass door of his home, severing nerves that keep him from his instrument for the better part of three years.



1982-The movie E.T.The Extra-Terrestrial,is
released.


2002-American Idol,created by Simon Cowell,Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson,premieres on Fox.

[Piper]

1942-Anne Frank is given
a diary in Amsterdam as a
birthday present and starts
writing in on June the 14.


1954-Bill Haley's hit single
Rock Around The Clock is
released


1994-Nicole Brown Simpson,
35, and her friend Ron Goldman,
25,are stabbed to death at their
home in Los Angeles.O.J.Simpson
was later charged with their murders.

[Piper]

1967-British film To Sir With
Love, starring Sidney Poitior,
is released in the US


1974-David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
tour begins in Montreal.As part of
the elaborate stage show,a giant
diamond opens up to reveal
Bowie


1984-New Zealand Prime
Minister Rob Muldoon calls
a snap election,to be held in
one month's time.The move
backfired, with National being
ousted by David Lange's
Labour.


2017-A fire in the Grenfell
Tower block in London,kills 79
people and injuries 37.

[Bikkie]

1836-Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state in the US



1974-John Denver's album, Back Home Again
is released

[Bikkie]

1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle, Scotland.



1779- US General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York, inflicting heavy losses on the British.


1962-Gary U.S. Bonds appears on US TV for the first time, performing his hit "Quarter To Three" on American Bandstand.


1963- Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.



1965-At Columbia Studios in New York City, Bob Dylan finishes recording "Like A Rolling Stone," a song about a socialite who falls from grace. The Hammond organ comes courtesy of Al Kooper, who later forms Blood, Sweat & Tears.



1967-The first Monterey International Pop festival begins at the County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. It's the first of many big Rock festivals, with The Who, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and The Animals among those performing. Many consider it the beginning of the "Summer of Love."



1970-The organizers of the Woodstock music festival report that they have lost over $1.2 million on the event (money which they will later make up through movie and soundtrack rights).



1970-Blues guitar pioneer Lonnie Johnson dies of a stroke at 76.



1972-David Bowie unveils his landmark album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. His breakthrough LP, it sells over 7 million copies and is hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time


1972-Roxy Music release their self-titled debut album. With obtuse lyrics from Bryan Ferry and futuristic synth soundscapes by Brian Eno, it's a tough nut to crack for many listeners but is later hailed as a triumph.



1976- The June 16 Uprising in Soweto, South Africa, which profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa.


1980-The movie The Blues Brothers, adapted from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's classic SNL skit, premieres in Chicago. A love letter of sorts to '60s R&B and soul, it will help re-establish the careers of its musical co-stars, including James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin.




1983-Ringo Starr releases his ninth solo album, Old Wave.



2002-A remixed version of Elvis Presley's 1968 single "A Little Less Conversation" hits #1 in the UK, released as part of a successful plan by his estate to claim the UK record for most #1 hits on the tally from The Beatles.



2008- The state of California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.



2015- Donald Trump announced he was running for President.

[Bikkie]

June 17th is the day we officially celebrate Apple Strudel Day as well as Eat Your Veggies Day.



1631-Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I decided to begin construction of the Taj Mahal.
It happened after his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died while giving birth. The emperor spent the next 20 years building the Taj Mahal as his wife’s tomb.


1885-The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City.
The statue was a gift given from France as a sign of friendship.


1894-The Polio epidemic took hold for the first time in the US at Rutland, Vermont.



1928-Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.



1963-The US Supreme Court decided that public schools aren’t allowed to study the bible or pray.



1970-Rock band Led Zeppelin started their last tour of Europe.




1971-US President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs.
In his press conference, he stated that the abuse of narcotics was public enemy #1.


1994-Police captured O.J. Simpson for murder charges after a 90-minute police chase.

[Piper]

1983-The Space Shuttle
Challenger launches with Sally
Ride on board to become the
first US woman in space


1995-All Blacks wing Jonah
Lomu scores four tries as New
Zealand beat England 45-29
in the Rugby World Cup semi-final
at Newlands Stadium,Cape Town

[Bikkie]

1973-The Rocky Horror
Show Stage production first opens in London.It was written by New Zealander Richard O'Brien and starred Tim Curry.

[Piper]

1980-Musical film The Blues
Brothers opens in cinemas.


1994-Robin and Margaret
Bain and three of their four
children -Arawa,Laniet and
Stephen -are found dead
in their Every Street home
in Dunedin.David Bain, the
only surviving member of the
family,was charged with the
murders ( but later acquitted)

[Bikkie]

1788 -US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it


1864 -New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends



1879 -Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his 1st successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania



1887 -Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria




1893 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois


1948-The Columbia label announces its new technological breakthrough, a "long-playing" vinyl phonograph record that can hold up to 23 minutes of music on a side.




1964-The Beatles land in New Zealand for four concerts.



1970-brazil and Pele become the first team and player to win the Football World Cup three times,when they beat Italy 4-1 in the final in Mexico City.



1982-Prince William is born in St.Marys Hospital,London,the son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.


1982 -John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity




2018-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden gives birth to daughter Neve.

[Piper]

1847-First ring doughnut supposedly
created by Hanson Gregory.


1848-Bamburners (anti-slavery) party
nominates Martin Van Buren for
president.


1940-1st Dairy Queen restaurant opens
in Joliet, Illinois.


1961-Elvis Presley's Wild I'm The Country
movie opens nationally.


1969-After a long battle drug and alcohol
abuse,Judy Garland dies of an overdose
at age 47.


