Today in History

On This Day - 8th September: (USA)

1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Emergency Revenue Act, doubling the rate of income tax and adding inheritance and munitions profits tax
Revenue Act of 1916 - Wikipedia

1939 FDR declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe
ROOSEVELT DECLARES LIMITED NATIONAL EMERGENCY - World War II Day by Day

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes
Ford pardons Nixon

 

On This Day - 8th September: (MUSIC)

1952 - Ray Charles

After Atlantic Records bought Ray Charles' contract from Swingtime, Charles recorded his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs.
>>> Over the next seven years, he would record such classics as ‘Mess Around,’ ‘I Got a Woman,’ ‘Hallelujah, I Love Her So’ and ‘What'd I Say.’
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1956 - Eddie Cochran

Eddie Cochran signed a one year contract with Liberty Records.
>>> Cochran went on to give Liberty three top 40 hits over the next several years including ‘Summertime Blues,’ ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and ‘C’mon Everybody’.
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1957 - Jackie Wilson

Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson was released for the first time, it became a UK No. 1, 29 years later.
>>> During a 1975 benefit concert, Wilson collapsed on-stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death in 1984.

 

On This Day - 8th September: (Leddle bit of Zeppelin)

1968 -
Led Zeppelin appeared at Raventlow Parken, Nykobing, Falster, Denmark supported by The Beatnicks and The Ladybirds, (who were a all girl topless go-go dancing outfit).

This was the group's third ever live gig.
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1979 -
Led Zeppelin scored their eighth UK No.1 album when 'In Through The Out Door' went to the top of the charts for two weeks.

The eighth studio album by Zeppelin, was their final album of entirely new material.
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1997 -
29 years after the band first formed, Led Zeppelin released 'Whole Lotta Love', their first ever single in the UK.
The track recorded in 1969 and featured on the bands second album was issued to promote their re-issued back catalogue.

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2004 - Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was guest of honour at the unveiling of a statue of 15th century rebel leader Owain Glyndwr at Pennal church, near Machynlleth in Wales.
Plant, who owns a farmhouse in the area had donated money towards a bronze sculpture of the Welsh prince.
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Born on this Day - 8th September:

1897 - JIMMIE RODGERS:




Singer, songwriter, the first country music star. Sold over 12 million records and was the first person to be elected into the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
>> He rose to popularity in the late 1920s. Widely regarded as "the Father of Country Music", he is best known for his distinctive rhythmic yodeling. Unusual for a music star of his era, Rodgers died on 26th May 1933.

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1932 - PATSY CLINE:


Country music singer. Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht's and Alan Block's 'Walkin' After Midnight', Hank Cochran's and Harlan Howard's 'I Fall to Pieces', Willie Nelson's 'Crazy' and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson's 'Sweet Dreams'.
She died aged 30 on 5 March 1963 at the height of her career in a plane crash. She was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century.
>> Ten years after her death, in 1973, she became the first female solo artist inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

 

On This Day - 9th September: (Death of Mao)



1976:
Marxist revolutionary Mao Zedong, who died this day in 1976, emerged as the undisputed Chinese Communist Party leader following the Long March (1934–35) and dominated China in the period after the communist takeover in 1949.

Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

 

On This Day - 9th September: (Death of a Conqueror )

1087:
The English king William I (the Conqueror) died from an injury suffered while attempting to capture the town of Mantes and was later buried at St. Stephen's Church.Sort fact from fictio



William the Conqueror - Wikipedia

 

On This Day - 9th September: (Death of an Artist)



French artist who observed and documented with great psychological insight the personalities and facets of Parisian nightlife and the French world of entertainment in the 1890s.
His use of free-flowing, expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions (e.g., In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888).

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Wikipedia

 

On This Day - 10th September: (Music) (1/2)

1967 - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley recorded 'Guitar Man' at RCA studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Jerry Reed song became the last of eleven number one country hits for Presley.


1968 - The Beatles
The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Hey Jude’, the group's 15th UK No.1 and the longest chart topper ever at seven minutes and ten seconds.
The single was the first release on the group's Apple records label.

 

On This Day - 10th September: (Music) (2/2) *** BANNED ***

1962 - Boris Pickett
The BBC banned Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt Kickers single 'Monster Mash' saying it was offensive.
The single went on to be a UK No.3 hit in 1973.


1973 - The Rolling Stones
The BBC banned The Rolling Stones single 'Star Star', from their Goat's Head Soup album because it contained the word "Star-fucker" in the chorus a dozen times.


