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

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Robert Oppenheimer
(1904-1967)
American theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), dies of throat cancer at 62

 

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1990 Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies

 

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2023 George T. Miller, Scottish-Australian film and television director (The Man from Snowy River; Zeus and Roxanne), dies at 79

 

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2023 Tom Whitlock, American Academy Award-winning lyricist songwriter (“Take My Breath Away”, “Danger Zone”), dies at 68

 

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I'm having a break for a bit folks. See yous in a while.

 

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#feb19

 

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Thomas Edison's Phonograph
1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his cylinder phonograph [1]

 

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1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

 

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Typhoid Mary Freed​

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

 

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No Babies Please!​

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance

 

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1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian city of Darwin

 

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1945 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma

 

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima​

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines

 

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1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US

 

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Parkinson​

1971 British TV chat show "Parkinson" debuts on BBC1 presented by Michael Parkinson

 

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1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China

 

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1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spends 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky

 

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1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan

 

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2018 Nigeria says 110 girls missing, presumed kidnapped by Boko Haram after attack on school in Dapchi, Yobe state

 

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Nicolaus Copernicus(1473-1543)​

Polish mathematician and astronomer who theorized that planets revolve around the sun (Heliocentric theory), born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland

 

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Lee Marvin(1924-1987)​

American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), born in New York City

 

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1946 Peter Hudson, Australian rules footballer

 

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1955 Jeff Daniels, American actor (Dumb & Dumber, Speed, The Newsroom), born in Athens, Georgia