On This Day In History

[Piper]

1846-A landslide on the
southwest shore of Lake
Taupo strikes the village of Te
Rapa, killing 60 people.


1987-Bar worker Diane
Chambers (Shelly Long)
makes her final regular
appearance on the sitcom
Cheers.


1998-US country singer
Eddie Rabbit (I Love A Rainy Night)
dies, aged 56,from lung cancer.

[Bikkie]

1981-The children's TV show
What Now begins.It was originally half-an-hour long
and screened on Saturday mornings.



1986-Tenzing Norgay,who
along with Edmund Hillary was
the first to reach the summit
of Mt Everest in 1953,dies of
a cerebral haemorrhage.He
was 71.



1992-The final episode
of the sitcom Golden Girls
screens on NBC TV

[Bikkie]

1940-Winston Churchill
succeeds Neville Chamberlain
as British Prime Minister.


1994-Nelson Mandela is
sworn in as South Africa's
President,the first black man
to take the role.


2004-Ben Lummis,25,wins
the inaugural NZ Idol.

[Bikkie]

1956-Elvis Presely enters
the UK charts for the
first time,with his single
Heartbreak Hotel.


1969-British comedy troupe
Monty Python forms,made
up of Graham Chapman,John
Cleese,Terry Gilliam,Eric Idle,
Terry Jones and Michael Palin.


2020-US comedian Jerry
Stiller,the father of actor
producer and comedian Ben
Stiller,dies aged 92.

[Bikkie]

1937-The coronation of
King George VI takes place at
Westminister Abby,London.


1975-New Zealand soap
Close To Home,which
followed the fortunes of the
Hearte family,begins on
Television One.It was set in
Wellington and it would run
until 1983.


1994-The movie Pulp
Fiction,directed by Quentin
Tarantino and starring John
Travolta,Uma Thurman,Tim
Roth and Samuel L.Jackson,
premieres at the Games Film
Festival in France.

[Bikkie]

1899-The ship called The Nelson, sank on Lake Superior
Central North America.



1981-Pope John Paul II is
shot and seriously wounded
by Turkish gunman Mehemet
Ali Agca in St.Peter's Square
Vatican City.


1995-New Zealand wins
the America's Cup with Black
Magic beating Stars and
Stirps 5-0 in San Diego.


2019-US actor Doris Day
dies,aged 97,of pneumonia,

[roogazza]

On this day 50 years ago !!!! I graduated from Police College. 50 bloody years I tells ya !

Bottom row second from left !!

[Bikkie]

1870-In the first recognised
official rugby match to be
played in New Zealand,about
200 people at Nelson's Botanic
Reserve,as Nelson College played
the Nelson Football Club,with
18 players on each side.
The 'town' team won the
match 2-0.


1989-The final episode of
US sitcom Family Ties,which
starred Michael J.Fox,screens
on NBC.


1998-US actor and singer
Frank Sinatra dies,aged 82,
of a heart attack.

[Bikkie]

1928-A version of Micky
Mouse appears in the Watt
Disney silent cartoon Plane
Crazy but his full official debut
occurs six months later in
Steamboat Willie.


1963-At the Grammy
Awards,Tony Bennett wins
Record Of The Year for I Left
My Heart In San Francisco.


1987-The last episode of
The Late Show With Joan
Rivers screens after the host
is fired by the Fox network.

[Bikkie]

On this day 50 years ago !!!! I graduated from Police College. 50 bloody years I tells ya !

Bottom row second from left !!

Police have a very thankless job,but we need them to keep things in line.

[Bikkie]

1929-The first Academy
Awards are held in Hollywood.


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


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

[Bikkie]

1973-Stevie Wonder
releases the single You Are
The Sunshine Of My Life,
which goes to number one in
the US charts and wins him a
Grammy Award for Best Male
Pop Vocal Performance.


1997-Actors Sylvester
Stallone and Jennifer Flavin
tie the knot at London's
Dorchester Hotel.

[Bikkie]

1897-Dracula,by Irish
author Bram Stoker,is
published in London.


1944-The Battle of Monte Cassino ended
in Italy.


1995-US actor Elizabeth
Montgomery (best known
for playing Samantha in
Bewitched ) dies,aged 62,of
cancer.


2014-At the Bafta TV
awards,crime drama
Broadchurch wins best drama
series and Olivia Colman wins
Best Actresss.

[Bikkie]

1920-Montreal Canada's XWA broadcasts the
first scheduled radio program in North America.



1964-The Drifter's lead singer Rudy Lewis is found dead
on the morning the group is scheduled to record "Under The Boardwalk."
He is replaced by Johnny Moore.



1974-The song by Elton John,Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me,is released'



1996-English actor John Pertwee,who
played Worzel Gummidge and was the
third Doctor Who,dies of a heart attack.
He was 76.


2003-The reality TV series America's Next
Top Model,which was created by Tyra
Banks,premieres.


2012-Bee Gee Robin Gibb
dies,aged 62,of colon and
liver cancer.

[Bikkie]

1931-Amelia Earhart
becomes the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic,
landing in Northern Ireland
15 hours after leaving.


1980-The Empire Strikes Back,
created by George Lucas and
starring Mark Hamill and Harrison
Ford,is released in cinemas in the
UK and North America.


2000-Acclaimed British
actor Sir John Gielgud dies
aged 96.