FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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June 26...

 

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1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles

 

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Christ's Hospital​

1553 Christ's Hospital in London, England, granted a charter by King Edward VI to house and teach children of the poor

 

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1934 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Firearms Act into law, requiring registration and imposition of excise tax on firearms including machine guns. short-barreled shotguns and rifles, and silencers; exceptions made for pistol, revolvers, and long guns

 

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United Nations Charter​

1945 The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 nations in San Francisco

 

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St. Lawrence Seaway​

1959 Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower open the St. Lawrence Seaway, allowing oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America
https://www.onthisday.com/people/dwight-d-eisenhower

 

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Kennedy's Clarion Call for Freedom​

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin

 

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1968 10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)

 

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Elvis Presley's Last Performance​

1977 Elvis Presley appears in concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana; unknowingly the last performance of his career

 

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1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

 

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1990 New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall

 

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Event of Interest​

1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.

 

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Harry Potter Published​

1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published

 

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Event of Interest
2015 US President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as part of his eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney and 8 church members killed during a bible study in Charleston, South Carolina

 

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2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

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Geeze you must be doing something pretty bad to beat out Saudi Arabia..

 

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Polio​

2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease

 

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2018 Sudanese court overturns death sentence for teenager who killed the husband after he r*ped her

 

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2019 More than 5,000 smuggled WHAT discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India

 

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2023 Earliest possible evidence of cannibalism found in 1.45-million-year-old fossilized hominin leg bone, with cut marks made by stone tools from the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi [1]

 

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1909 Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk], Dutch-born talent manager (Elvis Presley), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1997)

 

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Chris Isaak(69 years old)​

1956 American rock singer-songwriter ("Wicked Game"), born in Stockton, California