On This Day In History

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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.

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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.

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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]

[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.

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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.

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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.