On This Day In History

[Piper]

'Hello My Dearie' became
one of the first songs ever
to hit the New Zealand
airwaves when physics
professor Robert Jack
broadcast New Zealand's
first radio programme on
the 17 November 1921.
He also found Radio Dunedin,
and had a hand in TV.

[TheDemonLord]

I did not know that, but that's awesome to find out.

[Piper]

Australian's first Holden motor vehicle was launched on this day by GM Holden 1948 FX designed in Detroit. The actual company came from James Holden who was a saddler, then when saddles went out of vogue in the early 1990's he started upholstery and building bodies for cars and that's where Holden came from.

[Piper]

On this date in 1980 John Lennon
was shot by David Chapman.
And also on this date in 1942
a fire sweeps through a
locked ward of the Seacliff Mental
Hospital north of Dunedin,
Killing 37 female patients.

[caseye]

How many people on these forums know what happened on December 7th 1941?
Funny, not so much as a squeak from our journos on Tuesday.:angry:
A Day of Infamy.
My Grandfather, served in WW1, in France and Germany, also WW2, though back here in NZ at Featherston POW Camp.
He knew many other service men and woman who fought in the pacific, he totally understood their fanatical hatred of the Japanese and always told me never to show up in Featherston with a jappa car or bike!!!
True story.:2guns:

[pritch]

How many people on these forums know what happened on December 7th 1941?
Funny, not so much as a squeak from our journos on Tuesday.:angry:


I saw mention on a US news site but NZ news organisations would be blissfully unaware.

[george formby]

A token story in the Stuff travel section. Good story, too.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/300472837/how-pearl-harbour-forced-the-worlds-first-aroundtheworld-commercial-flight


I guess it's not PC to "mention the war"..

[Kickaha]

I guess it's not PC to "mention the war"..

Ancient history, It's not in the living memory of the vast majority or people

[TheDemonLord]

How many people on these forums know what happened on December 7th 1941?

America finally showed up (late) to WW2, after being given a surprise invitation.

[caspernz]

How many people on these forums know what happened on December 7th 1941?
Funny, not so much as a squeak from our journos on Tuesday.:angry:
A Day of Infamy.:

It's a shame that this event is now seen as ancient history, if remembered at all. Guess we're doomed to repeat it :weep:

[FJRider]

America finally showed up (late) to WW2, after being given a surprise invitation.

Actually ... the Japanese turned up a day earlier than their Declaration of war.

[jellywrestler]

on this day in 2021 it was december the 13th too

[HenryDorsetCase]

Actually ... the Japanese turned up a day earlier than their Declaration of war.

Well they are famed for their punctuality

[Oakie]

America finally showed up (late) to WW2, after being given a surprise invitation.

Fun fact ... USA actually fired the first shots when they sunk a Japanese mini-sub in the hours before the attack.

[Kickaha]

Fun fact ... USA actually fired the first shots when they sunk a Japanese mini-sub in the hours before the attack.

So it was Americas fault, they probably would have been left alone if not for that

[F5 Dave]

Fun fact ... USA actually fired the first shots when they sunk a Japanese mini-sub in the hours before the attack.
I didn't know Mini made subs and supplied them to the Japanese. Was it an Austin Mini Sub? or the coveted Mini Cooper Sub?

[FJRider]

I didn't know Mini made subs and supplied them to the Japanese. Was it an Austin Mini Sub? or the coveted Mini Cooper Sub?

Actually ... the mini WAS very popular in Japan. It's compact stature was in keeping with Japans space saving needs.

The two seat version Japan used (as mentioned) at the beginning of the war ... to get to those hard to get to places in Hawaii ... was a version Austin never envisioned.

It reminds me of the time my sister phoned me for help ... her car had broken down. Apparently ... the carburetor was flooded.

Arriving at her location an hour or so later ... I found it was indeed flooded.

Under 12 feet of water.

Being in the shit is commonplace for some ... only the depth varies.

[Bikkie]

On this day in history,Captain James Cook introduced the first sheep onto New Zealand soil in 1773.

[F5 Dave]

Did he carry it over the hearth? :love:

[R650R]

On this day in history,Captain James Cook introduced the first sheep onto New Zealand soil in 1773.

Just for clarity was that a real sheep or was it a Green Party voter?

[Berries]

In the early evening on this day in history, the first New Zealander introduced himself into the first sheep on New Zealand soil.

[F5 Dave]

I think the first new Zealander would have been dead for over 1000 years by then.

[Berries]

A lonely death without Dolly.

[F5 Dave]

But Moaata was on the scene then. She had wonderful long legs.

[F5 Dave]

I'm on fire today and I haven't had a drink yet!:woohoo:

[Kickaha]

I'm on fire today and I haven't had a drink yet!:woohoo:

It can only get better then

[pete376403]

I'm on fire today and I haven't had a drink yet!:woohoo:

Fire -- Chariots of Fire. On this day, today, Vangelis died

[F5 Dave]

Well I've move to Baylands Night Ryder. I think my session is over. Not a fan of dark beers. Tried. But no.

[Berries]

Jeez, gone to bed by 8:30 and no explanation about what or who the fuck Mooata with the long legs was.

Best joke about long legs was the insect that flew into my kitchen and landed on the wall above the oven. When I went up to it it blew up and splattered itself all over the ceiling.





Jihaddi Long Legs.

[F5 Dave]

The first New Zealanders were the ones born here, so children of the polynesian explorers must be the first New Zealanders, but of course they had a different name for the place, but that's semantics.

At the time there was a large bird in populace. Moaata would be a nice equivalent of Baabra dont you think?

Right. Now to go spoil the joke on my other posts.
When a man and a sheep love each other very much, and the join a union under the blessing of God, . . . .

[Berries]

They must have been fucking tall to root a moa.

[F5 Dave]

All the same height lying down :bleh:

[husaberg]

The first New Zealanders like te moa's came in all sizes:whistle::buggerd:

[Piper]

Shortland Street is 30 years old today, ( not that I care about it )
just thought I'll put it out there to anyone's interested?

[pete376403]

Shortland Street is 30 years old today, ( not that I care about it )
just thought I'll put it out there to anyone's interested?
And pleased to say I have never watched an episode from start to finish. Occasionally catch a glimpse while channel surfing and its the same old, same old

[Laava]

On this day 43yrs ago these guys had their first hit.

[Berries]

Is that the dude from Wayne's World on the right?

[Laava]

Wait, what! I've been sold a forgery!

[F5 Dave]

God they were dreadful.

[husaberg]

I've come to talk with you again

[Laava]

On this day 50yrs ago the Beatles were working on releasing their latest album...

