On This Day In History

[Piper]

1921-Fashion designer Coco
Chanel launches her perfume
Chanel No 5.


1961-Alan Shepard becomes
the first American in space
aboard his Mercury capsule
named Freedom 7.


2002-Spider Man becomes
the first movie to top US$100
million in it opening weekend
in North America.

[Piper]

1937-The German airship
Hindenburg explodes in flames
st Lakehurst, New Jersey,
killing 35 of the 97 people on
board and one person on the
ground.


1994-The Channel Tunnel
linking England and France
officially opens.

[Piper]

1915-A German submarine
torpedoes and sinks the
Lusitania, a British ocean
liner.


2011-Spanish golfer Seven
Ballesteros ( who won the
British Open three times and
the US Masters twice ) dies
of brain cancer.
He was 54.

[Piper]

1935-The first installment
of Hans Christian Andersen's
Fairy Tales Told For Children
is published in Denmark.


1970-John Rowles' song
Cheryl Moana Marie hits
No 1 in New Zealand and
sells more than a million
copies.


1984-The Soviet Union
announces it will not take
part in the Los Angeles
Olympics in retaliation
for the American
boycott of the 1980
Moscow Olympics.

[Piper]

1907-The first school journal
is published.It is the first time
New Zealand pupils are able to
read a schoolbook published
in their own country.


1915-New Zealand tennis
player Anthony Wilding, who
won the Wimbledon men's
singles title from 1910-13,
dies in World War 1. He was
31.


1981-The children's TV show
What Now begins.

[Piper]

do you work for the rock radio station, this is their style, no personal input whatsoever?

No I work for the Sound radio station.

[Piper]

1983-US sitcom Laverne
And Shirley, starring Penny
Marshall and Cindy Williams,
screens for the final time on
ABC.

[Piper]

1914-President Woodrow Wilson designated the
second Sunday of May to be Mother's Day
Anna Jarvis who campaigned for it regretted
it as became commercialised.



1981-Andrew Lloyd Webber's
musical Cats, premieres in
London's West End.


1981-Jamaican reggae
musician Bob Marley dies,
aged 36.

[Piper]

1989-Around 2000 students
begin a hunger strike in
Tiananmen Square, China.

[Piper]

1988-Seinfeld's final
two-part episode, The Finale,
screens on NBC

[Piper]

1975-Japanese mountaineer
Junko Table becomes the first
woman to conquer My Everest,
the world's highest mountain.


1981-The single Bette David
Eyes by Kim Carnes hits No 1
on the US charts and stays
there for nine weeks.


1986-Bobby Ewing ( Patrick Duffy )
returns from the dead on TV soap
Dallas, a year after being killed off.


1990-Muppets creator Jim
Henson dies.He was 53.


1990-US entertainer and Rat
Packer Sammy Davis Jr dies,
aged 64, of throat cancer.


2019-The UK's The Jeremy
Kyle Show is axed by ITV when
a guest dies after a show.

[TheDemonLord]

2019-The UK's The Jeremy
Kyle Show is axed by ITV when
a guest dies after a show.

Jeremy Kyle was such a guilty pleasure.

[Piper]

Jeremy Kyle was such a guilty pleasure.

Never heard of him .

[Piper]

1875-The first Kentucky
Derby is run at Churchill Downs
in Louisville, Kentucky.The
winning horse was Aristides.


1900-The Wonderful Wizard
Of Oz, by L Frank Baum, is first
published.


1962-George Wilder escapes
from prison in New Plymouth.
He was a burglar who became
a folk hero for leaving apologies
and thank you notes for his
victims.

[BMWST?]

Never heard of him .

yes you have,you just posted about him. Your assertion was true before you made that post.