October 30th 1485 The coronation of Henry VII of England. He founded the Yeoman of the Guard - 'Beefeaters' - to guard Royal Palaces in London.
1925 In his workshop in London, Scotsman John Logie Baird achieved the transmission of the first television pictures using the head of a dummy as his image source.. He then persuaded a 15 year old office boy, William Taynton, to sit in front of a camera, becoming the first live person captured on camera.
1938 – Orson Welles Broadcasts “The War of the Worlds”On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcasted a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel “The War of the Worlds.” Presented in the format of a series of simulated news bulletins, the broadcast famously caused panic among listeners who believed that an actual Martian invasion was taking place.
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1963..only game the All Blacks lost all tour. I became a supporter six years later…I’ll be watching us on Saturday.
That power station is long gone and we got kicked out to a small out of town stadium.
