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Today in History

1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.

1934 – Nissan Motor Company founded in Tokyo.

1943 – A passenger flight from Lisbon to London is shot down by German fighter planes, killing all aboard, including actor Leslie Howard.

1944 – BBC Radio broadcasts coded message to warn French Resistance that D-Day is imminent.

1958 – Charles de Gaulle becomes prime minister of France.

1960 – New Zealand’s first official television transmission begins at 7.30pm. The evening’s programming includes a live interview with a visiting British ballerina and a performance by the Howard Morrison Quartet.

1968 – American writer and lecturer Helen Keller dies, aged 87.

1974 – The Heimlich manoeuvre for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) makes its debut in the US.

1994 – South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth after an absence of 33 years.

2001 – Nepal’s crown prince Dipendra shoots and kills his parents and six other royal family members before shooting himself.

2002 – Disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is killed in a plane crash.

2009 – An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris runs into thunderstorms and disappears over the Atlantic Ocean.

Birthdays

Cherry Raymond, NZ broadcaster (1925-2006); Marilyn Monroe, US actor (1926-62); Pat Boone, US singer (1934-); Morgan Freeman, US actor (1937-); Ronnie Wood ,UK guitarist, The Rolling Stones (1947-); Gaylene Preston, NZ film-maker (1947-); Lorraine Moller, NZ athlete (1955-); Jason Donovan, Australian actor-singer (1968-); Heidi Klum, German model (1973-); Ben Smith, NZ rugby player (1986-).

Obituaries

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