On This Day In History

[Piper]

1970-Comedy series
The Goodies premieres.It
screened on the BBC until
1980, before moving to ITV
for two more seasons.


1974-British peer the Earl of
Lucan disappears and is never
seen again after his nanny is
found murdered in London.

[jellywrestler]

1970-Comedy series
The Goodies premieres.It
screened on the BBC until
1980, before moving to ITV
for two more seasons.


1974-British peer the Earl of
Lucan disappears and is never
seen again after his nanny is
found murdered in London.

was it his Nanny Goat or the household help one?

[Piper]

was it his Nanny Goat or the household help one?

your guess is good as mine.

[Piper]

1969-Children's TV series
Sesame Street premieres in
the United States on PBS TV

[Piper]

1961& The novel Catch-22 by
Joseph Heller is published.

[Piper]

1940-The aminated film
Fantasia by Walt Disney
is released.

[Bikkie]

1919-Pop singer Johnny Desmond is born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone in Detroit, Michigan. His highest-charting hit was "The Yellow Rose of Texas" in 1955.



1964-At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."



1967-Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, The Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, Jimi Hendrix.

[Piper]

1935-The Marx Brothers film
A Night At The Opera is
released.

[Piper]

1940-New Zealand officially
becomes a British Colony.

[jellywrestler]

17th november


gary from greytown was born, 6 ib 2 oz, he now has a birthday every year, till he doesn't

[Piper]

1869-The Suez Canal in
Egypt opens, linking the
Mediterranean Sea and
the Red Sea.

[Piper]

17th november


gary from greytown was born, 6 ib 2 oz, he now has a birthday every year, till he doesn't

Yeah, you are right on the money there!

And happy birthday .

[BMWST?]

Some History for the 18th November

2024 Piper doesnt post the history for several days

1901 – Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Pauncefote_Treaty), which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%E2%80%93Bulwer_Treaty) and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama

1903 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903) – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Bunau-Varilla_Treaty) is signed by the United States and Panama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone).

1910 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910) – In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragettes) march to the British Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster) in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1910))

1916 – World War I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I): First Battle of the Somme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme): In France, British Expeditionary Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_I)) commander Douglas Haig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Haig,_1st_Earl_Haig) calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916

1943 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) – World War II: Battle of Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin_(RAF_campaign)): Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force) planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew

1947 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947) – The B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantyne%27s_fire)allantynes Department store fire in Christchurch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch), New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand

1961 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961) – United States President John F. Kennedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam).

[Piper]

Some History for the 18th November

2024 Piper doesnt post the history for several days

1901 – Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Pauncefote_Treaty), which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton%E2%80%93Bulwer_Treaty) and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama

1903 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903) – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay%E2%80%93Bunau-Varilla_Treaty) is signed by the United States and Panama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama), giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone).

1910 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910) – In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragettes) march to the British Parliament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster) in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(1910))

1916 – World War I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I): First Battle of the Somme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme): In France, British Expeditionary Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_I)) commander Douglas Haig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Haig,_1st_Earl_Haig) calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916

1943 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943) – World War II: Battle of Berlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin_(RAF_campaign)): Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force) planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew

1947 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947) – The B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballantyne%27s_fire)allantynes Department store fire in Christchurch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch), New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand

1961 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961) – United States President John F. Kennedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam).



Yes I posted about the fire last year.

[BMWST?]

Yes I posted about the fire last year.
i meant that you hadnt posted the history TODAY after posting most days recentlly

[jellywrestler]

Yes I posted about the fire last year.

so why didn't you post about lasts years history and keep things fresh?

[Piper]

i meant that you hadnt posted the history TODAY after posting most days recentlly


I post when I get around to it
And it's Ballantynes,not allantynes,and there's no need to shout!
Anyway, I'm sure other people can post something as well if they want to ?

[Piper]

so why didn't you post about lasts years history and keep things fresh?


Why post about lasts years when it's already posted?

[Piper]

1916-Samuel Goldwyn and
Edgar Selwyn establish
Goldwyn Pictures.

[jellywrestler]

Why post about lasts years when it's already posted?

because last year it was the days news, this year it's history simply, you seem to lack commitment to this role you've made for yourself?.

[Piper]

because last year it was the days news, this year it's history simply, you seem to lack commitment to this role you've made for yourself?.

No it's not lack of commitment to myself,I do it if I want to,or I don't!

[Piper]

1877-Thomas Edison announced he
invented a "talking machine"- -something
that became known as the phonograph.

[Piper]

1963-US President John F.Kennedy
is assassinated while riding in a
motorcade in Dallas Texas


1989-The film Back To The Future II
is released.

[Piper]

1968-English children's
author Enid Blyton dies, aged
71.

[Piper]

1949-The Labour government
led by Peter Fraser was defeated
by Sidney Holland's National
party after 14 years in office.


2013-US actor Paul Walker, best
known for his role in the
Fast And Furious franchise,dies,
aged 40,in a car accident in
Valencia, California.

[Piper]

1898-The first motion pictures
known to have been taken in
New Zealand were made by
photographer W.H Bartlett, using
the colony's first "kinetoscope."

[Piper]

1917-Six p.m closing of pubs
was introduced as a temporary
wartime measure.It ushered in
what became as the "six
O'clock swill," in which patrons
drank their fill before closing
time.The practice was to last
for 50 years.

[Piper]

1926-Crime novelist Agatha Christie
mysteriously disappears for 11 days.


1967-Christiaan Barnard of South Africa
performs the first human heart transplant,at
Groote Schuur hospital.


1992-First SMS text message is sent..It
simply said,"Merry Christmas."

[Piper]

1817-The American brigantine
Mary Celeste is discovered
drifting in the Atlantic.Her crew
is never found.


2024-The new Te Ngaengae pool formally known as ( Naenae pool ) opens and is blessed in Naenae,a suburb of Lower Hutt City
New Zealand.

[Piper]

1791-Austrian Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
dies, aged,35,of severe fever.

[Piper]

1798-The first edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica is
published in Scotland.


1988-US musician Roy
Orbison dies, aged 52, of a
heart attack.


2000-German,-US actor
Werner Klemperer ( Colonel
Klink in Hogan's Heroes ),dies
of cancer.He was 80.

[Piper]

1984-The charity song "Do They Know It's Christmas"
is released.

[Piper]

1941-The United States
declares war on Japan.


1980-Former Beatle John
Lennon,40,is shot and
killed outside his New York
apartment by Mark Chapman.


1982-Sophie's Choice
starring Meryl Streep and
Kevin Kline,is released.

[Piper]

1960-Coronation Street
broadcasts for the first time.

[Piper]

1936-King Edward VIII gives
up the British throne to marry
US divorcee Wallis Simpson.


2024-A man is fatally shot in Seddon street Naenae,a
suburb of Lower Hutt City,New Zealand.

[husaberg]

Peter Fraser CH PC 28 August 1884 – 12 December 1950) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 24th prime minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 until 13 December.

[Piper]

1911-Norwegian Ronald Amundsen
leads the first successful expedition
to reach the South Pole.

[Piper]

1962-The movie Lawrence
Of Arabia, starring Peter
O'Toole,is released in the
United States.


1980-Colonel Harland
Sanders, the American founder
of Kentucky Fried Chicken,dies
aged 90.

[jellywrestler]

1962-The movie Lawrence
Of Arabia, starring Peter
O'Toole,is released in the
United States.


.

wow, some motorcycle content, finally

[Piper]

1889-Just 8 and a half months after
Gustave Eiffel's famous Paris
tower was officially completed
in March 1889,a wooden replica Eiffel
Tower opened at the 1889-90 New Zealand
and South Seas Exhibition in
Dunedin


1964-Goldfinger,the third James Bond
film, starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman,
premiers in London.

[Piper]

wow, some motorcycle content, finally

Yeha!!,whoop,whoop!!

[Piper]

1642-Abel Tasman's Dutch
East Indian Company expedition
had the first Known European
contact with Maori.


2000-English singer Kirsty
MacColl,who sang on The
Pogues' song Fairytale Of New
York,dies in a boating accident
in Mexico.She was 41.

[Piper]

1941-In New Zealand's worst
Naval tragedy,the Royal Navy
cruiser HMS Neptune struck
enemy mines and sank off
Liyba.764 men lost their lives,
150 were New Zealanders.

[Piper]

1913-The Waterfront strike, which
began in late October when
Wellington waterside workers
stopped work, finally ends


1957-Elvis Presley is drafted
into the US military.He entered
the army in March 1958 and
fulfilled his obligation of two
years

[Piper]

1943-British children's
author Beatrix Potter dies,
aged 77,of pneumonia and
heart disease.


1967&The Graduate, starring
Dustin Hoffman and Anne
Bancroft,is released.

