On This Day In History

[Piper]

1898-The first motion pictures
known to have been taken in
New Zealand were made by
photographer W.H Bartlett, using
the colony's first "kinetoscope."

[Piper]

1917-Six p.m closing of pubs
was introduced as a temporary
wartime measure.It ushered in
what became as the "six
O'clock swill," in which patrons
drank their fill before closing
time.The practice was to last
for 50 years.

[Piper]

1926-Crime novelist Agatha Christie
mysteriously disappears for 11 days.


1967-Christiaan Barnard of South Africa
performs the first human heart transplant,at
Groote Schuur hospital.


1992-First SMS text message is sent..It
simply said,"Merry Christmas."

[Piper]

1817-The American brigantine
Mary Celeste is discovered
drifting in the Atlantic.Her crew
is never found.


2024-The new Te Ngaengae pool formally known as ( Naenae pool ) opens and is blessed in Naenae,a suburb of Lower Hutt City
New Zealand.

[Piper]

1791-Austrian Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
dies, aged,35,of severe fever.

[Piper]

1798-The first edition of
Encyclopedia Britannica is
published in Scotland.


1988-US musician Roy
Orbison dies, aged 52, of a
heart attack.


2000-German,-US actor
Werner Klemperer ( Colonel
Klink in Hogan's Heroes ),dies
of cancer.He was 80.

[Piper]

1984-The charity song "Do They Know It's Christmas"
is released.

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1941-The United States
declares war on Japan.


1980-Former Beatle John
Lennon,40,is shot and
killed outside his New York
apartment by Mark Chapman.


1982-Sophie's Choice
starring Meryl Streep and
Kevin Kline,is released.

[Piper]

1960-Coronation Street
broadcasts for the first time.

[Piper]

1936-King Edward VIII gives
up the British throne to marry
US divorcee Wallis Simpson.


2024-A man is fatally shot in Seddon street Naenae,a
suburb of Lower Hutt City,New Zealand.

[husaberg]

Peter Fraser CH PC 28 August 1884 – 12 December 1950) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 24th prime minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 until 13 December.

[Piper]

1911-Norwegian Ronald Amundsen
leads the first successful expedition
to reach the South Pole.

[Piper]

1962-The movie Lawrence
Of Arabia, starring Peter
O'Toole,is released in the
United States.


1980-Colonel Harland
Sanders, the American founder
of Kentucky Fried Chicken,dies
aged 90.

[jellywrestler]

1962-The movie Lawrence
Of Arabia, starring Peter
O'Toole,is released in the
United States.


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wow, some motorcycle content, finally

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1889-Just 8 and a half months after
Gustave Eiffel's famous Paris
tower was officially completed
in March 1889,a wooden replica Eiffel
Tower opened at the 1889-90 New Zealand
and South Seas Exhibition in
Dunedin


1964-Goldfinger,the third James Bond
film, starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman,
premiers in London.