1970-The Who Show in Atlanta is
delayed after Pete Townsend, frustrated
waiting to take off in Memphis, jokes
about planting a bomb on the airplane,
resulting in a search of the aircraft and
a few hours of questioning.


1974-Madonna,15,goes to her first concert:
David Bowie at Coba Arena in Detroit.
"I recognized myself in him somehow and
he gave me license to dream a different
future for myself," she says




1963-"Little" Stevie wonder,aged
13,releases his first single called
Fingertips.


1982-US tennis player John McEnroe
unleashes his now infamous "You Cannot
Be Serious" rant to an umpire over a disputed
line call in his first round win over fellow US
player Tom Gulikson at Wimbledon.


1987-Dancer Fred Astaire,88,dies of pneumonia.
Fred Astaire shortly before his death, Astaire
abdicated his throne as the king of song and
dance and welcomed a new royal: Michael
Jackson.He said: " I don't want to leave this
world without knowing who my descendant
was, thank you Michael."

[Bikkie]

930 -World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi)


1780 -American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township



1868 -Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind



1888 -Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American to be nominated for US Vice President


1892 -Chicago's 'The Inter Ocean' launches 1st US newspaper color supplement


1925 -British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers


1928 -Commencement of West Indies cricket's first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord's



1931 -Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Catty take off from Roosevelt Field, NY, to attempt to set a new record circumnavigating the Earth - successfully complete in 8 days, 15 hrs, 51 mins


1933 -Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC


1939- Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title


1940-The Beatles' original bass player Stu Sutcliffe is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He leaves the group before they hit it big so he can pursue painting.




World's Oldest Treaty
1943 British ambassador to Portugal Ronald Hugh Campbell invokes the almost 600 year old Anglo-Portuguese alliance between the two countries to request the use of military facilities on the Azores


1949 -First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School



1960-Introduction of the birth control pill in the United States


1962-Ray Charles' landmark album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music hits #1 in America.


1973-George Harrison's album Living In The Material World hits #1 in America.




1974 -First extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space



1979 -"My Sharona" single released by The Knack

[Piper]

1905-NZ Truth newspaper
begins.In 1983,it included a
publication called TV Guide,
which you are reading today.


1970-The war-drama Catch-22
opens in cinemas.


1995-In the Rugby World Cup
final in Johannesburg,South
Africa defeat New Zealand
15-12 in extra -time to win
the cup for the first time.

[Bikkie]

1788- Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitutio




1876 -Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"





1913-American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913



1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)



1947-The first version
of Anne Frank's Diary is
published in the Netherlands.



1984-Prince releases his
acclaimed Purple Rain album.


1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)


1993 Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)




2006-Actor Nicole Kidman,39,and country singer Keith Urban,38,are married in Manly Australia.


2009-Pop singer Michael Jackson,50,,dies of cardiac arrest,and US actor Farrah Fawcett,62,dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1971-Kiwi opera Inia
Te Wiata,56,dies of cancer.


1987-New Zealand's A.J.Hackett
bungy jumps off the Eiffel Tower
in Paris in a bid to promote adventure
tourism.


1997-Harry Potter And The Philosopher's
Stone,the first of J.K.Rowling's best-selling
series of books,is published.


2017-Team NZ beats Oracle Team USA 7-1
in Bermuda to win the American's
Cup.

[Bikkie]

1746 -Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye



1778- Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure



1898 -Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, completing the 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe



1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal heavyweight boxing title


1923 -Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane



1929 -1st color Television demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC



1939 -Brilliant West Indies batsman George Headley scores 107 to follow his 106 in the 1st innings in 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's; England still wins by 8 wickets


1955 -1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)



1962- NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m


1963 -US President John F. Kennedy spend his 1st full day in Ireland





1967-The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield,London.


1969 -Denver Pop Festival opens; 50,000 attend; Frank Zappa, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jimi Hendrix headline; other performers include Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Winter, Joe Cocker, and Poco


970 -Festival Express opens in Toronto, Canada - The Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Flying Burrito Bros, Buddy Guy, Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends cross Canada together by train, for 5 shows in 3 cities


1973- "Live & Let Die", 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US






1981-Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes hits number one in the US singles charts.



1986-Acclaimed former All Black fullback George Nepia dies,aged 81.



2001-US actor Jack Lemmon dies,age 76,of cancer.

[Piper]

1838-The Coronation of Queen Victoria
is held in Westminster Abbey, London.


1880-Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly
is captured at Glenrowan in Victoria.


1974-Paul McCartney and Wings'
release Band On The Run, which
was to be one of their biggest
singles,in the UK.

[Piper]

1956-Actor Marilyn Monroe,30, marries
playwright Arthur Miller,40,in New York.


1978-American actor Bob Crane,49,who
played Colonel Hogan in the comedy
Hogan's Heroes,is murdered in his
Arizona apartment.


1995-US Actor Lana Turner dies, aged
74,of cancer.


2003-American actor Katharine Hepburn
dies aged 96.

[Piper]

1936-The book Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell is published.


1938-Superman first appears in DC
comics' Action Comics series.


1975-New Zealand's second television
channel begins broadcasting.It was
known as South Pacific Television,but
would become TV2.


2008-The film Mamma Mia! featuring
the music of Abba and starring Meryl
Streep,Pierce Bronsnan and Amanda
Seyfried,premieres at Leicester Square
in London.

[Piper]

1903-The inaugural Tour De France
cycling race begins in Montgeron,a
suburb of Paris.


1969-The investiture of Prince Charles
as the Prince Of Wales is watched by
crowds in Caernarfon,Wales-and by
millions on television.