[Piper]

1818-The Christmas carol
Silent Night,composed by
Franz Xaver Gruber, is first sung
at St.Nicholas parish church in
Oberndorf,Austria.

[jellywrestler]

xmas day dec25th

in 2002 there was 2hrs of practice for wanaganuis Cemetery Circuit in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the event, yip motorcycle races on xmas day!!!!!!
abnother days racing again tommorow folks, dont miss it

[Piper]

1914-The Christmas Truce
takes place on the battlefields
of World War 1, between British
and German troops.Fighting
stops, as soldiers exchange
gifts and play football.

[Piper]

1973-Horror film The
Exorcist, starring Linda
Blair, premieres.


1983-British actor Violet
Carson, best known as
Coronation Street's original
battleaxe Ena Sharples, dies
aged 85, in Blackpool of heart
failure.


1985-American zoologist
Dian Fossey 53, the subject of
movie Gorillas In The Mist is
murdered in Rwanda.

[Piper]

xmas day dec25th

in 2002 there was 2hrs of practice for wanaganuis Cemetery Circuit in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the event, yip motorcycle races on xmas day!!!!!!
abnother days racing again tommorow folks, dont miss it

Oh buugger missed it .

[Piper]

1968-The Beatles ' White Album goes
to No.1 in the US charts.


2018-US singer Ray Sawyer,who
found fame as the eye-patch-wearing
musician in the band Dr Hook,dies aged
81.

[Piper]

1902-The Entertainer, later
known as the theme song for
The Sting, is one of several
piano rag compositions
copyrighted for Scott Joplin by
the US Copyright office.

[Piper]

1835-Charles Darwin leaves
New Zealand after a nine-day
visit,where he collected
insects,shells, fish and rocks
in the Bay Of Islands.


1968-Frank Sinatra first
records My Way, with lyrics
written by Paul Anka.


1970-Former World heavyweight
boxing champion Sonny Liston
dies, aged 40, in mysterious
circumstances.

[Piper]

1966-The Monkees' I'm A
Believer hits No.1 in the US
charts.


1972-Tennis player Margaret
Court beats fellow Aussie
Evonne Goolagong 6-4 7-5 in
the final of the Australian Open
for her record 11th and final
Australian Open singles crown.


2021-US actor Betty White
( The Golden Girls ) dies of a
stroke, just days before her
100th birthday ( on January 17 ).

[Piper]

1859-Pencarrow Head
Lighthouse, New Zealand's
first lighthouse, is lit at the
entrance to Wellington
Harbour.


1953-US country singer
Hank Williams dies of a heart
attack.He was 29.

[Piper]

1967-Ronald Reagan, who
previously worked as an actor
is sworn in as governor of
California.


1981-The Yorkshire Ripper is
apprehended.Peter Sutcliffe
confessed to killing 13 women


1983-English comedian Dick
Emery dies, aged 65, from
cardio-respiratory failure.

[Piper]

1930-Coubray Tone News, the
work of Edward Coubray and
the first New Zealand made
*talkie*, has it's first public
screening at Auckland's
Plaza Theatre.



1987-The Rock And Roll
Hall Of Fame inducts Aretha
Franklin, it's first female artist.


2004-After hosting the show
for more than 30 years, Casey
Kasen hands over the reins of
the American Top 40 toRyan
Seacrest.

[Piper]

1939-US aviatrix Amelia
Earhart, the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic,
is declared dead at 41 after
disappearing over the Pacific
Ocean in 1937.

[Piper]

2002-Pop Singer Daniel
Bedingfield, who was born in
New Zealand, hits No.1 on the
UK singles chart with Gotta Get
Thru This

[Piper]

1982-The TV series Fame
premieres on NBC.


2015-Twelve people are
killed in a terrorist attack
on the offices of satirical
newspaper Charlie Hebdo in
Paris.

[Piper]

1958-Jerry Lee Lewis' single
Great Balls Of Fire reaches
No.1 on the United Kingdom
pop charts.


1999-The Sopranos debuts
on HBO.


2004-At the Critics, Choice
Movie Awards, The Lord Of
The Rings: The Return Of The
King wins best film.


2016-British musician David
Bowie dies, aged 69, of cancer.

[Piper]

1846-British forces occupy
the Puapekapeka Pa in
Northland, in the final battle of
NZ's Northern war.


1935-Aviator Amelia Earhart
flies from Honolulu to Oakland
California, becoming the first
person to fly the hazardous
route solo.


2008-New Zealand
mountaineer Sir Edmund
Hilary, who with Sherpa
Tenzing was the first to conquer
My Everest in 1953, dies from
a heart attack.He was 88.

[Piper]

1939-Timely Comics ( later Marvel )
was founded in New York.

[Piper]

1929-Wyatt Earp dies in Los
Angeles at the age of 80.


1968-Recorded live at Folsom State Prison in
California, Johnny Cash's "At Folsom Prison "
album proved to be one of pop music's most
Powerful commentaries on social justice and
helpied expand the global audience for
country music, Cash's home base.

[Piper]

1948-A 14-year-old Nelson
schoolboy discovered the
oldest fossils ever found in
New Zealand.


1954-New York Yankees
baseball star Joe DiMaggio,
40, weds actress Marilyn
Monroe, 27, at San Francisco
City Hall.

[Piper]

1945-German U-boat 862 sailed undetected
into Gisborne Harbour,New Zealand.
Around midnight, commander Heinrich Timm
took the submarine into the harbour on the
surface -as far as the Kaiti Basin-but found
only fishing vessels.
He reversed out of the harbour without
firing.

[Piper]

1941-The Women's Auxiliary
Air Force was formed to enable
the Royal New Zealand Air
Force to release more men for
service overseas during WWII.


1975-Michael Jackson's album
Forever, Michael is released.

[Piper]

1853-New Zealand gets
a system of representative
government with the creation
of six provincial councils and
a general assembly.


1912-Captain Robert Scott's
expedition arrives at the South
Pole, one month after Ronald
Amundsen became the first
man to reach the destination.


1988-Australian soap Home
And Away screens for the first
time, with a 90-minute pilot
episode on the seven Network.

[Piper]

1973-John Cleese's Monty Python's
Flying Circus screens on BBC.


1986-The Aids Charity single
That's What Friends Are For, sung
by Dionne Warwick and
Friends ( who include Elton John,
Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight ),
hits No.1 in the US charts

[Piper]

1903-A new bicycle race called the
Tour De France is announced.

[Piper]

1971-Light hearted TV
western Alias Smith and Jones
premieres on ABC

[HenryDorsetCase]

21 January 2025 - America succumbed to fascism and folly in its ruling billionaire class. The downtrodden populace finally saw sense and took up arms. This is widely seen as the beginning of the troubles that, once the rich had been eaten, led to the liberal communist utopia that allowed the development of warp drive and trans-galactic civilisation.

[TheDemonLord]

once the rich had been eaten, led to the liberal communist utopia that allowed the development of warp drive and trans-galactic civilisation.

Liberal and eating other people - definitely things that go hand-in-hand.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Liberal and eating other people - definitely things that go hand-in-hand.

bite down on that sonofabitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

[Piper]

2005-Donald Trump, 58, and
Melania Knauss, 34, marry in
Palm Beach, Florida.

[Piper]

1975-US police comedy
series Barney Miller, with
Hal Linden and Rob Glass,
premieres on ABC


1983+Swede Bjorn Borg,26,
announces his retirement from
top-level tennis after winning
five Wimbledon and six French
Open titles.


1983-The A-Team with Mr.T,
Dirk Benedict and George
Peppard debuts on NBC.


2018-Musician Neil Diamond
retires, the day before his 77th
birthday, after being
diagnosed with Parkinson's
disease.

[Piper]

1940-The movie The Grapes
Of Wrath, based on John
Steinbeck's novel of the same
name and starring Henry
Fonda, is released.

[Piper]

1924-The first Winter
Olympic Games open in
Chamonix, France.


1998-Spice Girl Victoria
Beckham and footballer David
Beckham announce their
engagement.


2017-US actor Mary Tyler
Moore dies, aged 80, of
cardiac arrest and, on the
same day, beloved English
actor John Hurt dies, aged 77
of cancer.

[Piper]

1967-A fire in the Apollo 1
Command Module kills US
astronaut Gus Grissom, Ed,
White and Roger B.Chaffer
during a launch rehearsal.


1984-During filming for a
Pepsi commercial in a studio in
California, Michael Jackson's
head is engulfed in flames,
leaving him with second and
third-degree burns

[Piper]

1833-Jane Austen's Pride
And Prejudice is published in
the United kingdom.


1982-Actor Rhea Perlman, 33
and Danny Devito, 37
marry in Beverley Hills.


1985-Charity single We Are
The World, written by Michael
Jackson and Lionel Richie is
recorded by the Supergroup
USA For Africa.

