1985-US actor Orson Welles
dies, aged 70, of a heart attack
and on the same day fellow
actor Yul Brynner dies, aged
65 of cancer.
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1985-US actor Orson Welles
dies, aged 70, of a heart attack
and on the same day fellow
actor Yul Brynner dies, aged
65 of cancer.
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1961-Comedian Chico
Marx,dies of thickening of
the arteries.He was 74.
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1996-New Zealand go
to the polls in the first
MMP election.
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1066-At the Battle of
Hastings, William, Duke Of
Normandy and his Norman
army defeat the English forces
of Harold II.
1947-American test pilot
Chuck Yeager becomes the
first person to break the sound
barrier.
2016-Jean Alexander,best
known for playing Hilda Ogden
on Coronation Street for 23
years,dies aged 90.
Shortly before her death she said
to her family of her life,"It's
not bad for a poor girl from
Liverpool, is it?"
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1839-Encouraged by her
uncle Leopold,Queen Victoria
of England proposes to her
cousin, Prince Albert.
1917-Dutch dancer and spy
Mata Hari is executed by the
French on charges of spying for
Germany during World War I.
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1793-Marie Antoinette
Queen of France ( 1774-92 ) is
beheaded.She was 37.
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1888-Thomas Edison
files a patent for the Optical
Phonograph ( the first movie projection )
2018-Big Bird puppeteer Caroll Spinney
leaves Sesame Street after 50 years.
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1854-Florence Nightingale, with
a staff of 38 nurses,is sent to the
Crimean War.
1964-New Zealand athlete
Peter Snell wins the 1500 the
final at the Tokyo Olympics
( to go with his 800m gold ).
1964-The film version of
My Fair Lady, starring Rex
Harrison and Audrey Hepburn,
premieres in New York.
It won the Oscar for Best Picture
in 1965.
And on this date
Marty McFly ends up in 2015 after
travelling from 1985,in the film
Back To The Future II.
Forum whore
wow, has nothing happened in the last three days in history?Originally Posted by Piper
Geriatric hoon
Nightingale came home from Crimea and went to bed convinced she was going to die. She was right of course, she died fifty seven years later aged ninety.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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There's always something happening every day Jelly Wrestler ��
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1967-Denny Hulme becomes
the first New Zealander to
win the F1 World Drivers
Championship, after finishing
third in the Mexican Grand Prix
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2003-Concorde embarks on
it's last commercial flight. ✈️
2017-US actor Robert
Guillaume,best known as
Benson from the TV series of
the same name,dies aged 89
and *Fats* Domino,an early
star of rock 'n' roll era,also
dies aged 89.
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1942-The Women Jurors Act
is introduced in New Zealand.
It allowed women, aged
between 25 and 60,to have
their names placed on the jury
list on the same basis as men-
Zif they do desired.
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1904-The New York City
Subway opens.
1970-Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber release the
Jesus Christ Superstar concept
album.
2013-US musician Lou Reed
dies, aged 71, of liver disease.
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