FTA-TV First Dates - Part 6 - More episodes & series than you can poke with a suggestive mushroom

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• 1920 1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US

 

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Bradman's Sheffield Debut​

1935 Don Bradman scores 117 in his debut Sheffield Shield cricket match for South Australia in an innings & 5 run win over his old team, New South Wales

 

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Rizzuto for the Yankees​

1956 Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankees radio-TV announcer

 

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"Those are zee's!"

 

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• 1965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates

 

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!​

1966 Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" airs for 1st time on CBS; animated special directed by Chuck Jones, features voices of Boris Karloff, June Foray, and Thurl Ravenscroft, with songs by Albert Hague

 

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang​

1968 Musical-fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", co-written by Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes, starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes, with songs by Sherman and Sherman, premieres in NYC

 

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• 1969 House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973)

 

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• 1988 Cricket Women's World Cup: Australia defeats England by 8 wickets

 

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You've Got Mail​

1998 Romantic comedy film "You've Got Mail", starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, directed by Nora Ephron, and written by sisters Nora and Delia Ephron, is released


Crap movie. So was Sleepless In Seattle, I have no idea why ppl wet their pants over these two movies.

 

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The Two Towers​

2002 "The Two Towers", 2nd of the Lord of the Rings films is released. Makes US$62 opening weekend and $926 million total worldwide.


Spoke too soon

 

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Avatar Released​

2009 James Cameron's "Avatar" starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, released in the US, becomes highest-grossing film of all time


More crap...

 

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• 2011 The last US troops withdraw from Iraq, formally ending the Iraq War

 

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Polio​

2012 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan

 

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• 2012 Canadian police begin arresting 17 people for 'the Great Maple Syrup Heist', for stealing 3,000 tonnes from a storage facility in Quebec

 

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• 2017 Australia regains cricket's Ashes against England, winning by an innings to take 3 game lead at the WACA in Perth

 

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• 2018 Meteor explodes in huge fireball over the Bering Sea with 10 times the energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb, 2nd largest in last 30 yrs

 

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US House Impeaches Trump​

2019 US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power (230-197) and obstruction of Congress (229-198)

 

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• 2020 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine granted emergency authorization by US Food and Drug Administration

 

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VP Pence Receives Vaccine​

2020 US Vice President Mike Pence receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV
https://www.onthisday.com/people/mike-pence

 

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A New Cinderella Interpretation​

2022 Cinderella's glass slipper really a witty literary joke, by Charles Perrault, poking fun at French King Louis XIV's love of shoes and Versailles' Hall of Mirrors according to Scottish professor Genevieve Warwick [1]

 

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Joseph Grimaldi(1778-1837)​

English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history", born in London

 

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What about Bozo?