FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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#march17

 

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Snakes Alive! It's St Patrick's Day​

432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)

 

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1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

 

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Unification of Italy​

1861 Italy is unified into a single kingdom under Victor Emmanuel II following the campaigns led by Giuseppe Garibaldi

 

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1st Modern Submarine
1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes

 

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1930 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City

 

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British History
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge

 

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1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

 

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Nat King Cole(1919-1965)​

American jazz pianist and pop vocalist ("Unforgettable", "Mona Lisa"), born in Montgomery, Alabama

 

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John Wayne Gacy(1942-1994)​

American serial killer who killed 33 young men, born in Chicago, Illinois

 

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Kurt Russell(72 years old)​

1951 American actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons), born in Springfield, Massachusetts

 

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Gary Sinise(68 years old)​

1955 American actor (Apollo 13, CSI: NY, Forrest Gump), born in Blue Island Illinois
https://www.onthisday.com/people/gary-sinise

 

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[Kram]

Alright move along folks, show's over nothin' to see here.

 

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Irène Joliot-Curie
(1897-1956)
French chemist and physicist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935) and daughter of Marie Curie, dies of leukemia at 58

 

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Helen Hayes
(1900-1993)
American actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday), and 1st female EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner), dies of congestive heart failure at 92

 

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1995 Rick Aviles, US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS

 

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Kurt Russell(72 years old)​

1951 American actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons), born in Springfield, Massachusetts

I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won.

 

[Kram]

Now watching this episode of Kitchen Nightmares

Watched a few bits and pieces of random eps on youtube today, US version was obviously a bit scripted but still pretty funny.

 

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lol at the manager of the Mixing Bowl taking half the tips for himself, what a f***head.

 

[HomerThompson]

On this day…. Monday 18th Smarch

 

[HomerThompson]

978 Edward the Martyr, the teenage King of England, is murdered, possibly arranged by his stepmother Queen Ælfthryth
I'd say giving him that name was the first clue.

1662 First public bus service begins in Paris

1870 Il Guarany premieres at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, 1st Brazilian opera successful outside Brazil

 

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1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts at Madison Square Garden in New York City following the merger of two existing circus groups

1900 Ajax soccer club forms in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(33 Eredivisie titles, 18 KNVB Cups, 4 Champions League)

1900 Japan uses its influence over Korea to deny Russia's efforts to obtain a naval station at Korean Port of Masampo, the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war

1902 Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna

1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast.

 

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1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki

1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience

1924 Silent film classic "The Thief of Bagdad" is released, based on One Thousand and One Nights, starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Raoul Walsh

1929 Russian premiere of silent film "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad, written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich

1942 Jackie Robinson & Nate Moreland, request a tryout with the Chicago White Sox


1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, initiating the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

1945 US Army Air Force completes largest bombing raid on Berlin: 1200+ bombers drop 3,000 tons of explosives.

1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kyushu, Japan

1948 Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting

1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)