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

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HomerThompson I would like to buy your rock!

 

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On this day..

 

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn​

1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)

 

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Spain Declares War Against the United States​

1898 Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War is signed by US President McKinley; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam

 

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No laugh. Harsh

Can't do emoji reactions on my phone [emoji1745]

 

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Röntgen's Nobel for X-Rays​

1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays

 

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Curies Awarded Nobel​

1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of spontaneous radiation
https://www.onthisday.com/people/marie-curie

 

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Ok there's a lot of Nobel prize crap now.. im assuming they gave it out on the 10th every year

 

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Mein Kampf​

1926 2nd part of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published

 

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Edward VIII Abdicates​

1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson

 

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Early Report of the Holocaust​

1942 An early report of the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile, using information obtained by Witold Pilecki, is addressed to UN member states

 

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King Awarded Nobel Peace Prize​

1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway

Good job Marty

 

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The Ed Sullivan Theater​

1967 CBS officially renames CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York (built in 1927 as Hammerstein's Theatre), as "The Ed Sullivan Theater" in celebration of the 20th anniversary of his program

 

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Two Tennis No. 1s​

1973 For the first time since 1885, tennis has 2 top-ranked male players - Americans Stan Smith and Jimmy Connors [1]

 

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Superman: The Movie​

1978 "Superman: The Movie", directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

 

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Obama's Nobel Prize​

2009 US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

 

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Dylan Awarded Nobel​

2016 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden; he does not attend

 

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Birthdays

Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)​

American poet (Collected Poems), born in Amherst, Massachusetts

 

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Kenneth Branagh(62 years old)​

1960 Northern Irish actor and director (High Season, Dead Again), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

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And thats it.

Slow day on Dec 10..

/or 9 months earlier.

 

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[HomerThompson]

Ok there's a lot of Nobel prize crap now.. im assuming they gave it out on the 10th every year

You missed Guy Incognito, who received one for inventing the door knocker.

 

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List Mgmt. - The next generation of talent (2023-2030 onwards)

Many good points mentioned by several posters and in regards to retirements staggered incrementally, it still may work out quite well for us, plus we have the 'big upside' of when that inevitably happens of having heaps of salary cap space to which I'm sure overtime the club will utilise wisely...

www.bigfooty.com

 

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Go there for some quality rants before it all gets deleted

 

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HomerThompson they put all the jerks in tower one