Original Charlie’s Angels trio dismissed as ‘jiggle TV’
They were smart, professional and stylish and part of an action series with a comic edge that helped pave the way for women crime busters on television
Today In History
On this day: Winston Churchill’s great prison escape
The future British PM was an ambitious young journalist caught up in a war zone when he pulled off a breakout worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster
On this day: How farmer pulled off greatest hoax in history
Crowds flocked to see the enormous petrified figure dug out of a Cardiff field even when its veracity was questioned
Hungry dogs put Pavlov on track for Nobel Prize
When Ivan Pavlov noticed dogs in his laboratory drooled at the expectation of food, it inspired a revolutionary series of experiments which had many implications for modern science
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Killer cult unleashed poison on Aussie sheep
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Cold killer cried on day of his execution
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The Anzac, his feathers and love that outlasted war
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Husband too late to prevent Judy Garland’s lonely death
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Coal miners’ strike left public out in the cold
Seventy years ago Australia was shivering through a harsh winter because of a coal strike, but while houses were cold the political climate was heating up
Aussie inventor freed women from corsets
It took an Australian inventor to give women a comfortable alternative to the form of fashion torture known as the corset
Baseball’s ‘luckiest man’ gave name to disease
Baseball star Lou Gehrig had a terrible season in 1938 but when things got worse in 1939 he discovered the reason was that he had contracted an incurable disease
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