1970-Mountaineers John
Glasgow and Peter Gough
scale the last unclimbed face
of Aoraki/Mount Cook,
New Zealand.
1970-Comedy series
The Goodies premieres.It
screened on the BBC until
1980, before moving to ITV
for two more seasons.
1974-British peer the Earl of
Lucan disappears and is never
seen again after his nanny is
found murdered in London.
1969-Children's TV series
Sesame Street premieres in
the United States on PBS TV
1961& The novel Catch-22 by
Joseph Heller is published.
1940-The aminated film
Fantasia by Walt Disney
is released.
1919-Pop singer Johnny Desmond is born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone in Detroit, Michigan. His highest-charting hit was "The Yellow Rose of Texas" in 1955.
1964-At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."
1967-Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, The Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, Jimi Hendrix.
1935-The Marx Brothers film
A Night At The Opera is
released.
1940-New Zealand officially
becomes a British Colony.
17th november
gary from greytown was born, 6 ib 2 oz, he now has a birthday every year, till he doesn't
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