FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

[HomerThompson]

1962 "Smoking and Health" report published by British Royal College of Physicians - 1st major report to warn of the dangers of smoking

1963 John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman record their self-titled album "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Guess all their creativity went into their music rather than the album title.

1967 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", based on characters from Charles M. Schulz's' "Peanuts", and starring Gary Burghoff, opens at Theatre 80 in the East Village, NYC; runs for 1597 performances

1973 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League wins election in Bangladesh

1986 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist

1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"

 

[HomerThompson]

1993 Diff'rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant.

1996 1st surface photos published of Pluto, photographed by Hubble Space Telescope. Disney sues for copyright infringement.

1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists.

1996 The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament formed.

 

[HomerThompson]

2005 Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.

2009 Despite only being 17 years old, Brazilian soccer star Neymar makes his professional debut for Santos

2016 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals failed drug test for meldonium at Australian Open in January, subsequently suspended for 15 months

2019 Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain shares her first Instagram post, a letter between mathematician Charles Babbage and Prince Albert

2022 Global death toll from Covid-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures, with 57% of the world's population fully vaccinated.

2022 UN refugee agency says Russian invasion of Ukraine has now led to 1.7 million people fleeing the country, civilian deaths recorded at 406 with 801 injured.

2023 Gender equality now "300 years away” and "vanishing before our eyes" for reasons including maternal mortality and early marriage, according to UN Secretary General António Guterres in speech for International Woman's Day

 

[HomerThompson]

 

[HomerThompson]

1663 Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1745)

1671 Rob Roy, Scottish folk hero and outlaw, baptised in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotland (d. 1734)

1687 Jean Lebeuf, French historian, born in Auxerre, France (d. 1760).
Great-great-great-great-........ -grandfather of Shia.

1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and pioneer of photography, born in Chalon-sur-Saône, France (d. 1833)

1788 Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist who pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena, born in Châtillon-Coligny, France (d. 1878)

1799 František Ladislav Čelakovský, Czech linguist, poet (national anthem, folk song), and Slavist, born in Strakonice, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1852)

1816 James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family (Black Donnelly massacre), born in Ireland (d. 1880)

 

[HomerThompson]

1846 Whitcomb Judson, American inventor (zipper), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1909)

1898 Jan Antonín Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer (Bata), born in Uherské Hradišt, Austria-Hungary (d. 1965)

1919 Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Jakarta), born in Padang, Dutch East Indies (d. 2004)

1922 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (fluid dynamics), born in Kologriv, Soviet Russia (d. 2004)

1929 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2016)

1932 Ed Thrasher, American Grammy Award-winning art director (Warner Brothers Records, 1964-79), and photographer (album art for Frank Sinatra; Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead), born in Glendale, California (d. 2006)

 

[HomerThompson]

1940 Viktor Savinykh, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5), born in Berezkiny, Kirov, Russia

1942 Tammy Faye Bakker (née Messner), American Christian singer and former wife of Jim Bakker (The PTL Club), born in International Falls, Minnesota (d. 2007)

1943 Chris White, British rock singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer (The Zombies - "She's Not There"; "Time Of The Season"), born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England

1949 Rex Hunt, Australian TV and radio personality and former Australian rules player, born in Mentone, Australia

 

[HomerThompson]

1952 Viv Richards, Antiguan cricket batsman (121 Tests West Indies), born in St. Johns, British Leeward Islands

1956 Bryan Cranston, American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle), born in Canoga Park, California

1958 Rik Mayall, English comedian and actor (Drop Dead Fred, The Young Ones, Bottom), born in Epping, Essex, (d. 2014)

1960 Ivan Lendl, Czech-American tennis player (world #1 270 weeks; 8 x Grand Slam singles title winner; 5 x Tour Finals, 2 x WCT Finals), born in Ostrava, Czech Republic

1964 Mikhail Popkov, Russian serial killer of 55 people, born in Angarsk, USSR

 

[HomerThompson]

1965 Cameron Daddo, Australian actor (Brian Petersen-Models Inc), born in Melbourne, Victoria

1970 Rachel Weisz, English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener), born in London, England

1971 Matthew Vaughn, British producer and director (Kingsman films), born in London, England

1971 Peter Sarsgaard, American actor (The Killing), born in St Clair, Illinois

1974 Jenna Fischer, American actress (The Office), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana

 

[HomerThompson]

322BC Aristotle, Greek philosopher and polymath known as the father of logic, biology and zoology, dies at around 61 or 62

1767 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonial administrator (French Louisiana), dies at 87

1810 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral, dies at 61

1939 Amadeo Roldán, Cuban composer and violinist, dies at 38

1964 Franz Alexander, Hungarian-American pioneering psychoanalyst (pioneered psychosomatic medicine), dies at 73

1985 Robert W. Woodruff, American CEO (Coca-Cola) and philanthropist, dies at 95

1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42

1999 Stanley Kubrick, American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), dies at 70

2009 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, commits suicide at 29

2010 Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian, dies at 114

2022 Raja, Sri Lanka's most revered elephant (carried golden casket of Buddhist relics at Esala Perahera pageant), dies at 68

 

[HomerThompson]

1986 Actor Johhny Depp and Lori Depp divorce after 2 years of marriage.

 

[74561347]

The dude that smokes pot and sits on here for 12 hours a day has this exact attitude, maybe you 2 should meet up

I don't really want to hang out with gralin

 

[Shell]

This time tomorrow I'll be home eating Red Rooster thank f.uck

 

[HomerThompson]

This time tomorrow I'll be home eating Red Rooster thank f.uck

Food at Camp Granada no good? I heard Leonard Skinner got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

 

[Kram]

Had a ban from all bad food for a few weeks trying to get trim but I will break it this weekend in Perf for this.

 

[Shell]

Nah food is ok

 

[Shell]

Just wanna be home

 

[Kram]

This was epic at the time

Geez I thought only C1 would have been the only one that would have been able to remember that.

 

[HomerThompson]

Geez I thought only C1 would have been the only on that would have been able to remember that.

I remember it like it was the day before yesteryear.
Richard Carlton asking Hawke if he had blood on his hands, when he'd knifed Bill Hayden for the Labor leadership just before the election was called.

 

[Kram]

Best was Hewson looking like a complete wallaby trying to explain the birthday cake tax.

And The Late Show always taking the piss out if him.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Geez I thought only C1 would have been the only one that would have been able to remember that.

Jeez thanks by the way

 

[Chicago1]

Geez I thought only C1 would have been the only one that would have been able to remember that.

That was the election when I met Prime Minister Fraser. My local MP introduced me to him as "one of our American supporters" at a campaign rally next to where I lived in Box Hill. I had contributed money to the Liberal Party. How things changed when I got wiser.

On SM-A135F using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[HomerThompson]

I'd donate money to the Geelong FC before any political party.

No difference

 

[Kram]

There was this Greens' guy on TV the other day calling for the removal of the 12 month CGT discount, yeah piss off ya dropkick.

 

[HomerThompson]

On This Day..... Friday 8th March