Today in History

On this Day - 25th September: (Back to the Music)
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1954 - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley released his second single on Sun Records, 'Good Rockin' Tonight,'

a song made popular in 1948 by Wynonie Harris.
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1964 - The Temptations
The Temptations begin recording 'My Girl' at Hitsville USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan, (the first Temptations single to feature David Ruffin on lead vocals).

Written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, the song went on to become their first US No.1 and the first of fifteen US Top Ten hits.
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1968 - Mary Hopkin
Welsh singer Mary Hopkin was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Those Were The Days'.

Hopkins had signed to The Beatles Apple label after appearing on UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
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1969 - John Lennon
John Lennon recorded the track 'Cold Turkey', with Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman and Yoko.

Lennon presented the song to Paul McCartney as a potential single by The Beatles, but was refused and so he released it as a Plastic Ono Band single with sole writing credits to him

 

On this Day - 25th September: (Other Music News)

1965 - The Beatles
The Beatles cartoon series premiered on ABC TV in the US. The first story was titled 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and had the group exploring the ocean floor in a diving bell where they met a lovesick octopus.


1970 - David Cassidy / Partidge family
The first episode of The Partridge Family was shown on US TV, featuring Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey and Danny Bonaduce.


1980 - John Bonham
John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin, died aged 32 after a heavy drinking session. ‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarists Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours). During live sets his drum solo, ‘Moby Dick,’ would often last for half an hour and regularly featured his use of his bare hands.
In 2007, Ludwig issued a limited edition drum kit in Bonham's memory.
John Bonham - Wikipedia

1999 - Bill Wyman
Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became the first major artist to release an album on his own personalised digital MP3 player.
The matchbox-sized device with no moving parts was one of the smallest of its kind in the world and featured encryption software designed in the UK to prevent piracy.
BBC News | Sci/Tech | It's only MP3 but I like it

 

I remember the first mp3 players... I wish I could remember what mine was called so I could show you a picture! It was not the size of a matchbox though - it was a bulky little thing... maybe five centimeters by 7.5.

anyway, these days my music is on mp3 mostly except for occasions when I'm feeling historical/nostalgic and I peruse the record shop - yes, they still have that. and I end up spending whatever exorbitant price they're asking for music on hardcopy.

Everything's on my phone... blue tooth headphones and all that... - perfect for jogging.


Interesting information, @WOLF ANGEL !!!

 

"Those Were the Days" never made it to Number #1 in the USA, but it did make it to number #2 behind "Hey Jude"

 

On this Day - 25th September: (Battle of the Sexes (2))
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1992 Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
= Jimmy Connors. . . . . = Martina Navratilova
Battle of the Sexes (tennis) - Wikipedia
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On this Day - 26th September:
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1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world,


THE FAMOUS VOYAGE THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD 1577-1580: Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus (Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress)
- - - sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
Golden Hind first English ship to sail around the world - The Circumnavigation
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1665 Height of the Great Plague of London
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It is noted that 7,165 people die throughout the previous week

Great Plague of London (Famous Drawing)
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1789 U.S. Govermment appointments:

• Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st US Secretary of State
• John Jay becomes 1st US Chief Justice
• Edmund J Randolph becomes 1st US Attorney General

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1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions

The colony of New Zealand ceased to exist. New Zealand became a dominion within the British Empire.
For a few years some New Zealanders celebrated 'Dominion Day' on 26 September with parades and public events

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1946 1st edition of Tintin (Kuifje), published
(Publication dates 26 September 1946 – 29 June 1993)
- Cartoonist = Hergé

Tintin (magazine) - Wikipedia
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On this Day - 27th September:

1779 John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain
The Continental Congress appoints John Adams to travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War


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1822 Rosetta Stone:
French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces he has deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone


Rosetta Stone (Famous Artifact)

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1825 George Stephenson's "Locomotion No. 1"
..... becomes the 1st steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England
- Engineer Known as the Father of Railways = George Stephenson

