FTA-TV First Dates - Part 6 - More episodes & series than you can poke with a suggestive mushroom

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1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military

 

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"Black Dahlia" Found Dead​

1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California

 

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Coco The Clown​

1962 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] is the subject of the BBC TV programme "This is Your Life"

 

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Rolling Stones Alter Lyrics for Show​

1967 Rolling Stones appear for the fifth time on the Ed Sullivan Show, reluctantly agree to alter lyrics of "Let's Spend The Night Together"

 

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"Happy Days"​

1974 TV sitcom "Happy Days" created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley, begins an 11 year run on ABC

 

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Would-Be Ford Assassin Sentenced​

1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford

 

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1982 Mark Thatcher, son of UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, makes his way home after 6 days missing in the Sahara

 

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Australia Own Victoria Cross​

1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so

 

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1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man

 

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1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

 

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Princess Diana Calls for Landmine Ban​

1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, calls for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK

 

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1998 Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe becomes youngest ever male to become a world swimming champion when he wins 400m freestyle aged 15 years, 3 months in Perth; also wins event at 2001 & 2003 World Championships

 

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Sullenberger Lands on the Hudson​

2009 Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in NYC. All passengers and crew members survive in what becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"

 

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Biles Says She Too Abused​

2018 US Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles says she is one of more than 130 women sexually abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar

 

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Largest Parliamentary Defeat​

2019 Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
https://www.onthisday.com/people/theresa-may

 

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Joan of Arc(1412-1431)​

Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date), born in Domrémy, duchy of Bar, France

 

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1906 Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, born in Konak, Turkey (d. 1975)

 

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Martin Luther King Jr.(1929-1968)​

American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), born in Atlanta, Georgia
https://www.onthisday.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr

 

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Regina King(52 years old)​

1971 American actress (Southland, If Beale Street Could Talk), born in Cincinnati, Ohio

 

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Mary Pierce(48 years old)​

1975 French tennis player (Australian Open 1995, French Open 2000), born in Montreal, Quebec

 

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1981 Pitbull [Armando Christian Perez], American rapper, born in Miami, Florida

 

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Elizabeth Short(1924-1947)​

American victim in the Black Dahlia case, murdered at 22