FTA-TV First Dates - Part 7

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Kram said:
At the work thing last week they suggested we use more 'inclusive' language like..

Instead of

Him, her - they, them
She, he - theirs
Boys, girls - class, students
Mum, dad - parents, guardians

Yeah, how about no.
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Society has gone nuts it’s getting worse too
 

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On this day... April 5th



1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
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1424 Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court.
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1609 Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa

1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific. Not a happy easter for the locals.

1764 British Parliament passes the Sugar Tax on the American colonies, introduced by Prime Minister George Grenville.
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1803 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D, conducted by the composer, in Vienna 🎶
Review: “It was ok I guess, but not as good as his first album”

1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider 🍎

1814 Netherlands Bank issues its 1st banknotes 🇳🇱 💸

1818 Battle of Maipú: Chile's independence movement led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead 🇨🇱 🇪🇸

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to blind and deaf six-year-old Helen Keller by holding one of her hands under a dripping water pump and spelling out “w-a-t-e-r” in Keller’s palm. She goes on to learn how to read, write, speak and graduate from college. :droplet:

1900 Attempted assassination of Edward Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails.
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1902 In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517

1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates towns in the Naples province, killing more than 100 people :volcano:

1919 Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann, the Irish parliament 🇮🇪

1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
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1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets world records in both the 100m and 200m free style swimming events 🏊‍♂️

1930 Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of followers reach the sea at Dandi and boil seawater to make illegal salt, marking the end of his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax 🧂

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory 🇩🇪
 
HomerThompson said:
On this day... April 5th



1242 Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod defeats the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of the Ice
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1424 Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court.
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1609 Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa

1722 Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the southeastern Pacific. Not a happy easter for the locals.

1764 British Parliament passes the Sugar Tax on the American colonies, introduced by Prime Minister George Grenville.
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1803 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D, conducted by the composer, in Vienna 🎶
Review: “It was ok I guess, but not as good as his first album”

1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider 🍎

1814 Netherlands Bank issues its 1st banknotes 🇳🇱 💸

1818 Battle of Maipú: Chile's independence movement led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead 🇨🇱 🇪🇸

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to blind and deaf six-year-old Helen Keller by holding one of her hands under a dripping water pump and spelling out “w-a-t-e-r” in Keller’s palm. She goes on to learn how to read, write, speak and graduate from college. :droplet:

1900 Attempted assassination of Edward Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails.
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1902 In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517

1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates towns in the Naples province, killing more than 100 people :volcano:

1919 Eamon de Valera becomes President of Dail Eireann, the Irish parliament 🇮🇪

1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
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1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets world records in both the 100m and 200m free style swimming events 🏊‍♂️

1930 Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of followers reach the sea at Dandi and boil seawater to make illegal salt, marking the end of his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax 🧂

1939 Membership of Hitler Youth becomes obligatory 🇩🇪
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also on this day .....

1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death 🕵️‍♂️🕵️‍♀️

1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
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1962 NASA's Neil Armstrong pilots the X-15 to a height of 54,600 meters 🛩️

1962 St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands 🇨🇭🇮🇹

1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground :bullettrainside:

1965 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win

1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
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1967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds :basketball:

1971 Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole 🥶

1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre 🇺🇲 :gun: :knife: 🇻🇳

1975 American tennis #1 Chris Evert wins her 3rd WTA Tour Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena; beats Martina Navratilova 6-4, 6-2 :tennisball:

1981 Philadelphia Flyers amass a record 2,621 penalty minutes 🏒 🥊

1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) :basketball:

1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m) 🪃

1987 Fox TV network premieres showing "Married With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show"

1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title 🏒

1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity :hammer:

1992 Serbian troops begin besieging Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, which would become the longest siege in modern warfare 🇷🇸🇧🇦

1992 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.

1995 Pages of Codex Argenteus (the Silver Bible), the oldest text in the Gothic language (5th century) stolen from Uppsala University Library, Sweden in broad daylight (recovered a month later)

1997 Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts
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2021 Italy scraps its 1914 film censorship law that could ban films on moral and religious grounds 🇮🇹

2063 Earth's 1st contact with the extraterrestrial Vulcan species in the Star Trek universe
 
🎂 Birthdays….


1893 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (Olympic gold 1500m, 5000m, allround 1924; 500m, 1500m 1928), born in Helsinki, Finland (d.1973) 🇫🇮 ⛸️

1900 Spencer Tracy, American actor (Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib), born in Milwaukee (d.1967) 🇺🇲

1908 Bette Davis, American actress (Of Human Bondage; Jezebel; All About Eve), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d.1989) 🇺🇲

1908 Jagjivan Ram, Indian independence activist and politician, born in Chandwa, Bhojpur, Bihar, British India (d. 1986) 🇮🇳

1916 Gregory Peck American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur), born in San Diego, California ((d. 2003) 🇺🇲

