FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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Ok today on this day.. Friday the 13th June

 

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World's Oldest Treaty​

1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Perpetual Alliance (world's oldest still in existence) signed in London between King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I of Portugal [1]

 

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Oh i knew this one- we did this recently in yr8 history

Poll Tax Triggers the Peasants' Revolt​

1381 Peasants' Revolt: Rebels enter London and with local townsfolk, attack the prisons, destroy Savoy Palace and kill anyone associated with the royal government

 

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1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves


Good on you Rhode Island

 

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I could have been a north supporter

There is a lot of them in wa around our age cos they were good in the 90s and in Friday night footy a lot.

 

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1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries

 

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No Babies Please!​

1920 US Post Office says children cannot be sent by parcel post (after various instances)

 

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1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops

 

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Gestapo Established​

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering

 

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Event of Interest​

1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

 

[Kram]

Thank christ I came to my senses.

This is how I progressed in terms of AFL

0-6/7 years old: North supporter because they were Kangaroos
8-10: hated AFL
11: iirc went through a phase of barracking for every team, even Essnedon (that one lasted the shortest like a week)
12: leaning towards Geelong
13: Full on Geelong, put me down I'm down.

When I was like 10 there was a gathering across the road with adults having a party drinking. There was a kid around 6 that didn't say a word for hours until someone mentions footy "The cats! The mighty cats!"

 

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Event of Interest​

1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death

 

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Music History​

2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch

 

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2018 Raccoon climbs 23 story office building in St Paul, Minnesota, becoming an internet sensation

 

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2019 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"

 

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2021 US President Joe Biden has tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle


Should have taken hot dogs

 

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2022 World's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia (tagged and released) [1]

 

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Martha Washington(1731-1802)​

1st US First Lady (1789-97), born in Kent County, Virginia

 

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1927 Slim Dusty [David Kirkpatrick], Australian country music singer-songwriter, born in Kempsey, New South Wales (d. 2003)

 

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Malcolm McDowell(82 years old)​

1943 English actor (Clockwork Orange, Caligula), born in Leeds, England

 

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Tim Allen(72 years old)​

1953 Canadian comedian (Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle), born in Denver, Colorado

 

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1962 Ally Sheedy [Alexandria], American actress (Wargames, Breakfast Club), born in New York City