[Berries]

Ringo Belushi?

351234


I like this game.

[husaberg]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GDpl5AklT7Q/S5P6NxC0rvI/AAAAAAAAB2w/ihxvofADHZo/s400/belushistones.jpg

[Laava]

30 yrs ago today Hanson had their first hit with Mmm Bop.
https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/blob:https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/e7cf2a93-9379-4b5f-8b39-52cedf07633f

[husaberg]

Pretty sure it was the day ruthless Richardson finished the mother of all budgets in 1991. It was released to the public a week later.'

this lead to the phase being coined of Ruthanasia
At the 1993 election National's comfortable 18 seat majority from 1990 was reduced to a bare majority of only 1

As well as cutting benefits Richardson also introduced many user pays requirements in hospitals and schools, services previously free to the populace and paid for by the government.
Former Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon resigned from his Tamaki constituency in protest of Richardson's policies.

[Laava]

On this day 50 yrs ago Tim and Neil Finn tried out for the All Blacks.

[F5 Dave]

Pity they didn't get in. Would have saved us from that dreary crowded house malarkey

[husaberg]

Pity they didn't get in. Would have saved us from that dreary crowded house malarkey

One step ahead of you....

[F5 Dave]

That was Split Enz and they were quite good, at least until the end.

[husaberg]

That was Split Enz and they were quite good, at least until the end.
History never repeats?

It would be meatloafs birthday 75th today if he hadn't died anyway.

[Piper]

100 years ago today
The Otago Radio Association
first went to air on 4 October 1922.

[Piper]

The BBC British Broadcasting
was founded.

[husaberg]

In 1854 some english lords thought it might be clever to Charge heavy artillery numbering at least 50 pieces on three sides across a few km off open country with the about 60 horses and men that had neither armour or firearms
In the tradition of the army, those involved with giving the orders were all promoted.
All the needless deaths were glorified by the poet who was later made an english lord as well

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.


“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.


Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.


Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.


Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.


When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!



Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them

Clowns to the left jokers to the right here i am struck in the middle again
Gerry Rafferty

[TheDemonLord]

Also - responsible for one of the greatest Iron Maiden songs...

[pete376403]

And apparently as a result of miscommunication : "Raglan having sent Nolan to give the order, Nolan, instead of passing on the order verbatim complete as given, passed it on to Lord Lucan orally as "There, my lord, is your enemy! There are your guns!", and added the word "attack", when Raglan had intended merely a show of force."

[husaberg]

And apparently as a result of miscommunication : "Raglan having sent Nolan to give the order, Nolan, instead of passing on the order verbatim complete as given, passed it on to Lord Lucan orally as "There, my lord, is your enemy! There are your guns!", and added the word "attack", when Raglan had intended merely a show of force."

i can't remember how it worked exactly by two of them were brothers in law and hated each other.

https://blackadderquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/general-melchett-blackadder-quotes.jpg
https://blackadderquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/tally.gifhttps://64.media.tumblr.com/a4b2847f30c3fe09c95b5a7c6385b485/tumblr_mu4du7z59G1sy769zo6_400.gifv

okay


Lord Cardigan, commanding the Light Brigade, hated his brother-in-law Lord Lucan.

For his part, Lucan also hated Cardigan.

Meanwhile, the troops hated both Cardigan and Lucan.
Cardigan had no combat experience, nor did British Commander Lord Raglan


“Vain, and a notorious womaniser with a foul temper, Cardigan once had an officer arrested for drinking porter at a mess dinner, while earlier in the campaign he had made his exhausted men keep moving tents around until he was satisfied that they were arranged in a sufficiently symmetrical manner.”

https://www.forces.net/news/how-non-charge-light-brigade-really-unfolded


In the years that followed, Cardigan, Lucan and Raglan would all blame each other for the disaster, but in the end, as Withington notes, “none of them emerge with much credit from the story.”

okay edit agan



from wiki
At the outbreak of the Crimean War, Lord Lucan applied for a post and was made commander of the Cavalry Division. His brother-in-law, the 7th Earl of Cardigan, was one of his subordinates, commanding the Light Brigade – an unfortunate choice as the two men heartily detested each other.
At the Battle of Balaclava Lucan received an order from Raglan and in turn ordered Cardigan to lead the Charge of the Light Brigade, resulting in heavy British casualties without significant gains. As Lucan brought the Heavy Brigade forward in support, he was lightly wounded in the leg. Raglan blamed Lucan for the loss ("You have lost the light brigade"), and censured him in despatches. Although Lucan complained against this censure, as the relationship between the army commander and the cavalry commander had clearly broken down, he was recalled to England, where he returned at the beginning of March 1855.

On his arrival, Lucan's demand for a court-martial was declined and instead he defended himself with a speech to the House of Lords on 19 March 1855, blaming Raglan and his deceased aide-de-camp, Captain Louis Nolan. This tactic appears to have been successful as he was subsequently appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 5 July 1855, and Colonel of the 8th Light Dragoons, who had charged with the Light Brigade, on 17 November 1855

[pritch]

My favourite account of this action is the one from the Flashman series. Flashman, the bully in 'Tom Brown's School Days' is older and is an officer in the army. His horse bolts and, although a devout coward, he accidentally leads the charge for which he is awarded the VC. (IIRC)

There are twelve Flashman novels by George McDonald Fraser. Well worth a look.

[TheDemonLord]

My favourite account of this action is the one from the Flashman series. Flashman, the bully in 'Tom Brown's School Days' is older and is an officer in the army. His horse bolts and, although a devout coward, he accidentally leads the charge for which he is awarded the VC. (IIRC)

There are twelve Flashman novels by George McDonald Fraser. Well worth a look.

Sounds eerily like Ciaphas Cain from Warhammer 40K...

[pete376403]

My favourite account of this action is the one from the Flashman series. Flashman, the bully in 'Tom Brown's School Days' is older and is an officer in the army. His horse bolts and, although a devout coward, he accidentally leads the charge for which he is awarded the VC. (IIRC)

There are twelve Flashman novels by George McDonald Fraser. Well worth a look.

"Flashman at the Charge". They were / are very funny reading. Dont think I have read all 12 though. Amazon has them all in single Kindle volume, but also some more written by Thomas Brightwell. Like all the subsequent "Bourne" stories written "in the style of Tom Clancy"

[F5 Dave]

Or The Bible, written in the style of bored monk trying to fill in the gaps but not being able to proof read the other chapters.

[Bikkie]

On this date a 100 years ago-New Zealand
short story writer Katherine Mansfield dies,aged
34,in France of tuberculosis.

[Bikkie]

Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Fourteen people died: thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries.

