1964-Mary Poppins, starring
Julie Andrews and Dick Van
Dyke, opens in Los Angeles.
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1964-Mary Poppins, starring
Julie Andrews and Dick Van
Dyke, opens in Los Angeles.
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1954-Christchurch teens
Pauline Parker,16,and Juliet
Hulme,15,are convicted
of the murder of Pauline's
mother Honora on June 22.
1963-Martin Luther King
Jr,delivers his "I have a
dream" speech at the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington DC.
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1986-Actor Lee Marvin dies, aged
63,of a heart attack.
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1903-The Waimangu Geyser,
South of Rotorua,erupts
killing guide Joseph Warbrick
and there tourists
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1974-New Zealand Prime
Minister Norman Kirk dies in
office of cardiac failure.
He was 51.
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1951-New Zealand
Australia and the US sign the
ANZUS mutual defence treaty.
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1939-Britain declares war
on Germany after the invasion
of Poland.France follows six
hours later, quickly joined by
New Zealand, Australia, South
Africa and Canada.
1958-The first open-heart
surgery in New Zealand is
performed by Brian Barratt-Boyes
on an 11-year old girl at Greenlane
Hospital.
2012-US actor Michael Clarke
Duncan,best known for the
movie The Green Mile,dies
from respiratory failure.
He was 54.
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1888-George Eastman
patents the first roll-flim
camera and registers Kodak.
1983& English author Beatrix
Potter writes the story of Peter
Rabbit,in an illustrated letter
to Noel Moore, the five-year-old
son of her friend Annie
Moore.
2006-Crocodile hunter Steve
Irwin,44,is attacked and
killed by a stingray.
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1960-Cassius Clay ( later
Muhammad Ali ) wins the
light heavyweight boxing gold
medal at the Rome Olympic
Games, beating Zbigniew
Pietrzykowski of Poland
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1880-W.G Grace scores
152 in his debut test cricket
innings against Australia at
The Oval in London.
1969-The Brady Bunch
premiers in America on the
ABC network.
2018-American actor Burt
Reynolds dies, aged 82,of
cardiac arrest.
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1940-The German Luftwaffe
bombs London for the first of
57 consecutive nights.
1943-Actors Orsen Welles
28, and Rita Hayworth,24,
are married
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1960-Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho, starring Anthony
Perkins and Janet Leigh,is
released in the US.
1974-The first Pizza Hut to open
in New Zealand,was in New Lynn,
Auckland.
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1971-Former Beatle John
Lennon releases his Imagine
album.
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1974-The TV series Little house
On The Pariare screens for the
first time
2001-Two planes hijacked
by Al Queda terrorists crash
into New York's World Trade
Towers, causing both buildings
to collapse.Terrorists also
hijack a plane and crash it
into the Pentagon.ΐnd during
an attempt by passengers
and crew of United Airlines
Flight 93 to retake control
of their hijacked plane from
terrorists, the plane crashes in
a Pennsylvania field, killing all
64 people on board.In total,
2977 people died as a result
of the attacks.
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1857-The SS Central America mail steamer
sank off the coast of South Carolina after
being caught in a hurricane.
More than 450 people died when the ship
sank.
But what keeps the "Central America"
( originally named the "SS.George Law" ) in
the nations consciousness is not the loss of
life,but the loss of cargo.
In addition to tons of mail heading from California
to New York the ship carried tons of gold from the
California gold fields.
1953-US senator John F.
Kennedy,36,weds Jacqueline
Bouvier,24,in Newport, Rhode
Island.
1959-TV western series
Bonanza, starring Lorne
Greene, premieres on BBC.
1982-During the third test
at Eden Park between the All
Blacks and Springboks, flour
bombs are dropped from an
aircraft circling the grounds.
2003-US country singer
Johnny Cash dies, aged 71,
from diabetes complications.
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