FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premieres at Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy

 

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1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society

 

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1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.

Aren’t skirts usually worn around the waist?

 

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1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trambampoline.

 

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1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation

1951 Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union

 

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1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to "Muhammad Ali", calling his former title a "slave name"

1974 An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino

 

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1974 Australian cricketing brothers Ian (145 & 121) and Greg Chappell (247no and 133) score unique twin centuries in drawn 1st Test vs New Zealand in Wellington

1981 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"

 

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1984 Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.

1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"

 

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1995 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
Finally, some respect.

2018 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)

 

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Birthdays

 

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1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright and novelist known for his large nose (Voyage to the Moon) and inspiration for Edmond Rostand’s play (d. 1655)

1763 Jean Xavier Lefevre, French clarinetist and composer, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1829)

1765 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist and botanist (Flora Batava), born in Amsterdam (d. 1849)

 

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1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese"), born in Kelloe, Durham (d. 1861)

1831 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (founded institutions, including a bank, to help the poor), born in Tecklenburg (d. 1910)

1857 George Dayton, American businessman (founder of Target Corporation), born in Clifton Springs, New York (d. 1938)

1870 Oscar Straus [Strauss], Viennese composer (Ein Walzertraum), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1954)

1871 Ben Harney, American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano" (You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down), born on the Mississippi River (d. 1938)

 

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1903 Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)

1906 Lou Costello, American comedian and actor (The Abbott and Costello Show; Who's On First?), born in Paterson, New Jersey (d. 1959)

1915 Pete Gray, American baseball one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns), born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)

1926 Jón Nordal, Icelandic composer (Choralis), born in Reykjavik, Iceland

1937 Valentina Tereshkova (87 years old), Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6), born in Maslennikovo, Russia

1938 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey (d. 1995)

1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, NZ operatic soprano (Don Giovanni), born in Gisborne, New Zealand

1946 David Gilmour (78 years old) British rock guitarist, and vocalist (Pink Floyd, 1968-2014 - "Comfortably Numb"), born in Cambridge, England

1947 Dick Fosbury, American athlete (Olympic gold high jump 1968, "Fosbury Flop"), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2023)

1947 Kiki Dee [Pauline Matthews], British pop singer ("Don't Go Breaking My Heart"), born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England

1947 Rob Reiner, American Emmy Award-winning actor (All In The Family) and film director (Stand By Me; When Harry Met Sally; This Is Spinal Tap; The Princess Bride), born in The Bronx, New York

 

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1953 Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author

1955 Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (1994) who was assassinated at the start of the Rwandan genocide, born in Mubimbi, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi (d. 1994)

1966 Alan Davies (58 years old) British comedian and actor (Jonathan Creek, QI), born in Loughton, Essex, England

1967 Connie Britton, American actress (Spin City, Friday Night Lights), born in Boston, Massachusetts

1972 Shaquille O'Neal (52 years old) American Basketball Hall of Fame center (4-time NBA champion, 3-time NBA Finals MVP, Olympic gold 1996), born in Newark, New Jersey

1974 Sônia Guajajara, Brazilian indigenous activist and politician (1st indigenous person on a presidential ticket in Brazil), born in Araribóia Indigenous Land, Brazil

1977 Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer midfielder (139 caps; Inter Milan, Benfica, Panathinaikos, Fulham), born in Pyrgos, Greece

1992 Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese J-pop singer (Berryz Kobo), actress, radio personality, and kindergarten teacher, born in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

2003 Millicent Simmonds, American actress (A Quiet Place), born in Bountiful, Utah

 

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Deaths....

 

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1836 Davy Crockett American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, killed at the Battle of the Alamo at 49

1878 Julius Caesar, English cricket batsman (first English tours to North America 1859-60, Australia & NZ 1864-5), dies from dropsy at 47

1888 Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women), dies of a stroke at 55

1937 Frank Vosper, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rome Express), dies at sea at 37.

1939 Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), dies at 86

1984 Martin Niemöller, German theologian who supported then opposed the Nazi regime, famous for his widely quoted poem "First they came ...", dies at 92

1997 Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, dies at 59

2013 Sabine Bischoff, German fencer (Olympic gold 1984), dies at 54

2023 Georgina Beyer, New Zealand drag performer and politician (world's 1st openly transgender mayor, as MP helped decriminalize prostitution), dies of kidney disease at 65

 

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Weddings & Divorces....

1928 Industrialist Oskar Schindler (19) weds Emilie Schindler (20) in Svitavy, Czech Republic

1964 English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor's 4th divorce from American entertainer Eddie Fisher, after nearly 5 years of marriage

 

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Pretty good dinner party on MAFS tonight

 

[Shell]

I taped it.

 

[Shell]

MAFS, Australian Survivor, First Dates UK x 3 and BDDU. All to catch up on, over the long weekend

 

[Kram]

I asked this little girl what surname she wanted on her cert because the school put down a different one to her mum. She goes that one is my 'government' name which I thought was pretty funny.

Looking through the forms I reckon out here there would be lucky to be even 20% of students that have married parents. (Which these days I think is perfectly fine, just an observation)

 

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On this day, March 7th.....

161 1st Co-Captains-Emperors
Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire

1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king

1530 English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope.
Henry took it well, and that was the last anyone heard about it.

 

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1814 Napoléon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne against combined Russian and Prussian force in northern France

1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US. Society of Telemarketers formed the same day.

1876 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians

1896 Gilbert & Sullivan's 14th and final comic opera together "The Grand Duke" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London

 

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1905 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" collection in London after public pressure to revive his famous detective (Feb New York).

1906 Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor.

1912 Norweigan explorer Roald Amundsen announces his team was the first to reach the South Pole (located 14 December 1911), 34 days before British explorer Robert Falcon Scott.

1918 World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.

 

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1935 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida

1936 Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the Rhineland

1939 Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"

1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site