[Piper]

On this date in 1863 in the
worst recorded shipwreck
in New Zealand, 189 people
die when she HMS Orpheus
runs aground in Auckland's
Manukau harbour.

[Piper]

On this date in 1909 75 people die
when the inter-island ferry
SS Penguin sinks after striking
rocks off the entrance to
Wellington Harbour. Only
30 people survived.

[husaberg]

Russia invaded Ukraine again claiming it will only take three days to free it from "Nazis"

[Piper]

81 years ago today, a Japanese
reconnaissance plane flew
over Wellington on the 8th march New Zealand, then
it flew over Auckland on the 13th march
before departing for Fiji.

[BMWST?]

On this day in NZ in 1869 the New Zealand Cross was created.

"This medal was created because members of New Zealand’s colonial armed forces were not eligible for the Victoria Cross. Only 23 were awarded, all to men who served during the New Zealand Wars (https://nzhistory.govt.nz/node/1288), making it one of the world‘s rarest military honours"

also on this day in 1995 The Auckland Warriors played their debut game in the NRL competion

[F5 Dave]

I bought my penis into popular view

[husaberg]

I bought my penis into popular view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsH4aClj-ZY

[Kickaha]

I bought my penis into popular view

Are you sure it was popular ?

[F5 Dave]

Bah who had my phone.

[Piper]

On march the 13th in 1956-New Zealand scores
its first test cricket victory, bowling
out the West Indies for 77 on the
final day of the fourth test at
Eden Park to win by 190 runs.

[Piper]

On the 17th march in 1897
New Zealand boxer Bob Fitzsimmons
becomes world heavyweight champion
when he knocks out Gentleman
Jim Corbett, of the
US, in Carson City, Nevada.

[F5 Dave]

44 years ago today
Thomas George Etheridge of Northwich had a
bowel movement that many described as
Foul and Abhorrent.

[husaberg]

44 years ago today
Thomas George Etheridge of Northwich had a
bowel movement that many described as
Foul and Abhorrent.

I thought tdl would be well into his 50's....

https://youtu.be/cMZmNG_DRJA

[Piper]

44 years ago today
Thomas George Etheridge of Northwich had a
bowel movement that many described as
Foul and Abhorrent.


And how do you know this?

[F5 Dave]

What Husi posted was funny and interesting. You sound like one of those people who used to introduce wireless broadcasts back when that was a thing.

Have you ever entered a discussion about motorcycles here?

I can Google inane facts if I want to.

[Bikkie]

On the 21 of march 1994 Anna Paquin aged 11,becomes
the first new zealander to collect an acting Academy Award
when she wins best supporting actress for her role in
The Piano

[TheDemonLord]

On the 21 of march 1994 Anna Paquin aged 11,becomes
the first new zealander to collect an acting Academy Award
when she wins best supporting actress for her role in
The Piano

Excellent Film, when I first visited NZ many moons ago, We made a point to visit Piha because of that film.

[Piper]

Excellent Film, when I first visited NZ many moons ago, We made a point to visit Piha because of that film.


Which country are you in?

[Piper]

127 years ago today on march 26th, 1896
Sixty five people are killed after
an explosion at the Brunner Mine on
New Zealand's west coast.

[TheDemonLord]

Which country are you in?

New Zealand.

At that time, I lived in the UK and subsequently moved out here.

[Piper]

The first mobile phone is 50 years
old today. Made by Motorola.
Martin Cooper made the first call.

[Piper]

New Zealand.

At that time, I lived in the UK and subsequently moved out here.

I would love to visit the UK some day.

[TheDemonLord]

I would love to visit the UK some day.

Last time I went (back in 2013 I think) - I could see a lot of changes from when I left. The direct result of EU Immigration.

That said - the history is still awesome and depending on what you look to see in a country when you visit, the UK has plenty to offer.

[Piper]

60 years ago today the first
James Bond movie Dr. No
Premiers in the United States.

[Pursang]

No Way!!...

[Piper]

108 years ago today, New Zealand Tennis player
Anthony Wilding, who won the Wimbledon men's
singles title from 1910-13,
dies on the western front in world war 1.
He was 31.

[Piper]

On the 14th June 1946 scottish
inventer John Logie Barid lauded as
the father of TV, dies aged 57
of a stroke.

[Piper]

On the 19th June in 1973
The Rocky Horror Show
opened in London

[Piper]

On the 24th June-NZ Truth
Newspaper begins. In 1983
it included a publication called
TV Guide, which you are reading
today.

[R650R]

On the 24th June-NZ Truth
Newspaper begins. In 1983
it included a publication called
TV Guide, which you are reading
today.

It had a tv guide? I never got any further than the titties on page 3 🤣😂🤣

[Bikkie]

On the 1st July in 1903 The inaugural Tour De France
cycling race begins in paris.Frenchman Maurice Garin
won the event.

And on the 1st July 1967 The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely
Hearts Club Band goes to number one in the U.S album
charts and stays there for 15 weeks.

[Laava]

40 yrs ago today Mick Jagger and David Bowie collaborated on Dancing in the Streets.

[Piper]

On this date 3rd of July :

In 1963-All 23 people on a
DC from Auckland to Tauranga
are killed when the plane crashes
in the Kaimais.

1913-New Zealand Tennis player
Anthony Wilding wins his fourth
straight men's singles title at
Wimbledon.


In 1983-New Zealand's Chris
Lewis reaches the men's
singles final at Wimbledon
but is beaten by John McEnroe.

In 1928-John Logie Barid
demonstrates the first colour
TV transmission, in London.

In 1969 Brian Jones
, 27 of The Rolling Stones
drowns.

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

[Piper]

On the 9th of July in 1877
The first Wimbledon tennis
championship begins.

[Piper]

On the 23rd July 1952,Yvette Williams
wins the long jump at Helsinki
to become New Zealand 's first
female Olympic medallist.

[Laava]

13 years ago today…

[Piper]

On the 28th of July 1893 a petition organised by
Kate Sheppard, demanding women's suffrage, is
delivered to New Zealand's parliament.

[Piper]

1983-New Zealand score their
first test cricket win in England,
beating England by five wickets
at Headingly.


1986-Boxer Jimmy Peau wins
gold for New Zealand at the
Commonwealth Games in
Edinburgh in the men's heavyweight
division.


1976-Elizabeth Taylor divorces Richard Burton
for the second time (. her sixth divorce overall )


1987-The Maori Language Act comes into force,
making tea reo Maori an official New
Zealand language

[Piper]

In 1973-American Graffiti
premiers at the Locarno Film
Festival in Switzerland.

