Today in History

On this Day - 9th October: (MUSIC)

1965 -The Beatles
... started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Paul McCartney ballad 'Yesterday' giving the group their tenth US No.1.

The track was not released as a single in the UK until 1976.
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1969 - Top Of The Pops
For the first time in the history of the show, the BBC’s Top Of The Pops producers refused to air the No. 1 song,
= ‘Je T’aime... Moi Non Plus’, the erotic French language love song by Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin.
The song, an instrumental with the voices of Gainsbourg and Birkin apparently recorded in the act of love and superimposed over the top, caused such a stir in Britain that the original label, Fontana, dropped the record despite it being No. 2 on the charts.
A small record company, Major Minor, bought the rights and saw the song climb to the top of the charts, the first French language song to ever do so.
(N.B. - YouTube wanted me to verify my age - by ID Credit card. Driver's licence - "We won't use it for anything else" = I think not - so hope this version is accessible <>)

<> It's enough to make anyone want to Rebel....
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... and "So , -it goes"
1976 - Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols signed to EMI records for £40,000 ($68,000).
The contract was terminated three months later with the label stopping production of the 'Anarchy In The UK' single and deleting it from its catalogue.
EMI later issued a statement saying it felt unable to promote
The Sex Pistols records in view of the adverse publicity generated over the last few months.
And here all being well is ...'Anarchy In The UK'

 

On This Day - 9th October
1470 Henry VI of England was restored to the throne after being deposed in 1461. Six months later he was deposed again and then murdered in the Tower of London.


1779 The first 'Luddite' riots broke out in a lace factory in Loughborough as workers protested against labour-saving machinery which was likely to make them redundant. Similar riots begin at a spinning cotton factory in Manchester.


1799 The sinking of HMS Lutine off the coast of Holland, with the loss of 240 men. The ship's bell was salvaged from the wreck and was later presented to shipping insurers Lloyds of London. The Lutine Bell has been rung ever since to mark a marine disaster.


1897 Henry Stumey set off in his 4.5hp Daimler from Land's End, and became the first person to drive to John o' Groats. His 929 mile journey took him 10 days.


1913 The Glasgow built steamship SS Volturno caught fire in mid-Atlantic. Eleven ships came to her aid and rescued 520 passengers and crewmen but 130, most of them women and children, died in the incident, in unsuccessfully launched lifeboats.


1940 The birth of John Lennon, rock singer, songwriter and a founder member of The Beatles.

1948 English football legend Billy Wright first captained the England international team (aged 24), against Northern Ireland.


1955 Three armed men raided a Turkish bath in London, but the well heeled customers were wearing very little clothing, and the robbers' total haul was only £7.


1955 Steve Ovett, English athlete, was born.


1959 The Conservatives, under Harold Macmillan, (Supermac) won a third consecutive general election.


1961 Britain's youngest ever Conservative MP, Margaret Thatcher, was given her first governmental job.


1962 Uganda proclaimed its independence from Britain.


1968 Prime Minister Harold Wilson met Rhodesian premier Ian Smith aboard HMS Fearless in Gibraltar to discuss Rhodesia's decision to declare UDI -a Universal Declaration of Independence.

 

1986 The musical The Phantom of the Opera had its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.


1988 The death of the footballer Jackie Milburn (full name John Edward Thompson Milburn). . By the time Milburn left Newcastle in 1957, he had become the highest goalscorer in Newcastle United's history. He remained so until he was surpassed by Alan Shearer in February 2006.


1991 The first Sumo wrestling tournament ever held off Japanese soil in the sport's 1500 year history began 'on this day' , at the Royal Albert Hall.


1997 The campaign to ban landmines, a cause made popular by Diana, Princess of Wales was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


1999The new Scottish Parliament building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) held their first debate in the new building on 7th September 2004.


2010 A ticket bought in the UK won a new record of £113m on the Euromillions lottery draw, making the anonymous winner the UK’s 589th richest person.


2013 Environment Secretary Owen Paterson claimed that "badgers moved the goalposts" when asked why marksmen failed to reach their badger cull target in the counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset.


2013 The Royal Mail share-offering for private investors was seven times over-subscribed, with 700,000 applications in total. Labour claimed that the shares were being sold too cheaply. Two days later the shares rose 38% to 455p in their first day of conditional dealings on the London Stock Exchange.


2014 A report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) found that populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish had declined on average by 52 per cent in the last 40 years. Almost the entire decline was down to human activity, through habitat loss, deforestation, climate change, over-fishing and hunting.

 

On this Day - 10th October:

1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished


After 3 days of burning, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage
Great Chicago Fire - Wikipedia
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1903 The Women's Social and Political Union

. . . was formed by Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain.

Women's Social and Political Union - Wikipedia
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(Testwatch)

• 1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• >1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

 

On this Day - 10th October: ("BeaTles")

1959 - The Quarry Men
The Quarry Men played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool.

