FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

[HomerThompson]

1531 Henry VIII recognised as supreme head of Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury

1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Native Americans

1887 Everett Horton, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time

1917 Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war

1930 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

 

[HomerThompson]

1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional

1951 Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt for refusing to play Israel.

1957 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after Israel withdraws from occupied Egyptian territory. Also gives hope for Egyptian & Israeli table tennis fans.

1965 First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam

1966 An IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Column in Dublin

 

[HomerThompson]

2012 Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders.
And that was the end of their debt problems

2012 Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns.

2013 North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears

2017 DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration

2023 171 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans, increasing from 16 trillion in 2005, according to estimates from scientists at the Gyres Institute.

 

[HomerThompson]

Deaths

1641 Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)

1702 William III, William of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1689-1702) and Stadtholder, dies of pneumonia at 51

1853 Edward John Dent, British clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), dies at 62

1855 Bill the Butcher, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys), dies of a gunshot wound at 33


1923 Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States), dies at 85

1988 Folk singer Amar Singh Chamkila "The Elvis of Punjab", killed by unknown gunmen as he arrived for concert at age 26.

1999 Hans Eklund, Swedish composer, dies at 71

1999 Joe DiMaggio, American Baseball Hall of Fame centre fielder (13× MLB All-Star; 9x World Series; 3x AL MVP; MLB record 56-game hitting streak; NY Yankees), dies of lung cancer at 84

1999 William Wrigley III, American chewing gum mogul (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company), dies of pneumonia at 66


2016 George Martin, British record producer (The Beatles), dies at 90

2020 Max Von Sydow, Swedish actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Game of Thrones), dies at 90

 

[HomerThompson]

Weddings & Divorces

1952 Future US President Ronald Reagan (41) marries Nancy Davis (30) in Los Angeles

1969 CEO of McDonald's Ray Kroc (66) weds philanthropist Joan Mansfield (40). At their reception they had a happy meal.

 

[HomerThompson]

Also on this day....

1971 Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali's 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, retaining heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision in the "Fight of the Century"

1973 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis

1976 Largest observed stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China (1,774 kg)


1980 The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. (“in Soviet Union, KGB rocks you”)

1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0

1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million

1986 The Young Ones and Cliff Richard release new version of single "Living Doll" for Comic Relief charity


1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco

 

[HomerThompson]

Birthdays....

1743 [Benedikt] Bendix Friedrich Zinck, Danish violinist, keyboardist, and composer, baptised in Husum, Duchy of Schleswig (now Germany) (d. 1801)

1856 Tom Roberts, British-Australian artist (Shearing the Rams), born in Dorchester, Dorset, England (d. 1931)


1918 Poon Lim, Chinese sailor who survived 133 days adrift at sea, born in Hainan, China (d. 1991)

1944 Sergey Nikitin, Russian-Soviet songwriter, poet, singer, seven-string guitarist, and biophysicist, born in Moscow, USSR.

1964 Peter [Ped] Gill, British drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax"), born in Liverpool, England

1975 Fardeen Khan, Indian actor

1977 James Van Der Beek, American actor (Dawson's Creek), born in Cheshire, Connecticut

 

[Shell]

10 years since MH370 disappeared

 

[HomerThompson]

10 years since MH370 disappeared

I reckon it was hijacked..... by D.B. Cooper

 

[HomerThompson]

Harry McKay

10

Harry Mckay

Age

27

Ht

200cm

Wt

106kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.9

3star

K

7.5

3star

HB

2.4

2star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.4

5star

D

6.6

1star

K

4.6

2star

HB

2.0

1star

M

3.6

4star

T

1.4

2star

G

1.4

5star

D

8.8

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

4.4

4star

T

0.8

3star

G

2.0

5star

couldn't hit the side of a barn with a fist full of wheat.

What if he was inside?

 

[Kram]

Brisbane lol, what a choke.

 

[YeoShuey]

Now watching this episode of Kitchen Nightmares

 

[Kram]

Can't really remember that KN ep but def seen it yeeaaarrrrs ago.

Think it was kind of a famous one.

 

[Kram]

Happy
National Barbie day
International fanny pack day
Urban ballroom dancing day

 

[YeoShuey]

Can't really remember that KN ep but def seen it yeeaaarrrrs ago.

Think it was kind of a famous one.

Very famous

 

[Shell]

#smarch9

 

[Shell]

1st Observation by Copernicus​

1497 Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation

 

[Shell]

Great Blizzard of 1891​

1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins in England and lasts until March 13; Kills 200 people and 6,000 animals

 

[Shell]

Stalin's Funeral​

1953 Joseph Stalin's funeral is held in Moscow after four days of national mourning

 

[Shell]

1959 Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.

 

[Shell]

Space Dog Laika Launched to her Death​

1961 Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig

 

[Shell]

1964 1st Ford Mustang produced

 

[Shell]

Event of Interest​

2021 Queen Elizabeth II publicly expresses "concern" after Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex interview, saying allegations including of racism with be dealt with privately

 

[Shell]

Film & TV History​

2021 UK TV host Piers Morgan leaves ITV's "Good Morning" after 41,000 complaints made about him saying he did not believe Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's statement about her mental health

 

[Shell]

Event of Interest​

2022 Stolen notebooks belonging to naturalist Charles Darwin, including his famous 'tree of life' sketch, mysteriously returned after 22 years to Cambridge University Library [1]