[Pursang]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zEOUOvNpLZQ/T-5mAUxcWwI/AAAAAAAB_iY/Qq45_0zJPnc/s1600/tumblr_m3l3ubXCBL1rqqtzqo1_500.gif

[Piper]

On the 4th of August 1971, the
band Wings was formed.

[Piper]

On the 10th August 1996 The All Blacks
beat the Springboks 29-18 in
Cape Town to win the first rugby
Tri-Nations title.


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

[jellywrestler]

On the 10th August 1996 The All Blacks
beat the Springboks 29-18 in
Cape Town to win the first rugby
Tri-Nations title.


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

did nothing happen over the last week?

[husaberg]

1893 Rudolf Diesel's prime model internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany

Jim Morrison's Trial
1970 Jim Morrison's trial for "lewd and lascivious behavior" begins in Miami, Florida

1983 1st World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump

[Piper]

On the 11th of August 1973
American Graffiti opens in
the U.S

[Laava]

The caption says it all…

[Pursang]

........353603

[Piper]

In 1895-Child-carer Minnie Dean
is hanged for the murders
of two babies. She is the only
woman to have been hanged
in New Zealand.

[pritch]

The BBC news today informed me that this is the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip hop. Who knew?

[Piper]

120 years ago today in 1903
The All Blacks play their first
match against Australia's Wallabies
at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
New Zealand wins 22-3.


54 years ago today in 1969 Woodstock music
Festival starts.


1939-The Wizard of Oz premiers in
Hollywood.


1945-News of the Japanese
surrender in World War ll
reaches New Zealand, leading
to huge celebrations.

[Piper]

On the 17th of August 1969
Woodstock music festival
closes with Jimi Hendrix being
the final act.

[Piper]

On the 18th August 1969-Mick Jagger
is shot in the hand while filming
Ned Kelly when a gun back fires

[Piper]

On the 20th August, 1976,KISS
did a concert at the Anaheim California
show, for their The Destroyer Tour.

[Piper]

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

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

[Pursang]

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/files/aug-22-1969-young-farmer-competition.jpg

[Piper]

On the 23rd of August 1920
Violet Walrond was the first
New Zealand female
Olympian when she swam at
the Antwerp Games. She was 14
when selected and 15 when
she swam.

[husaberg]

2006
Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines “planet.

1991
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Ukraine declares its independence from USSR.

1981
Mark David Chapman sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering former Beatles band member John Lennon.

1869
Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, patents the waffle iron.

[BMWST?]

1944 Paris is Liberated

2012 Neil Armstrong dies

[Piper]

On the 28th August 1963
Martin Luther King Jr gave his
"I have a dream" speech outside
the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington D C.

[husaberg]

The fact that Pauline Parker and her friend Juliet Hulme had killed Pauline’s mother Honorah on 22 June – a sensational crime later dramatised in Peter Jackson’s acclaimed film Heavenly creatures – was never disputed. In finding the teenagers guilty of murder, the jury rejected the defence’s assertion that they were insane.

Because both were under 18 – Pauline was 16 and Juliet 15 – neither could be sentenced to death. Their punishment was ‘detention during Her Majesty’s pleasure’.

[Piper]

On the 30th August - 1903
The Waimangu Geyser, south
of Rotorua, erupts killing guide
Joseph Warbrick and three
tourists.

[Piper]

On the 31st of August 1974-New Zealand
Prime Minister Norman Kirk, 51
dies in office of cardiac failure.

[jellywrestler]

and for many years people were at the Cold Kiwi Rally, starts tommorow, gate sales available too

[Piper]

On the 1st of September 1939
Frank Brownie of
Brownies Mattresses opens
his store
in Christchurch New Zealand.


World War ll starts as Germany
invades Poland.

[Piper]

1945-V-J Day surrender of
Japan aboard USS Missouri,
masks the end of World War ll.


1960-At the Rome Olympics
Peter Snell of New Zealand
wins gold in the
800m and Murray Halberg
also of New Zealand
wins the 500m gold medal .


1972-God Defend New Zealand
is played for the first time at an
Olympics medal ceremony after
the New Zealand men's rowing
eight wins gold in Munich.

[Piper]

On the 5the September - 1939
Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage
declares New Zealand's support
for Britain in the war with
Germany.

[Piper]

On the 7th September 1940
The German Luftwaffe bombs
London for the first of 57
consecutive nights.


1978-Drummer Keith Moon, of
The Who, dies of a drug
overdose. He was 31.


1996-Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot
in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
He later dies.

[Laava]

On this day, in 1989, tennis happened!

[jellywrestler]

On this day in history some people went into the camera shop and picked up their film, and got to see their Cold Kiwi Rally photos for the first time

[BMWST?]

12 september 1913 Jesse Owens of 1936 Olympic games fame was born

[Piper]

On the 16th September - 1977
Mark Bolan died after the
car he was in, driven by his
girlfriend Gloria Jones crashed
into a tree.

[Piper]

On the 18th September in 1937
The first New Zealand state house
Opens in Miramar, Wellington.


1951 The movie A Streetcar
Named Desire is released.


1970 US rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix
dies aged 27,of asphyxiation.

[Piper]

On the 19th September 1893
New Zealand becames the first
country to grant all women the
right to vote.

[Piper]

On the 19th September - 1973
Gram Parsons of the Byrd's dies
at the ago of 26 after taking a
liquid shot of morphine.

[Piper]

On the 20th September - 1973
Jim Croce dies as the plane he was in,
crashes into a tree on take off.
At Natchitoches Regional Airport ( KIER )
Natchitoches Louisiana.


The Roxy Theatre opened in Los Angeles, CA.
The opening acts were Elton John, Carole King
anh Jackson Browne.


1971-Peter Frampton quits Humble Pie
to follow a solo career.

[Piper]

On the 21st of September 1937
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is
published in London

[Piper]

On the 27th September 1979
Jimmy Mcculloch died at the
age of 26 years. He was in
Wings, Thunderclap Newman, Small Faces,
Stone The Crows,Wild Horses Blue, One In A Million,
and The Dukes

[Bikkie]

1955-James Dean,24,is killed in a car crash in Cholame,California.





1960-The Flintstones cartoon premieres on ABC




1965-Thunderbirds,the British sci-fi puppet TV series,debuts on the ITV network.

[BMWST?]

also on this day in history 30 september 1938

The notorious Munich Agreement (https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Agreement), in which Britain's Neville Chamberlain (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neville-Chamberlain) encouraged Britain (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom) and France (https://www.britannica.com/place/France) to appease Adolf Hitler (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler)'s demands in the hope of preventing World War II (https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II), was reached on this day in 1938.