[Piper]

1951-US actor Elizabeth
Taylor divorces for the first
time, as her marriage to hotel
heir Conrad Hilton Jr ends.


1964-The movie Dr
Strangelove, directed by
Stanley Kubrick and starring
Peter Sellers and George C. Scott,
premieres.


2004-New Zealand author
Janet Frame, 79 dies in
Dunedin of leukemia.

[Piper]

1948-Mahatma Gandhi, the
Indian independence activist
who advocated non-violent
resistance is assassinated.
He was 78.


1969-The Beatles perform
their last live gig, a 42 minute
concert on the roof of Apple
Corps GQ in London.

[Piper]

1956-English author A.A.
Milne, who wrote the Winne-the-Pooh
books, dies aged 74.Four years earlier,
he had a stroke and brain surgery, which
left him confined to a wheelchair.


2020-The United kingdom
formally withdrawn from the
European Union ( Brexit ).

[Piper]

1988& Heather O'Rourke, who
started in the Poltergeist horror
movies, dies of an intestinal aliment,
aged 12.


2013-New Zealand broadcaster Paul
Holmes dies, aged 62, of prostate
cancer and heart problems.

[Piper]

1901-Queen Victoria's funeral
takes place in St George's
Chapel, Windsor Castle.She
had died on January 22.


1973-Cricket all-rounder
Richard Hadley makes his
test debut for New Zealand
in the drawn first test against
Pakistan in Wellington.


2014-US actor Philip
Seymour Hoffman dies, aged
46, of a suspected drug
overdose

[Piper]

2016-Lord Lucan's death
certificate is granted, 42 years
after he disappeared following
the murder of nanny Sandra
Rivett.

[Piper]

1789-The first US electoral
college choose George
Washington as president and
John Adams as vice-president.

[Piper]

1919-Hollywood film studio
United Artists is founded
by Charlie Chapman, Douglas
Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and
D W.Griffith.


1971-Apollo 14 lands on the
Moon and Alan Sheppard and
Edward Mitchell walk on the
surface for four hours.

[Piper]

1952-King George VI, 56, dies
of a coronary thrombosis
and is succeeded by his
daughter Queen Elizabeth II.


2022-Snowboader Zoi Sadowski-Synott becomes
the first New Zealanders to win a gold medal in the winter
Olympics.

[Piper]

1863-In the worst recorded
shipwreck in New Zealand,
189 people are killed when the
HMS Orpheus runs aground in
Auckland.


1940-Walt Disney's second
feature-length film, Pinocchio,
premieres in New York.


1979-Ground-breaking
British rock band Pink Floyd
premieres their live version of
The Wall in Los Angeles.

[Piper]

1931-In the first fatal
accident involving a scheduled
passenger service in New
Zealand, all three people
aboard a Dominion Airlines
Desoutter die after it crashes
near Wairoa, Hawke's Bay.


1983-Prize stallion Shergar is
kidnapped in Ireland and is
never found, causing Lloyd's
of London to pay out
US$10.6 million in insurance.

[Piper]

1985-Madonna's album Like
A Virgin goes to No 1 on the US
charts.


1999-British actor Bryan
Mosley, 67, who played Alf
Roberts on Coronation Street,
dies of a heart attack.

[Piper]

1940-Cartoon characters
Tom and Jerry, created by
William Hanna and Joseph
Barbara, debut in the movie
short Puss Gets The Boot.

[Piper]

1975-Margaret Thatcher
defeats Edward Heath to
take over leadership of
Britain's Conservative
Party

[Piper]

1964-Kenya became
a republic on the first
anniversary of it's
independence from
Britain.


1999-US president Billy
Clinton is acquitted by
the Senate at his impeachment
trail.

[Piper]

1972-The movie Cabaret,based
on the musical of the same name
and starring Liza Minnelli, is
released.


1983-Lance Cairns hits six-sixes
in a one -dsy match against
Australia at the MCG.


1996-British boy band Take That,
featuring Robbie Williams, officially
announce they are disbanding
prompting me UK government to set
up a counselling phone line

[Piper]

1979-British punk band
The Clash release their
breakthrough album London
Calling.



1984-Britian's Jayne Torvill
and Christopher Dean win
gold in the ice dancing at the
Sarajevo Winter Olympics,
performing to Maurice Ravel's
Bolero in the free dance
routine.




1988-Te Papa, New
Zealand's new national
museum, is officially opened
on Wellington's waterfront.
( I was there )

[Piper]

1892-The SS Dunedin leaves
New Zealand for Britain with
the first cargo of frozen meat.


1965-US singer Nat King
Cole dies, aged 49, of cancer.

[Piper]

1986-The Soviet cruise
liner Mikhail Lermontov hits
rocks off Cape Jackson in the
Marlborough Sounds.All but
one of the 738 passengers
and crew were rescued before
in sank.The sole casualty was
refrigeration engineer Pavel
Zaglyadimov, who drowned.

[Piper]

1873-Aucklanders awoke to
the news that a Russian warship
had entered Waitemata harbour
undetected.


1972-The British Parliament
votes to join the European
Common Market.


2013-English actor Richard
Briers, who played Tom in The
Good Life, dies of emphysema.
He was 79.

[Piper]

1885-The Adventures Of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain is published in the US.

[Piper]

1971-British TV chat show
parkinson presented by
Michael Parkinson, debuts
on BBC 1.


1985-Eastenders screens
for the first time on TV in
Britain with 13 million
viewers tuning in.
It was aimed to draw big
audiences to BBC1and rival
ITV's Coronation Street.


2016-US author Harper
Lee, who wrote To Kill A
Mockingbird, dies aged 89.

[Piper]

1962-John Glenn becomes
the first American to orbit the
Earth, aboard Friendship 7.


1992-Skier Annelise
Coberger creates Olympic
history when she becomes
the first Kiwi to win a Winter
Olympic medal, collecting
Silver in the winter's slalom.


1992-Us actor Dick York,
who played the original
husband Darren in Bewitched,
dies of emphysema, aged 63.

[Piper]

1879-An explosion at the
coal mine at Kaitangata South
Otago, kills 34 miners who
were underground at the time.


2002-English actor John
Thaw, known for Inspector
Morse and The Sweeney,dies
of cancer.He was 60.

[husaberg]

1979-An explosion at the
coal mine at Kaitangata South
Otago, kills 34 miners who
were underground at the time.


2002-English actor John
Thaw, known for Inspector
Morse and The Sweeney,dies
of cancer.He was 60.

1879........

[Piper]

1987-American artist Andy
Warhol dies, aged 58, of a
heart attack.


2011-An earthquake
measuring 6.3 in magnitude
strikes Christchurch, killing
185 people and causing
widespread damage.

[Piper]

1879........



Thank you for pointing that out.

[Piper]

1904-The creation of
Fiordland National Park began
with nearly 1 million hectares
of land set aside as a national
reserve.


1987-Scientists in Scotland
announce they have cloned an
adult mammal, a lamb named
Dolly.

[Piper]

1904-TSS Earnslaw is
launched on Lake Wakatipu.


1981-Britain's Prince Charles
announces his engagement to
Lady Diana Spencer.

[Piper]

1980-British political
comedy Yes Minister
premieres on BBC Two.


2001-Australian cricketer
Donald Bradman, regarded
as the greatest test batsman,
dies aged 92 of pneumonia.


2017-US actor Bill Paxton,
who starred in Apollo 13,
Twister and Big Love, dies
of a stroke after having heart
surgery.He was 61.

[TheDemonLord]

1980-British political
comedy Yes Minister
premieres on BBC Two.

Point of Order - Yes Minister is not a Comedy, but a Documentary and you cannot change my mind.

Seriously though - it should be required viewing before one is able to vote.

[Piper]

1839-The first Grand
National Steeplechase is held
at Ainttree in Liverpool.


2009-English actor Wendy
Richard, who starred in
EastEnders and played Miss
Brahms in Are You Being
Served? , dies of cancer.She
was 65.


2012-At the 84th Academy
Awards, The Artist wins five
Oscars and becomes the first
silent film to win since 1927.

[Piper]

Point of Order - Yes Minister is not a Comedy, but a Documentary and you cannot change my mind.

Seriously though - it should be required viewing before one is able to vote.


I wouldn't know about that, I've never watched it.

[TheDemonLord]

I wouldn't know about that, I've never watched it.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tzoGFszog

Seriously, it is both Hilarious and eerily prescient and accurate.

Famously, Maggie Thatcher reported that it was the one program she would record to watch.

[Piper]

1998-Britian's House Of
Lords agrees to end 1000
years of male precedence by
giving a monarch's first-born
daughter the same claim to the
throne as any first-born son.


2015-US actor Leonard
Nimoy, best known as Star
Trek's Mr Spock, dies of
chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease.He was 83.


