Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Rolling Stones filed a high court writ against ex managers Oldham and Easton

The Rolling Stones plus the father of Brian Jones, filed a high court writ against ex managers Oldham and Easton. Claiming they made a secret deal with Decca Records in 1963 to deprive the group of royalties on August 31, 1971.

Retro History for August 31 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
1987 Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1985 "Prakas" sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Ill
1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
1984 Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, vs. England at Lord's
1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser
1980 "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 301 performances
1980 80th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
1980 Poland's Solidarity labor union forms

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at U.S. Open
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as United Nations ambassador
1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 Emily and William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft altitude record of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagurizing "My Sweet Lord"
1976 Mexican peso devalued
1976 Trinidad and Tobago adopts constitution
1976 Waldemar Cierpinski wins 18th Olympics Marathon (2:09:55.0)
1975 Former Teamsters' president James Hoffa reported missing
1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
1973 PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony
1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
1972 Olga Korbut, U.S.S.R., wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
1971 The Rolling Stones plus the father of Brian Jones, filed a high court writ against ex managers Oldham and Easton. Claiming they made a secret deal with Decca Records in 1963 to deprive the group of royalties.
1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
1971 Dave Scott becomes 1st person to drive a car on Moon
1970 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted
1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1970 Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14
1970 WKMJ TV channel 68 in Louisville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival
1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover
1968 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
1968 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
1965 House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop
1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels
1962 Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1959 Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean's NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game
1957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
1955 1st microwave TV station operated (Lufkin, Texas)
1955 1st solar automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois
1955 KTRE TV channel 9 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Hurricane Carol (1st major named storm) hits New England, 70 die
1954 Indians beat Yankees 6-1 for record tying 26 wins in August (1931 A's)
1954 WMTW TV channel 8 in Portland-Poland Spring, ME (ABC) begins
1953 KRBC TV channel 9 in Abilene, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 WKBG (now WLVI) TV channel 56 in Cambridge-Boston, MA (IND) begins
1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1950 Dodger Gil Hodges hits 4 home runs and a single in a game vs Braves

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Texas International Pop Festival takes place in 1969

The Texas International Pop Festival took place featuring Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Sam & Dave, Santana, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk Railroad, Delaney & Bonnie, Nazz, Spirit, BB King, Canned Heat and Chicago. Over 120,000 fans attended the festival for 3 days starting on August 30, 1969.

The Texas International Pop Festival was a music festival held at Lewisville, Texas, on Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 1, 1969.

It occurred two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was the newly-opened Dallas International Motor Speedway, located on the east side of Interstate Highway 35E, across from the Round Grove Road intersection.

The Texas International Pop Festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park.

Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival's main organizer, Alex Cooley, forming the company Interpop Superfest.

Artists performing at The Texas International Pop Festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.

North of The Texas International Pop Festival site was the campground on Lewisville Lake, where hippie attendees skinny-dipped and bathed. Also on the campground was the free stage, where some bands played after their main stage gig and several bands not playing on the main stage performed. It was on this stage that Wavy Gravy, head of the Hog Farm commune, acquired his name. (At Woodstock, he was Hugh Romney.)

The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey's group, was in charge of the free stage and camping area. While Kesey was neither at the Texas event nor at Woodstock, his right hand man, Ken Babbs, and his psychedelic bus, Further (Furthur) were. The Hog Farm provided security, a trip tent, and free food.

Attendance at The Texas International Pop Festival remains unknown, but is estimated between 120,000 and 150,000. As with Woodstock, there were no violent crimes reported. There was one death, due to heatstroke, and one birth

Retro History for August 30 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1988 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills
1987 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee
1987 Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10")
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
1986 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report)
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
1984 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
1984 Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36
1984 Sotherby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
1983 Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, New York, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA
1983 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia
1983 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
1981 Joanne Carner wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in U.S. Tennis Open, she loses
1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979 Wildest U.S. Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
1976 Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show
1976 Turks and Caicos Islands adopts constitution
1975 KTW-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KYAC (now KKFX)
1974 Express train runs full speed into Zagreb, Yugo rail yard killing 153
1974 Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Danny Seiwell quits Wings
1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono played Madison Square Gardens to raise money for the One to One charity. Stevie Wonder, Sha Na Na and Roberta Flack also appeared at the event. Lennon personally bought $60,000 worth of tickets which were given to volunteer fund-raisers. Several of the performances were later included on Lennon’s, Live in New York City album.
1971 WNPI TV channel 18 in Norwood, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 The Texas Pop Festival took place featuring Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Sam & Dave, Santana, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk Railroad, Delaney & Bonnie, Nazz, Spirit, BB King, Canned Heat and Chicago. Over 120,000 fans attended the festival for 3 days.
1969 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash
1969 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1969 Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
1968 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude
1967 U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins
1961 J B Parsons is 1st African American judge of a U.S. District Court
1961 Last Spanish troops leave Morocco
1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game
1961 U.S.S.R. says it will resume nuclear testing
1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
1956 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1954 Hurricane Carol, kills 68
1953 Future New York City mayor David Dinkins marries Joyce Burrows in New York City
1951 U.S. and Philippines sign mutual defense pact

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Friday, August 26, 2011

Isle Of Wight Festival with Jimi Hendrix last UK appearance

Isle Of Wight Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix, (his last ever UK appearance), Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Arrival, Cactus, Family, Taste, Mungo Jerry, ELP, The Doors, The Who, Spirit, The Moody Blues, Chicago, Procol Harum, Sly and the Family Stone and Free all appeared over three days at the third Isle Of Wight Festival on August 26, 1970.

