On this date in 1969 Monty Pythons Flying Circus premiered on BBC One. What else could you possibly need to know? Okay . . . if I must . . . heres the rest . . . ;-) October 5: In 1793, during the French Revolution, Christianity is disestablished in France; in 1857 Anaheim, California is founded; in 1864 60,000 die when the Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; in 1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles; in 1895 the first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London; in 1914 the first aerial combat in history that results in an intentional fatality occurs during World War I; in 1943 ninety-eight American POWs executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island; in 1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France; in 1947 the first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman; in 1962 Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released; in 1969 the first episode of Monty Pythons Flying Circus airs on BBC One; in 1970 the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded; in 1982 Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths; in 1984 Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. Birthdays; 21st U.S. President Chester A. Arthur (1929); rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard (1882); Stooge Larry Fine (1902); game show host Allen Ludden (1917); English actor Donald Pleasence (1919); Family Circle cartoonist Bil Keane (1922); actor/comedian Bill Dana (1924); Gemini 11/Apollo 12 astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (1929); AC/DC singer Brian Johnson (1947); singer/guitarist B. W. Stevenson (1948); actress Karen Allen (1951); Irish singer/songwriter Bob Geldof (1951); Dutch astronaut André Kuipers (1958); astrophysicist/author Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958); architect/sculptor Maya Lin (1959); race car driver/team owner Michael Andretti (1962); Hall of Fame hockey player Mario Lemieux (1965); Hall of Fame hockey player Patrick Roy (1965); cosmologist Sean M. Carroll (1966). Music: In 1962 The Beatles release their first single, Love Me Do b/w P.S. I Love You, in the UK; in 1975 Harry Chapin releases Cats In The Cradle; in 1999 Paul McCartney releases his album Run Devil Run; in 1959 Bobby Darins Mack The Knife hits #1, in 1974 The Beach Boys LP Endless Summer hits #1 and Olivia Newton-Johns I Honestly Love You hits #1 .
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:46:03 +0000
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