2019-US actor Luke Perry
who played Dylan in Beverley
Hills, 90210, suffers a stroke
in Los Angeles.He died, aged
52, on March 4.

[Piper]

2013-Benedict XVI became
the first pope to resign since
Gregory VII in 1415.


2021-English actor Johnny
Briggs, best known for playing
Mike Baldwin in Coronation
Street, dies after a long
illness.He was 85.

[Piper]

2025-Charity Motorcycle ride
for mental health awareness
leaves Napier, heading for Wellington,
New Zealand.

[tri boy]

1st march will be known as "white house ambush".

[Piper]

1965-Thr movie The Sound
Of Music, starring Julie
Andrews, is released.


2000-Team New Zealand
beats Italian yacht Prada 5-0
to retain the America's Cup.

[Piper]

1985-Moonlighting, with
Cybill Shepherd and Bruce
Willis, premieres on ABC.


1991-Los Angeles police
officers are captured on
amateur video beating
motorist Rodney King.This
later leads to riots, when the
officers are acquitted.


1997-Aucland's Sky Tower
opens.It is 328 metres tall.


2016-NZ cricketer Martin
Crown, 53 dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1994-US actor and
comedian John Candy dies,
aged 43, of a heart attack.


2012-British TV series drama
Broad church starring Olivia
Colman and David Tennant,
debuts on ITV.


2019-US actor Luke Perry,
52, ( Dylan in Beverley Hills
90210 ) dies of a stroke.


2022-Australian cricketer
Shane Warne, 52, dies on
holiday in Koh Samui, Thailand.

[Piper]

2002-Realty TV series The
Osbournes premieres on MTV.


2006-Planet Earth, narrated
by David Attenborough,
premier mes on the BBC.

[Piper]

1964-Boxer Cassius Clay
joins the Nation of Islam
and changed his name to
Muhammad Ali.


1966-Country Calendar is
broadcast for the first time, as
a TV show for farmers.

[Piper]

1988-Cyclone Bola hits New
Zealand, causing millions of
dollars of damage, especially
to the East Coast, Poverty Bay
and Hawke's Bay regions.


2011-Charlie Sheen is fired
from US sitcom Two And A
Half Men

[Piper]

2014-Malaysian Airlines
Flight MH370, with 239
people on-board, disappears,
prompting an extensive, but
unsuccessful search and an
enduring aviation mystery.

[Piper]

1969-James Earl Ray pleads
guilty to the murder of US civil
rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr.


1978-The TV series The
Incredible Hulk, starring Bill
Bixby, premieres on CBS


1995-The Auckland Warriors
play their first match in rugby
league's Winfield Cup, losing
22-25 to the Brisbane Broncos
at Auckland's Mt Smart
Stadium.

[Piper]

1997-Beatle Paul McCartney
is knighted by Queen Elizabeth l l.


2011-An earthquake off the coast
of Honshu, Japan, causes widespread
damage and triggers a tsunami that
instigates a major accident at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant.


2018-Superhero movie The
Black Panther becomes the
fifth Marvel film to earn
US $1billion worldwide.

[Piper]

1864-Arthurs Pass was crossed
for the first time by Europeans.
It was named after Arthur Dobson.

[Piper]

1781-English astronomer
William Herschel observes the
seventh planet from the sun,
named Uranus for the father of
the god Saturn.


1965-Britisn guitarist Eric
Clapton quits The Yardbirds
after the band start moving
away from traditional blues.


2013-Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio is elected the new
Pope, taking the papal name
Pope Francis.

[Piper]

1980-The single I Got You
by Split Enz tops the charts in
New Zealand, Australia and
Canada.


2018-Acclaimed English
physicist Stephen Hawking
dies, aged 76.

[Piper]

1977-The US comedy
Three's Company, based on
the British series Man About
The House, premieres on ABC
It starred Jack Ritter, Suzanne
Somers and Joyce Dewitt.
Family drama Eight Is Enough
also debuted the same day.


2019-In one of New
Zealand's darkest days, 51
people are killed and dozens
injured when a gunman opens
fire on worshippers at two
mosques in Christchurch.

[Piper]

1994-US ice-skater Tonya
Harding pleads guilty to
hindering the investigation
into the attack on fellow skater
Nancy Kerrigan

[Piper]

1968-The Bee Gees make
their US TV debut on The Ed
Sullivan Show Performing To
Love Somebody and Words.

[Piper]

1965-Cosmonaut Alexel
Lenovo becomes the first
person to walk in space, after
leaving his spacecraft Vokshod
2 for 12 minutes.

1985-Australian soap Neighbours
screens for the first time on Network
Seven

[Piper]

1932-The Sydney Harbour
Bridge is officially opened.


1976-Princess Margaret
separates from the Earl Of
Snowdon after 16 years of
marriage.


1984-US sitcom Kate and
Allie, starring Susan Saint
James and Jane Curtin
premieres on CBS.

[Piper]

2016-Barack Obama
becomes the first US president
to visit Cuba since 1928,
arriving for a three day tour.

[Piper]

1963-Alcatraz prison in San
Francisco Bay is closed after
29 years of jailing some of the
United States ' most notorious
criminals.

[Piper]

1941-James Stewart is
inducted into the US Army,
becoming the first major
American movie star to wear
a military uniform in World War II.



1996-Don Murray ( drummer for The Turtles )
dies of complications from ulcer surgery at
age 50.

[Piper]

1848-The ship John Wickliffe
arrives at Port Chalmers
carrying the first Scottish
settlers for Dunedin.


2003-Adrien Brody, 29,
becomes the youngest winner
of the Best Actor Oscar when
he triumphs for his role in The
Pianist


2011-Actress Elizabeth
Taylor dies, aged 79, of
congestive heart failure.

[Piper]

1603-Queen Elizabeth l dies
aged 69, after 44 years of rule.

[TheDemonLord]

1903-Queen Elizabeth l dies
aged 69, after 44 years of rule.

1903?

Me thinks you are a few centuries out there :D

[Piper]

1903?

Me thinks you are a few centuries out there :D


Yes you are right,I thought it was 19,I need stronger glasses.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

[Piper]

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

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

??????????

[Piper]

1306-Robert the Bruce
is crowned Scottish King at
Scone.


1960-The US Appeals Court
rules that the novel Lady
Chatterley's Lover, by D.H.
Lawrence, is not obscene.


1982-Cagney And Lacey,
starring Sharon Gless and
Tyne Daly, is first broadcast on
CBS TV.

[Piper]

1973-TV soap The Young
And The Restless premieres
on CBS.


2015-Richard III of England ( 1452-1485 )
is reburied at Leicester Cathedral
after what is believed to have been
his body was discovered under
carpark in Leicester in 2012.

[Piper]

1984-Caretaker Ernie
Abbott is killed when
a bomb in a suitcase
explodes at the Trades'
Hall Wellington.
No one has yet been
arrested for the crime.

[Piper]

1923-The New Zealand
Native Bird Protection Society
( now known as Forest & Bird )
was formed at a meeting in
Wellington.


1939-The Spanish Civil War
ends.


2004-The Maori Television
channel ( now called Whakaata
Maori ) launches.

[Piper]

1946-The first test cricket
match between Australia and
New Zealand starts.Played at
the Basin Reserve, it was
over within two days with Australia
winning by an innings and 103
runs.


1974-Chinese farmers near
Xian discover the Terracotta
army-8000 day clay warrior
statues buried to guard the
tomb of China's first emperor
Qin Shi Huang.

[Piper]

1981-Chariots Of Fire starring
Ben Cross and Nigel Havers,
Premieres at a Royal Command
Film Performance.
It was the Best Picture award at
the 1982-Oscars.


1981-US President Ronald
Reagan is shot and wounded
in an assassination attempt
by John Hinckley Jr., who was
allegedly trying to impress
Jodie Foster.Three other
people were also wounded.


2020-US singer Bill Withers
( Ain't No Sunshine, Lean On Me,
Just The Two Of Us ) dies of
heart failure.
He was 81.

[Piper]

1889-The Eiffel Tower opens
in Paris.


1993-American actor
Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce
Lee, dies in a firearms accident
on the set of The Crow.
He was 28.

[Piper]

1963--US TV soap General
Hospital premieres on ABC.
It is now the longest-running
US soap still in production.


1965-New Zealand's international
airline Tasman Empire Airways
United ( Teal ) is renamed Air
New Zealand.


1984-US singer Marvin Gaye
( What's Going On)' 44' is shot
to death by his father in Los
Angeles.

[Piper]

1977-Fleetwood Mac's album
Rumours goes to No 1 in the
US charts and stays there for
31 weeks.

[Piper]

1960-Elvis Presley records
It's Now Or Never and Are You
Lonesome Tonight? at RCA
studios in Nashville.


1989-The Holmes Show
starts on TVNZ.