Isle Of Wight Festival 1970, Jimi Hendrix

The 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival was held between 26 and 30 August 1970 at Afton Down and was by far the largest and most famous of these early festivals; indeed it was said at the time to be one of the largest human gatherings in the world, with estimates of over 600,000, surpassing the attendance at Woodstock.

Included in the line-up of over fifty performers were The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, The Doors, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joni Mitchell, The Moody Blues, Melanie, Donovan, Free, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull, Taste and Tiny Tim. The unexpectedly high attendance levels led, in 1971, to Parliament passing the "Isle of Wight Act" preventing gatherings of more than 5,000 people on the island without a special license.

Isle Of Wight Festival 1970, The Who

The 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival was filmed by a 35mm film crew under the direction of future Academy Award-winning director Murray Lerner who at that point had just directed the Academy Award-nominated documentary Festival of the Newport Folk Festival.

The footage passed to Lerner in settlement of legal fees after a dispute with the Foulk brothers in which the two sides claimed against each for breach of contract. Lerner distilled material from the festival into the film A Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Rock Festival released theatrically in 1996 and subsequently on DVD. In addition to this film, Lerner has created full-length films focused on performances by individual artists at the 1970 festival. To date there have been individual films of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues, Free, Leonard Cohen and Jethro Tull.

Retro History for August 26 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 and 201
1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1988 1st TNN Viewers choice awards - Randy Travis wins in 5 categories
1988 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season
1988 New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador New York City after 13 performances
1986 Actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger weds newscaster Maria Shriver
1986 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Game between Angels and Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1984 Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens
1984 President Reagan visits China
1983 Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1983 Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time
1983 San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game
1982 Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island
1982 CBS radio begins youth oriented broadcast Radio Radio
1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 Rod Stewart is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1981 "Copperfield" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 13 performances
1981 Largest U.S. bank robbery in Tucson, Arizona, more than $33 million stolen
1980 Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Iran begins scattering U.S. hostages from U.S. Embassy
1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120'
1980 Phillies' Steve Carlton pitches his 6th 1-hitter (beats Cards)

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1978 France sends troops to Chad
1978 NASA launches space vehicle S-201
1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens
1976 Pan Am begins non-stop flights New York City - Tokyo
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 Penguins 0-Isles 1-Quarterfinals-Isles win series 4-3
1975 Phillies Mike Schmidt's 2 home runs ties NL record of 11 home runs in April
1974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1974 Yankees trade Peterson, Beene, Kline and Buskey to Indians for Chambliss, Tidrow and Upshaw
1973 "2 Gentlemen of Verona," musical opens in London
1973 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hours
1971 Turkey state of siege proclaimed
1970 "Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 690 performances
1970 Jimi Hendrix, (his last ever UK appearance), Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Miles Davis, Arrival, Cactus, Family, Taste, Mungo Jerry, ELP, The Doors, The Who, Spirit, The Moody Blues, Chicago, Procol Harum, Sly and the Family Stone and Free all appeared over three days at the third Isle Of Wight Festival. Weekend tickets, £3.

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 110 performances
1969 "George M!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 435 performances
1969 Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman
1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 U.S. underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device
1967 The Beatles held a press conference at University College in Bangor, North Wales with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Beatles announced that they had become disciples of the guru and that they renounced the use of drugs. The four had become members of the Maharishi's 'Spiritual Regeneration Movement', which obligated them to donate one week's earnings each month to the organization.
1967 "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 293 performances
1967 KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1966 Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
1965 Ives' 4th Symphony premieres
1964 18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1
1964 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar
1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1962 Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0
1962 U.S. and U.K. launch Ariel; 1st international payload
1961 French paratroopers' revolt suppressed in Algeria
1961 Roger Maris hits 1st of 61 homers in 1961

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Cuba invades Panama
1959 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open
1957 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1954 Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1952 Patty Berg scores 64, best competitive round of golf by a woman
1952 U.S. minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
1950 Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in Md, is run
1950 University of Miami ends William and Mary straight tennis match victories at 82

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Scott la Rock from BDP was shot dead in New York

Scott la Rock from BDP was shot dead in New York the latest victim in the Brooklyn, Bronx street war on August 25, 1987.

Born March 2, 1962, in South Ozone Park, Queens, Scott Monroe Sterling was raised far from the grimy scene that he would later help to mold. His parents split when Scott la Rock was four, and he lived with his mother, Carolyn Morant, a career municipal employee. When Scott la Rock was young, they moved from Queens to the Morisania section of the Bronx, and then to Morris Heights. Scott la Rock excelled in both academics and sports at Our Savior Lutheran High School, graduating in 1980 and heading off to Vermont’s Castleton State College. He earned a varsity letter in basketball there, but as it became clear that his talent would never take him to the NBA, Scott switched his extracurricular focus from hoops to music.

Scott la Rock met an untimely and violent death in 1987.

His friend and BDP associate Derrick "D-Nice" Jones had been threatened by some local hoods, and asked Sterling to try to help defuse the situation. Later that day, Scott la Rock, Scotty "Manager Moe" Morris, DJ McBooo, D-Nice and BDP Bodyguard Darrell, all riding in a red Jeep CJ-7 with a white fiberglass top on it, drove to the Highbridge Projects building where the offending parties lived on Morris Avenue in the South Bronx; Scott la Rock’s intention, along with the rest of the crew, was to try to defuse the situation. As they were leaving, bullets ripped through the side and top of the Jeep. Scott la Rock was hit in the neck. Critically wounded, Scott la Rock was driven in the Jeep to Lincoln Hospital which was less than a mile away. Scott la Rock was conscious and talking to the doctors as he was wheeled into the emergency room. Sterling then stated to the doctor that he was feeling cold, and tired. At first it was thought that Scott la Rock injuries were not life-threatening, and his friends saw him being wheeled away into the E.R. They went to the diner on Grand Concourse to wait while Scott la Rock underwent surgery before they came back to check on him. Unfortunately, Scott la Rock died in the operating room within one hour of being shot, leaving behind an infant son, Scott Sterling Jr. The man who shot him was arrested a few years later and brought to trial in the Bronx County Supreme Court.

