FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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How much would a jousting stick be worth you reckon?

 

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Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar​

1700 Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700)

 

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Oxford Debate on Evolution​

1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce

 

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Yosemite Grant Act​

1864 Yosemite Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln bestowing 200,000 acres to the state of California, establishes America's first state-controlled park [1]

 

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1894 London's Tower Bridge opens across the Thames


Nice bridge that one

 

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Possibly the best looking bridge in the world. Am i wrong?

 

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Historic Publication​

1905 27 year-old clerk Albert Einstein publishes his theory of special relativity, the relationship between space and time in equation E=mc2

 

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Food Safety Acts Passed​

1906 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular)

 

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Was Mystery Blast Caused by Aliens?​

1908 A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history

 

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Gandhi's First Arrest​

1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

 

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Night of the Long Knives​

1934 Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party in the "Night of the Long Knives"

 

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1937 The world's first emergency call telephone service is launched in London using the number 999


When was the telephone invented?

I'm surprised it was as late as this to introduce 999..

 

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Altho i suppose hardly anyone would have had them so it would be redundant..

 

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1972 One leap second is added to the UTC time system; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985

 

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1987 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie

Catfish Alley

 

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I love this song

1992 "End of the Road" single released by Boyz II Men (Grammy Award Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song 1993, Billboard Song of the Year 1992)

 

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Sports History​

1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against O.J. Simpson



*and in 1995 the entire country was fixated on this, instead of the trial of the WTC bombers, which basically led to 9/11.

 

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Sports History​

1994 US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life

 

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2011 China opens the world's longest bridge the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge for the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway at 164.8-kilometre-long (102.4 mile)

 

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Event of Interest​

2016 The Ikea Museum opens in the former very first Ikea store in Älmhult, Sweden

 

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2018 Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter

 

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2019 New York marks 50 years since the Stonewall Uprising sparked the modern gay rights movement with huge pride marches

 

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Film & TV History​

2021 Pennsylvania Supreme overturns comedian Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby in return for Cosby's testimony in a related civil suit; Cosby immediately released from prison
https://www.onthisday.com/people/bill-cosby


Idiots.

 

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2022 New York is named world's wealthiest city, home to 345,600 millionaires, and 59 billionaires, with Tokyo and San Francisco making up the top three [1]