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

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Oriental Telephone Company
1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

 

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Bly Beats Verne's Fogg​

1890 Journalist Nellie Bly beats the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg around the world by 8 days (72 days)

 

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100 years today!

1st Winter Olympics​

1924 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France

 

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1st US Nuclear Fission Experiment​

1939 1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi

 

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1940 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland

 

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1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water

 

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JFK First Live News Conference​

1961 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference with JFK

 

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Manson Convicted​

1971 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders

#rotinhellhippies

 

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1st Heterotopic Heart Transplant​

1974 Dr. Christiaan Barnard transplants 1st heterotopic heart transplant (adding donor heart without removal of old)

 

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The pivotal moment of Barnard's career occurred on December 3, 1967, when he performed the first successful heart transplant on patient Louis Washkansky, using the heart of Denise Darvall, a young woman who had died in an accident.

Although Washkansky succumbed to pneumonia 18 days after the operation, the procedure was a medical triumph and put Barnard on the global stage. His subsequent transplant on Philip Blaiberg, who survived for 19 months, demonstrated the further potential of this new surgical method.

Barnard continued to innovate by developing the heterotopic heart transplant technique and exploring the potential of xenotransplantation with animal hearts. While setbacks such as organ rejection were common, his persistence helped promote the use of cyclosporine, significantly improving transplant success rates.

 

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McCartney Released From Jail
1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported

 

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Iran Hostage Crisis​

1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US

 

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Queen Mother Hip Replacement
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement

 

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Posh and Becks Get Engaged​

1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Posh) and soccer player David Beckham get engaged

 

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1999 Supernatural horror film "The Blair Witch Project" premieres at the Sundance Film festival


Loved Blair Witch.

 

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Spirit Rover Begins Mars Mission​

2004 NASA's Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on the surface of Mars

 

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1st Asian Champion​

2014 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Li Na of China becomes first Asian Australian champion; beats Dominika Cibulková of Slovakia 7-6, 6-0

 

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PM Chris Hipkins
2023 Chris Hipkins is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern

 

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#births

 

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Messalina
(c. 17/20-48 AD)
Roman Empress (wife of Claudius, infamous for her promiscuity) (born either 17 or 20 AD), born in Rome

 

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Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)​

British author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse), born in London

 

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Etta James(1938-2012)​

American singer ("Roll With Me"; "At Last"), born in Los Angeles, California

 

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1973 Elvis Presley Jr., alleged son of Elvis Presley

 

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Elvis Presley Jr, a performer from the USA, has claimed he is the son of Elvis. However, other than Jr's claim, there is no DNA test result to show if he is the half brother of Lisa Marie, who remains the only official child of Elvis.