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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1973-Us singer Bobby Dairn
( Mack The Knife ) dies of a
heart attack. He was 37.
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.
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.
1953-Wellington to Auckland train
crashes after a flash flood at
Tangiwai, Of the 285 passengers,
151 died.
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.
On this day... random guy born in Bethleham, preparing the way of two centuries (and countng) of strife and destruction
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket - Eric Hoffer
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
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.
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.
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.
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