[Piper]

1973-The World Trade
Centre, then the world's
tallest building, opens in
New York.
It was later destroyed in
the 2001 9/11 terrorist
attacks.

[Piper]

1987-TV sitcom Married...
With Children and The Tracey
Ullman Show premier on the
Fox TV Network.


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


2020-Queen Elizabeth II
makes a rare public address
( "We will meet again" ) about
the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the same day, British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson is
admitted to hospital suffering
from Covid-19.

[Piper]

1889-George Eastman
begins his Kodak
flexible rolled film for the
first time.


2006-Sign language is made
an official language of New
Zealand.

[Piper]

1970-Maggie Smith wins
the first of her two Oscars,
collecting the Best Actress
award for The Prime Of Miss
Jean Brodie.


2000-South African cricket
captain Hansie Cronje is
charged by Dehi police with
fixing one-day international
matches against India.

[Piper]

1986-US actor Clint
Eastwood is elected as
mayor of Camel, California.

[Piper]

1986-The US soap Dallas
announces it will revive the
character of Bobby Ewing, who
had been killed off.


2005-Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles are
married at Windsor Guildhall.


2009-Mockumentary Parks
And Recreation, starring Amy
Poehler and Nick Offerman,
debuts on NBC


2017-New Zealand
comedian John Clarke,who
created the character Fred
Dagg, dies of a heart attack
while on a bush walk in
Australia's Grampian National
Park.
He was 68.


2021-Queen Elizabeth II's
husband Prince Philip dies,
aged 99, after several years
of failing health.

[roogazza]

On this day 10th April 1949 I was hatched !!!!!!

hahahahaha been waiting to do this .

Beaut day for my usual ride Levin to Pahiatua......

76 yrs bloody hell ! :scooter::innocent::yes:

[Piper]

1912-RMS Titanic sets sail
from Southampton on her
maiden, and ultimately final,
voyage.

[Piper]

on this day 10th april 1949 i was hatched !!!!!!

Hahahahaha been waiting to do this .

Beaut day for my usual ride levin to pahiatua......

76 yrs bloody hell ! :scooter::innocent::yes:

Happy birthday!!!!

Every day above ground is a good day!

[Piper]

1945-The US Army liberates
Buchenwald concentration
camp.


1988-Cher wins her slow
acting Academy Award,
winning Best Actress for
the romantic comedy film
Moonstruck.


2019-WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange is forcibly
removed from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London and
arrested on failure to appear
in court on US extradition
charges.

[Piper]

1970-Apollo 13 announces,
"Ok, Houston, we've had a
problem here," as a Beech-built
oxygen tank explodes on board
en route to the Moon.


1997-Tiger Woods wins the
US Masters for the first time
to secure his first major golf
title.

[Piper]

1981-The first Space Shuttle,
Columbia, returns to Earth 🌎

[Piper]

2013-Bombs explode near
the finish line of the Boston
marathon, killing three people
and injuring 183.

[Piper]

1984-New Zealand's
Lorraine Moller wins the
women's Boston marathon in a
time of two hours 29 minutes
and 28 seconds.

[husaberg]

1984-New Zealand's
Lorraine Miller wins the
women's Boston marathon in a
time of two hours 29 minutes
and 28 seconds.


Moller?.... Alison Roe won it two years before her
a guy from not far from where I live won it in 67.

[Piper]

1971-Three Dog's Night, "Joy To The World"
reaches No 1 and stays there for six weeks.

[Piper]

1963-Bobby Bare records "Detroit City"

[Piper]

1775-American Revolutionary War.

[Piper]

2010-The Deep water Horizon
drilling rig explodes, killing
11 people and causing the rig
to sink, which led to a huge
oil discharge in the Gulf Of
Mexico.


2016-Victoria Wood, the
British comedian and actor,
dies of cancer.She was 62.

[Piper]

1918-In World War I, German
fighter ace Baron Manfred Von
Richthofen ( The Red Baron ) is
shot down and killed over Vaux
Sur Somme in France.


2016-US musician Prince
dies, aged 57, of an accidental
overdose.

[Piper]

1509-King Henry VIII, the
second Tudor King Of England,
ascends to the throne at the
age of 17, after the death of his
father Henry VIII.


1970-Earth Day, an event to
increase public awareness of
environmental problems, is
celebrated for the first time.

[TheDemonLord]

1509-King Henry VIII, the
second Tudor King Of England,
ascends to the throne at the
age of 17, after the death of his
father Henry VIII.

That's a bit Recursive (https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=987497d255cb096d&rlz=1C1CHZN_enNZ1067NZ1069&sxsrf=AHTn8zq-P0v0TVLagxEKlez-CwzlEDdXEQ:1745279516793&q=recursion&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxk4ftqOqMAxXXzjgGHdO2O-wQBSgAegQIDBAB)

[pritch]

1509-King Henry VIII, the
second Tudor King Of England,
ascends to the throne at the
age of 17, after the death of his
father Henry VIII.



An early example of recycling?

[Laava]

An early example of recycling?
You two guys are channeling the as yet undead David Mitchell!
For context= Unruly, by David Mitchell. Which coincidentally I am currently reading

[Piper]

1564-Ebglish playwright
William Shakespeare is born.
He dies on the same day in
1616.


1969-Sirhan Sirhan is
sentenced to death for
Killing US attorney Bobby
Kennedy.

[Piper]

1920-King George V's son,
Edward, Prince of Wales, visits
New Zealand.


1922-New Zealand's first poppy
day raises £13,166, £3695 was sent to help
war-ravaged areas of northern France, the
remainder went to
unemployed returned soldiers.

[Piper]

1915-Thousands of New
Zealand and Australian
soldiers land on Gallipoli
Peninsula during World War I


1916-Anzac Day first
observed in New Zealand.


1990-The crew of the U.S.
Space shuttle Discovery places
the Hubble Space Telescope,
a long term observatory into a
low orbit around Earth .

[Piper]

1986-The fourth reactor at
the Chernobyl nuclear power
station explodes, killing 31
people.


1989-Amercian actor Lucille
Ball ( I Love Lucy ) dies of a
heart attack.She was 78.

[Piper]

2011-US president Barack
Obama publicly releases a
copy of his birth certificate
to prove he was born in the
United States.
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
on August 4, 1961.
The move was in response to
"incessant false birther allegations "

[Piper]

1966-At the 38th Academy Awards
The Sound Of Music wins best Picture.


1995-Fourteen people are killed, including
13 students from Tai Poutini Polytechnic,
when a viewing platform collapses at
Cave Creek in Paparoa National Park.


1996-Martin Bryant shoots and kills
35 people in Port Arthur Tasmania.

[R650R]

1966-At the 38th Academy Awards
The Sound Of Music wins best Picture.


1995-Fourteen people are killed, including
13 students from Tai Poutini Polytechnic,
when a viewing platform collapses at
Cave Creek in Paparoa National Park.


1996-Martin Bryant shoots and kills
35 people in Port Arthur Tasmania.

Interesting interview with survivor who worked there and lost his wife


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFADJ4-_CNA

[Piper]

1975-Bing Crosby's "White Christmas"
marks the end of the Vietnam war.

[Piper]

2004-The teen comedy
movie Mean Girls, written by
Tina Fey and starring Lindsay
Lothan and Rachel McAdams,
is released.

[Piper]

1961-The Pulitzer Prize is
awarded to Harper Lee for her
novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Piper]

1997-The movie Austin
Powers: International Man Of
Mystery, starring Mike Myers
and Liz Hurley, is released.


2011-Islamic militant Osama
bin Laden, 54, is killed by US
special forces in Abottabad,
Pakistan.

[Piper]

1915-Canadian soldier and
physician John McCrae pens
the poem in Flanders Fields.
He was inspired to write it
after attending the funeral of a
friend and fellow soldier.


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

[Piper]

1937-Rwo workers are killed
by an avalanche at the Homer
Tunnel in Fiordland.


1959-The first Grammy
Awards are held in two
separate ceremonies in Los
Angeles and New York.

[Piper]

1921-Fashion designer Coco
Chanel launches her perfume
Chanel No 5.


1961-Alan Shepard becomes
the first American in space
aboard his Mercury capsule
named Freedom 7.


2002-Spider Man becomes
the first movie to top US$100
million in it opening weekend
in North America.

[Piper]

1937-The German airship
Hindenburg explodes in flames
st Lakehurst, New Jersey,
killing 35 of the 97 people on
board and one person on the
ground.


1994-The Channel Tunnel
linking England and France
officially opens.

[Piper]

1915-A German submarine
torpedoes and sinks the
Lusitania, a British ocean
liner.


2011-Spanish golfer Seven
Ballesteros ( who won the
British Open three times and
the US Masters twice ) dies
of brain cancer.
He was 54.

[Piper]

1935-The first installment
of Hans Christian Andersen's
Fairy Tales Told For Children
is published in Denmark.


