Skylace wrote:2004-Janet Jackson has a "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl. Which also fucks up what can be on tv and radio in the states to this day. Thanks a lot Ms. Jackson.
was that when her nipple popped out or something? i remember it caused quite a commotion at the time! crazy coincidence - look below to see what happened the same day in 1965!
1st February
1587 Under pressure from her Council, Queen Elizabeth I of England signed the warrant authorising the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
1884 The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. James Murray was its most famous editor but he had only reached the letter T after working 44 hours per week for 35 years, so hundreds of people sent in their own contributions.
1910 The first 80 Labour Exchanges opened in Britain to try and find jobs for the unemployed.
1915 Sir Stanley Matthews, English football player, was born.
1930 The first ever 'Times' crossword was published.
1939 A British White Paper proposing the formation of the Home Guard (which became better known as Dad’s Army because of the average age of the volunteers) was published.
1949 The end of clothes rationing in Britain, four years after the end of World War II.
1952 The first TV detector van was demonstrated. It enabled the BBC to track down users of unlicensed television sets in Britain.
1965 P.J. Proby, the US rock singer, was banned by ABC Theatres and the BBC after he had deliberately split his trousers during his act. The mainly female audience and the tabloids, who claimed Proby’s act was obscene, went wild. It was the beginning of the end for the flamboyant performer.
1965 Prescriptions on the NHS became free of charge and remained so until June 1968.
1974 Escaped Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs was arrested by Brazilian police in Rio. He escaped extradition because he was the father of a child by his Brazilian girlfriend.
1979 Trevor Francis, aged 24, became the first £1m footballer in England, signing for Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest.
1984 Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, announced that the halfpenny coin would cease to be legal tender. Its fate was sealed when it became more expensive to make than its face value.