KRS-One decided to continue Boogie Down Productions, crediting subsequent releases as being overseen by Scott La Rock.

The Stop the Violence Movement was in large part a result of Scott la Rock murder.

Retro History for August 25 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
1988 Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
1988 Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1987 Hip hop star Scott la Rock was shot dead in New York the latest victim in the Brooklyn, Bronx street war.
1987 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
1986 A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run
1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
1985 Pat Bradley wins LPGA National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1985 STS-51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem
1984 French airship capsizes
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1983 Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark
1983 U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign $10 billion grain pact
1981 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266:09)
1981 Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years
1981 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)
1980 "42nd Street" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 3486 performances
1980 Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in New York City
1980 Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps New York City after 86 performances
1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1976 Harm Wiersma becomes world checker champion
1976 Yankees beat Twins 5-4 in 19 innings
1974 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 L.A. Aztecs defeat Miami Toros to win NASL cup
1973 Butch Trucks drummer of Allman Brothers, breaks leg in a car crash
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1973 Zambia adopts constitution
1970 Elton John's 1st U.S. appearance, Los Angeles

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf
1968 New York Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game and homered
1967 Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1
1967 Paraguay accepts its constitution
1967 Train crash at Beesd, 2 die
1964 Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open
1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 Brazilian president Janio Quadros, resigns
1960 17th summer olympics opens in Rome
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1960 Demonstrations against premier Lumumba

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
1956 To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto
1955 Last Soviet forces leave Austria
1954 Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
1952 Det Tiger Virgil Trucks 2nd no-hitter of yr, beats Yankees, 1-0
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth
1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 Sugar Ray Robinson KOs Jose Basora to win middleweight boxing title

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Friday, August 19, 2011

My Sharonna by the Knack hits #1

"My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) on August 19, 1979.

The Knack was an American New Wave rock quartet based in Los Angeles that rose to fame with their first single, "My Sharona", an international number one hit in 1979.

Singer Doug Fieger was a native of Oak Park, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the 9 Mile/Coolidge area. The brother of attorney Geoffrey Fieger, best known for representing Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a series of assisted suicide cases, Fieger had previously played in an eclectic rock band called Sky as well as the Sunset Bombers. Although Sky had received a modest amount of acclaim, including being produced by Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, the band broke up without having any chart success. As a result, Fieger made the decision to move to Los Angeles and start another band.

Fieger met the three other original members of The Knack in 1977 and 1978: Berton Averre (lead guitar, backing vocals and keyboards), Prescott Niles (bass), and Bruce Gary (drums). Niles was the last to join, a week before the band's first show in June 1978.[1] In the meantime, Fieger had been doubling on bass on a series of demos that the group had shopped to several record labels, all of which were rejected. Ironically, these were the same songs that would later make up the band's debut album Get The Knack, and included "My Sharona".

Within months of their live debut, popular club gigs on the Sunset Strip, as well as guest jams with musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Ray Manzarek, led the band to be highly prized in a record label bidding war (Bruce Gary was well known in the LA session scene, this would become a source for later tensions). They ultimately signed to Capitol Records, the same label that released the Beatles' records in the United States, which later became problematic.

The Knack debut album, Get The Knack, was one of the year's biggest albums, holding the number one spot on Billboard magazine's album chart for five consecutive weeks and selling two million copies in the United States. Lead single "My Sharona" was a No.1 hit in the US, and became the number one song of 1979.

Follow-up single "Good Girls Don't" peaked at #11.

Retro History for August 19 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
1988 Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma
1988 New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
1985 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
1984 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1984 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
1984 Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president
1984 Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 years for counterfeiting
1983 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of U.S. sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
1982 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1980 George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1980 Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 Willy Russell's "Educating Rita," premieres in London

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
1979 Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
1976 President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention
1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1973 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1973 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1965 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1962 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1961 U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin
1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by U.S.S.R. (U-2 incident)
1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1957 New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958
1957 U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
1955 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. U.S.)
1955 U.S. raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1954 Ralph J. Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1951 Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Mick Jagger accidentally shot

Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" on August 18, 1969.

Mick Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, actor and producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.

Mick Jagger has also had an intermittent acting career, most notably in Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's Performance (1968) and as Australian bushranger Ned Kelly (1970)

. Mick Jagger composed an improvised soundtrack for Kenneth Anger's film Invocation Of My Demon Brother on the Moog synthesiser in 1969. He auditioned for the role of Dr. Frank N. Furter in the 1975 film adaptation of The Rocky Horror Show, a now iconic role that was eventually played by the original performer from its run on London's West End, Tim Curry. Mick Jagger appeared as himself in The Rutles film All You Need Is Cash in 1978. In the late 1970s, Mick Jagger was cast as Wilbur, a main character in Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. However, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Robards (later replaced by Klaus Kinski) in the film's notoriously difficult production resulted in his being unable to continue due to schedule conflicts with a band tour; some of the footage of his work is shown in the documentary Burden of Dreams.

Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger and directed by Tony Richardson was made in 1970. It was not a success and during its making it led to a protest by Australian Actors Equity over the importation of Mick Jagger, with complaints from Kelly family descendants and others over the film being shot in New South Wales, rather than in the Victoria locations where most of the events actually took place.