1970-John Rowles' song
Cheryl Moana Marie hits
No 1 in New Zealand and
sells more than a million
copies.


1984-The Soviet Union
announces it will not take
part in the Los Angeles
Olympics in retaliation
for the American
boycott of the 1980
Moscow Olympics.

[Piper]

1907-The first school journal
is published.It is the first time
New Zealand pupils are able to
read a schoolbook published
in their own country.


1915-New Zealand tennis
player Anthony Wilding, who
won the Wimbledon men's
singles title from 1910-13,
dies in World War 1. He was
31.


1981-The children's TV show
What Now begins.

[Piper]

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

No I work for the Sound radio station.

[Piper]

1983-US sitcom Laverne
And Shirley, starring Penny
Marshall and Cindy Williams,
screens for the final time on
ABC.

[Piper]

1914-President Woodrow Wilson designated the
second Sunday of May to be Mother's Day
Anna Jarvis who campaigned for it regretted
it as became commercialised.



1981-Andrew Lloyd Webber's
musical Cats, premieres in
London's West End.


1981-Jamaican reggae
musician Bob Marley dies,
aged 36.

[Piper]

1989-Around 2000 students
begin a hunger strike in
Tiananmen Square, China.

[Piper]

1988-Seinfeld's final
two-part episode, The Finale,
screens on NBC

[Piper]

1975-Japanese mountaineer
Junko Table becomes the first
woman to conquer My Everest,
the world's highest mountain.


1981-The single Bette David
Eyes by Kim Carnes hits No 1
on the US charts and stays
there for nine weeks.


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


1990-Muppets creator Jim
Henson dies.He was 53.


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


2019-The UK's The Jeremy
Kyle Show is axed by ITV when
a guest dies after a show.

[TheDemonLord]

2019-The UK's The Jeremy
Kyle Show is axed by ITV when
a guest dies after a show.

Jeremy Kyle was such a guilty pleasure.

[Piper]

Jeremy Kyle was such a guilty pleasure.

Never heard of him .

[Piper]

1875-The first Kentucky
Derby is run at Churchill Downs
in Louisville, Kentucky.The
winning horse was Aristides.


1900-The Wonderful Wizard
Of Oz, by L Frank Baum, is first
published.


1962-George Wilder escapes
from prison in New Plymouth.
He was a burglar who became
a folk hero for leaving apologies
and thank you notes for his
victims.

[BMWST?]

Never heard of him .
yes you have,you just posted about him. Your assertion was true before you made that post.

[Piper]

1980-Mount St.Helens
erupts in Washington state,
killing 57 people.

[Piper]

yes you have,you just posted about him. Your assertion was true before you made that post.

Yeah, only that day when I looked in The TV Guide, but before that no!

[Piper]

1935-T.E Lawrence,
whose life inspired the film
Lawrence Of Arabia, dies at
age 46, following a motorcycle
accident.

[Piper]

1865-The paddle steamer
City of Dunedin left wellington
at around 5 pm and is never
heard from again.Wreckage
was found the following day,
but there was no trace of the
four dozen people on board.


1955-The Rolling stones debut
( "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" )
on the American variety show
shindig! They make sure one
of their musical heroes, 'Howlin
Wolf, is also on the show and
introduce his performance
"How Many More years."


1979-Elton John becomes
the first western pop star to
tour the USSR.


1993-The 274th and final
episode of the sitcom Cheers
screens in the US.It was the
second- highest-rated series
finale at the time, behind
M*A*S*H.

[Piper]

1975-After a show in Knoxville, Alice
Cooper leaves one of his stage props,
a 13 foot boa constrictor, in the hotel
bathroom, where it escapes down the
toilet.
The snake show up two weeks later
in a room occupied by country singer
Charley Pride, Cooper learns to put the
lid down.

[Piper]

1884-The first representative
New Zealand rugby team
played it's first match, defeating
a Wellington X V 9-0.


1994-New Zealand athlete
Norman Read, who won gold
at the 1956 Olympics in the
50km walk, dies of a heart
attack.
He was 62.


2001-Actor Jane Fonda and
CNN founder Ted Turner divorce
after 10 years of marriage.

[Piper]

1969-The Who released their album Tommy
about a deaf dumb and blind kid who plays
a mean pinball.


1975-Elton John's ninth studio album
Captain Fanstanic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
is released.

[Piper]

1993-At the Cannes Film
Festival, the Jane Champion
directed movie The Piano wins
the Palmer d'Or jointly with
Chen Kaige"S film Farewell My
Concubine.

[Piper]

1978-Keith Moon performs for the last time
with The Who at the Shepperton
Film studio in England for the movie
The Kids Are Alright.

[Piper]

1967-EMI releases The
Beatles ' album Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Heart Club Band a few
days early in the UK. It would
go to No.1 for 22 weeks in the
UK and 15 weeks in the US.


1975-The single Rhinestone
Cowboy by Glen Campbell is
released.


2002-Eminnem releases
his fourth album The
Eminem Show. It won 2002
Billboard Album of the year
and the Grammy Award for
Best Rap Album 2003.

[Piper]

1940-British and Allied
forces begin the evacuation of
Dunkirk ( Operation Dynamo )
during World War II.


1975-The "Venus and Mars" album
by Paul McCartney & Wings was
released in the US . In the UK, it was
released on May 30th


1977- British Punk band The
Sex Pistols release the single
God Save The Queen, sparking
major controversy and leading
to a ban on the song by the
BBC.


2025-New Zealand's Motorcycle enthusiastic Thelma Gough
of Tauranga turns 100.

[Bikkie]

1980-Rock bassist Carl Radle (of Derek & the Dominos) dies of a drug-and-alcohol-related kidney infection at age 37.

1973-George Harrison releases his second post-Beatles album, Living In The Material World. It goes to #1 in America, where the single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" also hits the top spot. Publishing royalties from that song and others on the album go to Harrison's Material World Charitable Foundation.

1971-Patrick Dalheimer (bassist for Live) is born in York, Pennsylvania.

1970-Ray Stevens, known for novelty hits like "The Streak," hits #1 in America with "Everything Is Beautiful."

1968-Fresh from a retreat to India, The Beatles begin recording the White Album at Abbey Road Studios in London. The first song they work on is "Revolution."

1964-Country singer Wynonna Judd is born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky. She rises to fame alongside her mom, Naomi Judd, in the duo The Judds.

1964-Guitarist Tom Morello is born in Harlem, New York. He graduates from Harvard in 1986 with a degree in political science, and in 1991 forms Rage Against The Machine, becoming heavily involved in activism. When Rage disbands in 2000 he forms Audioslave with lead singer Chris Cornell.

1963-Lesley Gore makes her first TV appearance, performing "It's My Party" on American Bandstand.

1960-Stephen Duffy is born in Alum Rock, Birmingham, England. A founding member of Duran Duran, he leaves the band shortly before they are signed to EMI. He later finds moderate success as a solo artist under the name Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy with the song "Kiss Me."

1958-Marie Fredriksson (half of the pop-rock duo Roxette) is born in Össjö, Sweden.

1955-Topper Headon (drummer for The Clash) is born Nicholas Bowen Headon in Bromley, Kent, England. His nickname comes from the comic Topper because he looks like the character Mickey the Monkey.

1944-Lenny Davidson (guitarist for The Dave Clark Five) is born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.

[Piper]

1859-The famous clock
tower known as Big Ben starts
ticking over London for the
first time.


1969-John Lennon and
Yoko Ono record Give Peace A
Chance and, on the same day,
Stevie wonder releases the
soul classic My Cherie Amour

[Piper]

1980-Cable news network
CNN transmits for the first
time

[pete376403]

We (a bunch of friends and I) would have been somewhere between Oterehua and Hokitika, returning from the Brass Monkey

[Piper]

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.

[Piper]

1967-"It was the third of June another
sleepy, dusty delta day," as Billie Joe
McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee
Bridge, according to the Bobbie Gentry song
"Ode To Billie Joe "


1969-The last episode of
TV series Star Trek screens
on NBC.

[Piper]

1975-The Rolling stones become the
first rock band to receive royalties for
sales of their records in Russia.

[Piper]

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



1975-Syd Barrett ex Pink Floyd member and founder
who was forced from the band after
becoming an acid casualty, quietly appears in the
Abbey Road studios during recording of the band's album
Wish You Were here, which was largely written about him.
No one notices Barrett, and he soon leaves
as quietly as he entered.




And it's our 43 rd wedding anniversary today.

[Piper]

1944-D-Day begins in World
War II, as the 156,000 Allied
Expeditionary Force lands in
Normandy France.


1996-New Zealand's
first wind farm becomes
operational in the Wairarapa.

[Piper]

1975-One of John Denver's
biggest hits, Thank God I'm A
Country Boy, hits No 1 on the
US charts.


