On This Day In History

[Bikkie]

1788 -US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it


1864 -New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends



1879 -Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his 1st successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania



1887 -Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria




1893 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois


1948-The Columbia label announces its new technological breakthrough, a "long-playing" vinyl phonograph record that can hold up to 23 minutes of music on a side.




1964-The Beatles land in New Zealand for four concerts.



1970-brazil and Pele become the first team and player to win the Football World Cup three times,when they beat Italy 4-1 in the final in Mexico City.



1982-Prince William is born in St.Marys Hospital,London,the son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.


1982 -John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity




2018-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden gives birth to daughter Neve.

[Piper]

1847-First ring doughnut supposedly
created by Hanson Gregory.


1848-Bamburners (anti-slavery) party
nominates Martin Van Buren for
president.


1940-1st Dairy Queen restaurant opens
in Joliet, Illinois.


1961-Elvis Presley's Wild I'm The Country
movie opens nationally.


1969-After a long battle drug and alcohol
abuse,Judy Garland dies of an overdose
at age 47.


1970-The Who Show in Atlanta is
delayed after Pete Townsend, frustrated
waiting to take off in Memphis, jokes
about planting a bomb on the airplane,
resulting in a search of the aircraft and
a few hours of questioning.


1974-Madonna,15,goes to her first concert:
David Bowie at Coba Arena in Detroit.
"I recognized myself in him somehow and
he gave me license to dream a different
future for myself," she says




1963-"Little" Stevie wonder,aged
13,releases his first single called
Fingertips.


1982-US tennis player John McEnroe
unleashes his now infamous "You Cannot
Be Serious" rant to an umpire over a disputed
line call in his first round win over fellow US
player Tom Gulikson at Wimbledon.


1987-Dancer Fred Astaire,88,dies of pneumonia.
Fred Astaire shortly before his death, Astaire
abdicated his throne as the king of song and
dance and welcomed a new royal: Michael
Jackson.He said: " I don't want to leave this
world without knowing who my descendant
was, thank you Michael."

[Bikkie]

930 -World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi)


1780 -American Revolution: Battle of Springfield fought in and around Springfield, New Jersey (including Short Hills, formerly of Springfield, now of Millburn Township



1868 -Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind



1888 -Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American to be nominated for US Vice President


1892 -Chicago's 'The Inter Ocean' launches 1st US newspaper color supplement


1925 -British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers


1928 -Commencement of West Indies cricket's first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord's



1931 -Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Catty take off from Roosevelt Field, NY, to attempt to set a new record circumnavigating the Earth - successfully complete in 8 days, 15 hrs, 51 mins


1933 -Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC


1939- Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title


1940-The Beatles' original bass player Stu Sutcliffe is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He leaves the group before they hit it big so he can pursue painting.




World's Oldest Treaty
1943 British ambassador to Portugal Ronald Hugh Campbell invokes the almost 600 year old Anglo-Portuguese alliance between the two countries to request the use of military facilities on the Azores


1949 -First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School



1960-Introduction of the birth control pill in the United States


1962-Ray Charles' landmark album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music hits #1 in America.


1973-George Harrison's album Living In The Material World hits #1 in America.




1974 -First extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space



1979 -"My Sharona" single released by The Knack

[Piper]

1905-NZ Truth newspaper
begins.In 1983,it included a
publication called TV Guide,
which you are reading today.


1970-The war-drama Catch-22
opens in cinemas.


1995-In the Rugby World Cup
final in Johannesburg,South
Africa defeat New Zealand
15-12 in extra -time to win
the cup for the first time.

[Bikkie]

1788- Virginia becomes 10th state to ratify US constitutio




1876 -Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"





1913-American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913



1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)



1947-The first version
of Anne Frank's Diary is
published in the Netherlands.



1984-Prince releases his
acclaimed Purple Rain album.


1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)


1993 Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)




2006-Actor Nicole Kidman,39,and country singer Keith Urban,38,are married in Manly Australia.


2009-Pop singer Michael Jackson,50,,dies of cardiac arrest,and US actor Farrah Fawcett,62,dies of cancer.

[Piper]

1971-Kiwi opera Inia
Te Wiata,56,dies of cancer.


1987-New Zealand's A.J.Hackett
bungy jumps off the Eiffel Tower
in Paris in a bid to promote adventure
tourism.


1997-Harry Potter And The Philosopher's
Stone,the first of J.K.Rowling's best-selling
series of books,is published.


2017-Team NZ beats Oracle Team USA 7-1
in Bermuda to win the American's
Cup.

[Bikkie]

1746 -Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye



1778- Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure



1898 -Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum arrives in Newport, Rhode Island, completing the 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe



1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal heavyweight boxing title


1923 -Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane



1929 -1st color Television demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC



1939 -Brilliant West Indies batsman George Headley scores 107 to follow his 106 in the 1st innings in 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's; England still wins by 8 wickets


1955 -1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)



1962- NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m


1963 -US President John F. Kennedy spend his 1st full day in Ireland





1967-The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield,London.


1969 -Denver Pop Festival opens; 50,000 attend; Frank Zappa, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jimi Hendrix headline; other performers include Three Dog Night, Tim Buckley, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Winter, Joe Cocker, and Poco


970 -Festival Express opens in Toronto, Canada - The Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Flying Burrito Bros, Buddy Guy, Great Speckled Bird, and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends cross Canada together by train, for 5 shows in 3 cities


1973- "Live & Let Die", 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US






1981-Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes hits number one in the US singles charts.



1986-Acclaimed former All Black fullback George Nepia dies,aged 81.



2001-US actor Jack Lemmon dies,age 76,of cancer.

[Piper]

1838-The Coronation of Queen Victoria
is held in Westminster Abbey, London.


1880-Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly
is captured at Glenrowan in Victoria.


1974-Paul McCartney and Wings'
release Band On The Run, which
was to be one of their biggest
singles,in the UK.

[Piper]

1956-Actor Marilyn Monroe,30, marries
playwright Arthur Miller,40,in New York.


1978-American actor Bob Crane,49,who
played Colonel Hogan in the comedy
Hogan's Heroes,is murdered in his
Arizona apartment.


1995-US Actor Lana Turner dies, aged
74,of cancer.


2003-American actor Katharine Hepburn
dies aged 96.

[Piper]

1936-The book Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell is published.


1938-Superman first appears in DC
comics' Action Comics series.


1975-New Zealand's second television
channel begins broadcasting.It was
known as South Pacific Television,but
would become TV2.


2008-The film Mamma Mia! featuring
the music of Abba and starring Meryl
Streep,Pierce Bronsnan and Amanda
Seyfried,premieres at Leicester Square
in London.