2016-Lord Lucan's death
certificate is granted, 42 years
after he disappeared following
the murder of nanny Sandra
Rivett.
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2016-Lord Lucan's death
certificate is granted, 42 years
after he disappeared following
the murder of nanny Sandra
Rivett.
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1789-The first US electoral
college choose George
Washington as president and
John Adams as vice-president.
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1919-Hollywood film studio
United Artists is founded
by Charlie Chapman, Douglas
Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and
D W.Griffith.
1971-Apollo 14 lands on the
Moon and Alan Sheppard and
Edward Mitchell walk on the
surface for four hours.
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1952-King George VI, 56, dies
of a coronary thrombosis
and is succeeded by his
daughter Queen Elizabeth II.
2022-Snowboader Zoi Sadowski-Synott becomes
the first New Zealanders to win a gold medal in the winter
Olympics.
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1863-In the worst recorded
shipwreck in New Zealand,
189 people are killed when the
HMS Orpheus runs aground in
Auckland.
1940-Walt Disney's second
feature-length film, Pinocchio,
premieres in New York.
1979-Ground-breaking
British rock band Pink Floyd
premieres their live version of
The Wall in Los Angeles.
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1931-In the first fatal
accident involving a scheduled
passenger service in New
Zealand, all three people
aboard a Dominion Airlines
Desoutter die after it crashes
near Wairoa, Hawke's Bay.
1983-Prize stallion Shergar is
kidnapped in Ireland and is
never found, causing Lloyd's
of London to pay out
US$10.6 million in insurance.
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1985-Madonna's album Like
A Virgin goes to No 1 on the US
charts.
1999-British actor Bryan
Mosley, 67, who played Alf
Roberts on Coronation Street,
dies of a heart attack.
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1940-Cartoon characters
Tom and Jerry, created by
William Hanna and Joseph
Barbara, debut in the movie
short Puss Gets The Boot.
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1975-Margaret Thatcher
defeats Edward Heath to
take over leadership of
Britain's Conservative
Party
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1964-Kenya became
a republic on the first
anniversary of it's
independence from
Britain.
1999-US president Billy
Clinton is acquitted by
the Senate at his impeachment
trail.
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1972-The movie Cabaret,based
on the musical of the same name
and starring Liza Minnelli, is
released.
1983-Lance Cairns hits six-sixes
in a one -dsy match against
Australia at the MCG.
1996-British boy band Take That,
featuring Robbie Williams, officially
announce they are disbanding
prompting me UK government to set
up a counselling phone line
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1979-British punk band
The Clash release their
breakthrough album London
Calling.
1984-Britian's Jayne Torvill
and Christopher Dean win
gold in the ice dancing at the
Sarajevo Winter Olympics,
performing to Maurice Ravel's
Bolero in the free dance
routine.
1988-Te Papa, New
Zealand's new national
museum, is officially opened
on Wellington's waterfront.
( I was there )
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1892-The SS Dunedin leaves
New Zealand for Britain with
the first cargo of frozen meat.
1965-US singer Nat King
Cole dies, aged 49, of cancer.
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1986-The Soviet cruise
liner Mikhail Lermontov hits
rocks off Cape Jackson in the
Marlborough Sounds.All but
one of the 738 passengers
and crew were rescued before
in sank.The sole casualty was
refrigeration engineer Pavel
Zaglyadimov, who drowned.
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1873-Aucklanders awoke to
the news that a Russian warship
had entered Waitemata harbour
undetected.
1972-The British Parliament
votes to join the European
Common Market.
2013-English actor Richard
Briers, who played Tom in The
Good Life, dies of emphysema.
He was 79.
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