On This Day In History

[Bikkie]

1994-Pulp Fiction,directed
by Quentin Tarantino and
starring John Travolta and
Uma Thurman,wins the Palme
d'Or at the Cannes Flim
Festival.


1996-New Zealand mountaineer
Rob Hall dies of exposure on Mt
Everest.He was 35.

[Piper]

1930-English pilot Amy
Johnson becomes the first
woman to fly solo from
England to Australia.

[Bikkie]

1967-EMI releases The Beatles album
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band
in the UK.


1975-The single Rhinestone Cowboy
by Glen Campbell is released.
It was Billboard's Song Of The Year.


1994-Pop star Michael Jackson,35,and
Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley,26,are
married in La Romana,Dominican
Republic.


2005-Eddie Albert,who starred in the
sitcom Green Acres,dies of pneumonia.
He was 99.

[Bikkie]

1930-The 319 metre Chrysler Building
in New York,then the world's tallest
human-made structure,opens to
the public.





1937-The Golden Gate Bridge,connecting
San Francisco and Marin County,California,
opens to pedestrians,with 200,000 people
walking across on opening day.




1964-The Beatles might have made waves with their so-called "mop top" hairstyles, but
it didn't take long for parents and authority figures to get over their shock – and find new tonsorial targets in the Rolling Stones.
The Stones' more unkempt look made headlines in May 1964, when the headmaster of a British school sent nearly a dozen students
home and ordering them to get haircuts. The Rolling Stones: Off the Record quoted a news article about the incident, which
said "a headmaster ruled yesterday: Beatle haircuts are IN – but Rolling Stones haircuts are OUT. The head, Mr. Donald Thompson, has
suspended eleven of his boys from Woodlands Comprehensive School, Coventry, because they wear their hair like Mick Jagger and co. of
the Rolling Stones pop group. 'Long and scruffy,' Mr. Thompson calls it. But yesterday he said they could return if they cut their hair neatly – like the Beatles.






1994-The Eagles reunited for the first time
in 14 years to kick off their Hell Freezes Over Tour at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Irvine, California.



2011-US actor Jeff Conaway,who starred
in the movie Grease and the sitcom Taxi
dies of pneumonia and sepsis.
He was 60.

[Bikkie]

1951-Radio programme Crazy People
( later titled The Goon Show ) premieres
on the BBC,created by Spike Milligan.



1972-The former Edward VIII,who was
king until his abdication in 1936,dies
aged 77,of cancer.



1988-Actor Lucy Lawless,30,and producer
Rob Tapert,43,are married in Santa Monica.
Los Angeles.



2010-Diff'rent Strokes actor Gary Colman
dies,aged 42,of a brain haemorrhage.

[Piper]

1942-Bing Crosby records
White Christmas.


1953-Edmund Hillary of New
Zealand and Tenzing Norgay
of Tibet-part of a British
expedition -reach the summit
of Mt Everest,the world's
highest mountain.
( And it was also Tenzing Norway's birthday )



1969-Crosby,Stills and Nash released their
self-titled debut album.


1984-Tina Turner releases Private Dancer,
her big comeback album.



1992-Concerned that students are identifying
with Freddie Mercury,who has recently died of
AIDS,the principal at Sacred Heart School in
Clifton, New Jersey doesn't allow 8th graders
to perform the Queen song "We Are The Champions"
at their graduation ceremony when students flood
the radio station Z100 with requests for the song,it
is re-released as a single.


2018-ABC TV network
cancels the sitcom Roseanne
after its star Roseanne Barr
posts a racist tweet.


2021-US actor Gavin
MacLeod ( captain Stubing
on TV series The Love Boat
and Murray on The Mary Tyler
Moore Show ) dies,aged 90.

[Piper]

1431-Joan Of Arc is burned at
the stake in Roueñ ,France.


1959-The Auckland Harbour
Bridge opens, after four years
of construction.


1966-US singer songwriter
Dolly Parton,20,weds Carl
Dean 23,in Georgia.

[Piper]

1968-Movie star James
Stewart retires from the
United States Air Force after
27 years of service.


1974-Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown
album is certified Gold.


2004-British children's
animated series Peppa
Pig , created by Astley
Baker Davies, premieries on
television.

[pete376403]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

[Stylo]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

Perfect. He should be imprisoned.

[Piper]

First time ever xUSA President convicted of multiple felonies

A new surname for Donald should be felon.

[Piper]

1960-New Zealand's first
official TV transmission takes
place from the Shortland
Street studios in central
Auckland.The broadcast,
which started at 7.30pm,
lasted just three hours and
could be seen only in the
Auckland region.


1964-The Rolling stones make
their first trip to the United States,
arriving on British Airways Flight
505 for their first American tour.



1968-American author
Helen Keller,who was the first
deaf-blind person in the US to
earn a BA,dies aged 87.

[Bikkie]

1953-Elizabeth II,27,the
elder daughter of King George
VI,is crowned Queen of the
United Kingdom at London's
Westminster Abbey,having
taken thr throne upon her
father's death in Febuary
1952,




1955-Michael Steele (bass guitarist for The Bangles) is born Susan Nancy Thomas in Pasadena, California. She is an early member of The Runaways, an all-girl punk rock group.




1964-The day after arriving in America for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first US TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."



1970-New Zealand F1 driver
Bruce McLaren dies during a
test-drive on the Goodwood
circuit in England.He was 32.



1972-Pink Floyd release their seventh album, Obscured By Clouds, in the UK. It is released in America on June 17.



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.



1973-Electric Light Orchestra begin their first US tour, a 40-date trek kicking off in San Diego.




1978-Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel.




1981-Prince makes his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom in London. He does not play the UK again for five years.




1983-The 12-inch remix of "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.

[Piper]

1937-The Duke of Windsor, the
former King Edward VIII,marries
the divorced Wallis Simpson in
France


1968-The Rolling stones perform
for the first time on American TV
when they're guests on a variety
show called Hollywood Palace,
which is hosted by Dean Martin.
They play their cover of Buddy Holly's
"Not Fade Away," and endure ridicule
from Martin,who quips,"Their hair is not
that long -it's just smaller foreheads."


1970-Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys
is certified.


2014-New Zealand singer
Lorde releases her debut
single Royals,the 2014
Grammy Song Of The
Year .


2016-US boxer Muhammad Ali,the
former heavyweight champion of
the world,dies of respiratory illness.
He was 74.

[Piper]

1943-Twenty one people die
when the Cornwell -Dunedin
express details while rounding
a curve of track near
Hyde,in Central Otago.


1951-Actors Tony Curtis,
26,and Janet Leigh,23,
are married in Greenwich,
Connecticut.


1984-The album Born In The
USA by Bruce Springsteen is
released.