Today in History

On this Day - 4th October
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1963 - The Beatles made their first appearance on the UK ITV pop show 'Ready Steady Go!'
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Broadcast on the ITV network, initially just in London, RSG! was British television’s leading pop music show at the time.
The episode was broadcast live, with the performers miming to their hits, a typical situation for the time.
The show was recorded at Television House on London’s Kingsway.
During the afternoon The Beatles rehearsed for the cameras, and recording took place from 6.15pm onwards.
They mimed to Twist and Shout, She Loves You, and I’ll Get you and were interviewed by guest host, Dusty Springfield, and host Keith Fordyce.
Also, Paul McCartney judged four teenage girls miming to Brenda Lee’s ‘Let’s Jump the Broomstick, choosing 13-year-old Melanie Coe as winner.
Three years later, after Coe’s disappearance from her family made the front page of the Daily Mirror.
- - - McCartney used the article as the basis for ‘She’s Leaving Home’.

1969 - ABBEY ROAD: (1/2)
The Beatles Abbey Road album went to No.1 on the UK chart.
The final studio recordings from the group supposedly contained clues adding to the ‘Paul Is Dead’ phenomenon:
Paul is barefoot and the car number plate ‘LMW 281F’ supposedly referred to the fact that McCartney would be 28 years old if he was still alive. ‘LMW’ was said to stand for ‘Linda McCartney Weeps.’
And the four Beatles, represent;

• The Priest (John, dressed in white),
• The Undertaker (Ringo in a black suit),
• The Corpse (Paul, in a suit but barefoot), and
• The Gravedigger (George, in jeans and a denim work shirt).

2019 - ABBEY ROAD: (2/2)
The Beatles' Abbey Road returned to No.1 in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album charts after the release of an expanded anniversary edition.
The feat also sees the album set a record - the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap before returning to No.1.

Abbey Road - Wikipedia

 

Yes, as you will have seen by the times I've noted recently = so many times, so many tests between 1950 and the test ban, blatant of often the Earth has been blasted and one has to wonder to what degree this has inpacted that we see in Global Climate change

 

Just did a Wiki check on the book, may investigate further - (although the reference to the Battle of Tarawa made uncomfortable reading)

 

Today in History October 5th

1966 A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.

Note: The 50th anniversary (2016) of the Fermi 1 nuclear plant mishap was the genesis for the book "We Almost Lost Detroit".

Detroit came close to having a Chernobyl (Soviet Union) or Fukushima (Japan) catastrophe in its backyard.

 

On this Day - 5th October:

1789 French Revolution:
Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris

Women's March on Versailles (Famous Painting) - On This Day
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1892 Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
The famous Dalton Gang attempts the daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time.
- But if the gang members believed the sheer audacity of their plan would bring them success, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they were nearly all killed by quick-acting townspeople.



The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, 1892 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
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1905 Orville and Wilbur Wright's make a circling flight on "Flyer III" of 24.2 miles (38.9 kms) in 39 minutes and 23 seconds


Wright Flyer III - Wikipedia
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1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
= 1991 - USSR reduces nuclear weapons arsenal
1993 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

 

On this Day - 5th October:

1962 - Bond....., James, Bond


The first installment in the James Bond film series, Dr. No, had its world premiere.
The British spy film was adapted from Ian Fleming's novel and starred Sean Connery.
Dr. No (film) - Wikipedia

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1969 - And now for something different ...


The British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted on the BBC and proved to be a watershed for TV comedy around the world.
Monty Python's Flying Circus - Wikipedia

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1970 - PBS



PBS began broadcasting on American television, and it became known for various programs, notably the children's shows Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (starring Fred Rogers).
It commenced broadcasting itself on October 5, 1970.
In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations.
Since its founding in 1969, PBS has grown to include 354 stations which cover all 50 states of the United States.
PBS - Wikipedia

 

Today in History October 6th

1973 - The Yom Kippur War on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, which suffered heavy casualties, but Israeli forces successfully fought back, and the war eventually ended inconclusively.

 

On this Day - 6th October:

1789 French Revolution: Louis XVI

. . . . . returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
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1866 1st train robbery in US
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The brothers John and Simeon Reno stage the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.
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The First Known Train Robbery in the U.S. (americaslibrary.gov)
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1903 The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.



History of the High Court - High Court of Australia
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1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey

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. . . finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

Mary Leakey - Wikipedia
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1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

- Novelist - Agatha Christie

The Mousetrap - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 6th October:

• 1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb

- Soviet General Secretary - Joseph Stalin*

1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelter

- 35th US President - John F. Kennedy

1961 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1967 USSR performs nuclear test
1983 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

 

On this Day - 6th October: (MUSIC)

1927 "The Jazz Singer",



Directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
Jazz Singer Sounds Death Knell for Silent Movies - On This Day

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1979 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door was at No.1 on the US album chart. Six versions of the cover were released, each depicting the same bar scene photographed from one of six different angles.

1979 - Bob Dylan
'Gotta Serve Somebody' gave Bob Dylan his twelfth US top 40 hit when it entered the chart for the first time. Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the song won Dylan the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1980.

2005 - The Rolling Stones
A The Rolling Stones concert at the University of Virginia, in the US, was halted eight songs into the show at the Scott Stadium after police received a bomb threat targeting the stage area. A 45-minute police sweep of the area found nothing unusual, and the band completed the show. The Stones were touring to promote their latest album, 'A Bigger Bang.'

2007 - Queen
Queen's groundbreaking promo for their 1975 hit Bohemian Rhapsody was named the UK's best music video in a survey of music fans. Out of 1,051 adults polled by O2, 30% named the six-minute video, (which took only three hours to shoot and cost a mere £3,500 to make), their favourite.