Retro History for August 18 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
1988 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
1987 Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
1986 Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness
1986 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on WYSP 94.1 FM
1986 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)
1986 John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
1986 WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Nestle World Championship of Women's Golf
1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
1985 Suisei Launch (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston and Galveston, Texas
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1983 Royals defeat Yankees, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
1982 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game started 8/17)
1982 NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
1982 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, ends after 22 innings - before Los Angeles Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1981 "My Fair Lady" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 119 performances
1981 Jerry Lee Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1981 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of University of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
1980 Kansas City Royals' George Brett, batting avg reach .400

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Memphis, Tennessee settles with striking police officers and firefighters
1977 2 girls are killed by a runaway car outside of Graceland
1977 Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his NL record tying 5th one-hitter
1976 U.S.S.R.'s Luna 24 soft-lands on Moon
1974 Joanne Carner wins LPGA St. Paul Keller Golf Open
1973 Gene Krupa, drummer, plays for final time with Benny Goodman Quartet
1973 Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly"
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1967 Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton
1967 Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1967 WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news
1965 Hank Aaron loses a home run, because he hit it out of batter's box
1965 Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler)
1964 Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd U.S. visit
1964 Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon
1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1964 U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites
1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed
1960 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie, Illinois
1960 1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1960 Lew Burdette pitches to just 27 for a 1-0 no-hitter against Phillies

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Branch Rickey resigns as Pirates' CEO to be President of Continental League
1958 "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 Betsy Palmer joins Today Show panel
1958 Floyd Patterson TKOs Roy Harris in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1958 Great Britain issues regional stamps for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
1958 Perez Prado "Mambo King," receives one of the 1st gold records
1958 TV game show scandal investigation starts
1958 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1958 Verne Gagne beats Edouard Carpentier in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ")
1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
1957 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game
1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1955 Hurricane Diane, kills 400 in US
1955 46.1 cm rainfall at Westfield, Massachusetts (state record)
1955 Sjukri al-Quwatli re-elected president of Syria
1954 James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting
1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner

Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner during the final day of the three day Woodstock festival that took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York on August 17, 1969.

Bad weather and logistical problems caused long delays, so that Jimi Hendrix did not appear on stage until Monday morning.

By this time, the audience (which had peaked at over 500,000 people) had been reduced to, at most, 180,000, many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving. F

estival MC Chip Monck introduced the band as "The Jimi Hendrix Experience", but Jimi Hendrix quickly corrected this to "Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, for short it's nothin’ but ‘A Band Of’ Gypsies" and launched into a two hour set, the longest of his career.

As well as the two percussionists, the performance notably featured Larry Lee performing two songs and Lee sometimes soloing while Jimi Hendrix played rhythm in places. Most of this has been edited out of the officially released recordings, including Lee's two songs, reducing the sound to basically a three piece. The concert was relatively free of the technical difficulties that frequently plagued Jimi Hendrix's performances, although one of his guitar strings snapped while performing "Red House", which he played through. The band, unused to playing large audiences and exhausted after being up all night, could not always keep up with Jimi Hendrix's pace, but in spite of this the guitarist managed to deliver a memorable performance, climaxing with his sui generis rendering of "The Star-Spangled Banner", an improvisation since regarded as a defining moment of the 1960s. In 2010, a federal court of appeals court decided whether online sharing of a music recording can constitute a "performance" of it, writing: "Jimmy Hendrix memorably (or not, depending on one’s sensibility) offered a 'rendition' of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock when he performed it aloud in 1969."

This expanded band did not last long. After the Woodstock festival they appeared on only two more occasions. The first was a street benefit in Harlem where, in a scenario similar to the festival, most of the audience had left and only a fraction remained by the time Jimi Hendrix took the stage. Within seconds of Jimi Hendrix arriving at the site two youths had stolen his guitar from the back seat of his car, although it was later recovered. The band's only other appearance was at the Salvation club in Greenwich Village, New York. After some studio recordings, Jimi Hendrix disbanded the group. Some of this band's recordings can be heard on the MCA Records box set The Jimi Hendrix Experience and on South Saturn Delta. Their final work together was a session on September 6. Jimi Hendrix's September 9 appearance on TV's The Dick Cavett Show, backed by Cox, Mitchell and Juma Sultan, was credited as the "Jimi Hendrix Experience".

Retro History for August 17 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 32nd Walker Cup: Britain - Ireland, 12 -11
1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
1988 Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
1988 New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
1988 Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president
1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
1987 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
1987 Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
1986 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market
1986 Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1986 Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured
1986 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones and pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson
1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
1985 Dave Kingman hits his 400th home run
1985 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India
1985 Sara Trollinger forms House of Hope in Orlando
1984 Pete Rose returns to Cincinnati Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits)
1983 Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
1982 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
1982 South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
1980 "Blackstone" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 104 performances
1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977 Thomas Wessinghage/Harald Hudak/Michael Lederer/Karl Fleschen walk world record 4x1500m (14:38.8)
1976 An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1976 Big win for WI at The Oval Michael Holding 14-149 for match
1975 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1973 Lee Trevino's 1st hole-in-one
1973 Willie Mays hits 660th and last home run (off Don Gullett of Cincinnati)
1972 Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game
1970 Venera 7 launched, makes 1st softlanding on Venus

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club Dayton, Ohio
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open
1969 New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season)
1968 Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time home run list
1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval
1963 Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle
1963 Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief
1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
1961 Building of Berlin Wall begins
1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 Gabon gains independence from France, National Day
1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1959 U.S.S.R. and Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
1958 Bonnie Hoffman wins LPGA Kansas City Golf Open
1958 World's 1st Moon probe, US's Thor-Able, explodes at T +77 sec
1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1956 Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany
1955 Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 and doing $1.8 billion damage
1952 Betty Jameson wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
1950 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950 Pee Wee Reese (Dodgers) and Sam Calderone (Giants) hit inside park home runs

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Elvis Presley found dead on August 16, 1977

Elvis Presley was found dead lying on the floor in his bathroom by his girlfriend Ginger Alden, he had been seated on the toilet reading 'The Scientific Search For Jesus'. He died of heart failure at the age of 42 on August 16, 1977.

