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Also on March 10, 1988, Andy Gibb died from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) following a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart...
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On March 11, 1941, President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
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Also on March 11, 1963, in London, Manfred Mann's first concert was held...
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On March 12th, 1933- President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside chats," telling Americans what was being done to deal with the nation's economic crisis
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Also on March 12, 1969, George Harrison and his wife Patti were arrested in Esher, Surrey. The charge was cannabis resin possession after authorities found 120 joints in their house...
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On March 13, 1973, Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon..."
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Also on March, 13th 1852- "Uncle Sam" made his debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern.
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On March 14, 1981, Eric Clapton was admitted to United Hospital in St. Paul, MN, after a serious attack of bleeding ulcers. Clapton cancelled a 60-date tour of the U.S...
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Also on March 14th, 1743- The first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
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On March 15, 1968, "LIFE" magazine called Jimi Hendrix "the most spectacular guitarist in the world..."
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Also on March 15th, 1493- Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
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On March 16, 1979, Twisted Sister became the first band to sell out New York City's Palladium without ever releasing a record. The band did not sign a record deal until 3 years later...
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Also on March 16th, 1521- Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
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On March 17th, 461- According to tradition, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul. Some sources list the year as 461, others say 493.
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Also on March 17, 1968, the Bee Gees made their U.S. television debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show." They performed "To Love Somebody" and "Words..."
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On March 18, 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod 2 capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
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On March 18, 1965, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman were arrested for "insulting behavior" in London. The act was urinating on the wall of the Francis Garage...
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On March 19, 1931- Nevada legalized gambling.
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Also on March 19, 1982, Randy Rhoads died at the age of 25 in a plane crash. The plane was buzzing Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus when it crashed. The pilot and another female passenger were also killed...
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On March 20, 1968, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Jim Messina were arrested on drug charges in Los Angeles, CA...
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Also on March 20, 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains.
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On March 21, 1987, ZZ Top played the last show on the 14 month "Afterburner" tour in Honolulu, HI...
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On March 22, 1963, the Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.K...
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Also on March 22nd, 1933 During Prohibition, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal.
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On March 23, 1969, Anita Bryant and the Letterman appeared at a "Rally For Decency" in Miami following Jim Morrison's indecent exposure onstage there...
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Also on March 23, 1965, America's first two-person space flight began as Gemini 3 blasted off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard.
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On March 24, 1989, the nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude.
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Also on March 24, 1973, Lou Reed was bitten on his rear end by a fan during a concert in Buffalo, NY. The male fan was ejected from the show...
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On March 25, 1947, Elton John was born...
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On March 26th, 1780, the first British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)...
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Also on March 26, 1979, the Camp David peace treaty was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White House.
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On March 27, 1981, AC/DC released "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" in the U.S. It had been released in Australia in 1976...
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Also on March 27th, 1939- Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball tournament with a 46-33 victory over Ohio State in Evanston, Ill.
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On March 28, 1979, Eric Clapton and Patti "Layla" Boyd were married. Patti was George Harrison's ex-wife...
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Also on March 28th, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa
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On March 29, 1973, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show appeared on the cover of "Rolling Stone..."
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On March 30, 1966, 85 people were arrested for rioting after a Rolling Stones concert in Paris...
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On March 31, 1968- President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office.
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Also on March 31, 1967, Jimi Hendrix began his first British tour with Cat Stevens...
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On April 1, 1976, Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" was released...
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Also on April 1, 1945, American forces invaded Okinawa during World War II.
On a side note- I was looking at a few "on this day in history" pages the other day and a friend asked "what is that link?' "It's a link to their obituary" "Oh, why isn't their a link to a story about their birth?" Ummm... ok. |
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, "The world must be made safe for democracy."
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Also on April 2, 1967, the Beatles finished recording the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..."
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On April 3, 1969, Jim Morrison was arrested by the FBI for interstate flight, which stemmed from obscenity charges after a Miami concert...
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Also on April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries.
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On April 4, 1970 , Janis Joplin held a reunion concert with Big Brother & the Holding Company in San Francisco, CA...
