1994-The movie The
Shawshank Redemption is
released.
2003-Crime series NCIS
premiers on CBS
2009-Modern Family
premieres on ABC
1994-The movie The
Shawshank Redemption is
released.
2003-Crime series NCIS
premiers on CBS
2009-Modern Family
premieres on ABC
1977-The Love Boat is first
broadcast on ABC.
1991-Children's author Dr.
Seuss ( Theodor Geisel )
dies aged 87.
2007-The Big Bang Theory
premieres on CBS
1975-Pink Floyd's album
Wish You Were Here hits No 1
in the US charts and goes on to
sell 13 million copies.
2013-Oracle Team USA
makes a sensational
comeback to defend the
America's Cup by defeating
Team New Zealand 9-8 in San
Francisco Bay.
At one stage New Zealand, skipped
by Dwan Barker , held an 8-1 lead
over Australian helmsman
Jimmy Spittle's boat.
1986-Bobby Ewing ( Patrick Duffy )
returns to Dallas, with his death attributed
to his wife Pam's bad dream, erasing
all of the previous season.
1941-First Catholic institution, for boys
opened in Auckland, NZ.
1891-US author German
Melville, who wrote Moby Dick,
dies aged 73
1968-Tge Beatles' single Hey
Jude goes to No.1 in the US
charts and stays there for nine
weeks
Why are you posting this meaningless drivel?..
I'm not young, buts it's old person stuff and who fucking cares?
I mean fuck. A Catholic institution in 1941. Jesus fuck me chist backwards on a bicycle in a lesbian nunary.
What is wrong with you?
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
1954-The movie A Star Is
Born, starring Judy Garland
and James Mason, premieres.
1982-First broadcast of the
comedy series Cheers, starring
Ted Danson and Shelley Long,
on NBC TV.
1955-James Dean, 24 , is
killed in a car crash in Cholane,
California, when the Porsche he
is driving collides with a Ford
Tudor sedan at an intersection.
The driver of the other vehicle
survived.
Dean was the first actor to be
posthumously nominated for
Best Actor Academy Awards -
for East Of Eden and Giant.
1986-New Zealand's Labour
Government introduces a
Goods and Services Tax ( GST ),
adding 10 per cent to the cost
of most goods and Services.
1923-the first final of New Zealand's premier football
competition ,the Chatham Cup, was held with seacliff from Otago defeating Wellington YMCA 4-0 at Athletic Park
Wellington.
1941-saw New Zealand pilot Carlyle Everiss
sacrifice his life to save a Scottish village.
1888-The New Zealand Natives ruby team
played it's first game in the United Kingdom,
an event significant for being the first to wear
the Silver Fern and an all-black uniform.
1950-was a day to remember in
Wellington,NZ, with crowds
swarming around Evans Bay to
glimpse a moment of aviation
history.
They watched as the Tasman
Empire Airlines Ltd ( TEAL )
Solent flying boat Ararangi
took off for Sydney becoming
the first ever international flight
from the capital.
1917-New Zealand soldiers began
their attack on Gravenstafel Spur
during World War1, resulting in over
300 casualties on what considered
one of the "darkest days" in New Zealand
1866-Maungatapu murders Burgess
Kelly, and Levy were hanged in Nelson
after being convicted of the notorious
Maungatapu murders.
Joseph Sullivan, the fourth member of
the "Burgess gang," received a life
sentence after turning Queen's
evidence.
1936-Jean Batten's departure from
Kent, England, on her solo flight to
New Zealand.
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