1921 Christopher Hewett, British actor (Mr. Belvedere; The Producers) and theater director, born in Worthing, Sussex, England (d. 2001) :england:
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1926 Roger Corman, American producer and director (Little Shop of Horrors), born in Detroit, Michigan 🇺🇲

1929 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (Yes Minister, Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II), born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (d. 2001) :england:

1937 Colin Powell American General and 1st Black US Secretary of State (2001-05), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2021) 🇺🇲

1946 Jennifer Penney, Canadian ballerina, born in Vancouver, British Columbia 🇨🇦 :dancers:

1948 Dave Holland, English heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest - "Breakin' The Law"), born in Northampton, England (d. 2018) :england:

1948 Hans Theessink, Dutch blues guitarist, mandolin player, singer-songwriter, born in Enschede, Netherlands 🇳🇱

1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA - "Dancing Queen"), born in Jönköping, Sweden 🇸🇪 :microphone:

1955 Akira Toriyama Japanese manga artist (Dragon Ball), born in Nagoya, Japan (d. 2024) :japan:

1958 Cammie Lusko, Guinness' World Strongest Woman, born in Los Angeles, California 🇺🇲 🦾

1965 Adrie Bogers, Dutch soccer defender (RKC Waalwijk) and manager (NEC Nijmegen, Sparta Rotterdam, NAC Breda), born in Breda, Netherlands 🇳🇱 :soccerball:

1966 Michael "Mike" McCready, American musician and lead guitarist (Pearl Jam), born in Pensacola, Florida 🇺🇲 :guitar:

1967 Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player 🇨🇦

1976 Sterling K. Brown, American actor (The People v. O. J. Simpson, This is Us), born in St. Louis, Missouri 🇺🇲

1982 Hayley Atwell, British-American actress (Captain America; Agent Carter), born in London, England :england:
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1989 Lily James, English actress (Cinderella, Yesterday), born in Esher, England :england:

1990 Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor :japan:
 
💀 Deaths...

1531 Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop
That’s guaranteed to get yourself into hot water

1884 John Wisden, English cricket all-rounder (launched Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1864; Sussex CCC, Kent CCC, Middlesex CCC), dies at 57 🏏

1923 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier and Egyptologist who funded the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, dies at 56 after a severe mosquito bite became infected by a razor cut 🦟

1973 John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928) :footy:

1976 Howard Hughes, American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator, dies at 72
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1985 Arthur Negus, English antiques expert and broadcaster (Antiques Roadshow), dies at 82.

1994 Kurt Cobain, American grunge rocker (Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"), commits suicide at 27.

1994 Roy Smeck, American musician (guitar and banjo), dies at 94 🪕

1998 John Wilbraham, British classical, baroque, and session trumpeter (Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields; English Chamber Orchestra; The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour), and educator, dies at 53 :trumpet:

2008 Charlton Heston, American actor (The Ten Commandments; Ben-Hur; Planet of Apes)Ben-Hur), dies at 84

2012 Ferdinand A. Porsche, German car designer (Porsche 911), dies at 76 🚗

2020 Honor Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers), dies at 94 🐈‍⬛ ♣️♠️♥️♦️

2022 Joaquim Carvalho, Portuguese soccer goalkeeper (6 caps; Sporting CP), dies at 84 :soccerball:
 
:twohearts: Weddings….

1614 Native American princess Pocahontas and daughter of chief Powhatan marries English colonist John Rolfe

1653 Dutch painter Jan Vermeer marries Catharina Bolenes in Schipluiden
The wedding self-portrait took years

1955 American musician Ray Charles (24) weds Della Beatrice Howard

1999 Talk show host Wayne Brady (26) weds dancer Mandie Taketa
 
It's still really good but I think the last season of The Wire is definitely the weakest if I had to pick one.

McNulty and the serial killer plot was funny at times but was way too unrealistic, bordering on just ridiculous. I liked the print media focus with The Sun and Gus but even then the characters were either totally good or bad, no shades of 'grey'.

Flaws that weren't in any of the other seasons.

Oh yeah and how Omar finished up was such an anti climax for one of TV's greatest characters.
 
Kram said:
It's still really good but I think the last season of The Wire is definitely the weakest if I had to pick one.

McNulty and the serial killer plot was funny at times but was way too unrealistic, bordering on just ridiculous. I liked the print media focus with The Sun and Gus but even then the characters were either totally good or bad, no shades of 'grey'.

Flaws that weren't in any of the other seasons.

Oh yeah and how Omar finished up was such an anti climax for one of TV's greatest characters.
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Agreed.

Hard to follow season 4, and the cast made S5 better than it was written. For me it's an epilogue rather than a season in its own right.

Didn't mind Omar's conclusion.
 
HomerThompson said:
Agreed.

Hard to follow season 4, and the cast made S5 better than it was written. For me it's an epilogue rather than a season in its own right.

Didn't mind Omar's conclusion.
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Yep season 4 the best by far. Shame Shell quit watching before that might have enjoyed it with the kids and the school system focus.

Then I'd go 3, 2, 1 and finally 5 last.
 

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