(Censorship: How a decade can see such change)

 

On this Day - 11th September:

9 AD The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends Germania turns the tide and sees Roman invaders routed.
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Described as the Varian Disaster by Roman historians, took place when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus.
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - Wikipedia
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1297: Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English



Battle of Stirling Bridge - Wikipedia
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1649 Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Following a week long siege, Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
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Siege of Drogheda - Wikipedia
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1973 : Chilean President Salvador Allende, the 1st elected Marxist president of a South America country, is deposed in a military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet


1973 Chilean coup d'état - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 11th September: ("9/11")

2001: Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people

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In total, there were FOUR attempts of/for Mass destriction
The four flights were:
American Airlines Flight 11: a Boeing 767 aircraft, departed Logan Airport at 7:59 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of 11 and 76 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the northern façade of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 8:46 a.m.
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United Airlines Flight 175: a Boeing 767 aircraft, departed Logan Airport at 8:14 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of nine and 51 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the southern façade of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City at 9:03 a.m.
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American Airlines Flight 77: a Boeing 757 aircraft, departed Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20 a.m. en route to Los Angeles with a crew of six and 53 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers flew the plane into the western façade of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, at 9:37 a.m.
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United Airlines Flight 93: a Boeing 757 aircraft, departed Newark International Airport at 8:42 a.m. en route to San Francisco, with a crew of seven and 33 passengers, not including four hijackers. As passengers attempted to subdue the hijackers, the aircraft crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at 10:03 a.m

September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

 

USA TODAY:

September 11 attacks | History, Summary, Timeline, Casualties, & Facts

9/11 anniversary: Who were the September 11th attackers and what are the links with the new Taliban regime?

9/11 anniversary: Biden calls for unity as US remembers attacks

 

On this Day - 11th September:



2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Oscar Pistorius Not Guilty of Murder; Still Faces Lesser Homicide Charge (Published 2014)

He is later found guilty of culpable homicide
Oscar Pistorius guilty of murdering Reeva Steenkamp

 

On this Day - 11th September:


1942 Enid Blyton publishes "Five on a Treasure Island" first of her "Famous Five" children's novels, start of one of the best-selling children's series ever with over 100 million sold

Five on a Treasure Island - Wikipedia



Enid Blyton - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 11th September: (:With the BeaTles')

1962 - After George Martin insisted that session drummer Andy White took Ringo Starr's place, The Beatles returned to EMI Studios in London for a third attempt at recording their first single. 'Love Me Do' was selected to be The Beatles' first A-side, with "P.S. I Love You" on the flip side (a reversal of the original plan).
The single that was released on October 5th featured a version of ‘Love Me Do’ with Ringo on drums, but the album ‘Please Please Me’ included a version with Andy White on drums.

1965 - The Beatles started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Help!, the group's sixth US chart topper.


1967 - Filming began for The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. There was no script, nor a very clear idea of exactly what was to be accomplished, not even a clear direction about where the bus was supposed to go.
The ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ bus set off for the West Country in England stopping for the night in Teignmouth, Devon were hundreds of fans greeted The Beatles at their hotel.

 

On this Day - 11th September: (In other Music News')

1956 - Rock Around the Clock
Police were called to break up a crowd of rowdy teenagers following the showing of the film Rock Around the Clock at the Trocadero Cinema in London, England.
- The following day, The Times printed a reader's letter that said: "The hypnotic rhythm and the wild gestures have a maddening effect on a rhythm loving age group and the result of its impact is the relaxing of all self control." The film was quickly banned in several English cities.


1964 - Double Jagger
The London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone's idea of a winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition.
- Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and seemed to know his every action and the audience at Greenwich Town Hall were delighted, until the winner turned out to be Mick's younger brother Chris Jagger


2006 - Classical (Smoking on the water) Music?
A study from the University of Leicester found that more than a quarter of classical music fans had tried cannabis.

Researchers were trying to find out what people's taste in music revealed about their lifestyles.
- The UK study also revealed that blues buffs are the most likely to have received a driving penalty.
- Hip hop and dance music fans were more likely to have multiple sex partners amongst the biggest drug-takers surveyed.
More than 2,500 people were interviewed for the study, which was published in the scientific journal Psychology of Music.

 

Spread across Massachusetts there are at least 60 memorials dedicated to the events on 911 which incorporate the actual steel from the twin towers into their displays.

 

On this Day - 12th September:

490 BC Traditional date of the Battle of Marathon, where a small Athenian force defeats the Persian Empire


Battle of Marathon - Wikipedia
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1624 1st submarine publicly tested in London on the Thames for King James I
The banks of the Thames were crowded with 3,000 spectators. The first submarine – a steerable, pigskin-covered wooden frame that was capable of carrying 16 passengers. Six oars propelled the watercraft forward. The submarine could stay submerged for up to 3 hours, at a maximum depth of 12 to 15 feet.


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1974 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie on Ethiopia's national day

Ethiopian Civil War - Wikipedia
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1992 Mae Jemison is the 1st African American woman to go into space (aboard Endeavour STS-47)
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She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992.
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On this Day - 13th September:

1969 "Scooby-Doo Where are You" by Hanna-Barbera debuts on CBS in the US
= The iconicAmerican animated mystery comedy television series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13th, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970.



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