On This Day In History

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

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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.

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Sharon O'Neills 71st

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.