Nick Pearson

New South Wales, Sydney

Homepage Producer at Nine News Australia

Journalist and homepage producer for https://t.co/fZe52tKkaY ✝️

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June 18: Banana company pushes US into approving military coup

1 week ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

In Guatemala City during the coup was 25-year-old political activist Che Guevara. "The last Latin American revolutionary democracy – that of Jacobo Árbenz – failed as a result of the cold premeditated aggression carried out by the United States," Guevara said.
June 15: The chilling words teenage stranger said after shooting baseball star

1 week ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

A teenager shot and nearly killed a star baseball player in a Chicago hotel room just after midnight on June 15, 1949. Ruth Steinhagen, 19, had developed an intense crush on Cubs first baseman Eddie Waitkus. She turned her bedroom into a shrine for Waitkus and began learning Lithuanian because that was his family's heritage.
Sole survivors: How people live through plane crashes that kill everyone else

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

The world was shocked by the plane crash in India that killed hundreds. But focus after the disaster quickly shifted to the sole survivor who somehow survived the crash. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was somehow thrown clear when the Air India flight exploded and split in two. Even more remarkably, Ramesh was able to walk away from the crash with only minor injuries. It seems like an unthinkable fluke, but Ramesh is not the first person to survive a plane crash through bizarre and surprising circumstances.
June 14: French scientist creates ecological disaster with something brought in from Australia

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

1 of 10Attribution: Paris Interuniversity Library of Health2 of 10Attribution: Nine Archives3 of 10Attribution: Supplied4 of 10Attribution: Adobe Stock5 of 10Attribution: Nine Archives6 of 10Attribution: Nine ArchivesAfter playing in Denmark, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Australia, Nicol was flown back to the UK from Melbourne when Starr was released from hospital.
Today in History - June 13: Room full of people watch spiritual medium levitate

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

A teenager fired blank bullets at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode in the Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London on June 13, 1981. Marcus Sarjeant, 17, fired six blank rounds from a pistol at the monarch as she rode on horseback in the procession down The Mall before he was wrestled to the ground by police. Though both the Queen and her horse were startled, the royal quickly regained her composure.
Today in History - June 12: Dictator avoids punishment for cannibalism through legal loophole

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

But Bokassa was cleared of the more lurid charge of cannibalism. This photo shows the giant refrigerator where Bokassa reportedly kept his victims.The court was told by a former chef that he was ordered to serve human flesh to Bokassa and to foreign dignitaries. However, under Central African Republic law at the time, cannibalism was considered a misdemeanour crime. And one of Bokassa's successors had declared a general amnesty on misdemeanours, allowing the dictator to avoid punishment.
June 11: The game show thought he had cheated. He had just discovered a trick to win big

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

6 of 16Attribution: Pathe7 of 16Attribution: Pathe8 of 16Attribution: Nine Archives9 of 16Attribution: Nine Archives10 of 16Attribution: Pathe13 of 16Attribution: Limelight Department14 of 16Attribution: Limelight DepartmentSoldiers of the Cross was a two-and-a-half-hour movie shot mostly in Melbourne telling the story of early Christian martyrs.
Today in History - June 8: Man planning to live to 100 dies during TV interview

2 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

Minutes after declaring his intention to live to 100, organic food advocate JI Rodale died on stage during a taping of The Dick Cavett Show on June 8, 1971. The health food guru, who was also a prominent anti-vaxxer and segregationist, was on the show extolling his healthy lifestyle. But as he sat down next to follow-up interview guest Pete Hamill, Rodale dropped his head and made a gurgling sound.
Today in History - June 7: The question nobody expected to be asked on a show for preschoolers

3 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

1 of 10Attribution: Mr Rogers' Neighbourhood3 of 10Attribution: Mr Rogers' Neighbourhood4 of 10Attribution: Getty5 of 10Attribution: FortuneThe only previous picture was taken five years earlier, when photographer Erich Salomon feigned a broken arm and hid a camera in the phony cast.
June 1: Viewers asked to vote by text for who should get a kidney transplant

3 weeks ago | 9news.com.au | Nick Pearson

Nine people including his mother and father, King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed. Dipendra then shot himself, slipped into a coma and was declared brain dead soon after being crowned monarch. His uncle, Prince Gyanendra, then ascended the throne. A disagreement is said to have sparked the massacre, with tensions flaring after Dipendra's parents objected to his plans to marry a local aristocrat. In 2008, the 240 year-old monarchy was formally abolished.