FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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1606 First known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon at the Pennefather River, Cape York, northern Australia

 

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Roman Inquisition​

1616 The Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism, which states the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun

 

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National Currency Act​

1863 Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency

 

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Cricket History​

1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in test cricket, 8-35 at Sydney Cricket Ground

 

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1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, in Michigan

 

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1930 1st red & green traffic lights installed in Manhattan, NYC

 

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1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)

 

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#1 in the Charts​

1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks

 

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1993 "World Trade Center bombing of 1993": truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center at 12:18pm, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated on US soil at the time

 

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AW- 'things that arent as good as you remember".

Russ: "Whiz Fiz"

Um no.

 

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Pearl Jam.

 

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Monty Python.

Never really rated it from the few minutes I've seen it so wouldnt know.

 

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Eskimo Pies.
Souffle.

 

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Summer.

 

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The Royal Melbourne Show.

 

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Sardines.

 

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80s footy.
Wagon Wheels.

Never rated either.

 

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Victor Hugo(1802-1885)​

French author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables), born in Besançon, France

 

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Levi Strauss(1829-1902)​

German-born American clothing designer who founded the 1st company to manufacture blue jeans (Levi Strauss & Co.), born in Buttenheim, Bavaria

 

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1880 Lionel Logue, Australian speech therapist who treated King George VI (The Kings Speech), born in Adelaide (d. 1953)

 

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Tony Randall(1920-2004)​

American stage and screen actor (The Odd Couple - "Felix"), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

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Fats Domino
(1928-2017)
American rhythm & blues piano player, singer, and star of the early rock ’n’ roll era ("Blueberry Hill"; "Blue Monday"; "Walkin' To New Orleans"), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

 

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Johnny Cash(1932-2003)​

American country singer ("I Walk the Line"; "Ring of Fire"; "A Boy Named Sue"), born in Kingsland, Arkansas

 

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1945 Peter Brock, Australian auto racer (3 x Australian Touring Car C'ship; 9 x Bathurst 500/1000; 9 x Sandown Endurance), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2006)