Locomotion No. 1 - Wikipedia
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On this Day - 27th September: (Sport)
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1919 Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth takes his MLB home run record to 29 with a 3rd inning blast in a 7-5 defeat at the Washington Senators' Griffith Stadium
- Baseball Legend = Babe Ruth
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1950 Heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles defeats Joe Louis in 15 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York


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World Heavyweight Champions - Ezzard Charles -Boxer and Joe Louis
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1987 USA Losws on Home ground
Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield Village GC: Europe beats US, 15-13; after 13-0 unbeaten record spanning 60 years, US loses for first time on home soil

1987 Ryder Cup - Wikipedia
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1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson disqualified from Seoul Olympics 100m
Johnson was stripped of his Olympic 100m gold medal after testing positive for anabolic steroids.
His urine sample found to contain steroid stanozolol
The Canadian sprinter had won the race in a new world record of 9.79 seconds but he was sent home from the Seoul Olympics in disgrace.
American Carl Lewis was promoted to gold, with Britain's Linford Christie taking silver and bronze going to another Calvin Smith of the United States.

 

On this Day - 27th September: ((Just Testing))

• 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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On this Day - 27th September: (Back to the Music)

1964 - Ed Sullivan - Beach boys:
The Beach Boys made their TV debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' on US TV where they performed their first US No.1 single 'I Get Around' and 'Wendy'.


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1978 - Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton sponsored a West Bromwich Albion UEFA cup-tie against Galatasarey of Turkey. After the game, Eric presented each player with a gold copy of his latest album 'Slowhand''

Throwback Thursday: The West Brom Match Sponsored By Eric Clapton (September 27, 1978)

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2011 - Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett became the oldest living person to top the US album chart when the 85-year-old's 'Duets II' album went to No.1
The record, which featured collaborations with Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones and Lady Gaga, was also his first US No.1 in his 60 year career.

 

On this Day - 28th September: ( Music)

1968 - The Beatles
..... started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Hey Jude’.
The Paul McCartney song written about John Lennon's son Julian gave the group their 16th US No.1 and was the biggest selling single of 1968.
*** In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to the song at an auction.


1974 - Bad Company
..... went to No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled debut album.
Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke had come out of Free while Mick Ralphs had played guitar with Mott The Hoople and Boz Burrell was bass player for King Crimson before the group formed in 1973.
They produced six albums together before disbanding in 1983.


1976 - Stevie Wonder
..... released his eighteenth studio album Songs in the Key of Life, an ambitious double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Chart on October 8, 1976, becoming only the third album in history to achieve that feat and the first by an American artist.
Songs in the Key of Life - Wikipedia

1985 -Kate Bush
......scored her second UK No.1 album with 'Hounds Of Love'.
The singers second No.1 album featured the tracks 'Running Up That Hill', 'Cloudbusting', 'Hounds of Love' and 'The Big Sky'.
Hounds of Love - Wikipedia

1991 - Guns N' Roses
........ released two albums 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'Use Your Illusion II' which debuted at number 1 and number 2 on the UK album chart. (Both albums make No.1 & No.2 in the US).
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On this Day - 28th September: ( More Music)

1976 - George Harrison
A&M Records sued George Harrison for $6 million over non-delivery of a new album after he missed the deadline by two months.
Harrison missed the deadline on his album, 33 1/3, by two months. (The Beatle had been sick with hepatitis).

1991 - Bryan Adams
. . . .was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.
Other Canadian musicians who have been given the award include Bryan Adams, Leonard Cohen and the members of Rush
- Adams performing in Hamburg, 2007

2001- Courtney Love
..... filed a suit against Geffen Records and surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic seeking control of the band’s master recordings and 3.1-million dollars in royalties she felt the band was cheated out of.
The suit cites three causes of action, including declaratory relief, asking that the contract between Nirvana and Geffen be recinded and that all rights pertaining to Nirvana revert to Love, and breach of contract for an undisclosed amount.

