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

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1908 Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old "Sullivan Ordinance" banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”

 

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1951 Fidel Castro is ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter

 

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Buddy Holly's Last Recordings​

1959 Buddy Holly makes his last recordings in his NYC apartment, alone with an acoustic guitar; he tapes five songs including "Peggy Sue" and "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", which were embellished, overdubbed, and released posthumously by Coral Records

 

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1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York's World Fair

 

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Roe vs. Wade​

1973 In a landmark decision the US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions (Roe v. Wade), authoring the majority opinion Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have "roots in the English common-law tradition"

 

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Kuwaiti Oil Fires​

1991 Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraqi forces

 

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1992 Sarah, Duchess of York (aka Fergie) wears paper bag over her head on airline ride


*makes improvement to looks.

 

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2002 Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

 

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2007 The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

 

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He is believed to have begun his murders in the early 1990s after inheriting the farm. Arrested in 2002, he was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women and was also the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders.

Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women,[3] many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010.[4] Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years—the longest possible sentence for second-degree murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced.[5] During the trial's first day of jury evidence, the Crown stated that Pickton had confessed to forty-nine murders to an undercover agent from the Office of the Inspector General, who was posing as a cellmate. The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even fifty, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".[6]

 

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O'Brien's Last Tonight Show​

2010 Conan O'Brien's last The Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot

 

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2023 Australian surfer Laura Enever sets world record riding the largest-ever wave by a woman at 43.6ft (13.3m) on Oahu's North Shore, Hawaii [1]

 

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2023 Chinese Year of the Rabbit begins with China marking the largest celebration of the New Year since 2020, after Covid-zero restrictions lifted [1]

 

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#itsyourbirthdaylisa

 

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Ivan the Great(1440-1505)​

Grand Prince of Moscow and Russia (1462-1505) who conquered Lithuania, born in Moscow, Russia
https://www.onthisday.com/people/ivan-iii

 

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mmmmmm bacon

Francis Bacon(1561-1626)​

English statesman, Lord Chancellor (1617-21) and philosopher (Novum Organum), born in London

 

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William Kidd
(1645-1701)
Scottish pirate legend, born in Greenock (or Dundee), Scotland

 

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Lord Byron(1788-1824)​

English romantic poet (Don Juan), born in London
https://www.onthisday.com/people/lord-byron

 

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Sam Cooke
(1931-1964)
American singer and entrepreneur described as "the inventor of soul music" ("You Send Me"; "A Change Is Gonna Come"), born in Clarksdale, Mississippi

 

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Bill Bixby
(1934-1993)
American actor, director and producer (Incredible Hulk; The Courtship of Eddie's Father; My Favorite Martian), born in San Francisco, California

 

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1940 John Hurt, English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express), born in Chesterfield (d. 2017)

 

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1959 Linda Blair, American actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St), born in St Louis, Missouri

 

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Aw . Would have been 64 today.

Michael Hutchence(1960-1997)​

Australian rock vocalist (INXS - "Devil Inside": "New Sensation"), and actor (Dogs in Space), born in Sydney, Australia

RIP

 

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1965 "DJ Jazzy" Jeff [Townes], American Grammy Award-winning hip-hop DJ and music producer (DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - "Parents Just Don't Understand"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

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1969 Olivia d'Abo, English-American actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy), born in London, England