On This Day In History

**pritch** · 22nd April 2025, 12:24

Originally Posted by Piper

1509-King Henry VIII, the
second Tudor King Of England,
ascends to the throne at the
age of 17, after the death of his
father Henry VIII.

An early example of recycling?

**Laava** · 22nd April 2025, 16:44

Originally Posted by pritch

An early example of recycling?

You two guys are channeling the as yet undead David Mitchell!
For context= Unruly, by David Mitchell. Which coincidentally I am currently reading

**Piper** · 23rd April 2025, 09:32

1564-Ebglish playwright
William Shakespeare is born.
He dies on the same day in
1616.

1969-Sirhan Sirhan is
sentenced to death for
Killing US attorney Bobby
Kennedy.

**Piper** · 24th April 2025, 10:59

1920-King George V's son,
Edward, Prince of Wales, visits
New Zealand.

1922-New Zealand's first poppy
day raises £13,166, £3695 was sent to help
war-ravaged areas of northern France, the
remainder went to
unemployed returned soldiers.

**Piper** · 25th April 2025, 07:20

1915-Thousands of New
Zealand and Australian
soldiers land on Gallipoli
Peninsula during World War I

1916-Anzac Day first
observed in New Zealand.

1990-The crew of the U.S.
Space shuttle Discovery places
the Hubble Space Telescope,
a long term observatory into a
low orbit around Earth .

**Piper** · 26th April 2025, 12:04

1986-The fourth reactor at
the Chernobyl nuclear power
station explodes, killing 31
people.

1989-Amercian actor Lucille
Ball ( I Love Lucy ) dies of a
heart attack.She was 78.

**Piper** · 27th April 2025, 18:52

2011-US president Barack
Obama publicly releases a
copy of his birth certificate
to prove he was born in the
United States.
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii
on August 4, 1961.
The move was in response to
"incessant false birther allegations "

**Piper** · 28th April 2025, 12:44

1966-At the 38th Academy Awards
The Sound Of Music wins best Picture.

1995-Fourteen people are killed, including
13 students from Tai Poutini Polytechnic,
when a viewing platform collapses at
Cave Creek in Paparoa National Park.

1996-Martin Bryant shoots and kills
35 people in Port Arthur Tasmania.

**R650R** · 28th April 2025, 17:37

Originally Posted by Piper

1966-At the 38th Academy Awards
The Sound Of Music wins best Picture.

1995-Fourteen people are killed, including
13 students from Tai Poutini Polytechnic,
when a viewing platform collapses at
Cave Creek in Paparoa National Park.

1996-Martin Bryant shoots and kills
35 people in Port Arthur Tasmania.

Interesting interview with survivor who worked there and lost his wife

**Piper** · 29th April 2025, 13:00

1975-Bing Crosby's "White Christmas"
marks the end of the Vietnam war.

**Piper** · 30th April 2025, 11:29

2004-The teen comedy
movie Mean Girls, written by
Tina Fey and starring Lindsay
Lothan and Rachel McAdams,
is released.

**Piper** · Yesterday, 06:59

1961-The Pulitzer Prize is
awarded to Harper Lee for her
novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

**Piper** · Today, 12:16

1997-The movie Austin
Powers: International Man Of
Mystery, starring Mike Myers
and Liz Hurley, is released.

2011-Islamic militant Osama
bin Laden, 54, is killed by US
special forces in Abottabad,
Pakistan.