FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed in Paris

 

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*probably not that exact design

 

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Music History
1964 Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, just before the Beatles embark on a World Tour

 

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Assassination Attempt
1968 American radical feminist Valerie Solanas attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. She is later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleads guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm," serving a 3-year sentence.

 

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
1969 Innovative and much loved children's picture book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle is published

 

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1982 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis


Are you kidding?!?! With that?!

 

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Big
1988 "Big," a film directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks, premieres in the US

 

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Tiananmen Square Massacre
1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

 

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1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze



These spelling bees back then were bullshit

 

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Six Feet Under
2001 TV drama "Six Feet Under" created by Alan Ball, starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy premieres on HBO

 

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2017 Rock climber Alex Honnold makes first-ever free solo climb of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park (depicted in "Free Solo" Academy Award-winning Best Documentary 2018)

 

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2017 Terrorist attack in Borough Market, London by three men who drive van into pedestrians then stab and kill 7 and wound 48. Attackers shot dead by British police.

 

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And that concludes on this day..

Im getting another coffee.

 

[Voula]

1851 First baseball uniforms are worn as the NY Knickerbockers don straw hats, white shirts, and blue long trousers

Lol so that's where the name NY Knicks comes from. Knickerbockers haha. Can't imagine yelling Let's go Knickerbockers .

 

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Lol so that's where the name NY Knicks comes from. Knickerbockers haha. Can't imagine yelling Let's go Knickerbockers .

Lol i didnt even make that connection..

 

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*And FWIW yesterday's answer was- the first thing built in the White House.

A swimming pool.

 

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Jefferson Davis(1808-1889)​

President of the Confederate States of America (1861-65), born in Fairview, Kentucky

 

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George V(1865-1936)​

King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born in Marlborough House, London,

 

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Charles R. Drew(1904-1950)​

American physician and surgeon who pioneered blood plasma research and developed the blood bank concept, born in Washington, D. C.