2002 - Tina Turner
Tina Turner's hometown, made famous in her song ‘Nutbush City Limits,’ named a stretch of State Highway 19 the ‘Tina Turner Highway.’ Turner lived in Nutbush, a small town about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, until she was 17.


2007 - P Diddy
An ad for P Diddy's Unforgivable Woman perfume range, featuring a lingerie-clad model cavorting with the rapper in a New York hotel stairwell, was shown on Channel 4 in the UK.

The ad had been banned in the US by the Federal Communications Commission, for being too sexually explicit for US audiences.

 

On this Day - 29th September:

1915 1st transcontinental radio telephone message sent by U.S. naval radio station at Arlington, Virginia. to naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco



Today in history: The first intercontinental radio transmission, 1915 (peoplesworld.org)
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1916 American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire - with a fortune worth nearly 2% of the national economy. By 1937 the Rockefeller fortune was 1.4 billion or 1.5% of GDP of 92 billion.

Some interesting facts about the first billionaire:

1. Every year, Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of landing his first job.
2. He hired substitute soldiers to avoid Civil War combat.
3. Rockefeller was named as one of the people who built America.
4. Winston Churchill would have written Rockefeller’s biography—if his price hadn’t been so high.
5. Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to various philanthropic causes.
6. The Rockefeller Foundation was the largest grant-making foundation in the world and its founder deemed the most generous philanthropist in U.S. history.
7. Rockefeller lived so long that his life insurance company had to pay him $5 million

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On this Day - 29th September: ((More ...Testing))

• 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1969 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1975 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1988 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

 

On this Day - 29th September:
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1960 : Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
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..... disrupts meeting of the United Nations General Assembly demanding UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold be replaced over the way UN forces have intervened in the recent trouble in former Belgian Congo.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1960: Khrushchev anger erupts at UN
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1986 : The Space Shuttle Discovery,
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... lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral to launch a communications satellite.
The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida and landed four days later on 3 October. STS-26 was declared the "Return to Flight" mission, being the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of 28 January 1986.
Launch date: 29th September 1988
Landing date: 3rd October 1988

 

On this Day - 29th September: (MUSIC)
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1956 - Bill Haley . . . . had five songs in the UK Top 30;
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• 'Rockin Through The Rye',
• 'Saints Rock n' Roll',
• 'Rock Around the Clock',
• 'Razzle Dazzle', and
• 'See You Later Alligator'.

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1960 - Ricky Valance
..... was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Tell Laura I Love Her', making him the first Welsh singer to top the charts, and a One-hit Wonder.

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1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis
- Lewis in 2009
Born September 29th, 1935 Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.
Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest.
Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door.
- - - Owens survived but sued his boss.
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2007 - Kanye West
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US rapper 50 Cent was beaten by rival rap star Kanye West in the stand-off to claim the best-selling album in the US.
West's Graduation shifted 957,000 copies in its first week of sales while 50 Cent's album, Curtis, only sold 691,000.
Before the albums went on sale 50 Cent vowed he would retire from making solo albums if he was outsold by West. 50 Cent axed his forthcoming European tour and a performance at London Mobo Awards the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London, as well as at an MTV show in Germany.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | West crushes 50 Cent in US chart

 

On this Day - 30th September:

1938 Treaty of Munich
, , , , signed by Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Adolf Hitler, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. - - - Chamberlain infamously declares "Peace for our time" on his return to London.
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. . . . British Prime Minister . . . . . . . . ..Italian Dictator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . French Prime Minister . . . . . . Dictator of Nazi Germany
- - - - Neville Chamberlain - - - - - - - - - Benito Mussolini - - - - - - - - - - Édouard Daladier - - - - - - - - - - - - - Adolf Hitler
Munich Agreement - Wikipedia