1993-pop singer Prince
changes his name to a symbol.

[Piper]

1984-US supernatural
comedy film Ghostbusters,
starring Bill Murray and Dan
Aykroyd, opens.


1987-New Zealand's Labour
government legislates against
nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered
vessels being allowed into our waters.


2002-US tennis player
Serena Williams wins her
first French Open tennis title,
beating older sister Venus 7-5
6-3 in the final.


2018-Celebirty chef Anthony
Bourdan, 61, is found dead in
his hotel room in Strasbourg.

[Piper]

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

[Piper]

2004-Amercian singer and
pianist Ray Charles dies, age
73, of liver cancer

[Bikkie]

1776-United States Declaration of Independence
Continental Congress creates committee to
draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members.

[Piper]

1970-Rod Stewart releases his second
studio album Gasoline Alley.

[Piper]

1789-Captain William Bligh
and his loyal men, who were
cast off from HMS Bounty in
a mutiny by the crew, reach
Timor after sailing 5800km in a
six-metre boat


1965-The Beatles record their song
Yesterday in Abbey Road Studios.


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

[Piper]

1844-Charles Goodyear received a patent
for the process of vulcanized rubber.


1935-New Zealand medical
student Jack Lovelock wins
the "Mile of the Century" at
Princeton.


1959-Produce company
Turners and Growers
announces it will export
Chinese gooseberries under
the name "Kiwifruit".


1983-TV comedy series
Blackadder, starring Rowan
Atkinson and Tony Robinson,
premieres on BBC 1.

[Piper]

1884-The first rollercoaster
in America opens at Coney
Island in Brooklyn, New York.


1978-The movie Grease,
starring John Travolta and
Olivia Newton-John, is
released and becomes the
highest-grossing film of the
year in the United States.

[Piper]

1773-Cucuta, Colombia, is founded by
Juana Rangel de cuellar.


1775-American Revolutionary war:
Colonists inflict heavy casualties on
British forces while losing the Battle
of Bunker Hill.


1789-In France, the Third Estate
declares itself the National Assembly.


1794-Foundation of Anglo-Corsican
Kingdom.

[Piper]

1948-Saw Columbia Records
introduce the 33 1/3 RPM vinyl LP.

[Piper]

1865-The US federal holiday Juneteenth,
commemorating the end of slavery in the
United States.
It also marks the arrival of union troops in
Galveston, Texas, who announced the freedom
of enslaved people following the Emancipation
Proclamation.


1869-The first game of rugby played under Rugby
rules, which took place in Wanganui.
Additionally, the Trans-Pacific liner Niagara was sunk
by German mines off the Northland coast in 1940,
marking the arrival of World War II in New Zealand.

[Piper]

1978-Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Tim Rice's musical Evita
premieres in London.

[Piper]

1884-Construction began on the
King County section of the North
Island main trunk railway.


1897-Celebrations for Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee took place across New
Zealand, with processions, illuminations
and bonfires.


1961-Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme
murdered Pauline's mother,Honora
Christchurch.

[Piper]

1961-The Antarctic Treaty came
into force, shaping the political
landscape of Antarctica.

[Piper]

1864-In New Zealand, the Battle of Te Ranga: British
forces attacked Maori fortifications as revenge
for their defeat at Gate Pa.


1964-New Zealand Tour: The Beatles started their
tour of New Zealand, playing in Wellington to a
large crowd of fans

[pritch]

1964-New Zealand Tour: The Beatles started their
tour of New Zealand, playing in Wellington to a
large crowd of fans

Some homies and I were part of that large crowd. As a concert it was a total bust. You couldn't hear the music for screaming female fans. There was just the one song where they all shut up and sobbed quietly into their hankies. An expensive night out for a single song.

[Piper]

1760-Death of he first Maori king
The Maori king movement came into
existence in the late 1850's as an
attempt to unite the tribes, present land
sales and make laws for Maori.
Potatau Te Wherowhero became the first
Maori king in 1858, but died two years later.

[Piper]

Some homies and I were part of that large crowd. As a concert it was a total bust. You couldn't hear the music for screaming female fans. There was just the one song where they all shut up and sobbed quietly into their hankies. An expensive night out for a single song.

I was 7 then, living in Gordon Wilson flats on the Terrace.

[Piper]

1918-The Australian steamer Wimmera, bound from
Auckland to Sydney, struck a mine north of Cape Maria Van Diemen, laid by the German raider Wolf.
Twenty-six of its 151 passengers and crew were lost.

[Piper]

1709-Grwat Northern War:
Peter the Great of Russia
defeats Charles XII of Sweden
at the Battle of Poltava, Charles
goes into exile in Bender,Ottoman
Empire.


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

[Piper]

1881-New Zealand's first registered female pharmacist
qualified, marking a milestone for women's professional
advancement.


1919-The Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending
World War 1. New Zealand represented by Prime Minister
William Massey, was a signatory.
This event also led New Zealand becoming a founding
member of the League of Nations.


1920-The Alexander Turnbull Library, a significant
repository of New Zealand's documentary heritage was
established.

[Bikkie]

1613 – Globe Theatre in London burns down.

1861 – English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies, aged 55.

1880 – Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is wounded and captured at Glenrowan, Victoria; France takes control of South Pacific island of Tahiti.

1888 – Professor Frederick Treves performs UK’s first appendectomy.

1939 – First commercial flight from US to Europe is completed as Dixie Clipper lands at Lisbon, Portugal.

1949 – South Africa begins implementing apartheid.

1958 – 17-year-old Pele helps Brazil to their first Fifa World Cup title.

1974 – Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov defects in Toronto.

1990 – Penny Jamieson becomes world’s first female Anglican bishop, after being appointed the Bishop of Dunedin.

[Bikkie]

1607: The English explorer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin becomes the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1908: A massive explosion in the Tunguska region of Siberia flattens an estimated 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometers.
1960: Democratic Republic of Congo gains independence from Belgium.
2004: The United Nations Security Council adopts a resolution demanding the handover of power to Iraq’s interim government.


SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS
1905: Albert Einstein publishes the article “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” introducing his theory of special relativity.
1936: A test of the world’s first helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, takes place in Germany.
1953: James Watson and Francis Crick publish their paper in the journal ‘Nature’ describing the structure of DNA.
1997: NASA’s Pathfinder spacecraft lands on Mars, becoming the first successful Mars rover mission in over 20 years.
2012: Physicists at CERN announce the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, a major milestone in understanding the fundamental particles of the universe.



In Music History


2020-John Prine, who grew up near Chicago, is named the first honorary poet laureate of Illinois. Prine died of coronavirus three months earlier.

2017-Jay-Z releases his album 4:44, which addresses the infidelity accusations his wife Beyoncé leveled at him in her album Lemonade. "Let the baddest girl in the world get away," he raps on the opening track, "Kill Jay-Z."

2015-Apple launches a new streaming service, Apple Music.

2012-In Kiev, Queen launch their first tour with American Idol alumnus Adam Lambert on lead vocals. The band had previously toured with Paul Rodgers.

2009-U2 launch their 360 tour with a show in Barcelona. 109 shows later, the tour finishes with $735 million in earnings, blowing away the $558 million record set by The Rolling Stones on their 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang tour. Ed Sheeran breaks the record in 2019 when his ÷ (Divide) tour rakes in $775 million.

2008-Olivia Newton-John marries Amazon John Easterling, a TV producer and entrepreneur.

2006-Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey divorce after three years of marriage.

2006-US president George W. Bush and Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visit Graceland in Memphis.

2004-Dave Davies of The Kinks suffers a massive stroke while walking out of a BBC building in London. Completely incapacitated for a few days, he gradually recovers, re-learning how to walk and play guitar over the next few years.

2001-The Rockabilly Hall of Fame opens in Jackson, Tennessee.

2001-Chet Atkins, a country guitarist and forerunner of the burgeoning Nashville sound of the '50s, dies of cancer at age 77.

1998-System Of A Down release their frantic self-titled debut album. The singles "Sugar" and "Spiders" earn airplay on rock radio and MTV, and as the band builds a following through touring, it goes on to sell over a million copies in America.

1995-Phyllis Hyman commits suicide by drug overdose at age 45. Known for the 1979 hit single "You Know How to Love Me," among others.

1994-Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam testify before congress to make their case against Ticketmaster - the band couldn't keep ticket prices for a planned tour under $20 because of Ticketmaster's fees, so they decided to cancel it. The hearing draws attention to the issue but nothing comes of it.

1993-Six days after falling off a 10-foot platform during rehearsal for a game show, 31-year-old Wong Ka Kui (lead singer of Beyond) dies of his head injuries.

1992-The soundtrack for Cameron Crowe's Singles is released. Even more than the movie itself, it helps bring the Seattle music scene across the entire US. Featuring songs from Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, and many others, it's instrumental in launching the '90s "grunge revolution."