2021-At London's Kensington palace, Princes
William and Harry unveil a statue of their
mother Princess Diana on what would have
been her 60th birthday.

[jellywrestler]

do you work for the rock radio station, this is their style, no personal input whatsoever?

[Piper]

1937-Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
disappear when flying over the Pacific,
en route to Holland island.


1956-Elvis Presley records Hound Dog
and Don't Be Cruel.


2002-American Steve Fossett becomes
the first person to fly non-stop around
the world in a balloon.

[Bikkie]

1848-Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)



1861- Pony Express arrives in San Francisco with overland letters from NY


Slavery Divide Triggers America’s Civil War
1863 -Battle of Gettysburg, largest battle ever fought on the American continent, ends in a major victory for the Union during the US Civil War



1883 -SS Daphne sinks on Clyde River in Scotland; 195 die



1886- In Germany, Karl Benz first drives the first automobile in Mannheim at a top speed of 16 km/h (10 mph)



1898- Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)




1928-Johm Logie Baird
demonstrates the first colour television in London.



1958 -"Andy Williams Show" premieres on ABC (later on CBS & NBC)



1963-All 23 people aboard a DC-3 Skyliner en route from Whenuapai,Auckland to Tauranga are killed when the plane crashes in the Kaimai Ranges.



1969 -Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island opens, 78, 000 attend over 4 days; performers include: George Benson; Blood, Sweat, and Tears; Jeff Beck; James Brown; Bill Evans; Sun Ra; Mothers of Invention; Dave Brubeck; Miles Davis; Stephane Grapelli; and Sly & The Family Stone



1970 -Atlanta International Pop Festival opens, 200,000 attend over 3 days; performers include Allman Brothers; Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix Experience; Richie Havens; Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys; B.B. King; Mott the Hoople; and John Sebastian



1971-Jim Morrison,lead singer of The Doors,dies of heart failure.He was 27



1985 "Back to the Future" directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released



1986 US President Reagan presides over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty

[Bikkie]

1934-Scientist Marie Curie,whodiscovered radium and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize,dies aged 66.




1964-The Rolling Stones appear on the BBC's Juke Box Jury show as panelists, where they pass judgment on various records. A review in The Daily Sketch calls them "gum-chewing, ill-mannered, ill-humoured, illiberal and illogical jurors."



1964-Millie Small, part of the British Invasion, reaches #2 in America with "My Boy Lollipop."


1966-The Beatles play two shows in the Philippines, first in the afternoon to a crowd of 30,000, then in the evening to another 50,000. They fly to India the next day.



1969-Grand Funk Railroad, which formed just a few months earlier, play to a huge crowd at the Atlanta Pop Festival. Lead singer Mark Farner sheds his shirt because of the heat and gets such a reaction from the crowd that he decides to play every show shirtless.

[F5 Dave]

do you work for the rock radio station, this is their style, no personal input whatsoever?

Do they still do radio? I mean other than talk back.

Never has this guy posted about motorcycles.

Hope you're all good spyda, must catch up sometime.

[F5 Dave]

1962. The Hillman Hunter achieved 71mph.

[F5 Dave]

1983 wangChun released some song I've forgotten about..

[F5 Dave]

13 April 1570 Guy Fawkes birthday.

[F5 Dave]

0000 Jesus Christmas never existed.

[F5 Dave]

1951 18 April. Wonston Churchil missed breakfast because he was feeling a bit sick.

[F5 Dave]

1969 Alice Cooper bites head off chicken in Toronto and drinks it's blood .
Or does he?

[F5 Dave]

This morning I got a bit of a stiffy:, but the alarm went, then the moment was gone. :mellow:

[husaberg]

This morning I got a bit of a stiffy:, but the alarm went, then the moment was gone. :mellow:

I find that hard to believe......

[Piper]

1923-Seventeen people are
killed and 28 injured when the
Auckland -to-Wellington Wellington rail
express crashes into a slip
across the railway tracks at
Ongarue , north of Taumarunui.


1942-Anne Frank and her
family go into hiding in the
secret annexe above her
father's office in Amsterdam.


1957-John Lennon and Paul
McCartney meet for the first
time as teenagers at Woolton
Fete,three years before forming
The Beatles.


1964-The movie A Hard Day's
Night, by The Beatles is released .


1971-US jazz trumpeter and
singer Louis Armstrong dies of
a heart attack.He was 69.

[Kb2020dope]

This was the day I got my first trike. A 2009 harley davidson tri glide. I've never looked back! You beauty!

[Piper]

1947- Princess Elizabeth and
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
officially announce their
engagement.


1982-Michael Fagan breaks
into Buckingham Palace and
enters Queen Elizabeth II's
bedroom.


1990-New Zealand cricket
fast bowler Richard Hadlee
takes 5-53 in the third test
v England at Edgbaston to
end his test career with 431
wickets.


2001-TV comedy series The
Office premieres in the UK

[Piper]

1967-New Zealand adopts
the decimal currency system.


1985-Greenpeace vessel
Rainbow Warrior is bombed in
Auckland harbour by French
agents, killing photographer
Fernando Pereira.

[F5 Dave]

1988, the stubbie beer sales overtakes the crate.

[F5 Dave]

2013 broadcast, Jones warns that of weather weapons.

[F5 Dave]

2016 Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Golly.

[F5 Dave]

Yesterday, Elvis brought out of cryogenic storage to marry Bigfoot in big gay wedding. Liberace presiding as Mormon celebrant.