[Piper]

1955-The Mickey Mouse Club
premiers in the US.


1960-US sitcom The Andy
Griffith Show debuts on CBS.


1961-Comedies Mr Ed and
The Dick Van Dyke show premiere
on CBS.

[Piper]

On the 4th of October 1970
Janis Joplin dies of a drug
overdose. :(

[Piper]

Elton's John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
is 50 years old today.

[Piper]

On the 7th of October - 1942
Glenn Miller is inducted into
the Army, where he forms the
Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band,
using his talents to entertain his
fellow troops with hundreds of
performances and broadcasts.

[Piper]

1769-Captain James Cook lands in
New Zealand for the first time.
After the deaths of local Maori
and not getting the supplies he
wants, he names the area Poverty
Bay.



1971-John Lennon releases his hit
single Imagine.


1941-West Coaster Stanley Graham
goes on the run after killing policemen
who went to his farm. Graham killed seven
people. He was shot dead by
police on October 20,1941.

[Piper]

1967-Revolutionary Emesto Che Guevara
is executed, aged 39 in Bolivia.


1973-Elvis and Priscilla Presley
divorce after six years.


John Lennon would have been 83 today, had
it not been for that David Chapman shooting
him.

[Piper]

1963-From Russia With Love,
the second James Bond film,
premiers in London.

[Hoonicorn]

1963-From Russia With Love,
the second James Bond film,
premiers in London.

Wow 60 years ago, and still going... kinda.

[Piper]

1917-In one of this nation's
darkest days, 843 New Zealand
soldiers die or are mortally
wounded at the Battle of
Passchendaele in Belgium during
World War 1. :(

[Piper]

1969-Russ Gibb a DJ at WKNR in
Detroit, takes a call from a listener
who tells him that if you play The
Beatles song "Revolution" backwards,
a voice says, "Turn me on, dead man."
Gibb plays the record in reverse on air,
and the phone lines light up with astonished
listeners offering more clues as to why
Paul McCartney might be dead. For about a
week, Gibb entertains a stream of rumours on
the show, as ratings explode and the story
goes national.
Other clues include a voice at the end of
"Strawberry Fields Forever" that says
"Buried Paul" ( actually John Lennon saying
"Cranberry Sauce" ) and the cover of the
Sgt. Pepper album, where Paul is wearing an
armband that says "OPD" - "Officially Pronounced Dead"

[Piper]

1936-Jean Batten reaches
Auckland New Zealand after
flying solo from Kent, England
in a record 11 days and 45 minutes.


1964-Kiwi runner Peter Snell
wins gold in the 800m at the
Tokyo Olympics, repeating his
feat from the Rome Olympics.

[Piper]

1957-Movie Jail house Rock,
with Elvis Presley, premieres.


1968-The movie Bullitt, starring
Steve McQueen and Jacqueline
Bisset, is released.

[Piper]

1937-Ernest Rutherford dies :(


1973-David Bowie's album
Pin-Ups is 50 years old today.


1973-Bob Marley and The Wailers
album Burnin is 50 years old today.


1973-The Who's album Quadrophenia is 50
years old today.

[Piper]

1973-Queen Elizabeth ll
officially opens the Sydney Opera
House.


1977-A plane chartered
by the rock band Lynyrd
Syynyrd crashes near Gilisburg,
Mississippi, killing six people.



1994-LS actor Burt
Lancaster dies aged 80,
of a heart attack. :(

[Piper]

1973-Cher's album Half Breed
is 50 years old today.


1958-The Smurfs debut, in a
comic by Belgian artist
Peyo.

[Piper]

1929-October 24th-Black Thursday marks the
start of the US stockmarket
crash.

[Piper]

On the 26th October 1881
in Tombstone Arizona the
Earp brothers face of with
the Clanton-Mclaury gang at
the O. K. Carrol


1973-Herbie Hancock's album
Head Hunters was released.


1973-Diana and Marvin Gaye album released


1973-Quadrophenia album by The Who was released in
New Zealand.


1951-Winston Churchill aged 76,is
re-elected as British prime Minister

[Piper]

Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina's
album Full Sail is 50 years old today.
Released on the 29th October 1973

[Piper]

1929-US stockmarket crashes,
and marks the start of the
Great Depression.


1973-John Lennon's album Mind Games
was first released on the 29
October in the US, then in the
UK on the 16th November.


1960-Cassius Clay's ( Muhammad Ali ) 1st professional
fight beats Tunney Hunsaker on points in 6 rounds in Louisville, Kentucky.

[Laava]

60 years ago today

[Piper]

1938-A radio broadcast by Orson Weller's of H. G Wells'
The War Of The World causes a mass
panic at listeners believe it is
happening.

[Hoonicorn]

60 years ago today
Who's that in the picture though? An impersonator?

[Laava]

Who's that in the picture though? An impersonator?
Lols! Yeah, its Benny Hill!

[Piper]

1973-Colour TV was introduced in
New Zealand.

[Laava]

1973-Colour TV was introduced in
New Zealand.
It was ushered in in time for the 74 Commonwealth games

[Piper]

1983-The single Thriller by
Michael Jackson is released.


1967-The album Disraeli Gears
by Cream is released.

[Piper]

1930-Hot favourite Phar Lap
wins the Melbourne Cup.


2008-Barack Obama becomes the
first African-American to be elected
President of the USA.

[Piper]

1967-Forty nine people are
killed in the Hither Green rail
crash in Britain. The survivors
include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.


1991-Actor Fred MacMurray
( dad Steve Douglas in TV
comedy My Three Sons )
dies of pneumonia. He was 83.


2020-British actor Geoffrey Palmer
dies, aged 93

[Piper]

1999-Australia is the first nation
To win the Rugby World Cup title
twice, beating France 35-12 in the
final at Cardiff.


2012-British actor Clive Dunn
( Lance Corporal Jones in
Dad's Army ) dies aged 92.

[Laava]

For lovers of pop/folk music

[Piper]

1918-The Influenza pandemic
spreads to Western Somoa, killing
7542 ( about 20 per cent of the population ).


1980-US actor Steve McQueen
dies of a heard attack.
He was 50.


1944-Franklin D. Roosevelt is
re-elected US President for
a record fourth term.


2016-Canadian songwriter
Leonard Cohen dies, aged
82.

[Piper]

1880-Bushranger Ned Kelly
is hanged at Melbourne for
murder. He was 25.


1918-The World War I armistice
is signed by the Allies and Germany.

[Piper]

1968-Yellow Submarine film
premiers in New York.


1969-John Lennon purchases
the island Dorinch the Ireland
coast and invites any hippie
who wishes to live there.

