On This Day In History

[Piper]

1974-Stevie Wonder's album Fulfillingness ' First Finale
was released.


1981-The Springboks' rugby
tour of New Zealand starts in
Gisborne.South Africa beat
Poverty Bay 24-6, as rival
protestors clash nearby.


1983-Australian Dick Smith
makes the first solo helicopter
flight ✈️ around the world.


2024-And unfortunately our cat Cougar died of old
at the age 15 years old.
( R.I.P Cougar)

[Piper]

1952-Yvette Williams wins
the long jump at Helsinki to
become New Zealand's first
female Olympic medalist.

[Piper]

1969-Apollo 11 astronauts
safely return to Earth.


1982-The single Eye Of The
Tiger by Survivor from the
Rocky III soundtrack starts a
six-week run at No.1 on the
US charts.


1985-French agents Alain
Mafart and Dominique Prieur
are arrested and charged with
murder over the bombing of
the Rainbow Warrior.

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On this day 24th July

1900 - Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1941 Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania

1984 "Careless Whisper" single released by George Michael

Thanks

[Piper]

1978-Lousie Brown, the
world's first "test tube baby,"
is born in Oldham, England.
She was conceived via IVF.


1981-Springbok tour
protestors invade Hamilton's
Rugby park before the match
between Waikato and South
Africa.The game is eventually
cancelled over safety issues.

[Piper]

1865-The capital of New
Zealand moves from Auckland
to Wellington.


1⁹45-Winston Churchill
resigns and British Prime
Minister after being defeated
in an election.


1952-Argentina's First Lady
Eva Peron,who inspired the
musical Evtia,dies of cancer.
She was 33.


2020-Osvar-winning British -
American actor Olivia de
Havilland dies, aged 104.

[Piper]

1965-New Zealand's first
quintuplets -the Lawson
quins: Samuel, Lisa, Deborah,
Shirlene and Selina-are born
in Auckland.


1981-On Coronation Street,
Kensington Barlow marries Deirdre
Langton, drawing 24 million
viewers across Britain.


2012-Queen Elizabeth II
opens the London Olympics,
with a little help from James
Bond (actor Daniel Craig).

[Piper]

1893-A petition organised
by Kate Sheppard, demanding
women's suffrage,is delivered
to New Zealand's parliament.

[Piper]

1935-The first penguin book
is published, starting the
paperback revolution.


1979-Carless days for motor
vehicles are introduced in New
Zealand in a bid to combat
the global oil crisis


( My work colleague made a novity
carless day card and put on it: yesterday just for a laugh' )

[Piper]

1959-Cliff Richard and
The Shadows have their first
British No 1 single with Living
Doll.


1976-New Zealand's John
Walker wins the 1500m gold
at the Montreal Olympics.


2021-The New Zealand
Women's sevens team beat
France 26-12 to win gold at
the Tokyo Olympics.

[Piper]

1944-Anne Frank makes her
last diary entry.Three days
later she was arrested.


1976-Elizabeth Taylor
divorces Richard Burton for
the second time.


1987-Samosn-born boxer
Jimmy Peanut wins gold for
New Zealand at the Commonwealth
Games in Edinburgh in the
men's heavyweight division.


1996-A Game Of Thrones
( from A song of Ice And Fire )
by George R.R.Martins is published .

[Piper]

1961-The Beatles perform
their first gig as house band a
the Cavern Club in Liverpool.


1992-Windsurfer Barbara
Kendall wins New Zealand's
only gold medal at the
Barcelona Olympics.


2003-Actor Don Estelle
( Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden in the
British TV sitcom It Ain't Half
Hot Mum ) dies aged 70.

[Piper]

1956-Elivs Presley releases
the single Hound Dog.


1962-Marilyn Monroe,36,is
found dead at her Los Angeles
home after a drug overdose.


1984-Prince's album Purple
Rain goes to No.1 in the US
charts.

[Piper]

1972-The Moody Blues
release Nights In White Satin.


1984-Welsh actor Richard
Burton dies, aged 58,of a
cerebral haemorrhage.


1992-Former New Zealand
Prime Minister Robert Muldoon
dies, aged 70.

[Piper]

1936-New Zealand runner
Jack Lovelock wins the 1500m
gold at the Berlin Olympics.


1945-An atomic bomb is
dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
by the United States.


1965-The Beatles release
their album Help! in the UK.


2016-The Hurricanes win the
Super Rugby title for the first
time, beating the Lions 20-3
in the final at Wellington.