Ken Brown was at the Casbah but unable to perform due to a heavy cold.

Nonetheless, at the end of the evening Mona still paid Brown his share of the group’s fee (he received about 15 shillings) much to the annoyance of Paul McCartney who saw no reason why Brown should receive payment when he hadn’t played. and after the show, an argument started when Paul McCartney said that Brown should not get a share of the performance fee since he had not performed.
Despite being responsible for bringing Ken into the Quarrymen, George’s loyalties lay with John and Paul and he followed them out of the club.
Brown quits The Quarry Men.

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Today in History October 11th

1972 Race riot at sea — The USS Kitty Hawk incident fueled fleet-wide unrest

Note: the incident started in the galley, when a black sailor wanted two sandwiches but was told by a white mess cook that he was only allowed one. The black sailor reached across the food line and grabbed an extra sandwich, a shouting match ensued.

Racial tensions were high, in part stemming from the civil rights movement at home. There were nearly 4,500 sailors aboard — and only 302 were black. Inside the Navy, race relations were uniquely troubled as black sailors were typically assigned to the ship's most miserable jobs.

The ship erupted into chaos. Mere hours later angry black sailors roamed the ship's passageways, beating white sailors with makeshift weapons such as broom handles, wrenches and pieces of pipe. By the next day, 50 sailors, nearly all white, were injured, some severe enough to be evacuated from the ship to onshore hospitals. The fallout would see a number of black sailors being disciplined for their role in the incident.

 

No Candy darlin' not Universal, but UNILATERAL !!!

 

On This Day - 11th October
1216 King John lost his crown and jewels whilst crossing 'The Wash', on the north-west margin of East Anglia.


1521 Pope Leo X conferred the title of 'Defender of the Faith' (Fidei Defensor) on England's Henry VIII for his book supporting Catholic principles.


1649 After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops, under the command of Oliver Cromwell, stormed the town of Wexford, Ireland, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.


1727 The coronation of King George II.


1738 The birth of Arthur Phillip, English admiral and first governor of New South Wales, who founded the first penal colony at Sydney.


1821 The birth, in Dulverton, Somerset, of George Williams the founder of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). As a young man, he described himself as a 'careless, thoughtless, godless, swearing young fellow' but he eventually became a devout Christian.


1899 The start of the Boer War between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in southern Africa.


1919 The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. They were pre-packed lunch boxes at 3 shillings each (15p).


1937 Bobby Charlton, English footballer, was born. He played almost all of his club football (from 1956–1973) at Manchester United.


1951 Gordon Richards, champion British jockey, rode his 200th winner for the sixth successive season.


1957 The largest radio telescope in the world (at that time) was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.


1966 The Post Office announced that all home and business addresses in Britain were to be allocated postcodes.

 

1982 The Mary Rose, which had been the pride of Henry VIII's English fleet until it sank in the Solent in 1545, was raised, by the Mary Rose Trust. It was one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. She was one of the largest ships in the English navy and was one of the earliest examples of a purpose-built sailing warship. Since the mid-1980s, the hull of the Mary Rose has been kept in a covered dry dock in Portsmouth whilst undergoing conservation. See picture of the Hall, close to Nelson's Victory.

1987 A huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness failed to find the world-famous monster, known affectionately as Nessie.


1988 Girls began to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge for the first time. To mark the occasion male students wore black armbands and the porter flew a black flag.


2014 A would-be thief tried to saw through the standing leg of the monument to Eric Morecambe, in the legendary comedian's hometown of Morecambe. The bronze figure by sculptor Graham Ibbeson was unveiled by the Queen in July 1999.

 

From what I understand this was just one of many incidents involving black and white seamen. Naturally the Navy wanted to keep these incidents quiet considering the enormous amount of racial unrest at the time throughout the country.

Funny you should use the term 'many are surfacing' because you are quite correct.

If you saw the movie The Hunt for Red October (1990) then you're familiar with the term "Crazy Ivan" It actually occurred several times when US attack submarines collided with their Russian counterparts.

And then there was the incident involving a near mutiny aboard a US nuclear submarine. The sub lost all onboard communications for a few hours and in the belief NATO had been wiped-out, several high ranking officers tried to convince the Captain to launch the subs nuclear ballistic missiles.

 

On This Day - 12th October
1537 Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII by his third wife Jane Seymour was born. Jane died 13 days after giving birth to him.


1817 The launch of HMS Trincomalee . She is berthed at Jackson Dock, Hartlepool. Between July 2015 and July 2017, HMS Trincomalee had the distinction of being "The oldest warship afloat anywhere in the world" after the USS Constitution (launched in 1797) was moved to dry dock for a major restoration.


