FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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United States One Dollar Bill​

1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving and Printing to print newly issued US paper currency, the United States Notes

 

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Legal Tender Act
1862 First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America

 

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Event of Interest​

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

 

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Sinatra's Last Performance
1995 Singer Frank Sinatra performs for final time before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom, in Palm Desert, California, on the closing night of his charity golf tournament

 

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Restaurant Gordon Ramsay
1999 British chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary "Boiling Point" detailing the opening of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay

 

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Anthony Burgess
(1917-1993)
British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange), born in Harpurhey, Lancashire, England

 

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Bobby Riggs
(1918-1995)
American tennis player ("The Battle of the Sexes", US Open 1939, 41), born in Los Angeles, California

 

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Sally Jessy Raphael
(88 years old)
1935 American TV talk show host (Sally), born in Easton, Pennsylvania

 

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George Harrison(1943-2001)​

British guitarist, singer, songwriter, and sitar player (Beatles - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"; "Here Comes The Sun"; solo - "If Not For You"; Traveling Wilburys - "Handle With Care"), born in Liverpool, England

 

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1966 Tea Leoni, American actress (Flying Blind, Madam Secretary), born in New York City

 

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Sean Astin(52 years old)​

1971 American actor (Goonies, The Lord of the Rings), born in Los Angeles, California

 

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Rashida Jones
(47 years old)
1976 American actress (Parks and Recreation), writer, model, and musician, born in Los Angeles, California

 

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Albrecht von Wallenstein
(1583-1634)
Bohemian-German general and statesman (Thirty Years' War), assassinated at 50

 

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Christopher Wren
(1632-1723)
English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 90

 

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Bugs Moran
(1891-1957)
American gangster of the Prohibition-era, dies of lung cancer in prison at 65

 

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Elijah Muhammad
(1897-1975)
American religious leader, and Black separatist (Nation of Islam, 1934-75), dies of heart failure at 77

 

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Tennessee Williams
(1911-1983)
American playwright (A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71

 

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Donald Bradman(1908-2001)​

Australian cricket batsman and captain (52 Tests; 6,996 runs @ WR 99.94 average; HS 334; 29 x 100s), dies of pneumonia at 92

 

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2017 Bill Paxton, American actor (True Lies; Twister; Big Love), dies from surgical complications at 61

 

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Event of Interest​

1932 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

Germans: "Bloody Austrians, coming here and taking over our Reichstags...."

 

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Sally Jessy Raphael
(88 years old)
1935 American TV talk show host (Sally), born in Easton, Pennsylvania

 

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First Dutch Expedition to East Indies
1597 Cornelis de Houtman's Dutch fleet departs Bali and sets sail for the Netherlands