1933-Elizabeth McCombs
becomes New Zealand's first
female Member Of Parliament.
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1933-Elizabeth McCombs
becomes New Zealand's first
female Member Of Parliament.
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1982-Actor Grace Kelly
( High Society ),who went to
marry Prince Rainer III and
become Princess of Monaco,
dies in a car crash,She was
52.
1985-The Golden Girls
starring Bea Arthur,Betty
White,Rue McClanahan and
Estelle Getty debuts on BBC
2009-Actor Patrick Swayze
( Dirty Dancing ) dies age 57,
of cancer.
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1928-Scottish bacteriologist
Alexander Fleming discovers
Penicillin.
1969-New Zealand Steel's
Glen brook Mill, near Waiuku
in South Auckland, produces
iron and steel from local iron
sand for the first time.
1984-Prince Harry, Duke of
Sussex, and youngest son of
King Charles III and Diana,
Princess of Wales, is born.
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Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
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1905-The first New Zealand
rugby team, subsequently
known as the All Blacks,
begins their tour of Great
Britain.
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I see that you are calling me your best feature!
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1941-The New Zealand
Labour party abolishes
the death penalty.( It is
reintroduced by the National
Government in 1950, before
finally being removed from the
statute book in 1961.)
1970-TV comedy series
M*A*S*H adapted from the
movie and starring Alan Alda
and Loretta Swift,debuts on
CBS.It ran until 1983.
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1947-The Central
Intelligence Agency ( CIA )
officially comes into existence,
fter being established by US
President Truman in July.
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1893-New Zealand becomes
the first country to grant all
women the right to vote.
1970-The Mary Tyler Moore
Show premieres.
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1946-The first Cannes Film
Festival is held.
1973-Billie Jean King
beats Bobby Riggs in three
sets in a battle-of-the sexes
tennis match.It was seen as
a milestone in the public's
acceptance of women's
tennis.
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1957-TV legal series Perry
Mason , Starring Raymond
Burr, premieres on CBS.
1998-US sprinter Florence
Griffith Joyer,who won three
golds at the 1988 Olympic
Games,dies of an epileptic
seizure.She was 38.
2008-Mad Men is named
the year's Outstanding TV
Drama Series at the Emmys.
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1994-Sitcom Friends
debuts on NBC.
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1962-Cartoon The Jetsons
is first broadcast in the US.
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1968-60 Minutes is first
broadcast on CBS
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2005-Don Adams ( Maxwell
Smart in Get Smart ) dies of
lymphoma.He was 82.
2012-US singer Andy Williams dies,
aged 84, of bladder cancer
2017-Tom Petty does his final live
concert at the Hollywood Bowl in
Los Angeles,USA.
The last song he sang was ,An
American Girl.
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