[Bikkie]

1956-Love Me Tender,with Elivs Presley in his major film debut,premiers in the US.



1983--British actor John Le Mesurier ( Sergeant Wilson in Dad's Army ) dies of cirrhosis of the liver.He was 71.

[Piper]

1960-US actor Clark Gable,
dies of a heart attack.
He was 59.


1994-English actor Doris Speed
( Coronation Street's Annie Walker )
dies aged 95.


2009-British actor Edward Woodward
dies of pneumonia.
He was 79.

[Bikkie]

1980-John Lennon releases his Double Fantasy album in the UK,the last album before his death.

[Piper]

1947-In New Zealand's worst fire tragedy, 41
people die at Christchurch's Ballantynes
department store.

[Piper]

1962-Nef Zealand man Barrie
Devonport, 27 becomes the first
person to officially swim Cook
Strait.


1947-The future British Queen, Princess
Elizabeth, 21,weds Lt Philip Mountbatten, 26
at Westminster Abbey.

[Piper]

2017-US singer and teen heartthrob
David Cassidy dies aged 67,
of liver failure


2008-Kiwis win Rugby League's World Cup beating
Australia 34-20 at Brisbane.


1997-Rock singer Michael Hutchence, 37,is found
dead in a Sydney hotel room.


1994-World War ll veteran Charles Upham dies, aged
86.

[Piper]

1983-New Zealand aviatrix Jean
Batten dies, aged 73,in
obscurity in Majorca, Spain.

[Piper]

1963-British sci-fi TV series
Doctor Who screens for the
first time on the BBC.


2009-Scottish singer Susan
Boyle releases her debut
album, I Dreamed A Dream.


2012 - US actor Larry Hagman
( Dallas, I Dream Of Jennie )
dies, aged 81.


2016-German-born British actor Andrew
Sachs (. Fawlty Towers' Manuel )
dies, aged 86.

[pete376403]

Sharon O'Neills 71st

[Piper]

1956-Kiwi Norman Read, 25,wins
the 50km walk Gold medal at the
Olympics Games in Melbourne.


1963-Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested
for killing US President John F. Kennedy,
is shot dead by Jack Ruby.


1991-Queen singer Freddie Mercury dies,
aged 45.


1983-David Bowie drew a crowd to almost 40,000
at Athletic Park Wellington New Zealand, in his
Serious Moonlight tour.
And on the 26th November he played to a crowd
well over 80,000 at Western Springs Auckland.

[Piper]

1922-English archaeologist
Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's
tomb in Egypt.


1942-Casablanca, staring Humphrey Bogart
and Ingrid Bergman, premieres.


1962-On her 23rd birthday singer Anna Mae
Bullock ( later Tina Turner ) weds Ike Turner
31,in Tijuana.

[Piper]

1999-Helen Clark becomes
New Zealand's first elected
female prime Minister.

[Piper]

1893-Women in New Zealand
vote in a national election for
the first time.


1979-An Air New Zealand
DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus
in Antarctica, killing all 257
people on board. It was and
still is, New Zealand's deadliest
peace-time disaster.


2010-Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen dies
of pneumonia.
He was 84.

[Piper]

1935-Micheal Joseph Savage
becomes the first Labour Prime
Minister of New Zealand.


1975-The National Party led by
Roberts Muldoon, wins the
New Zealand election. He remained
in power until 1984.


1981-US actor Natalie Wood
drowns while on a boat trip
to Santa Catalina Island in
California. She was 43.


2001-Beatle George Harrison, dies
of cancer.

[Piper]

1900-Irish playwright Oscar Wilde
dies, aged 46,in Paris of suspected
meningitis.


1979-Pink Floyd's album The Wall
is released.


1982-The album Thriller by
Michael Jackson is released.
It became the best selling album
of all time.


1983-The movie Gandhi premieres in New Delhi.


1993-Shindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg,
premieres in Washington DC.

[Piper]

1955-Rosa Parks is arrested for
refusing to give her bus seat
to a white person in Montgomery,
Alabama.


1982-The movie Tootsies premieres
in Hollywood.


2003-The Return Of The King, the
third and final series, premieres in
Wellington New Zealand. On the same
day in 2014,the third and final Hobbit film,
The Hobbit :Battle Of The Five Armies,
premieres in London.


1984-Charity single Do They Know It's
Christmas? by Band Aid is released in
the UK.

[Piper]

1966-TV pop group The Monkees
make their live concert debut in
Honolulu.


1972-All Blacks prop Keith Murdoch is involved
in a scuffle with a security guard at the Angel Hotel
in Cardiff and is later sent home from the British
Isles tour.

[Piper]

1973-The album Band On The Run by
Paul McCartney and Wing's is released.


1974-the final episode of
Monty Pyhon's Flying Circus
airs on BBC TV.


2001-New Zealand yachtsman
Peter Blake is shot and killed
by pirates on the Amazon River.
He was 53.


2001-The movie Ocean's Eleven premieres in
Westwood, California.

[Piper]

1969-Four people die at a free
concert in Altamont, California
attended by 300,000 people which
featured The Rolling Stones.


1988-Musican Roy Orbison, 52 dies
of a heart attack.


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

[Piper]

1941-Japanese planes attack
the US fleet at the Pearl Harbour
Naval Base in
Hawaii, killing 2403 people.


1967-Otis Redding, 26 records.
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay.
Three days later he died in a plane
crash.

[Piper]

1961-Elvis Presley's album
Blue Hawaii goes to number
one in the US charts and
stays there for 20 weeks.


1967-The movie Guess Who's
Coming To Dinner premiers in
New York.


1980-Magnum,PI,with Tom
Selleck, premieres on CBS.


1987-The movie Wall Street
is released.


2004-Innovative kiwi running coach,
Arthur Lydiard, 87,dies of a heard attack.

[Piper]

1961-The film The Young Ones,
staring Cliff Richard, premieres in
London.


2008-All Blacks prop John Drake, 49,from
the Rugby World Cup - winning team of
187,dies of a heard attack at his Mt Maunganui
home.

[Piper]

1911-Norwegian Roald Amunsden
leads the first successful expedition
to reach the south pole.


1974-star-studded disaster The
Towering Inferno is released.


2013-Irish actor Peter O'Toole, 81,
dies of cancer.


2019-The Bel Air mansion from
Beverley Hillbillies sells for
US $150 million.

[Piper]

1939-Gone With The Wind
premiers in Atlanta.


1944-US band leader Glenn Miller,
40,is presumed dead after a suspected
plane crash in the English channel.


1966-US animator Walt Disney, 65 dies
of cancer.

[Piper]

1963-The Pink Panther movie,
starring Peter Sellers and David
Niven, premieres.


