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I'm not sure of the exact date as it was probably a gradual thing that spread across the English speaking cultures. I would say it was around the 1960's because before that, dick was not a derogatory term.
It used to be that a dick was an investigator who tried to solve crimes or find out information for clients. A private investigator was also known as a private dick, for example. The famous newspaper comic strip character Dick Tracy is a good example of this in the pop culture of America.
Dick also used to be a popular nickname for people named Richard. I have no idea how that connection happened but it did. My great uncle Richard went by the name of Dick for most of his life, for example. A famous guy with the name you may have heard of was Dick Vandyke, the actor. Another actor was Dick Vanpatten. Some people called President Richard Nixon "Dick" too.
More recently there have been famous people like Dick Morris, the political strategist. Due to the changing usage of the word, the name Dick has become less common than it used to be.
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