Journalist Tony Scherman writes that by early 1977, "Elvis Presley had become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self. Hugely overweight, his mind dulled by the pharmacopoeia he daily ingested, he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviated concerts." In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer was on stage for less than an hour and "was impossible to understand". Elvis Presley failed to appear in Baton Rouge; he was unable to get out of his hotel bed, and the rest of the tour was cancelled. Despite the accelerating deterioration of his health, he stuck to most touring commitments. In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk", according to Elvis Presley historian Samuel Roy, and unable to "perform any significant movement." Guralnick relates that fans "were becoming increasingly voluble about their disappointment, but it all seemed to go right past Elvis Presely, whose world was now confined almost entirely to his room and his spiritualism books." A cousin, Billy Smith, recalled how Presley would sit in his room and chat for hours, sometimes recounting favorite Monty Python sketches and his own past escapades, but more often gripped by paranoid obsessions that reminded Smith of Howard Hughes. "Way Down", Elvis Presley's last single issued during his lifetime, came out on June 6. His final concert was held in Indianapolis at the Market Square Arena, on June 26.

A long, ground-level gravestone reads "Elvis Aaron Presley", followed by the singer's dates, the names of his parents and daughter, and several paragraphs of smaller text. It is surrounded by flowers, a small American flag, and other offerings. Similar grave markers are visible on either side. In the background is a small round pool, with a low decorative metal fence and several fountains.

The book Elvis: What Happened?, cowritten by the three bodyguards fired the previous year, was published on August 1. It was the first exposé to detail Presley's years of drug misuse. He was devastated by the book and tried unsuccessfully to halt its release by offering money to the publishers. By this point, he suffered from multiple ailments—glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, each aggravated, and possibly caused, by drug abuse.

Elvis Presley was scheduled to fly out of Memphis on the evening of August 16, 1977, to begin another tour.

That afternoon, Alden discovered him unresponsive on his bathroom floor. Attempts to revive him failed, and death was officially pronounced at 3:30 pm at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

President Jimmy Carter issued a statement that credited Presley with having "permanently changed the face of American popular culture". Thousands of people gathered outside Graceland to view the open casket. One of Presley's cousins, Billy Mann, accepted $18,000 to secretly photograph the corpse; the picture appeared on the cover of the National Enquirer's biggest-selling issue ever.[252] Alden struck a $105,000 deal with the Enquirer for her story, but settled for less when she broke her exclusivity agreement. Presley left her nothing in his will.

Elvis Presley funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18.

Outside the gates, a car plowed into a group of fans, killing two women and critically injuring a third. Approximately 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother. Within a few days, "Way Down" topped the country and UK pop charts. Following an attempt to steal the singer's body in late August, the remains of both Elvis Presley and his mother were reburied in Graceland's Meditation Garden on October 2.

Retro History for August The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1988 Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29)
1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
1987 New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
1986 Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed
1986 "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks
1986 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single
1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1984 Andrea Doria's safe opened
1984 L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges
1984 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
1983 Paul Simon weds Carrie Fisher
1981 Highest score in World Cup soccor match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1981 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
1981 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
1980 Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath
1980 Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
1980 Jools Holland quits Squeeze

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1977 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Yankees blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th
1977 Elvis Presley was found dead lying on the floor in his bathroom by his girlfriend Ginger Alden, he had been seated on the toilet reading 'The Scientific Search For Jesus'. He died of heart failure at the age of 42.
1976 58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD
1976 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo)
1975 "Rodgers and Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 108 performances
1975 Peter Gabriel quits Genesis
1974 Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs)
1972 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
1972 Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at
1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1970 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting
1969 Woodstock rock festival begins in New York
1967 Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves
1967 WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1963 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1961 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 Martin L. King protests for black voting right in Miami
1960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying
1956 Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1956 Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1955 Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1954 Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing
1954 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1953 KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome
1950 West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England

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Monday, August 15, 2011

Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State

Woodstock Festival was held on Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm in Bethel outside New York. Attended by over 400,000 people, the event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker. During the three days there were three deaths, two births and four miscarriages. Joni Mitchell was booked to appear but had to pull out due to being booked for a TV show, wrote the song 'Woodstock.'

Woodstock, Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Woodstock 1969

Woodstock was designed as a profit-making venture, aptly titled "Woodstock Ventures".

It famously became a "free concert" only after it became obvious that the event was drawing hundreds of thousands more people than the organizers had prepared for. Tickets for the event cost $18 in advance (equivalent to $75 in 2009 after adjusting for inflation) and $24 at the gate for all three days. Ticket sales were limited to record stores in the greater New York City area, or by mail via a post office box at the Radio City Station Post Office located in Midtown Manhattan. Around 186,000 tickets were sold beforehand and organizers anticipated approximately 200,000 festival-goers would turn up

The influx of attendees to the Woodstock concert site in Bethel created a massive traffic jam.

Fearing chaos as thousands began descending on the community, Bethel did not enforce its codes. Eventually, announcements on radio stations as far away as WNEW-FM in Manhattan and descriptions of the traffic jams on television news programs discouraged people from setting off to the festival. Arlo Guthrie made an announcement that was included in the film saying that the New York State Thruway was closed. The director of the Woodstock museum discussed below said this never occurred. To add to the problems and difficulty in dealing with the large crowds, recent rains had caused muddy roads and fields. The facilities were not equipped to provide sanitation or first aid for the number of people attending; hundreds of thousands found themselves in a struggle against bad weather, food shortages, and poor sanitation.

