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

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#onthisdaydelayed Feb 20

 

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Royal Coronation​

1547 King Edward VI of England crowned following the death of his father Henry VIII

 

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1939 The American pro-Nazi organization German American Bund hold a rally at Madison Square Garden and 20,000 attend

 

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1941 Nazi Germany orders Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

 

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Battle of Eniwetok
1944 Battle of Eniwetok: US forces take Enewetak Atoll at the cost of 37 Americans killed or missing and 94 wounded, Japanese losses were 800 dead and 23 prisoners

 

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Appointment of Interest
1947 Earl Mountbatten of Burma is appointed the last viceroy of India to oversee the move to independence

 

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John Glenn Orbits Earth​

1962 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7

 

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Sports History
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York

 

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Music History
2014 Aberdeen, Washington unveils statue of a weeping Kurt Cobain at park named after the singer

 

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Music History
2016 4-inch lock of John Lennon's hair sells for $35,000 to a memorabilia collector at an auction in Dallas, Texas

 

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London Fashion Week​

2018 Queen of England, Elizabeth II makes surprise appearance at London fashion week

 

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Sidney Poitier(1927-2022)​

Bahamian-American actor, first black actor to win Oscar for Best Actor ('Lillies in the Field' - 1963; To Sir With Love"; "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"), director (Stir Crazy), civil rights advocate, and diplomat, born in Miami, Florida [1]

 

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1937 Roger Penske, American auto racer


Aka the Penske file

 

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Charles Barkley(61 years old)​

1963 American Basketball Forward (NBA MVP 1993, 11-time All Star, Olympic gold 1996), born in Leeds, Alabama

 

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Cindy Crawford(58 years old)​

1966 American supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit), born in DeKalb, Illinois

 

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Kurt Cobain(1967-1994)​

American grunge rocker (Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), born in Aberdeen, Washington

 

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1978 Lauren Ambrose, American actress

 

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Rihanna(36 years old)​

1988 Barbadian R&B and pop singer-songwriter ("Umbrella"; "Only Girl (In The World)"; "We Found Love"; "Diamonds"), born in Saint Michael, Barbados

 

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Frederick Douglass
(c. 1817/18-1895)
African-American abolitionist, lecturer and editor who was also an escaped slave, dies of a heart attack at 77

 

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Robert Peary
(1856-1920)
American arctic explorer who claimed to have 1st reached geographic North Pole (Apr 6 1909), dies at 63