On This Day In History

[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.