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

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Timely Comics Founded​

1939 Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York
https://www.onthisday.com/people/stan-lee

 

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Churchill and De Gaulle Meet in Marrakesh​

1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle begin a two-day wartime conference in Marrakesh

 

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1948 1st Supermarket in the UK opens - the Co-op, the country’s first permanent self-service store, in East London’s Manor Park

 

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Gandhi's Final Fast​

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

 

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1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hrs later 2nd one-kills 115

 

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Southern Christian Leadership Council​

1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as leader at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta

 

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Motown Founded​

1959 Berry Gordy Jr.'s Tamla Records (later Motown) begins operating in Detroit, Michigan

 

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Agent Orange in Vietnam​

1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange

 

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"Batman" Debuts​

1966 "Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC

 

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Darft Board Refuses Ali Exemption​

1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali [1]

 

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1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

 

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Plot to Kidnap Kissinger​

1971 US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

 

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Premiere of "Dynasty"​

1981 Soap opera "Dynasty" produced by Aaron Spelling and starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans and Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV

 

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Prince Edward Resigns​

1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training

 

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US Congress Authorizes War​

1991 US Congress gives George H. W. Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

 

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Malcolm X Daughter Arrested​

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder

 

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OJ Simpson Trial​

1995 Murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in LA

 

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Trial. Lol, circus would be a more appropriate term..

 

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1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

 

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Pope's Shooter Released​

2006 Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II

 

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Earthquake Devastates Haiti​

2010 Earthquake devastates Haiti, killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince

 

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Partygate​

2022 UK PM Boris Johnson admits he attended a "bring your own booze" staff party in May 2020 during the country's first lockdown [1]

 

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2023 Toadzilla, a large cane toad and unofficially the world's largest toad at 2.7kg, discovered in Conway National Park, Australia (as an invasive pest later euthanized) [1]

 

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Special Counsel Appointed​

2023 US Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents [1]
https://www.onthisday.com/people/merrick-garland

 

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