[F5 Dave]

1997 Princess Diana actual assassination performed by JFK and Marilyn Monroe working in surprising love triangle.

[F5 Dave]

https://www.theonion.com/tearful-boston-dynamics-engineer-forced-to-drown-unwant-1851552395

[Dean]

Some great suggestions team, I’d like to see more, keep it up, I’ll be sure to check in tomorrow to see progress👍

[Piper]

1877-Kate Edger graduates
with a BA from the University
of New Zealand, becoming the
first woman in this country to
gain a university degree.


1960-To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee is published.


1983-New Zealand's
Lorraine Downs,19,is
crowned Miss Universe in St.
Louis Missouri

[Kb2020dope]

On this day

1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city. I have had one or two wild nights in this stunning place. I can't wait to make my triumphant return. Here is something I wrote in my notebook back in the autumn of 2011.

Temptation
Injections
Jubilant
Unique
Allegations
Naughty
Amputees

1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"

[Piper]

1962-The Rolling stones
perform for the first time -at
the Marquee Club in London.


1979-Singer Minnie
Riperton best known for
the single Lovin'You ,dies of
cancer.She was 31.


2005-The local TV series
Outrageous Fortune,begins.
It would last for six seasons.

[Piper]

1923-The Hollywood sign is
officially dedicated in hills
of Los Angeles.It originally
read "Hollywoodland",but the
last four letters were dropped
after a renovation in 1949.


1934-Nez Zealand
suffragette Kate Sheppard
dies
,aged 87,in Christchurch.


1985-Live Aid concerts are
held at London's Wembley
Stadium and in Philadelphia,
United States.

[Piper]

1853-New Zealand's
inaugural general election
begins, with Hugh Carleton of
the Bay Of Islands the first MP
to be elected.


1984-In a New Zealand
snap election, David Lange's
Labour party defeats Robert
Muldoon's ruling National
Government.

[Piper]

1988-The movie Die Hard, starring
Bruce Willis and Alan
Rickman,is released in the
United States.


1996-Prince Charles and
Diana,the Princess of Wales,
sign their divorce papers.

[Piper]

1951-The novel Catcher In
The Rye by J.D.Salinger is
published.


1999-John F.Kennedy Jr..
history wife Carolyn and sister-in-law
Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane
crash off the coast of Martha's vineyard.

[Piper]

1955-Disneyland theme
park televises its grand
opening at Anaheim,
California.


1959-American jazz singer
Billie Holiday, 44, dies.


2014-Malaysia Airlines Flight
17 is shot down over Ukraine
by a surface -to-air missile,
killing all 283 passengers and
15 crew on board.

[Piper]

1884-Maud Watson, of
England, becomes the
first female champion
at Wimbledon, beating
her sister Lillian in the
women's singles final.


1980-The Olympic Games
officially open in Moscow,
but are boycotted by 66 nations,
led by the United States,
because of the Soviet-Afghan
war. Four NZ athletes chose
to defy the boycott and
compete, but they did not use
the New Zealand flag.

[Piper]

1969-Apollo 11 lands on the
surface of the Moon.Seven
hours later,Neil Armstrong
becomes the first man to walk
on the Moon.


1973-Actor and martial
artist Bruce Lee dies age 32.


1974-Eric Clapton's album 461
Ocean Boulevard was released.



1996-New Zealander
Danyon Loader wins gold in
the men's 200m freestyle at
the Atlantic Olympics.Three
days later,he won gold in the
men's 400m freestyle.

[Piper]

1974-Stevie Wonder's album Fulfillingness ' First Finale
was released.


1981-The Springboks' rugby
tour of New Zealand starts in
Gisborne.South Africa beat
Poverty Bay 24-6, as rival
protestors clash nearby.


1983-Australian Dick Smith
makes the first solo helicopter
flight ✈️ around the world.


2024-And unfortunately our cat Cougar died of old
at the age 15 years old.
( R.I.P Cougar)

[Piper]

1952-Yvette Williams wins
the long jump at Helsinki to
become New Zealand's first
female Olympic medalist.

[Piper]

1969-Apollo 11 astronauts
safely return to Earth.


1982-The single Eye Of The
Tiger by Survivor from the
Rocky III soundtrack starts a
six-week run at No.1 on the
US charts.


1985-French agents Alain
Mafart and Dominique Prieur
are arrested and charged with
murder over the bombing of
the Rainbow Warrior.

[Kb2020dope]

On this day 24th July

1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1941 Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania

1984 "Careless Whisper" single released by George Michael

Thanks

[Piper]

1978-Lousie Brown, the
world's first "test tube baby,"
is born in Oldham, England.
She was conceived via IVF.


1981-Springbok tour
protestors invade Hamilton's
Rugby park before the match
between Waikato and South
Africa.The game is eventually
cancelled over safety issues.

[Piper]

1865-The capital of New
Zealand moves from Auckland
to Wellington.


1⁹45-Winston Churchill
resigns and British Prime
Minister after being defeated
in an election.


1952-Argentina's First Lady
Eva Peron,who inspired the
musical Evtia,dies of cancer.
She was 33.


2020-Osvar-winning British -
American actor Olivia de
Havilland dies, aged 104.

[Piper]

1965-New Zealand's first
quintuplets -the Lawson
quins: Samuel, Lisa, Deborah,
Shirlene and Selina-are born
in Auckland.


1981-On Coronation Street,
Kensington Barlow marries Deirdre
Langton, drawing 24 million
viewers across Britain.


2012-Queen Elizabeth II
opens the London Olympics,
with a little help from James
Bond (actor Daniel Craig).

[Piper]

1893-A petition organised
by Kate Sheppard, demanding
women's suffrage,is delivered
to New Zealand's parliament.