On the morning of Sunday, August 17, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called festival organizer John Roberts and told him he was thinking of ordering 10,000 New York State National Guard troops to the festival. Roberts was successful in persuading Rockefeller not to do this. Sullivan County declared a state of emergency.

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Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Cancer sufferer/San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
1989 Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989 U.S. Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
1988 "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 176 performances
1988 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988 New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1987 U.S. beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
1986 President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1985 Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1985 Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1983 Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1982 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1981 Botham scores a century in 86 balls vs. Australia at Old Trafford
1981 Robin Leamy of U.S. swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador
1978 House of Representatives approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia
1977 SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1976 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1975 Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975 Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1974 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1974 South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1973 Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London
1973 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1971 Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971 KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1971 President Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents
1971 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1968 Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1965 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania
1965 Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1965 Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
1965 Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
1964 Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
1964 Phillies triple-play New York Mets
1964 Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 3"
1963 Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville
1962 Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1960 CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1960 Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960 Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1960 Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1958 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1958 Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
1958 Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1955 WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia (ABC) begins
1954 Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1954 WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1952 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1950 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950 Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950 Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1950 President Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike begins

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Friday, August 12, 2011

Led Zeppelin Plays Together For The First Time

Led Zeppelin with Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time when they rehearsed at a studio in Lisle Street in London’s West End. The first song they played was a version of ‘Train Kept A-Rollin.’

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in 1968 and consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

With their heavy, guitar-driven blues rock sound, Led Zeppelin are regularly cited as one of the progenitors of heavy metal and hard rock,even though the band's individualistic style drew from many sources and transcends any one music genre.

Led Zeppelin did not release songs from their albums as singles in the United Kingdom, as they preferred to establish the concept of album-orientated rock.

The group played together for the first time in a room below a record store on Gerrard Street in London. Liner notes by Cameron Crowe for The Complete Studio Recordings. The building has since been torn down, and the area has been converted into London's Chinatown. Page suggested that they try playing "Train Kept A-Rollin'", a rockabilly song popularised by Johnny Burnette that had been given new life by The Yardbirds. "As soon as I heard John Bonham play," recalled Jones, "I knew this was going to be great... We locked together as a team immediately." Shortly afterwards, the group played together on the final day of sessions for the P.J. Proby album, Three Week Hero. The album's song "Jim's Blues" was the first studio track to feature all four members of the future Led Zeppelin. Proby recalled, "Come the last day we found we had some studio time, so I just asked the band to play while I just came up with the words... They weren't Led Zeppelin at the time, they were the New Yardbirds and they were going to be my band."

The band completed the Scandinavian tour as The New Yardbirds, playing together for the first time in front of a live audience at Gladsaxe Teen Clubs in Gladsaxe, Denmark, on 7 September 1968. Later that month, the group began recording their first album, which was based upon their live set at the time. The album was recorded and mixed in nine days, with all costs covered by Page himself.[28] After the album's completion, the band was forced to change their name after Chris Dreja issued a cease and desist letter, stating that Page was only allowed to use the New Yardbirds name for the Scandinavian dates. One account of the band's naming has it that Keith Moon and John Entwistle, drummer and bassist for The Who, respectively, suggested that a possible supergroup containing themselves, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", a traditional joke describing disastrous results. The group deliberately dropped the 'a' in lead at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, to prevent "thick Americans" from pronouncing it "leed". The word "balloon" was transformed into "zeppelin", perhaps an exaggeration of the humour, and to Page the name conjured the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace.

The band officially declared they were changing their name to Led Zeppelin on 14 October 1968, and played their first show under the new name at the University of Surrey in Guildford on 25 October. This was followed by a US concert debut on 26 December 1968 before moving on to the west coast for dates in cities including Los Angeles and San Francisco. Led Zeppelin was released in the US on 12 January 1969, while the tour was underway. It didn't appear in their native UK until 31 March 1969. The album's blend of blues, folk and eastern influences with distorted amplification made it one of the pivotal records in the creation of heavy metal music. Plant has commented that it is unfair for people to typecast the band as heavy metal, since about one-third of their music was acoustic. On their first album Plant received no credit for his contributions to the songwriting, a result of his previous association with CBS Records.

Retro History for August 12 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1988 Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23
1988 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released
1988 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital
1988 Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home
1988 Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General
1987 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
1986 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
1986 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1985 Baltimore Orioles W Gross and L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch home runs
1985 Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1984 23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, California
1984 Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls and 19 ejections
1984 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army
1982 Heavy Israeli bombardement of Beirut
1981 IBM introduces PC and PC-DOS version 1.0
1981 Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27)

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 204 performances
1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings
1979 Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
1978 Arron Marshall completes a record shower of 336 hours
1978 China and Japan sign peace treaty
1977 For 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid
1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit
1977 Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st atmospheric flight
1976 Christian militia conquer Palestinian camp Tell al-Za'tar, 2000 killed
1974 Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only 2 as Angels top Red Sox, 4-2
1974 Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford become 1st teammates elected to hall of fame on same day
1973 55th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 277 at Canterbury, Cleveland
1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens
1973 WPBA National Championship won by Betty Morris
1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 156 performances
1972 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 1316 performances
1972 Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings
1972 Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam
1971 Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan
1970 Curt Flood loses his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million
1968 Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham played together for the first time when they rehearsed at a studio in Lisle Street in London’s West End. The first song they played was a version of ‘Train Kept A-Rollin.’
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14
1965 Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice
1965 Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise
1964 10th time Mantle switch-hits home run in a game, one goes 502 feet
1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits home run record 10th and final time in a game
1963 Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
1963 Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year
1962 1st time 2 people in space
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1960 27th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Baltimore 32, All-Stars 7 (70,000)
1960 Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched
1960 Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 11"
1960 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 1st ship firing of a Polaris missile, Observation Island
1959 Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa
1956 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1955 22nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 30, Cleveland 27 (75,000)
1955 President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1955 WPBT TV channel 2 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Senator Eddie Yost draws his 100th walk for 5th year in a row
1953 Ann Davidson, 1st woman to sail solo across Atlantic, arrives Miami
1953 Heavy earthquake strikes Isotope islands, 435 killed
1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb
1952 Hussain ibn Talal proclaimed King of Jordan
1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
1950 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 20-6 in Ottawa
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Humani generis

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses

Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami on August 11, 1976.

