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

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The object was �To find the curve connecting two points, at different heights and not on the same vertical line, along which a body acted upon only by gravity will fall in the shortest time.�

Leibitz and Bernoulli announced the challenge in 1696; a full year before Newton got a hold of it. The original time limit of six months was extended to one year for lack of any responses. Six more months past before Newton received the papers. He began working on the problem shortly after 4pm; by 4am he had the solution.

 

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Cook in Van Diemen's Land​

1777 Captain James Cook stops in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) with Resolution, for supplies, on his 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean

 

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Franklin Unhappy Over Eagle​

1784 Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

 

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Australia Day​

1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.
https://www.onthisday.com/people/arthur-phillip

 

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1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state

 

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1838 Myall Creek Massacre: about 50 Wirrayaraay indigenous people killed by New South Wales Mounted Police (seven men later the first ever to be hanged for killing Australian Aborigines) [1]


*and fwiw- this IS taught in schools. Unlike what some idiots claim.

 

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1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States

 

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1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green

 

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Eiffel Tower Constructions Begins​

1887 Ground is broken and construction begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

 

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1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa

 

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1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is established

 

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1st Winter Olympics​

1924 American skater Charles Jewtraw claims the first ever Winter Olympic gold medal; wins 500m speed skating event in 44.0s at the Chamonix Games in France

 

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First Public TV Demonstration​

1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London

 

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Bradman's 128 in 96 Minutes​

1934 Australian cricket batting icon Don Bradman scores 128 in just 96 minutes for NSW v Victoria in Sydney; smashes 17 x fours, 4 x sixes

 

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Stalin Dislikes Opera​

1936 Joseph Stalin views Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth" but he and his officials leave early and the play is denounced in state press
https://www.onthisday.com/people/joseph-stalin

 

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1939 Filming begins on film adaptation of "Gone With The Wind"

 

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1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains

 

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1954 Groundbreaking begins on Disneyland

 

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"Are You Lonesome Tonight"​

1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley hits #1

 

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Ist Female Presidential Physician​

1961 1st woman personal physician to a US President - Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)
https://www.onthisday.com/people/john-f-kennedy

 

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Catholic Bishop Bans "The Twist"​

1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "The Twist" to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools


But pedophilia they basically endorse. Right.

 

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1966 The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.

So sad. Imagine the torture the parents went thru on a daily basis since that day. Horrible.

 

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Court Defeats King​

1969 1st Australian Open Women's Tennis: Margaret Court wins inaugural Open event; beats American Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-1

 

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1970 "Bridge over Troubled Water" 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)

 

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Sinatra Sings to 175,000​

1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro