FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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1486. Christopher Columbus proposes his route to India before Spanish monarch Isabella. Permission is granted three years later

 

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1840 the first postage stamp The Penny Black is issued

 

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1886. US general strike for an eight hour day begins

 

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1924 two German automobile manufacturers begin a joint venture together. Soon morph into Mercedes Benz

 

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1927. Imperial airlines is the first British airline to serve cooked meals on board

 

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*and yesterday the answer to New Zealand they were the first to serve tea and coffee

 

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1930 the planet Pluto is officially named by schoolgirl Venitia Burney

 

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1931. Quiz. What American building is opened on this day

 

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1939. Batman makes his first comic book appearance

 

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1941 Citizen Kane premiers

 

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1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird

 

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1966 final British concert by the Beatles

 

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1997. Tasmania becomes the LAST state to decriminalize homosexuality

Shame. On you.

 

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1997. That is disgraceful

 

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They **** their cousins but same sex is the big no no

 

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Calamity Jane(1852-1903)​

American frontierswoman, born in Princeton, Missouri

 

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Wth. Is that a real person? I thought it was a fictional character

 

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1946 Joanna Lumley, British stage and screen actress (Absolutely Fabulous; On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and human rights activist, born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, in British India

 

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1954 Ray Parker Jr, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Ghostbusters), born in Detroit, Michigan

 

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Tim McGraw
(58 years old)
1967 American country music singer-songwriter ("Live Like You Were Dying"; "Humble and Kind"), record producer, and actor (1883), born in Delhi, Louisiana

 

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1971 Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer (British Open 2002 runner-up; 9 PGA Tour titles, Presidents Cup x 5; 11-under-59 Greenbrier Classic 2010), born in Cohuna, Australia