[Piper]

1935-The first penguin book
is published, starting the
paperback revolution.


1979-Carless days for motor
vehicles are introduced in New
Zealand in a bid to combat
the global oil crisis


( My work colleague made a novity
carless day card and put on it: yesterday just for a laugh' )

[Piper]

1959-Cliff Richard and
The Shadows have their first
British No 1 single with Living
Doll.


1976-New Zealand's John
Walker wins the 1500m gold
at the Montreal Olympics.


2021-The New Zealand
Women's sevens team beat
France 26-12 to win gold at
the Tokyo Olympics.

[Piper]

1944-Anne Frank makes her
last diary entry.Three days
later she was arrested.


1976-Elizabeth Taylor
divorces Richard Burton for
the second time.


1987-Samosn-born boxer
Jimmy Peanut wins gold for
New Zealand at the Commonwealth
Games in Edinburgh in the
men's heavyweight division.


1996-A Game Of Thrones
( from A song of Ice And Fire )
by George R.R.Martins is published .

[Piper]

1961-The Beatles perform
their first gig as house band a
the Cavern Club in Liverpool.


1992-Windsurfer Barbara
Kendall wins New Zealand's
only gold medal at the
Barcelona Olympics.


2003-Actor Don Estelle
( Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden in the
British TV sitcom It Ain't Half
Hot Mum ) dies aged 70.

[Piper]

1956-Elivs Presley releases
the single Hound Dog.


1962-Marilyn Monroe,36,is
found dead at her Los Angeles
home after a drug overdose.


1984-Prince's album Purple
Rain goes to No.1 in the US
charts.

[Piper]

1972-The Moody Blues
release Nights In White Satin.


1984-Welsh actor Richard
Burton dies, aged 58,of a
cerebral haemorrhage.


1992-Former New Zealand
Prime Minister Robert Muldoon
dies, aged 70.

[Piper]

1936-New Zealand runner
Jack Lovelock wins the 1500m
gold at the Berlin Olympics.


1945-An atomic bomb is
dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
by the United States.


1965-The Beatles release
their album Help! in the UK.


2016-The Hurricanes win the
Super Rugby title for the first
time, beating the Lions 20-3
in the final at Wellington.

[Piper]

1957-US comedian Oliver
Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy,
dies age 65 of a blood clot.


1991-Kiwi comedian Billy T.
James dies of heart failure.He
was 42.


2011-Nancy Wake, the New
Zealand born World War II
secret agent, dies aged 98.


2018-Crazy Rich Asians,
the first Hollywood film with
an all-Asian cast,premieres in
Los Angeles.

[Pursang]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/81/cc/29/81cc294a2113e2f8a91e2e8c1280dbc4.jpg

[Piper]

1969-Actor Sharon Tate,26,
and four others are murdered
in Los Angeles NY Charles
Manson's gang.


1974-Richard Nixon resigns
as US president ( in the wake
of the Watergate scandal ).


2012-Jamacian sprinter
Usain Bolt wins the 200m
at the London Olympics to
become the first man to win
the 100m/200m double at
back-to-back Olympics's

[Piper]

1948-Candid Microphone
( later renamed Candid Camera )
begins screening on
US TV.The hidden camera
show was originally a radio
programme.Candid Camera
is considered to be one of the
first reality TV shows.


1984-At the Los Angeles
Games,kayaker Ian Ferguson
becomes the first kiwi to win
two Olympic gold medals in
one day ( the men's K-1 500m
and K-2 500m ).


1996-The All Blacks beat
the Springboks 29-18 in Cape
Town to win the first rugby
Tri-Nations title.

[Piper]

1851-American inventer
Issac Singer patents the
sewing machine.


1908-Henry Ford's company
builds the first Model T car.


2014-US actor Lauren
Bacall,89,dies of a stroke.

[Piper]

1910-British nurse Florence
Nightingale,90,who was
renowned for her deeds in
the Crimean war, dies.

[Piper]

1965-Sonny and Cher's single
I Got You Babe hits No.1 in the
US charts.

[Piper]

1903-The All Blacks play
their first rugby test match,
against Australia's Wallabies
at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
New Zealand wins 22-3.


1939-The Wizard Of
Ox, starring Judy Garland
a Dorothy, premiere's in
Hollywood.

[Piper]

1962-Ringo Starr replaces
Pete Best as The Beatles
drummer.


1977-Elvis Presley the
King of rock-'n'roll,dies
at Graceland of cardiac
arrhythmia.He was 42.

[Piper]

1946-The book Animal Farm
by George Orwell is published
in Britain.

[Piper]

1911-The Mona Lisa is
stolen from the Louvre in Paris
by Vincenzo Perugia (it was
recovered in 1913 ).


1942-Disney's animated movie
Bambi is released.

[Piper]

1956-Elvis Presley begins
filming the movie Love Me
Tender.It premiered in New
York.on November 15.


1969-Gary Frazier of
Swannanoa,near
Christchurch,wins the first
New Zealand Young Farmer Of
The Year Contest.


1987-Who's That Girl by Madonna
goes to No 1 in the US charts.

[Piper]

1940-The Germany Luftwaffe
begins night bombing on
London.

[Piper]

1980--Actor Yootha Joyce
who starred in UK sitcoms
Man About The House and
George And Mildred,dies
aged 53, of liver failure.

[Piper]

1968-The Beatles 'Hey Jude
single is released.


2004-New Zealand triathletes Hamish
Carter and Bevan Docherty win gold and
silver in the men's triathlon at the Athens
Olympics.


