FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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1819 HMS Kite chases the steamship SS Savannah on its historic voyage across the Atlantic for 3 hours off the coast of Ireland believing it to be on fire. Unable to catch the steamship HMS Kite fires warning shots forcing it to stop and be inspected to the amazement of the British.

 

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Metropolitan Police Act​

1829 Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London, the city's first modern police force

 

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1846 First officially recognised baseball game (played by Cartwright Rules) - NY Nines 23 defeat Knickerbockers 1 at Hoboken, New Jersey

 

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Train!

1903 New York Central Railroad begins building Grand Central Terminal, designed by the architectural firms of Reed & Stem (overall) and Warren & Wetmore (exterior) [1]

 

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1914 Hillcrest Mine Disaster: explosion at Hillcrest mine, Alberta, kills 189 men in Canada's worst mining disaster [1]

 

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Germans Seize Dutch Assets​

1940 Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses and ships


What an arseh*le

 

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Music History​

1956 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end their partnership after 10 years and 16 films

 

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1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation

 

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1988 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long

 

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Pablo Escobar Jailed​

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police

 

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Event of Interest
1999 At about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip

 

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Film & TV History​

2015 American actress Shannen Doherty (44) reveals that she has breast cancer

 

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2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)

 

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2024 A law requiring classrooms display the Ten Commandments signed into law by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry - first state to do so [1]

 

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2024 World's oldest wine, a white, revealed inside a 1st century CE Roman funeral urn mixed with a man's ashes in a mausoleum in Carmona, Spain [1]

 

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Wallis Simpson(1896-1986)​

American divorcee whom British King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry, born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania

 

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Moe Howard(1897-1975)​

American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York

 

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Lou Gehrig(1903-1941)​

American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (6 x World Series, 2 x AL MVP; 7 x MLB All Star; NY Yankees), born in New York City

 

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1945 Robert Palmer, American rock music critic (New York Times; Rolling Stone), record producer, and clarinetist, born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1997)

 

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Wait i dont think thats the singer Robert Palmer... ah dm

 

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Salman Rushdie(78 years old)​

1947 British-Indian novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses), born in Mumbai, India

 

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1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress (The Accidental Tourist; The Jewel of Nile; Serial Mom), born in Springfield, Missouri

 

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Paula Abdul(63 years old)​

1962 American singer-songwriter, choreographer (Straight Up), and TV personality (American Idol), born in San Fernando, California