On This Day In History

[Piper]

2013-Benedict XVI became
the first pope to resign since
Gregory VII in 1415.


2021-English actor Johnny
Briggs, best known for playing
Mike Baldwin in Coronation
Street, dies after a long
illness.He was 85.

[Piper]

2025-Charity Motorcycle ride
for mental health awareness
leaves Napier, heading for Wellington,
New Zealand.

[tri boy]

1st march will be known as "white house ambush".

[Piper]

1965-Thr movie The Sound
Of Music, starring Julie
Andrews, is released.


2000-Team New Zealand
beats Italian yacht Prada 5-0
to retain the America's Cup.

[Piper]

1985-Moonlighting, with
Cybill Shepherd and Bruce
Willis, premieres on ABC.


1991-Los Angeles police
officers are captured on
amateur video beating
motorist Rodney King.This
later leads to riots, when the
officers are acquitted.


1997-Aucland's Sky Tower
opens.It is 328 metres tall.


2016-NZ cricketer Martin
Crown, 53 dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1994-US actor and
comedian John Candy dies,
aged 43, of a heart attack.


2012-British TV series drama
Broad church starring Olivia
Colman and David Tennant,
debuts on ITV.


2019-US actor Luke Perry,
52, ( Dylan in Beverley Hills
90210 ) dies of a stroke.


2022-Australian cricketer
Shane Warne, 52, dies on
holiday in Koh Samui, Thailand.

[Piper]

2002-Realty TV series The
Osbournes premieres on MTV.


2006-Planet Earth, narrated
by David Attenborough,
premier mes on the BBC.

[Piper]

1964-Boxer Cassius Clay
joins the Nation of Islam
and changed his name to
Muhammad Ali.


1966-Country Calendar is
broadcast for the first time, as
a TV show for farmers.

[Piper]

1988-Cyclone Bola hits New
Zealand, causing millions of
dollars of damage, especially
to the East Coast, Poverty Bay
and Hawke's Bay regions.


2011-Charlie Sheen is fired
from US sitcom Two And A
Half Men

[Piper]

2014-Malaysian Airlines
Flight MH370, with 239
people on-board, disappears,
prompting an extensive, but
unsuccessful search and an
enduring aviation mystery.

[Piper]

1969-James Earl Ray pleads
guilty to the murder of US civil
rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr.


1978-The TV series The
Incredible Hulk, starring Bill
Bixby, premieres on CBS


1995-The Auckland Warriors
play their first match in rugby
league's Winfield Cup, losing
22-25 to the Brisbane Broncos
at Auckland's Mt Smart
Stadium.

[Piper]

1997-Beatle Paul McCartney
is knighted by Queen Elizabeth l l.


2011-An earthquake off the coast
of Honshu, Japan, causes widespread
damage and triggers a tsunami that
instigates a major accident at the
Fukushima nuclear power plant.


2018-Superhero movie The
Black Panther becomes the
fifth Marvel film to earn
US $1billion worldwide.

[Piper]

1864-Arthurs Pass was crossed
for the first time by Europeans.
It was named after Arthur Dobson.

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1781-English astronomer
William Herschel observes the
seventh planet from the sun,
named Uranus for the father of
the god Saturn.


1965-Britisn guitarist Eric
Clapton quits The Yardbirds
after the band start moving
away from traditional blues.


2013-Cardinal Jorge Mario
Bergoglio is elected the new
Pope, taking the papal name
Pope Francis.

[Piper]

1980-The single I Got You
by Split Enz tops the charts in
New Zealand, Australia and
Canada.


2018-Acclaimed English
physicist Stephen Hawking
dies, aged 76.