FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

[HomerThompson]

Also on this day....

1962 Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (est. 250,000 deaths)

1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for public urination

1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to 'walk' in space (12 mins)

1972 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end embargo against US

1977 The Clash release their first recording "White Riot"

1980 BigFooty legend

Spoiler

Shell

born

 

[HomerThompson]

1990 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
(5-0 on penalties)

1992 American pop singer Donna Summer gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

1992 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in World Cup at Albury

1994 Zsa Zsa (Gabor) files for bankruptcy Chicago1

1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement

2012 Superleague Greece football match between Olympiacos and Panathinaikos is abandoned after fans set fire to Athens' Olympic Stadium

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine.

2018 African American Stephon Clark shot 20 times by police in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California during vandalism investigation

2018 First fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car hitting a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona

2018 Vladimir Putin is elected to a new six-year term as Russian President with 76% of the vote, his fourth term

2021 US Senate confirms William Joseph Burns as new CIA Director. (“Excellent!”)

 

[HomerThompson]

Birthdays....

 

[HomerThompson]

1888 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian-French sculptor (Cubism) (d. 1971)

1926 Peter Graves, American actor (Mission Impossible, Flying High, Stalag 17)

1932 F. W. de Klerk, South African President (1989-94) and winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 2021). No prize for guessing what his initials stood for.

1934 Pavle Despalj, Croatian composer & conductor (Zagreb; Miami; Tokyo), born in Blato, Korčula

1938 Shashi Kapoor [Balbir Raj Kapoor], prominent Indian Bollywood actor (Deewar, The Deceivers, Shalimar, Heat & Dust), born in Calcutta, British India (d. 2017)

1941 Wilson Pickett, American R&B singer ("In The Midnight Hour"; "Funky Broadway"), born in Prattville, Alabama (d. 2006)

1944 Dick Smith, Australian Adventurer and Businessman

 

[HomerThompson]

1945 Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer (Asakusa Portraits), born in Daigo, Japan (d. 2020)

1956 Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish alpine skier (2 Olympic gold 1980)

1959 Irene Cara [Escalera], American Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("Fame"; "Flashdance...What A Feeling"), and actress (Fame; D.C. Cab)

1959 Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director

1963 Vanessa Williams, 1963 American singer, actress and 1st African American Miss America (1983)

1970 Queen Latifah, American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning rapper ("Ladies First"; "Unity"), actress (Chicago; Bessie: Beauty Shop), and TV personality (The Queen Latifah Show)

1978 Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player

1979 Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5 - "This Love"; "Moves Like Jagger")

1980 Shell Happy birthday mate!

1981 Jang Na-ra, Korean K-pop singer ("Sweet Dream") and actress (You Are My Destiny)

 

[HomerThompson]

Deaths....

 

[HomerThompson]

235 Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered

Spoiler

by Joaquin Phoenix

1314 Jacques de Molay, French last Grand Master of The Knights Templar, dies burned at the stake aged 70 or 71. Executioners were commended for a job well done (too soon?)

1936 Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), dies of a stroke at 71

1958 Sigve Lie, Norwegian sailor (Olympic gold dragon class 1948, 52), dies at 51

1964 Norbert Wiener, American mathematician who founded cybernetics, dies of a heart attack at 69

1965 Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-52), dies at 45

1977 Marien Ngouabi, president of Congo-Brazzaville, murdered

Spoiler

no known alibi for Joaquin Phoenix

1980 Ludwig Guttmann, German-British neurologist, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the Paralympics), dies at 80

1983 Umberto II of Italy, the last king of Italy (reigned for 24 days in 1946), dies in exile at 78

1989 Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (Theory of Probability) and geophysicist, dies at 97.
Last words: “What are the odds of dying today?”

2001 John Phillips, American singer & guitarist (Mama & Papas-California Dreaming), dies at 65

2002 Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor, dies at 58

2004 Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods Limited), dies of kidney failure at 76

2009 Natasha Richardson, English actress (Gothic, The Handmaid's Tale), dies of a traumatic brain injury at 45.

2012 Jalal Zolfonun, Iranian composer (Gol-e Sadbarg), setar (Persian lute) player, and teacher, dies of a heart attack at 74

2017 Chuck Berry, American rock n' roll guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Roll Over Beethoven"; "Sweet Little Sixteen"), dies at 90

2021 Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher and anthroposophist, dies at 89

2023 Dot Wilkinson, American pro bowler and softball player, dies at 101

 

[HomerThompson]

Weddings & Divorces

 

[HomerThompson]

1869 US Abolitionist Harriet Tubman marries civil war veteran Nelson Davis in Auburn NY


1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs (36) weds American businesswoman Laurene Powell (27) in a Buddhist ceremony at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, California
There are other ways to get a head j….. nevermind.


1993 American actor Eddie Murphy (31) weds Nicole Mitchell; divorce in 2006


2012 "Twilight" actor Peter Facinelli (38) divorces "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Jennie Garth (39) after 11 years of marriage

 

[Kram]

1980 Shell Happy birthday mate!

So the 9 days of the year I'm the same age as the biggest poster are finally over

Happy birthday Shell.

 

[HomerThompson]

So the 9 days of the year I'm the same age as the biggest poster are finally over

Happy birthday Shell.

Ah nuts, I missed your birthday. Belated birthday wishes Kram [emoji3060]
Hope the next 356 days are even better than the previous 9.

 

[Kram]

Ah nuts, I missed your birthday. Belated birthday wishes Kram [emoji3060]
Hope the next 356 days are even better than the previous 9.

I know lots of people with March birthdays around my own so tend to remember them. Also May because there's quite a few of them in the family.

Anyone from June onwards though yeah I won't even remember what month it is haha.

 

[74561347]

It's my birthday today everyone has to be nice to me

 

[Kram]

Not a Macca's man and no doubt a poor choice of a calorie hit but that is pretty tempting.

 

[HomerThompson]

It's my birthday today everyone has to be nice to me

Happy birthday 746!

 

[74561347]

Happy birthday 746!

What did you get me

 

[Kram]

Now watching this episode of Kitchen Nightmares

Those eyes... the woman was a legit sociopath..

 

[HomerThompson]

What did you get me

Well, it seems like you have everything, so I got you some penicillin

 

[Kram]

Amy is so god damn hilarious though.. should have really had their own reality show or something. Would have rated and made a heap of money, I 100% would have watched.

 

[YeoShuey]

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Those eyes... the woman was a legit sociopath..

True. Her husband was crazy too.

 

[Kram]

How can someone manage to fall out of a hot air ballon?

 

[Chicago1]

How can someone manage to fall out of a hot air ballon?

I understand that "jumped out" is the correct wording, based on Ch7 News mentioning Lifeline after tonight's segment. How sad, if true.

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[Kram]

 

[Kram]

Birthdays today

1848 - Wyatt Earp
1936 - Ursula Andress
1947 - Glenn Close
1955 - Bruce Willis
1975 - Matthew Richardson

Matthew Richardson

Age

50

Ht

195cm

Wt

104kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.0

4star

K

10.9

4star

HB

3.1

3star

M

8.0

5star

T

0.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

15.0

4star

K

9.2

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

7.8

5star

T

0.8

3star

1988 - Clayton Kershaw

 

[Kram]

I understand that "jumped out" is the correct wording, based on Ch7 News mentioning Lifeline after tonight's segment. How sad, if true.

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How about the poor people that were in there with him when it happened...