Keith Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who.

He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style, and notoriety for his eccentric and often self-destructive behaviour, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon".

Keith Moon joined The Who in 1964.

He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1964's "Zoot Suit", to 1978's Who Are You, which was released three weeks before his death.

Keith Moon was known for dramatic, suspenseful drumming—often eschewing basic back beats for a fluid, busy technique focused on fast, cascading rolls across the toms, ambidextrous double bass drum work and wild cymbal crashes and washes.

Keith Moon's penchant for the wild life was not only outwardly detrimental; it began to take a toll on his health while he was still in his twenties, as well as on his drumming and his reliability as a band member. On the 1973 Quadrophenia tour, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, Keith Moon took a large mixture of horse tranquillisers and brandy. He passed out during "Won't Get Fooled Again" and again in "Magic Bus". Pete Townshend asked the audience, "Can anyone play the drums? – I mean somebody good". An audience member, Scot Halpin, filled in for the rest of the show. Pete Townshend later said in an interview that Moon had consumed large tranquilliser pills, meant to be shot at animals, with the brandy. During the band's recording sabbatical between 1975 and 1978, Keith Moon put on a great deal of weight. Nonetheless, John Entwistle maintained that Keith Moon and The Who reached their prime live peak during 1975 and 1976. That Who tour earned them Rolling Stone's 'red suspenders' for best live rock band.

Keith Moon's close friend Ringo Starr was seriously concerned about his lifestyle and told Moon that if he kept going the way he was he would eventually kill himself. Keith Moon simply replied "Yeah, I know.

Retro History for August 11 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
1989 Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England
1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th home run
1988 Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens
1988 Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament
1987 France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1986 68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo
1985 Oakland A's Dave Kingman becomes 21st to hit 400 home run
1985 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 669 performances
1985 67th PGA Championship: Hubert Green shoots 278 at Cherry Hills Denver
1985 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz
1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1985 Rudolf Povarnitsin of U.S.S.R. sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
1984 101,799 fans at soccer match Brazilie-France
1984 Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
1984 Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform
1984 During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1984 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
1984 U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test
1982 Twins Terry Felton loses and runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Angola revises its constitution
1980 Mohammed Ali Radjai appointed premier of Iran
1980 Yankees Reggie Jackson hits his 400th home run off Chicago's Britt Burns

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 28 degrees F in Embarrass Minnesota
1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI
1978 Legionnaire's disease bacteria isolated in Atlanta
1977 Geoff Boycott scores his 100th FC hundred, vs. Australia at Headingley
1976 Keith Moon, drummer for Who, collapses and is hospitalized in Miami
1976 Race riot in Cape Town, South Africa; 17 die
1975 Expos' Jose Mangual struck out 5 times in a game
1975 U.S. vetoes proposed admission of North and South Vietnam to U.N.
1974 56th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 276 at Tanglewood NC
1974 Coup in East-Timor under UDT
1974 Head-on collision between two buses kills 21 (Ankara, Turkey)
1972 "Cheech and Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas
1971 Construction begins on Louisiana Superdome
1971 Harmon Killebrew hits home runs #500 and 501
1970 Jim Bunning becomes 2nd (Cy Young) to win 100 games in both leagues
1970 Tony Perez becomes 1st to hit a home run in red seats at Riverfront

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder
1969 Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo)
1968 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
1968 Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves
1967 Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches
1966 Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins
1965 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles
1965 Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City
1965 Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days
1964 Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City
1963 Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?"
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
1962 Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
1961 Warren Spahn records victory #300, beats Cubs 2-1
1960 Chad declares Independence from France

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
1957 Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich
1956 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
1956 Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel"
1955 Indonesia government of Harahap forms
1954 BC Lions plays its 1st CF game, they lose to Montreal Alouettes, 22-0
1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh
1952 Hussein Ibn Talal I, proclaimed King of Jordan
1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois
1951 1st color baseball game, Braves vs Dodgers, telecast, WCBS-NYC
1951 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
1951 New York Giants lose to go 13 games behind Brooklyn Dodgers, later win pennant
1950 17th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 17, Philadelphia 7 (88,885)
1950 Boston Brave Vern Bickford no-hits Brooklyn Dodger, 7-0
1950 Hitting just .279, Yank great Joe DiMaggio is benched for 1st time
1950 King Boudouin I takes oath as royal prince of Belgium