1968-Peter Sellers, 43,and Britt
Ekland, 26,divorce after four years
of marriage.


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

[Piper]

1973-Us singer Bobby Dairn
( Mack The Knife ) dies of a
heart attack. He was 37.

[Piper]

1933-Shirley Temple, aged
five, is signed by Fox Films
to studio contract.


1937-Walt Disney's Snow White And
The Seven Dwarfs the first full- length
animated feature film, premieres in LA.


1988-When flying over Lockerbie, Scotland,
Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed by a terrorist,
bomb, killing all 258 people on board.


2012-Gangnam Style by psy is the first video
to reach one billion views on YouTube.

[Piper]

1695-Movie Dr Zhivago premieres in
New York.


1984-Madonna's single Like A
Virgin goes to number one in
the US charts.


2000-Singer Madonna, 42,and
film director Guy Ritchie 32, are
married in Scotland.


2014-English singer Joe Cocker, 70,
dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1953-Wellington to Auckland train
crashes after a flash flood at
Tangiwai, Of the 285 passengers,
151 died.

[Piper]

1814-Samuel Marsden gives
New Zealand's first official
Christmas semon on land, at
Rangihoua, Bay Of Islands.


1962-To Kill A Mockingbird the
movie adaptation of the Harper
Lee novel, is released.


1973-The Sting premieres in
Los Angeles and New York.


1974-Cyclone Tracy hits Darwin killing 71 people.


1977-Actor Charlie Chaplin, 88 dies of a stroke.


1995-Singer Dean Martin, 78,dies of throat cancer.


2016-English pop star George Michael dies, aged 53,of
suspected heart failure.

[pete376403]

On this day... random guy born in Bethleham, preparing the way of two centuries (and countng) of strife and destruction

[R650R]

On this day... random guy born in Bethleham, preparing the way of two centuries (and countng) of strife and destruction

Ahem… (not to be confused with Amen) I think you meant Millenia… Also of note Mary became first women to collect DPB and join emergency housing waiting list after giving birth in a stable.

[pete376403]

Ahem… (not to be confused with Amen) I think you meant Millenia… Also of note Mary became first women to collect DPB and join emergency housing waiting list after giving birth in a stable.

Millenia, yes, correct. As for the other part, organised religion from that point onward has been mostly about subjugation of women, not benefits

[Piper]

1972-Former US President
Harry Truman dies, aged 88,
in Kansas city. On this day
in 2006,another US President,
Gerald Ford, 93,also dies.

[Piper]

1949-New Zealand runner
Jack Lovelock, who won the
1500m gold medal at the 1936
Olympics, dies after being hit
by a train in New York. He was
39.

[Piper]

1973-John Newcombe wins
his first Australian Open men's
singles title beating Kiwi Onny
Parun in four sets in the final.


1974-Mott The Hoople's Live album is released.


Barbara Streisand album The Way We Were was released.


Blue Swede's album Hooked On A Feeling was released.



Redbone's album, Come And Get Your Love, ( Day To Day Live ) was released



1998-Teens Ben Smart and
Olivia Hope go missing after
a party in the Marlborough
Sounds. Scott Watson was
charged with their murders.


2015-US Donna Douglas ( Elly May
in The Beverly Hillbillies ) dies
of cancer. She was 82.

[Piper]

1980-Austrian naturalist
Joy Anderson, 69,best
known for Born Free is
murdered in Kenya by her
servant.


1974-Donna Sumner's album Denver Dream
was released.

[Piper]

1958-A New Zealand team, led by
Sir Edmund Hillary, reaches
the south pole, the first to make
it to the pole overland using motor
vehicles.


1984-The Eurythmics release their
breakthrough second studio album
Sweet Dreams ( Are Made Of This ).



Grace Slick's album Manhole was released.



1984-US comedy series Night Court debuts on
NBC.

[Piper]

1959-Buddy Holly releases the
single It Doesn't Matter Anymore.
He died in a plane crash 29 days
later.


1971-The body of former world
heavyweight boxing champion
Sonny Liston, 40,is found at his
Las Vegas home.
"Foul play" was suspected.

[Piper]

2012-In Carter on Wairarapa, New Zealand,
a scenic hot-air balloon hits a high voltage
power line and crashes, killing all 11 people
on board.

[Piper]

1935-Elvis Presley is born in
Tupelo, Mississippi and, on this
day in 1947,David Bowie ( Jones )
is born in London.


1956-Elvis Presley's single Don't Be Cruel and
Hound Dog goes to number one in the US charts
and stays there for 11 weeks.


1978-TV series All Creatures Great And Small
debuts on BBC TV.


2003-British composer Ron Goodwin dies aged 77.


2009-Slumdog Millionaire wins Best Film at the
Critic's Choice Awards.

[Piper]

1923-New Zealand writer Katherine
Mansfield 34,dies in France of
Tuberculosis.


1959-TV Western Rawhide
premiers on CBS.


1984-Rock band Van Halen
release their most successful
album, 1984,which features
the hit single Jump.

[Piper]

1930-New Zealand start their
first cricket test - versus England
in Christchurch.
England won by eight wickets.

[Piper]

2001-British actor Michael Williams,
65, ( Judi Dench's husband )
dies of lung cancer.


1974-Carly Simon's album Hotcakes
was released


1974-Bobby Womack's album ( Looking For a Love Again )
is released.

[Piper]

1966-The TV series Batman
debuts on ABC.


1971-Sitcom All In The Family
premiers on CBS.


1976-British crime writer
Agatha Christie, 85,dies
after a long period of ill health.


2003-Maurice Gibb, of Tne
Bee Gees, dies of cardiac
arrest. He was 53.

[Piper]

1954-New York Yankees baseball
star Joe DiMaggio, 40,weds Marilyn
Monroe, 27,in San Francisco.


1957-US actor Humphrey Bogart dies,
aged 57,of cancer of the oesophagus.

[Piper]

1961-The Supremes sign with
Motown Records.


1874-TV sitcom Happy Days
starts an 11 year run on ABC.


1981-US police seriers Hill
Street Blues debuts on NBC.


1990-Scottish actor Gordon
Jackson ( boss George Cowley in
The Professionals ) dies, aged
66,after a short illness.

[Piper]

1974-The novel Jaws by Peter Benchley
is published.

[Piper]

1974-The Six Million Dollar Man
premieres on ABC.


1980-Pink Floyd's album The Wall
hits number one on the US charts.

1986-Charity single That's What
Friends Are For hits number one
in the US charts.


1993-Martin Luther King Jr holiday is
observed in all 50 US states for the
first time.