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Also on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.
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On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for conspiring to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
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Also on April 5, 1983, the Beach Boys were banned from the Fourth of July concert at the White House...
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On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation
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Also on April 6, 1968, Pink Floyd announced founder Syd Barrett has officially left the group due to his suffering from psychiatric disorders compounded by drug use...
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On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.
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Also on April 7, 1985, Wham! became the first Western act to play in China...
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On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain was found dead at the age of 27. He had committed suicide three days before...
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Also on April 8th, 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
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On April 9, 1973, Queen had its debut performance at the Marquee Theater in London...
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Also on April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
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Also on April 9, 1917, the Battle of Vimy Ridge commenced, the Canadian Corps suffered 10,602 casualties: 3,598 killed and 7,004 wounded. Also today is End of an Era day, with the passing last month of Mr. John "Jack" Babcock who was the last surviving Canadian veteran of WW1.
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On April 10, 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals.
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Also on April 10, 1968, Mickey Hart joined the Grateful Dead...
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On April 11, 1968, Big Brother & the Holding Company made their national TV debut on ABC's "Hollywood Palace..."
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Also on April 11, 1951, President Truman relieved Gen. Douglas MacArthur of his commands in the Far East.
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Also on April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president
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On April 13, 1970, Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum...
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On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.
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Also on April 14, 1980, a New Jersey state assemblyman introduced a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song...
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On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.
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Also on April 15, 1966, Buffalo Springfield performed for the first time as the opening act for the Byrds in San Bernadino, CA...
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On April 16, 1947, America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
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On April 16, 1972, the Electric Light Orchestra played their first live show in England...
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On April 17, 1964, the Rolling Stones' debut album, "The Rolling Stones" was released in the U.K...
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Also on April 17, 1961, about 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
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On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and set off raging fires. More than 3,000 people died.
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Also on April 18, 1989, the album "Twice Shy" was released by Great White...
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On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring 500.
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Also on April 19, 1988, Sonny Bono was inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, CA...
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On April 19, 1775 'the shot heard round the world' kicked off the American Revolutionary War at the battles of Lexington and Concord. Happy Anniversary America.
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On April 20, 1971, the United States Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
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Also on April 20, 1987, Ozzy Osbourne released the album "Tribute." It was a live album recorded with Randy Rhoads. Rhoads had died in 1982...
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On April 21st, 1918 - Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron," was killed in action during World War I.
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Also on April 21, 1969, Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band played at London's Royal Albert Hall...
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also on April 21, 1951 my brother was born
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On April 22, 1889, the Oklahoma Land Rush began at noon as thousands of homesteaders staked claims.
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Also on April 22, 1978, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made their first appearance as The Blues Brothers on NBC's "Saturday Night Live..."
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On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment.
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Also on April 23, 1971, the Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" was released. It was the band's first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records...
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On April 24th, 1990, The Hubble telescope takes off for space. The space shuttle Discovery takes off, carrying the revolutionary Hubble Telescope into orbit high above the Earth's atmosphere.
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Also on April 24, 1990, the road crew for Roger Waters discovered an unexploded World War II era bomb while constructing the set for "The Wall" concert in Potsdamer Platz, Germany...
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On April 25th, 1507- "America" was first used as the name of a continent on a map. German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller used the name in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
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Also on April 25, 1967, the Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" during a British TV broadcast. Marianne Faithfull sang in the chorus...
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On April 26th, 1962- First US rocket lands on Moon The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
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Also on April 26, 1966, the New York Times reported Ray Charles would undergo tests to see whether or not he had abstained from narcotic drugs...
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On April 27, 1947, "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium was held to honor the ailing baseball star.
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Also on April 27, 1976, David Bowie was detained on a train trip from Russia to Poland because he had nazi books. The books were for research on a project...
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On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia.
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On April 28, 1987, on a plane that was returning to Boston, from Miami, Ozzy Osbourne bought three rounds of drinks and sang "Crazy Train" over the PA system...
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On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
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