On This Day In History

[Piper]

1984-Caretaker Ernie
Abbott is killed when
a bomb in a suitcase
explodes at the Trades'
Hall Wellington.
No one has yet been
arrested for the crime.

[Piper]

1923-The New Zealand
Native Bird Protection Society
( now known as Forest & Bird )
was formed at a meeting in
Wellington.


1939-The Spanish Civil War
ends.


2004-The Maori Television
channel ( now called Whakaata
Maori ) launches.

[Piper]

1946-The first test cricket
match between Australia and
New Zealand starts.Played at
the Basin Reserve, it was
over within two days with Australia
winning by an innings and 103
runs.


1974-Chinese farmers near
Xian discover the Terracotta
army-8000 day clay warrior
statues buried to guard the
tomb of China's first emperor
Qin Shi Huang.

[Piper]

1981-Chariots Of Fire starring
Ben Cross and Nigel Havers,
Premieres at a Royal Command
Film Performance.
It was the Best Picture award at
the 1982-Oscars.


1981-US President Ronald
Reagan is shot and wounded
in an assassination attempt
by John Hinckley Jr., who was
allegedly trying to impress
Jodie Foster.Three other
people were also wounded.


2020-US singer Bill Withers
( Ain't No Sunshine, Lean On Me,
Just The Two Of Us ) dies of
heart failure.
He was 81.

[Piper]

1889-The Eiffel Tower opens
in Paris.


1993-American actor
Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce
Lee, dies in a firearms accident
on the set of The Crow.
He was 28.

[Piper]

1963--US TV soap General
Hospital premieres on ABC.
It is now the longest-running
US soap still in production.


1965-New Zealand's international
airline Tasman Empire Airways
United ( Teal ) is renamed Air
New Zealand.


1984-US singer Marvin Gaye
( What's Going On)' 44' is shot
to death by his father in Los
Angeles.

[Piper]

1977-Fleetwood Mac's album
Rumours goes to No 1 in the
US charts and stays there for
31 weeks.

[Piper]

1960-Elvis Presley records
It's Now Or Never and Are You
Lonesome Tonight? at RCA
studios in Nashville.


1989-The Holmes Show
starts on TVNZ.

[Piper]

1973-The World Trade
Centre, then the world's
tallest building, opens in
New York.
It was later destroyed in
the 2001 9/11 terrorist
attacks.

[Piper]

1987-TV sitcom Married...
With Children and The Tracey
Ullman Show premier on the
Fox TV Network.


1997-Steve Irwin's series
The Crocodile Hunter debuts
on TV.


2020-Queen Elizabeth II
makes a rare public address
( "We will meet again" ) about
the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the same day, British Prime
Minister Boris Johnson is
admitted to hospital suffering
from Covid-19.

[Piper]

1889-George Eastman
begins his Kodak
flexible rolled film for the
first time.


2006-Sign language is made
an official language of New
Zealand.

[Piper]

1970-Maggie Smith wins
the first of her two Oscars,
collecting the Best Actress
award for The Prime Of Miss
Jean Brodie.


2000-South African cricket
captain Hansie Cronje is
charged by Dehi police with
fixing one-day international
matches against India.

[Piper]

1986-US actor Clint
Eastwood is elected as
mayor of Camel, California.

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1986-The US soap Dallas
announces it will revive the
character of Bobby Ewing, who
had been killed off.


2005-Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles are
married at Windsor Guildhall.


2009-Mockumentary Parks
And Recreation, starring Amy
Poehler and Nick Offerman,
debuts on NBC


2017-New Zealand
comedian John Clarke,who
created the character Fred
Dagg, dies of a heart attack
while on a bush walk in
Australia's Grampian National
Park.
He was 68.


2021-Queen Elizabeth II's
husband Prince Philip dies,
aged 99, after several years
of failing health.

[roogazza]

On this day 10th April 1949 I was hatched !!!!!!

hahahahaha been waiting to do this .

Beaut day for my usual ride Levin to Pahiatua......

76 yrs bloody hell !