1823 Charles Macintosh of Scotland began selling raincoats, now better known as - Macs. He was first employed as a clerk but before he was twenty resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. The essence of his patent for waterproof fabrics was the cementing together of two pieces of natural India rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of naphtha, a byproduct of tar. For his various chemical discoveries, he was, in 1823, elected a fellow of the Royal Society.


1845 The death of Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. Since 2001, she has been depicted on the Bank of England £5 note.


1859 Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer, died. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer. Many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. A replica of Robert Stephenson's Rocket is on view at the York Railway Museum.


1866 James Ramsay McDonald, Scottish statesman, was born. He became the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924. His opposition to the First World War made him unpopular, and he was defeated in 1918. However post war disillusionment quickly made his anti-war position more popular, and he returned to Parliament in 1922, the point at which Labour replaced the Liberal Party as the second-largest party.


1872 The birth at the Old Vicarage in Down Ampney (Gloucestershire - Cotswolds) of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. He was the third child and younger son of the vicar of All Saints Church. A tune he composed, used for the hymn 'Come Down, O Love Divine', is titled 'Down Ampney' in its honour.


1936 The leader of the British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley, led a controversial anti-Jewish march down the Mile End Road in London which was a predominantly Jewish area of the capital.

 

1915 Despite international protests, Edith Cavell, an English nurse in Belgium, was shot by a German firing squad, for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners. She was born in Swardeston, close to Norwich and there is a memorial to her outside Norwich Cathedral.


1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler postponed indefinitely 'Operation Sealion' - the planned invasion of Britain.


1948 The first Morris Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis, was produced at Cowley, Oxfordshire. 1.6 million Morris Minors were built until production ceased in 1971.

1951 The launch of Holme Moss Transmitting Station, one of the highest in the country, reaching 228m above ground and 524m above sea level. In 1951 it provided BBC television (the only TV programme at the time) but now transmits VHF, FM, and DAB radio to Derbyshire, Manchester, and West Yorkshire, with coverage of around 13.5 million people.


1967 Zoologist Desmond Morris stunned the world with his book The Naked Ape that compared human behavior with animals.


1969 The opening of Preston Bus Station, one of the largest in Western Europe. Threatened with demolition since the year 2000, campaigns and applications were made numerous times to save the building. It featured on the 2012 World Monument Fund's list of sites at risk. Nevertheless, on 7th December 2012, Preston City Council announced that the bus station would be demolished, but in 2013 it was saved when English Heritage granted it the status of a Grade II listed building.


1979 The publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide comedy science fiction series by the English writer and dramatist Douglas Adams. His memorial service on 17th September 2001 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square was the first church service of any kind broadcast live, on the web, by the BBC.


1982 British armed forces held a victory parade in London following the defeat of Argentina in the Falklands War.


1984 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an assassination attempt when an IRA bomb exploded in the Grand Hotel, Brighton which was being used by delegates to the Conservative Party Conference. Five people were killed and 30 people injured, including Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit and his wife Margaret, who was left permanently disabled.


1986 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit China.


1989 The remains of Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre were found on London's Bankside.


2020 Charity fundraiser Lloyd Scott completed his Three Peaks challenge climb (Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Snowdon) wearing a 59kg. (9th.) diving suit. A veteran of 30 years of fundraising and more than 50 events, Scott famously completed the London Marathon in 2002 in a deep-sea diving suit. His other challenges have seen him cycle across Australia on a penny-farthing, complete an underwater marathon and walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats dressed as a T-Rex - all of which has helped him raise more than £5m for charitable causes.

 

On this Day - 12th October: (Music)

1957 - Little Richard
During an Australian tour, Little Richard publicly renounced rock 'n' roll and embraced God, telling a story of dreaming of his own damnation after praying to God when one of the engines on a plane he was on caught fire.

The singer threw four diamond rings, valued at $8,000, into Sydney's Hunter River and soon after launched a Gospel career.
Five years later, he would switch back to Rock.
Rocker Little Richard had a religious experience in Australia | Daily Telegraph
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1968 - Janis Joplin
Big Brother And The Holding Company went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Cheap Thrills'.
The cover, drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, replaced the band's original idea, a picture of the group naked in bed together.

Crumb had originally intended his art to be the LP's back cover, but Joplin demanded that Columbia Records use it for the front cover.
Initially the album title was to have been Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but this didn't go down too well at Columbia Records.
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1978 - Sid Vicious
Whilst living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, Sex Pistol Sid Vicious called the police to say that someone had stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen
Spungen was found dead in the bathroom of the couple's room, with a single stab wound to the abdomen.
Vicious was charged with her murder, but died of a heroin overdose while on bail in February 1979 before the case went to trial.
Various authors and filmmakers have speculated about Vicious' role in Spungen's death and the possibility that Spungen was killed by a drug dealer who frequently visited their room
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