CSB - Today in History

Today in History - December 2 

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Today in history. Welcome to our day in history. Scary thought.
The second day of December, twenty three days till Christmas
Day and if you happen to be counting, just twenty
nine days until the end of the year. Opening up
with the sound of the Australian band Midnight Oil. They
lost their best bass player, Bones Hilman four years ago

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today when he died of cancer at the age of
sixty two. Sun hearts Black day for New Zealand rugby today.
In nineteen sixty seven, All Black block Colin Meads became
just the second player to be ordered off in a
Test match when he was accused by Irish referee Kevin

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Kelleher of dangerous kicking in the match against Scotland. He'sty
in there as well in that's no place for the Mets,
trying to listen to the crowd. Didn't play black one.

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And this is going to be very interesting because I
have a feeling that Colin Mitts may have been ordered
off the field. Yes he was, and he was suspended
for two matches. The first player ever to be sent
off in a rugby Test match was also in All
Black forward Cyril Brownlee, when playing against England in nineteen
twenty five. Right famous people on the birthday list having

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birthdays today, and we start with Tom McGinnis, a member
of Manfred Mann. Then he went out on his own
and formed a band called McGinnis Flint had a big
eth called when I'm Dead in God. He's eighty three today.
Many happy returns of the day to him. It's John
Banks's birthday today, John Archibald Banks, former National Party MP

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from eighty one to ninety nine and former mayor of
Auckland as well. John Banks turns seventy eight today. Teenage
country music singer John Wesley Ryle. Oh we is singing talent.
This was his one hit really a song called Cay
You told about loved that song. Actually used to go
up with your called Cad sold everything I own to bring.

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He's seventy four today. John Wesley Ryles. The fourth to
be exact Irish Brittish Irish actor Brendan Coyle, great actor.
He turns sixty two today. American actress Lucy Loom and
he happy. She's fifty six and Nelsy Fertado's sold over
forty five million records. She is forty six today. Probably

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with the pretty Pennies and American singer Britney Spears. She
turns forty three. She's the fourth best selling female artist
of all time. Happy birthday to Britney Spears. And there
we go our day in history here on gold Sport.

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