On This Day In History

[Piper]

1973-The Wings album Red Rose Speedway hits the
top of the albums chart in the US and "My Love" starts
a four week run as the #1 single on the Hot 100.

[Piper]

1967-"It was the third of June another
sleepy, dusty delta day," as Billie Joe
McAllister jumps off the Tallahatchee
Bridge, according to the Bobbie Gentry song
"Ode To Billie Joe "


1969-The last episode of
TV series Star Trek screens
on NBC.

[Piper]

1975-The Rolling stones become the
first rock band to receive royalties for
sales of their records in Russia.

[Piper]

1949-Enid Blyton's wooden
toy character Noddy first
appears in The Sunday
Graphic.



1975-Syd Barrett ex Pink Floyd member and founder
who was forced from the band after
becoming an acid casualty, quietly appears in the
Abbey Road studios during recording of the band's album
Wish You Were here, which was largely written about him.
No one notices Barrett, and he soon leaves
as quietly as he entered.




And it's our 43 rd wedding anniversary today.

[Piper]

1944-D-Day begins in World
War II, as the 156,000 Allied
Expeditionary Force lands in
Normandy France.


1996-New Zealand's
first wind farm becomes
operational in the Wairarapa.

[Piper]

1975-One of John Denver's
biggest hits, Thank God I'm A
Country Boy, hits No 1 on the
US charts.


1993-pop singer Prince
changes his name to a symbol.

[Piper]

1984-US supernatural
comedy film Ghostbusters,
starring Bill Murray and Dan
Aykroyd, opens.


1987-New Zealand's Labour
government legislates against
nuclear weapons and nuclear-powered
vessels being allowed into our waters.


2002-US tennis player
Serena Williams wins her
first French Open tennis title,
beating older sister Venus 7-5
6-3 in the final.


2018-Celebirty chef Anthony
Bourdan, 61, is found dead in
his hotel room in Strasbourg.

[Piper]

1963-Andy Williams is the mystery guest on TV's
What's My Line.

[Piper]

2004-Amercian singer and
pianist Ray Charles dies, age
73, of liver cancer

[Bikkie]

1776-United States Declaration of Independence
Continental Congress creates committee to
draft a Declaration of Independence with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members.

[Piper]

1970-Rod Stewart releases his second
studio album Gasoline Alley.

[Piper]

1789-Captain William Bligh
and his loyal men, who were
cast off from HMS Bounty in
a mutiny by the crew, reach
Timor after sailing 5800km in a
six-metre boat


1965-The Beatles record their song
Yesterday in Abbey Road Studios.


2017-A fire in the Grenfell
Tower block in London, kills 79
people and injuries 37.

[Piper]

1844-Charles Goodyear received a patent
for the process of vulcanized rubber.


1935-New Zealand medical
student Jack Lovelock wins
the "Mile of the Century" at
Princeton.


1959-Produce company
Turners and Growers
announces it will export
Chinese gooseberries under
the name "Kiwifruit".


1983-TV comedy series
Blackadder, starring Rowan
Atkinson and Tony Robinson,
premieres on BBC 1.

[Piper]

1884-The first rollercoaster
in America opens at Coney
Island in Brooklyn, New York.


1978-The movie Grease,
starring John Travolta and
Olivia Newton-John, is
released and becomes the
highest-grossing film of the
year in the United States.

[Piper]

1773-Cucuta, Colombia, is founded by
Juana Rangel de cuellar.


1775-American Revolutionary war:
Colonists inflict heavy casualties on
British forces while losing the Battle
of Bunker Hill.


1789-In France, the Third Estate
declares itself the National Assembly.


1794-Foundation of Anglo-Corsican
Kingdom.