2016-Glenn Frey of The Eagles dies
aged 67,from complications of
colitis arthritis and pneumonia.

[Piper]

1970-The body of hitchhiker
Jennifer Beard, who had been
missing since December 31,is
found under the Haast Bridge,
West Coast New Zealand. No
one was ever charged with her
murder.


2010-Scottish commentator Bill McLaren
( 'The Voice Of Rugby' ) dies aged 86.


2015-Anne Kirkbride, 60, ( Deirdre on Coronation Street )
dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1901-Queen Victoria, who had
ruled the United Kingdom since
1837,dies aged 81.


1991-US actor Aristotle's 'Telly' Savalas ( TV's Kojak )
dies of cancer. He was 72.


2008-Australian actor Heather Ledger dies,
aged 28,of a drug overdose.

[Piper]

1965-Former British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill, 90,
dies after having a stroke.


1974-The commonwealth Games
open in Christchurch.


1990-The Commonwealth Games
open in Auckland, with Olympic
gold medallists Mark Todd riding
his horse Charisma and Peter
Snell running in Mt Smart
Stadium.

[Piper]

1970-The movie M*A*S*H, starring Donald
Sutherland and Elliot Gould is released.


1974-Canterbury runner Dick Taylor wins
the 10,000m at the commonwealth Games
and collapset with delight.


1974-Argent album is released.

[Piper]

1926-John Logie Baird gives
his first public demonstration
of television at his laboratory
in London.

[Piper]

1956-Heartbreark Hotel by
Elvis Presley is released and
becomes his first million-selling
single.


1962-Peter Snell, running at
Wanganui's Cooks Gardens,
breaks the world record for
the mile in 3m 54.4s.

[Piper]

1960-The final regular episode of
The Goon Show, airs on BBC Radio.

[Piper]

1948-Mahatma Gandhi, 78
is assassinated in New Delhi.


1969-The Beatles perform their last
live gig on the roof of Apple Corps HQ
in London.

[Piper]

1961-The Misfits, the final movie
for both Clark Gable and Marilyn
Monroe, premieres in New York.

[Pursang]

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[Piper]

1974-Van Morrison's album ( It's too late to stop Now ) is released.


1974-T-Rex album ( Zinc Alloy and The Hidden ) is released.


1974-The Dobbie Brothers album ( What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits ) is released.


1974-Merle Haggard album ( If We Make It Through December) is released



1974-Bad Finger album ( Bad Finger ) is released.


1974-Grateful Dead album ( Skeletons From The Closest) is released.






1981-The Underarm Incident
takes place at Melbourne.
Australia's cricket captain
Greg Chappell tells his brother
Trevor to bowl underarm to
Brain McKechnie with New Zealand
needing six runs from the last ball to
tie their ODI.

[nerrrd]

1981-The Underarm Incident
takes place at Melbourne.
Australia's cricket captain
Greg Campbell tells his brother
Trevor to bowl underarm to
Brain McKechnie with New Zealand
needing six runs from the last ball to
tie their ODI.

Greg Chappell it was, b’stard he was but annoyingly good at cricket (like too many other Australians).

[Piper]

1974-New Zealand's John Walker
( 2nd ) and Tanzania's Filbert Bayi
both break the world record in the
men's 1500m at the Christchurch
Commonwealth Games.

[Piper]

What Husi posted was funny and interesting. You sound like one of those people who used to introduce wireless broadcasts back when that was a thing.

Have you ever entered a discussion about motorcycles here?

I can Google inane facts if I want to.

All I asked was a question, I didn't rubbish anything.

[Piper]

1931-An earthquake strikes Napier, killing 256 people and
devastating Hawkes Bay. It is
New Zealand's worst natural disaster
by death toll.


1959-Rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly, 22,Ritchie Valens,
17,and J. P 'The Big Bopper' Richardson, 28,die in
a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

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1983-Karen Carpenter, 32,
singer with The Carpenters,
dies of anorexia nervosa.


1987-Flamboyant pianist Liberace dies,
aged 67,of AIDS-related pneumonia.


1991-New Zealand batsman Martin Crowe
and Andrew Jones make a record 469-run
stand against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve
in Wellington, Crowe is dismissed for 299.


2004-Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook
from his Harvard dormitory room.

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1971-Actort Judi Dench's, 36,and
Michael Williams, 35'wed in
Hampstead, London.


1973-The first episode of
The Wombles TV series
screens in Britain.


1994-The Big Day Out music festival
debuts at Auckland Mt Smart Stadium.


2020-Acclaimed US actor Kirk Douglas
dies, aged 103.

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1840-The Treaty of Waitangi was signed
on February 6.1840.at waitangi in The
Bay of Islands. Forty-three Northland
chiefs signed the treaty on that day.
Over 500 Maori chiefs
signed it as it was taken around
the country during the next eight
months.


1984-Sweetwaters concert at Queen Elizabeth ll park
at Christchurch New Zealand.
Acts were Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Peking Man, INXS, Eurythmics and Simple Minds.

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1963-Fifteen people die
when a bus crashes in
the Brynderwyn Hills,
Northland in New Zealand
worst road accident ( 21 more are injured ).

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1968-Movie The Planet Of
The Ages premieres in New
York.

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1964-The first appearance
of The Beatles on The Ed
Sullivan Show in the US
draws 73.7 million viewers.

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1967--The daily delivery
of free milk in New Zealand
schools comes to end. It
had started in 1937.

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1964-The Beatles make
their first live appearance in
the USA-performing at the
Washington DC Coliseum.


1990-Boxer James 'Buster'
Douglas knocks out Mike
Tyson in Tokyo to win the
World heavyweight title.


1990-Nelson Mandela
is released after 27 years '
imprisonment in South Africa.


2012-Singer Whitney
Houston dies, aged 48,after
drowning in her bathtub.

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1978-New Zealand records
It's first test cricket win over
England, with Richard Hadlee
taking match figures of
10-100,at the Basin Reserve.


1978-Loen Spinks wins the
World heavyweight boxing
title, beating Muhammad Ali
on points in Las Vegas.


2002-New Zealand actor
Kevin Smith dies, aged 38,
after failing from a prop tower
on a film set in China.

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1983-The Ash Wednesday
bushfires in Victoria and South
Australia claim the lives of
75 people.

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1967-Walter Bolton is the last
person to be officially executed
in New Zealand.
The 68-year old Whanganui
Farmer was hanged at Mt Eden
jail for murdering his wife
Beatrice.


1982-New Zealand crime writer Ngaio
Marsh dies, aged 82,of a brain
haemorrhage.

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1965-Human rights activist
Malcolm X is shot dead in
New York city. He was 39.