On This Day

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1959, US singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson along with the pilot Roger Peterson, died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 2009, Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria claimed 173 lives. R.I.P

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 2005, Google Maps was launched 🗺 - Thank heavens for Google Maps

 

[grubstake]

On This Day In 2005, Google Maps was launched 🗺 - Thank heavens for Google Maps

It's another great Aussie invention:

Wikipedia: Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at Sydney-based Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google Inc. where it transformed into the web application Google Maps.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1981, Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bill Haley, died, aged 55, at his home in Harlingen, Texas

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1966, Australia switched to decimal currency

 

[Mackka]

Thank you Mr. Dollar. I remember asking Mum for a shilling so i could convert it into decimal currency only to find out that when i handed over my sixpence, I only got a 5 cent coin so i lost a penny on each transaction and thats when i first realised that the government had started to rip me off

 

[Mackka]

14th February 1779 Capt. James Cook was stabbed to death at Kealakekua Bay Hawaii. They tried to kidnap the chief as ransom to get back their stolen ship. It didn't work as it was a crime to touch any part of the Chief and the penalty was death.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1983, more than 100 fires swept through South Australia and Victoria killing 75 people in what became known as Ash Wednesday. R.I.P.

 

[Manpa]

Remember the day like it was just yesterday, to this day it still affects a number of people I know.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day in 2011 an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed more than 180 people and injured several thousand more. ⚘ R.I.P.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day in 1931 Australian operatic soprano, Dame Nellie Melba died, aged 69, in Sydney. ⚘ R.I.P. Nellie, you are and allways will be one of Australia's true icons.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day in 1975 colour T.V. officially started in Australia

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day in 1999, singer Dusty Springfield died, aged 59, in Henly-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England ⚘ What a wonderful singer she was. R.I.P and thank you for those great songs.

 

[Mackka]

Also today in 1978, the famed comedian Charlie Chaplin’s coffin was stolen from its grave in a small cemetery in Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The two thieves had planned a get rich scheme and a ransom of $600,000 was asked for but not paid and they were later caught and one was sentenced to jail and the other not. The thieves wives wrote to Chaplin’s wife saying they were extremely sorryfor what their husbands had done. Chaplin’s wife replied, all is forgiven.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 2017, Rock 'n' Roll pioneer Chuck Berry died, aged 90, at his home near Wentzville, Missouri

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1984, Singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father in Los Angeles.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. R.I.P. ⚘

 

[Mackka]

Very sad.

 

[Dave's Office]

On This Day In 1896, the first modern summer Olympics were opened by King George 1 of Greece at the Panathenaic Stadium 🏟 in Athens