2012-Kiwi Lydia KO,15,wins the Canadian
Women's Golf.


2017-Bew Zealand win the Women's Rugby
World Cup final, beating England 41-32.

[Piper]

1964-Mary Poppins, starring
Julie Andrews and Dick Van
Dyke, opens in Los Angeles.

[Piper]

1954-Christchurch teens
Pauline Parker,16,and Juliet
Hulme,15,are convicted
of the murder of Pauline's
mother Honora on June 22.


1963-Martin Luther King
Jr,delivers his "I have a
dream" speech at the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington DC.

[Piper]

1986-Actor Lee Marvin dies, aged
63,of a heart attack.

[Piper]

1903-The Waimangu Geyser,
South of Rotorua,erupts
killing guide Joseph Warbrick
and there tourists

[Piper]

1974-New Zealand Prime
Minister Norman Kirk dies in
office of cardiac failure.
He was 51.

[Piper]

1951-New Zealand
Australia and the US sign the
ANZUS mutual defence treaty.

[Piper]

1939-Britain declares war
on Germany after the invasion
of Poland.France follows six
hours later, quickly joined by
New Zealand, Australia, South
Africa and Canada.


1958-The first open-heart
surgery in New Zealand is
performed by Brian Barratt-Boyes
on an 11-year old girl at Greenlane
Hospital.


2012-US actor Michael Clarke
Duncan,best known for the
movie The Green Mile,dies
from respiratory failure.
He was 54.

[Piper]

1888-George Eastman
patents the first roll-flim
camera and registers Kodak.


1983& English author Beatrix
Potter writes the story of Peter
Rabbit,in an illustrated letter
to Noel Moore, the five-year-old
son of her friend Annie
Moore.


2006-Crocodile hunter Steve
Irwin,44,is attacked and
killed by a stingray.

[Piper]

1960-Cassius Clay ( later
Muhammad Ali ) wins the
light heavyweight boxing gold
medal at the Rome Olympic
Games, beating Zbigniew
Pietrzykowski of Poland

[Piper]

1880-W.G Grace scores
152 in his debut test cricket
innings against Australia at
The Oval in London.


1969-The Brady Bunch
premiers in America on the
ABC network.


2018-American actor Burt
Reynolds dies, aged 82,of
cardiac arrest.

[Piper]

1940-The German Luftwaffe
bombs London for the first of
57 consecutive nights.


1943-Actors Orsen Welles
28, and Rita Hayworth,24,
are married

[Piper]

1960-Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho, starring Anthony
Perkins and Janet Leigh,is
released in the US.



1974-The first Pizza Hut to open
in New Zealand,was in New Lynn,
Auckland.

[Piper]

1971-Former Beatle John
Lennon releases his Imagine
album.

[Piper]

1974-The TV series Little house
On The Pariare screens for the
first time


2001-Two planes hijacked
by Al Queda terrorists crash
into New York's World Trade
Towers, causing both buildings
to collapse.Terrorists also
hijack a plane and crash it
into the Pentagon.Ànd during
an attempt by passengers
and crew of United Airlines
Flight 93 to retake control
of their hijacked plane from
terrorists, the plane crashes in
a Pennsylvania field, killing all
64 people on board.In total,
2977 people died as a result
of the attacks.:weep:

[Piper]

1857-The SS Central America mail steamer
sank off the coast of South Carolina after
being caught in a hurricane.
More than 450 people died when the ship
sank.
But what keeps the "Central America"
( originally named the "SS.George Law" ) in
the nations consciousness is not the loss of
life,but the loss of cargo.
In addition to tons of mail heading from California
to New York the ship carried tons of gold from the
California gold fields.


1953-US senator John F.
Kennedy,36,weds Jacqueline
Bouvier,24,in Newport, Rhode
Island.


1959-TV western series
Bonanza, starring Lorne
Greene, premieres on BBC.


1982-During the third test
at Eden Park between the All
Blacks and Springboks, flour
bombs are dropped from an
aircraft circling the grounds.


2003-US country singer
Johnny Cash dies, aged 71,
from diabetes complications.

[Piper]

1933-Elizabeth McCombs
becomes New Zealand's first
female Member Of Parliament.

[Piper]

1982-Actor Grace Kelly
( High Society ),who went to
marry Prince Rainer III and
become Princess of Monaco,
dies in a car crash,She was
52.


1985-The Golden Girls
starring Bea Arthur,Betty
White,Rue McClanahan and
Estelle Getty debuts on BBC


2009-Actor Patrick Swayze
( Dirty Dancing ) dies age 57,
of cancer.

[Piper]

1928-Scottish bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming discovers
Penicillin.


1969-New Zealand Steel's
Glen brook Mill, near Waiuku
in South Auckland, produces
iron and steel from local iron
sand for the first time.


1984-Prince Harry, Duke of
Sussex, and youngest son of
King Charles III and Diana,
Princess of Wales, is born.

[F5 Dave]

1928-Scottish bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming discovers
Penicillium.
. . .
You spelt it wrong, and no he didn't discover it you cock holster.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0015587X.1989.9715763

[Piper]

1905-The first New Zealand
rugby team, subsequently
known as the All Blacks,
begins their tour of Great
Britain.

[Piper]

You spelt it wrong, and no he didn't discover it you cock holster.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0015587X.1989.9715763

I see that you are calling me your best feature!

[Piper]

1941-The New Zealand
Labour party abolishes
the death penalty.( It is
reintroduced by the National
Government in 1950, before
finally being removed from the
statute book in 1961.)