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Abba	AC/DC	Adam Ant	Aerosmith
Alice Cooper	Alien	Allman Brothers Band	American Gladiators
Andy Griffith Show	Arthur Lee	Animaniacs	Atari
The B-52's	Back to the Future	Bad News Bears	Bangles
Barbie	Batgirl	Batman	Batman
Battlestar Galactica	Beastie Boys	Beatles	Beavis and Butthead
Bee Gees	Beetlejuice	Pat Benatar	Better Off Dead
Bob Dylan	Beverly Hills 90210	Beverly Hills Cop	Big Lebowski
Bill and Ted	Black Sabbath	Blondie	Bionic Woman
Bob Newhart Show	Blue Oyster Cult	Blues Brothers	Bob Ross
Brian Eno	Bon Jovi	Brian Jones	Boston
David Bowie	Brady Bunch	Brand Names	Breakfast Club
Breakin	Caddyshack	Candy	Captain America
Captain Beefheart	Care Bears	The Cars	Johnny Cash
Cheap Trick	383">Cheech and Chong	Cheers	The Cream
Charlie Daniels Band	Christmas Story	Captain Kirk	Country Joe & The Fish
Clapton	Count Five	Classic Cartoon	The Creation
Coleco Vision	The Clash	Chocolate Watch Band	Conan
Charlatans	Can	Charlie's Angles	The Cult
The Cure	Curious George	The Dark Crystal	David Hasselhoff
Dazed and Confused	DC Comics	Debbie Gibson	Def Leppard
Detroit Rock City	DEVO	Deep Purple	Diffrent Strokes
Debbie Harry	Dio	Miles Davis	Donovan
Dokken	David Lee Roth	The Doors	Dr. Seuss
65">Dr. Spock	Duran Duran	David Crosby	E.T.
Elton John	Elvira	Evel Knievel	Fame
Family Ties	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Felix The Cat	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Freddie Mercury	Flash Gordon	Flashdance	Flintstones
Flock of Seagulls	Foghat	Footloose	Foreigner
Fraggle Rock	Peter Frampton	Friday the 13th	Friends
Frosty the Snowman	F-Troop	Garfield	Gong
Jerry Garcia	Ghostbusters	GI Joe	The Go-Go's
Get Smart	The Goonies	Grateful Dead	Grease
Greatest American Hero	Green Day	Green Lantern	Gremlins
Gumby	Guns N Roses	Grizzly Adams	H.R. Puff Stuff
Halloween	Happy Days	Hardcastle And Mccormick	Harlem Globetrotters
David Hasselhof	Heavy Metal	Jimi Hendrix	Hogan's Heroes
Hong Kong Phooey	Hot Wheels	Hulk	Billy Idol
In Living Color	Indiana Jones	Ironside	I Dream Of Jeannie
Inspector Gadget	Inxs	Iron Maiden	Ironman
Jefferson Airplane	JAWS	Jeffersons	Jetho Tull
Janice Joplin	Journey	Judas Priest	Johhny Quest
Josie And The Pussycats	Jane Fonda	Justice League	Karate Kid
Joe Jackson	KISS	Knight Rider	LA Guns
Incredible String Band	Led Zeppelin	Love	Looney Tunes
Lost Boys	Lemmy	Love Boat	Lynyrd Skynyrd
Madness	Madonna	Magnum P.I.	Bob Marley
Married with Children	Marvel Comics	MASH	McGruff
Meatloaf	The Move	Melrose Place	Metallica
Miami Vice	Michael Jackson	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Mighty Mouse
Mighty Thor	Mick Jagger	Mary Tyler Moore	The Misfits
Missing Persons	Molly Hatchet	Monopoly	Monty Python
Motley Crue	Motorhead	Soft Machine	The Monkees
Mott The Hoople	Mr. Rogers	Mr. T	MTV
Mullet	Muppets	Marc Bolan	Music Machine
Willie Nelson	New Kids On The Block	NEU!	Mike Nesmith
Nancy Drew	Nintendo	Nirvana	NY Dolls
John Lennon	Ozzy Osbourne	Outsiders	PAC-MAN
The Rasberries	The Partridge Family	Peanuts	Pearl Jam
Pee Wee's Big Adventure	Neil Young	Pink Floyd	Sun Ra
The Pixies	Planet of the Apes	Roky Erickson	Nick Drake
Skip Spence	Poison	The Police	Popeye the Sailor Man
Elvis Presley	Elvis Costello	Pretty In Pink	Prince
Syd Vicious	Run DMC	Pulp Fiction	Gram Parsons
Punky Brewster	Buffalo Springfield	Queen	Queensryche
Quiet Riot	Rainbow Brite	Rambo	The Ramones
Robert Fripp	The Pretenders	Soft Machine	The Talking Heads
William Burroughs	Allen Ginsberg	Velvet Underground	Risky Business
Lou Reed	Funkadelic	Rocky	Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rolling Stones	Keith Richards	RUN DMC	Rush
Sanford and Son	Santana	Saturday Night Fever	Saturday Night Live
Saved by the Bell	Square Pegs	Scarface	Scooby Doo
Lee Scratch Perry	Seinfeld	Sesame Street	The Sex Pistols
Kraftwerk	Sid and Marty Kroft	Siouxsie And The Banshees	Sixteen Candles
Paul McCartney	Tangerine Dream	George Harrison	Slinky
Smokey and the Bandit	Syd Barrett	Smurf	Peter Gabriel
Brian Wilson	Ringo Starr	The Kinks	Small Faces
Speed Racer	Spider Man	Spinal Tap	Grand Funk Railroad
Bruce Springsteen	St. Elmo's Fire	Star Trek	Star Wars
The Zombies	The Smiths	Steppenwolf	Throbbing Gristle
Strawberry Alarm Clock	Roky Erickson	Strawberry Shortcake	The Yardbirds
Quicksilver Messenger Service	The Sugar Hill Gang	Super Friends	Super Mario Bros
Supergirl	Superman	Taxi	Electric Prunes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Terminator	The Leaves	King Crimson
The Godfather	The Simpsons	The Carol Burnett Show	Thin Lizzy
ThunderCats	Tom and Jerry	Psychedelic Posters	The Young Ones
Transformers	Pat Travers	The Golden Girls	Retro TV Shows
Twisted Sister	Twister	U2	Underdog
Valley Girl	Van Halen	Over The Edge	Voltron
Leif Garrett	David Cassidy	John Travolta	Weird Science
Waltons	Where's Waldo	Welcome Back Kotter	Whitesnake
WKRP In Cincinnati	The Who	Willy Wonka	Wizard of Oz
Wonder Woman	X-Files	Yes	Frank Zappa
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