On This Day In History

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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1974-The novel Jaws by Peter Benchley
is published.

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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.

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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.

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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.