1992-Kyuss' Blues for the Red Sun, one of stoner metal's all-time classic albums, is released via Dali Records. It was produced by the band and Chris Goss.

1991-During a show at Brixton Academy in London, The Alarm frontman Mike Peters tells the crowd he's leaving the group, shocking his bandmates with the announcement. The Alarm disbands and doesn't re-form with the original members until a one-off reunion in 2004 for the VH1 show Bands Reunited.

1984-Fantasia Barrino is born in High Point, North Carolina. She wins the third season of American Idol and later stars in both Broadway and film adaptations of The Color Purple.

1984-The Huey Lewis & the News album Sports claims a week at #1 in the US. It's one of just five albums to top the chart in 1984, the others being Thriller, Purple Rain, Born in the U.S.A., and the Footloose soundtrack.

1979-Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu is born Matthew Paul Miller in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

1977-Bob Dylan and his wife of 11 years, Sara, finalize their divorce. She is given custody of their five children.

1976-Police raid Neil Diamond's house and find less than an ounce of marijuana. The arrest is struck from his record when he agrees to attend a drug aversion program.

1975-Bob Dylan spots Scarlet Rivera, a striking redhead with a violin, while driving in New York City. That night, he takes her to a Muddy Waters concert where they both take the stage as guest musicians. Dylan enlists her to play violin on his Desire album (most notably on the song "Hurricane"), and she joins his Rolling Thunder Revue.

1973-George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" dislodges Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the #1 spot on the US singles charts.

1973-"It was a hot afternoon, the last day of June," Bobby Goldsboro sings in "Summer (The First Time)."

1969-Tom Drummond (bass guitarist for Better Than Ezra) is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

1956-Philip Adrian Wright (first Director of Visuals, then keyboardist for The Human League) is born in Wakefield, England.

1953-Hal Lindes (guitarist for Dire Straits from 1980-1985) is born in Monterey, California.

1951Jazz musician Stanley Clarke is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1949-Andy Scott (lead guitarist for Sweet) is born in Wrexham, Wales.

1944-Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock is born in Chatham, Kent, England. He moves with his family to Adelaide, Australia, when he is 10.

1943-Florence Ballard (of The Supremes) is born in Detroit, Michigan.

1940-Larry Hall, known for the one-hit-wonder song "Sandy" (1959), is born in Hamlett, Ohio.

1939-Frank Sinatra begins touring with Harry James' orchestra. He sings "Wishing" and "My Love For You" at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. James wants him to go by "Frankie Satin," but Sinatra refuses.

1934-Adolf Hitler begins Operation Hummingbird, the Röhm Putsch, or the Night of the Long Knives which culminates in the murder of Ernst Röhm on July 2. Al Stewart later writes a song about it called "The Last Day Of June 1934."

1917-Lena Horne is born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.

1792-Classical era composer Antonio Rosetti dies at age 42.

[Bikkie]

1862- Battle of Malvern Hill [Poindexter's Farm], day 7 of 7 days battles, Union forces repel Confederate attack, Tactical Union victory (US Civil War)

1862- The Russian State Library is founded in Moscow

1862- US Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)

1863- Battle of Gettysburg begins in Pennsylvania, Union forces halt Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virgini

1863- Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz

1863- Slavery abolished in Dutch territories including Sint Maarten, Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, (now marked as Keti Koti Day in Suriname and the Netherlands)

1867- The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister

1869- Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed

1869 -US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens

1870- James W. Smith of South Carolina is one of 1st African Americans to attend West Point1871- The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

1873 -Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia enters West Point Military Academy - later the first African American to graduate


Music History


201630-year-old Lady Gaga finally gets her driver's license.

2009-Following Michael Jackson's death the previous week, he becomes the first act to sell more than 1 million song downloads in a week.

2008-Gym Class Heroes' lead singer Travie McCoy assaults a fan who shouts out a racial slur just as their set finishes during the Warped Tour in St. Louis.

2008-Mel Galley (former Whitesnake guitarist) dies of esophageal cancer at age 60.

2008-Crüe Fest kicks off in West Palm Beach, Florida. The tour features Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M., and Trapt; it earns about $40 million.

2007-In memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, a concert is held at the newly built Wembley Stadium in London. Acts include friends of the Princess Duran Duran and Elton John as well as artists she enjoyed such as Nelly Furtado, Tom Jones and Kanye West.

2006-The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts opens on the grounds of the 1969 Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York. The brainchild of Alan Gerry, who sold his company, Cablevision Industries, to Time Warner for $2.8 billion, the Center includes a performance venue, and later, a museum.

2005-Luther Vandross dies at age 54 after suffering a stroke two years earlier that left him in a wheelchair.

2003-Flute player Herbie Mann dies of prostate cancer at age 73. His best-known song is "Hijack," a dance tune that hit #14 in 1975.

2000-In London, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails overdoses on China white heroin that he believes is cocaine. Reznor, who has been battling addiction throughout the '90s, redoubles his efforts to get sober and eventually does a few years later.

1999-Jennifer Lopez releases her debut album, On The 6, with the hit single "If You Had My Love."

1999-Guy Mitchell, '50s pop singer and TV host, dies of complications from cancer surgery at age 72.

1997-Radiohead release OK Computer in the US. With highly emotive songs and beguiling music videos for tracks like "Karma Police" and "Paranoid Android," it lands on many lists of the year's top albums.

1995-Legendary DJ Wolfman Jack, who famously spun rock and roll records from a border blaster station in Mexico throughout the '60s, dies of a heart attack at age 57.

1991-Members of the Olympia, Washington bands Bratmobile and Bikini Kill publish the first issue of Riot Grrrl, a mini-magazine that introduces the phrase, used to describe a female punk-rock ethos with a cutting edge but also a sense of humor. Bands that join the Riot Grrrl movement include L7 and Babes In Toyland.

1986-Misfits issue their second compilation, a self-titled, 20-track release with two songs Metallica later cover: "Green Hell" and "Die, Die My Darling."

1982-Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five release the early rap classic "The Message." It's the first hip-hop hit with lyrics about struggle in the inner city.

1981Rushton Moreve (original bass guitarist for Steppenwolf) dies in an automobile accident at age 32.

1977-Liv Tyler is born. Her mother is the notorious groupie/muse Bebe Buell, and her father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. By the time Liv is born, Bebe has gone back to her previous boyfriend, Todd Rundgren, and Rundgren raises her as his own. Liv is 11 years old when she finds out Tyler is her real dad.

1975-Ringo Starr divorces his first wife, Maureen.

1975-Lou Reed releases Metal Machine Music, a double album of distortion and guitar feedback.

1973-The Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar closes after 711 performances. In August, it is released as a feature film.

1972-The Doobie Brothers release their second album, Toulouse Street. It contains their first hit, "Listen To The Music," and also their cover of "Jesus Is Just Alright," which gives some the impression they're a religious band.

1971-Jethro Tull's Aqualung album is certified Gold.

1969-Sam Phillips sells the legendary Sun Records studio in Memphis.

1969-John Lennon receives 17 facial stitches, and Yoko Ono gets 14 of her own, after a car crash in Scotland.

1963-Roddy Bottum (keyboardist for Faith No More) is born Roswell Christopher Bottum III in Los Angeles, California.

1960-The Shadows release the instrumental call-to-arms "Apache," which goes to #1 in the UK and is a US hit the next year for Jorgen Ingmann. Variations of the song are later sampled on a number of hip-hop tracks.

1952-Dan Aykroyd is born in Ottawa. What's he doing on a music history calendar? He formed The Blues Brothers with John Belushi and also appeared on "We Are The World."

1951-Victor Willis, original lead singer for The Village People, is born in Dallas, Texas. He leaves the group in the mid-'80s but returns in 2017 when he gains control of the name, replacing the existing members with a new lineup. Willis, who plays the policeman, is the only group member with co-writing credits on their songs, including "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho Man."

1951-Fred Schneider of The B-52s is born in Newark, New Jersey.

1949-John Farnham is born in Dagenham, England, but moves to Australia with his family when he is 10. He becomes one of the most popular singers in that country, thanks to his rousing hit "You're The Voice."

1948-John Ford (multi-instrumentalist of The Strawbs) is born in Fulham, London, England.

1945-Deborah Ann Harry (lead singer of Blondie) is born in Miami, Florida, but will be raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey.

1942-Gospel singer Andrae Crouch is born in San Francisco, California.

1939-Delaney Bramlett, who co-fronted the early-'70s rock/soul ensemble Delaney & Bonnie with then-wife Bonnie Bramlett, is born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.

1930-Bobby Day, known for his hit version of "Rockin' Robin," is born Robert James Byrd in Fort Worth, Texas.

1925-French composer/pianist Erik Satie dies of cirrhosis of the liver at age 59.