On This Day In History

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

No I work for the Sound radio station.

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