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

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Air Conditioning​

1911 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae", on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - makes air conditioning possible

 

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Agatha Christie Disappears​

1926 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days

 

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• 1944 Hungarian death march of Jews ends

 

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• 1944 The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists

 

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A Streetcar Named Desire​

1947 Tennessee Williams' stage drama "A Streetcar Named Desire", starring Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, and Kin Hunter, and directed by Elia Kazan opens the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 855 performances, wins a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize

 

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Bob Marley​

1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica

 

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First Human Heart Transplant​

1967 First human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky


Wow. I would not have guessed this in a million years.

 

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Elvis' Comeback Special​

1968 Elvis Presley's Comeback Special airs on NBC, his 1st live performance in seven years, re-launching his singing career

 

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Great song

Do They Know It's Christmas​

1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas" single written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and sung by an all-star cast under the banner of Band Aid is released in the UK

 

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Cold War Over​

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

 

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Attenborough's Dire Warning​

2018 David Attenborough warns collapse of civilisation and the natural world on the horizon at UN climate summit in Poland

 

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Lol wtaf

• 2018 Dutch court in Arnhem rejects man's request to legally be recognised 20 years younger

 

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A Streetcar Named Desire​

1947 Tennessee Williams' stage drama "A Streetcar Named Desire", starring Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, and Kin Hunter, and directed by Elia Kazan opens the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 855 performances, wins a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize

I prefer the musical version

 

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• 2020 “I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation,” warns Dr. Robert Redfield, head of US CDC about the months ahead with COVID-19

 

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I prefer the musical version

Is that the one where they go "STEELLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"


?

 

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I love Mrs Seinfeld in the background she is clearly cracking up.

 

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Is that the one where they go "STEELLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"


?

"Can't you hear me yell-a?
You're putting me through hell-a
STELLA!"

 

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Several times throughout the series you can see them laughing. The hole in one on the beach by George is an obvious example of that.

 

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"Long before the Superdome, where the Saints of football play..."

 

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"New Orleans, home of pirates, drunks and whores, New Orleans"

 

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San Fran really is a lovely city. Shame what is happening to it atm

 

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Birthdays..

 

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John Wallis(1616-1703)​

English mathematician and cryptographer who introduced ∞ as a symbol for infinity, born in Ashford, England