1970-TV comedy series
M*A*S*H adapted from the
movie and starring Alan Alda
and Loretta Swift,debuts on
CBS.It ran until 1983.

[Piper]

1947-The Central
Intelligence Agency ( CIA )
officially comes into existence,
fter being established by US
President Truman in July.

[Piper]

1893-New Zealand becomes
the first country to grant all
women the right to vote.


1970-The Mary Tyler Moore
Show premieres.

[Piper]

1946-The first Cannes Film
Festival is held.


1973-Billie Jean King
beats Bobby Riggs in three
sets in a battle-of-the sexes
tennis match.It was seen as
a milestone in the public's
acceptance of women's
tennis.

[Piper]

1957-TV legal series Perry
Mason , Starring Raymond
Burr, premieres on CBS.


1998-US sprinter Florence
Griffith Joyer,who won three
golds at the 1988 Olympic
Games,dies of an epileptic
seizure.She was 38.


2008-Mad Men is named
the year's Outstanding TV
Drama Series at the Emmys.

[Piper]

1994-Sitcom Friends
debuts on NBC.

[Piper]

1962-Cartoon The Jetsons
is first broadcast in the US.

[Piper]

1968-60 Minutes is first
broadcast on CBS

[Piper]

2005-Don Adams ( Maxwell
Smart in Get Smart ) dies of
lymphoma.He was 82.


2012-US singer Andy Williams dies,
aged 84, of bladder cancer


2017-Tom Petty does his final live
concert at the Hollywood Bowl in
Los Angeles,USA.
The last song he sang was ,An
American Girl.

[Piper]

1962-Comedy The Beverley
Hillbillies premieres on CBS.


1964-,TV comedy Gilligan's
Island debuts on CBS.


1969-The Brady Bunch
sitcom premieres on ABC


1969-The Beatles release
their Abbey Road album.


1982-David Hasslehoff's
series Knight Rider debuts.


2008-Actor Paul Newman
dies, aged 83,of lung cancer.


2010-Period drama Downton
Abbey premieres in Britain.It
lasted for six seasons.

[Piper]

1934-Brigitte Bardot
is born in Paris.


1924-St.Kevins Arcade opens in
Auckland New Zealand.

[F5 Dave]

Wot the fuk are you doing here?

I've never once seen you post anything about. Motorcycles.

Just be a person instead of a Bot.

[Piper]

1872-The schooner Corsair sank just
south of Thunder Bay,Ontario
Canada.


Also on the 29 September 1872,on lake Huron
The barge Detroit ran aground on ultimately
leaving to it's demise,it rests under
10 feet of water off the shore of
Green bush just south of Alpena,
Michigan ,according to records.


1982-The first broadcast of the comedy
series Cheers, starring Ted Danson and
Shelly Long on NBC TV.

[Piper]

Wot the fuk are you doing here?

I've never once seen you post anything about. Motorcycles.

Just be a person instead of a Bot.

There goes F5 Dave, always putting his 2 cents worth in!

[F5 Dave]

At last. You have communicated.
Not much, but it's a start.

This site is bigger than this one thread. Step outside, you might enjoy it.

[Piper]

At last. You have communicated.
Not much, but it's a start.

This site is bigger than this one thread. Step outside, you might enjoy it.

This is not the first time I have communicated with you.
Yes I step outside every day, and yes I do enjoy it! 🤠

[Piper]

1972-Christchurch's new
Town Hall, with state-of-the-art
accoustics,is officially
opened by the Governor
General Dir Denis Blundell.
( I was there )

[Piper]

1868-Little Women by
Louisa May Alcott is
published.


1961-US band The Beach
Boys record their debut single
Surfin' and in doing so, introduce
a new musical style


2008-New Zealand entertainer
Rob Guest,who was acclaimed for
history performances in the musical
The Phantom Of The Opera,dies of a
stroke.He was 58.

[rambaldi]

1972-Christchurch's new
Town Hall, with state-of-the-art
accoustics,is officially
opened by the Governor
General Dir Denis Blundell.
( I was there )

You missed something for yesterday. Police finally started doing something about motorcylce thefts: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/30/auckland-police-find-scooter-10-years-after-it-was-stolen/

[Piper]

You missed something for yesterday. Police finally started doing something about motorcylce thefts: https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/30/auckland-police-find-scooter-10-years-after-it-was-stolen/

That's great that they are doing that👍

[Piper]

1957-New Zealand businessman
Morris Yock trademarks the jandal,
inspired by footwear he had seen in
Japan.


1992-New Zealand motor racing driver
Denny Hulme dies of a heart attack while
driving in the Bathurst 1000.
He was56.

[Piper]

1961-The film Breakfast At
Tiffany's is released.


1969-Monty Python's Flying
Circus begins on BBC TV

[Piper]

1952-Agatha Christie's play
The Mousetrap opens in
London ( it was halted only
by COVID 19 )

[Piper]

1971-The French Connection starring
Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider, premiere's
in the United States,it won the Oscar for Best
Picture the following year.

[Piper]

1985-US actor Orson Welles
dies, aged 70, of a heart attack
and on the same day fellow
actor Yul Brynner dies, aged
65 of cancer.

[Piper]

1961-Comedian Chico
Marx,dies of thickening of
the arteries.He was 74.

[Piper]

1996-New Zealand go
to the polls in the first
MMP election.

[Piper]

1066-At the Battle of
Hastings, William, Duke Of
Normandy and his Norman
army defeat the English forces
of Harold II.


1947-American test pilot
Chuck Yeager becomes the
first person to break the sound
barrier.


2016-Jean Alexander,best
known for playing Hilda Ogden
on Coronation Street for 23
years,dies aged 90.
Shortly before her death she said
to her family of her life,"It's
not bad for a poor girl from
Liverpool, is it?"

[Piper]

1839-Encouraged by her
uncle Leopold,Queen Victoria
of England proposes to her
cousin, Prince Albert.


1917-Dutch dancer and spy
Mata Hari is executed by the
French on charges of spying for
Germany during World War I.

[Piper]

1793-Marie Antoinette
Queen of France ( 1774-92 ) is
beheaded.She was 37.

[Piper]

1888-Thomas Edison
files a patent for the Optical
Phonograph ( the first movie projection )


2018-Big Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney
leaves Sesame Street after 50 years.

[Piper]

1854-Florence Nightingale, with
a staff of 38 nurses,is sent to the
Crimean War.


1964-New Zealand athlete
Peter Snell wins the 1500 the
final at the Tokyo Olympics
( to go with his 800m gold ).


1964-The film version of
My Fair Lady, starring Rex
Harrison and Audrey Hepburn,
premieres in New York.
It won the Oscar for Best Picture
in 1965.


And on this date
Marty McFly ends up in 2015 after
travelling from 1985,in the film
Back To The Future II.

[jellywrestler]

1854-Florence Nightingale, with
a staff of 38 nurses,is sent to the
Crimean War.


1964-New Zealand athlete
Peter Snell wins the 1500 the
final at the Tokyo Olympics
( to go with his 800m gold ).


1964-The film version of
My Fair Lady, starring Rex
Harrison and Audrey Hepburn,
premieres in New York.
It won the Oscar for Best Picture
in 1965.

wow, has nothing happened in the last three days in history?

[pritch]

1854-Florence Nightingale, with
a staff of 38 nurses,is sent to the
Crimean War.



Nightingale came home from Crimea and went to bed convinced she was going to die. She was right of course, she died fifty seven years later aged ninety.

[Piper]

wow, has nothing happened in the last three days in history?


There's always something happening every day Jelly Wrestler ��

[Piper]

1967-Denny Hulme becomes
the first New Zealander to
win the F1 World Drivers
Championship, after finishing
third in the Mexican Grand Prix

[Piper]

2003-Concorde embarks on
it's last commercial flight. ✈️



2017-US actor Robert
Guillaume,best known as
Benson from the TV series of
the same name,dies aged 89
and *Fats* Domino,an early
star of rock 'n' roll era,also
dies aged 89.

[Piper]

1942-The Women Jurors Act
is introduced in New Zealand.
It allowed women, aged
between 25 and 60,to have
their names placed on the jury
list on the same basis as men-
Zif they do desired.

[Piper]

1904-The New York City
Subway opens.


1970-Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber release the
Jesus Christ Superstar concept
album.


2013-US musician Lou Reed
dies, aged 71, of liver disease.

[Piper]

1890-The first Labour Day
in New Zealand takes place,
celebrating the struggle for an
eight hour working day.

[Piper]

1945-The first ballpoint pen
goes on sale, manufactured
by Biro.

[Piper]

1485-Henry Tudor is crowned
King of England.


1974-The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre horror film opens in
Los Angeles and becomes a
Cult classic.

[Piper]

1924-The Embassy Theatre in
Wellington,New Zealand
opens.

[Piper]

1868-New Zealand becomes
the first country to adopt a
standard time, regulating all
clocks to Greenwich mean
time.


1947-Howard Hughes '
wooden "Spruce Goose," the
largest aircraft ever built at the
time, goes on its first and only
flight ✈️.

[Piper]

1886-From a dairy factory
at Pukekura, Waikato, Henry
Reynolds launched Anchor
butter.The brand name was
allegedly inspired by a tattoo
on the arm of one of his
workers.


1957-The Soviet Union
launches Sputnik 2 with dog
Laika aboard.

[jellywrestler]

1886-From a dairy factory
at Pukekura, Waikato, Henry
Reynolds launched Anchor
butter.The brand name was
allegedly inspired by a tattoo
on the arm of one of his
workers.


1957-The Soviet Union
launches Sputnik 2 with dog
Laika aboard.

what size was the butter blocks when they launched them?

[Piper]

1922-Howard Carter discovers
the tomb of Tutankhamen in
Egypt.

[Piper]

what size was the butter blocks when they launched them?

They may have been 45kgs

[jellywrestler]

They may have been 45kgs

new zealand wasn't metric then

[TheDemonLord]

new zealand wasn't metric then

100 pound would be my guess then, since it is about the same weight.

[Piper]

100 pound would be my guess then, since it is about the same weight.


Aye, it's all in the weight.

[Piper]

new zealand wasn't metric then

No they weren't,but that's what they said in the article .

[Piper]

1881-About 1600
government troops invade
the Taranaki settlement of
Parihaka.
The order was given for
Parihaka's leaders to be
arrested and much of the
village to be destroyed.

[Piper]

1908-New Zealand Prime
Minister Joseph Ward opens
the North Island main trunk
railway line, completing the
route between Auckland and
Wellington.

[jellywrestler]

No they weren't,but that's what they said in the article . what article?

[Piper]

1970-Mountaineers John
Glasgow and Peter Gough
scale the last unclimbed face
of Aoraki/Mount Cook,
New Zealand.

[Piper]

what article?


The article that was on the Google page.

[jellywrestler]

1970-Mountaineers John
Glasgow and Peter Gough
scale the last unclimbed face
of Aoraki/Mount Cook,
New Zealand.

which face?

[Piper]

which face?


It didn't say.