2007 - Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen was being sued for $850,000 (£415,973) by a man who claimed he backed out of a contract to buy a horse. Springsteen and his wife Patti Scialfa were both named in legal documents filed in Florida by Todd Minikus. He claimed the couple pulled out of a deal to pay $650,000 (£358,097) for a horse, named Pavarotti.

 

On this Day - 6th October: (MUSICal Departures)

1978 - Johnny O'Keefe
Australia’s ‘King of rock 'n' roll’ Johnny O’Keefe died aged 43 of a heart attack. He was the first Australian rock’n’roll performer to tour the United States, and Australia’s most successful chart performer, with 29 Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1974,. O’Keefe’s 1958 hit, ‘Real Wild Child’, was covered by Iggy Pop in 1986.
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2016 - Rod Temperton
The death of English songwriter, record producer, and musician Rod Temperton was announced. He initially made his mark as the keyboardist and main songwriter for the R&B funk/disco band Heatwave. Temperton was recruited by Quincy Jones to write songs for Michael Jackson, including 'Thriller', 'Off the Wall', and 'Rock with You'.
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2019 - Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer and co-founder of rock band Cream died at the age of 80. The drummer co-founded Cream in 1966 with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce. The band released four albums before splitting in 1968, after which he formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. Baker, one of the most innovative and influential drummers in rock music also played with Blind Faith, Hawkwind and Fela Kuti in a long and varied career. In 1962, joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated on the recommendation of Charlie Watts - who was leaving to join the Rolling Stones and later gained early fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organisation alongside bassist Jack Bruce.

2019 - Larry Junstrom
Larry Junstrom, a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd and longstanding bassist with the band .38 Special died at the age of 70. Junstrom played bass with Lynyrd Skynyrd from its formation in 1964 until he was replaced by Leon Wilkeson in 1971. He then joined .38 Special in 1976 with Donnie Van Zant, the younger brother of the Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant.
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2020 - Eddie Van Halen
Eddie Van Halen, the revered guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen died at the age of 65, the Dutch-American musician had been receiving treatment for throat cancer. Halen, whose full name was Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, and his brother Alex Van Halen began performing together as teens, but formed the core of what would later become Van Halen after meeting David Lee Roth in the early seventies. Van Halen have sold more than 80 million worldwide, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time.

2020 - Johnny Nash
American singer-songwriter Johnny Nash died of natural causes age 80. He is best known for his 1972 hit 'I Can See Clearly Now'. Primarily a reggae and pop singer, he was one of the first non-Jamaican artists to record reggae music in Kingston.

 

On this Day - 7th October:

1915 English nurse Edith Cavell
- Nurse Edith Cavell

Edith was tried at court martial on 7th October 1915, along with 34 other people by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers
She was found guilty and sentenced to death. She was shot by a firing squad at the Tir National, the Brussels firing range, on 12th October 1915.
Edith Cavell - Wikipedia
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1929 Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress

British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald

Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's Historic Reception | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
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1959 Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time
Courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe
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Far Side of the Moon Revealed (Famous Photo) - On This Day

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1996 Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News


History of Fox News - Wikipedia
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On this Day - 7th October: (MUSIC)

1963 - The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones recorded the Lennon and McCartney penned song ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’ at De Lane Lea Studios in London.
The song which was primarily written by Paul McCartney, was finished by Lennon and McCartney in the corner of a room while Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were talking.
The song peaked at No.12 on the UK charts when released.
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1966 - Johnny Kidd
Johnny Kidd was killed in a car crash while on UK tour in Radcliffe, Manchester, aged 27.
Pirates' bassist Nick Simper, who later became an original member of Deep Purple, was also in the car with Kidd but he suffered only some cuts and a broken arm.
Kidd scored the 1960 UK No.1 single 'Shakin' All Over' as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.
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1976 - John Lennon
John Lennon was awarded his ‘Green Card’ - permanent residency status, at a hearing in New York which overturned previous efforts by the US Government to deport him.
The three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals ruled that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was "contrary to US ideas of due process and was invalid as a means of banishing the former Beatle from America."
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2002 - Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger donated £100,000 to his old Grammar school in Dartford to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments.
The new centre was also named after Mick Jagger.
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2005 - Boy George
Boy George was arrested in New York after Police found traces of drugs in his apartment. George had called the police after he thought somebody was breaking into his apartment. When police arrived and made a search they found traces of cocaine on a computer table.

 

On this Day - 9th October:

1864 Battle of Tom's Brook. (A Custer Victory)
Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions

Battle of Tom's Brook - Wikipedia
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1900 Paris World’s Fair



L’Exposition Universelle de 1900 à Paris - Before the start of the balloon race. (Parisienne de Photographie)
(9–10 October 1900):
The Aéro-Club de France held a long-distance balloon race, coinciding with the World’s Fair and Olympic Games.
Six balloon teams competed for the Grand Prix, including that of Henri François Joseph, Comte de la Vaulx, and Joseph Félix Georges, Comte de Castillon de Saint-Victor, co-founders, along with several others, including Jules Verne, of the Aero Club.
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1936 Hoover Dam

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Harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, the Hoover Dam begins sending electricity over transmission lines spanning 266 miles of mountains and deserts to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles.
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

 

On this Day - 9th October:
1967: Che Guevara 'shot dead'

Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is reportedly killed during a battle between army troops and guerillas in the Bolivian jungle.- However ....


BBC ON THIS DAY | 9 | 1967: Che Guevara 'shot dead'

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Che Guevara - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 9th October: (LENNON)
.1940 - John Lennon
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Born: John Winston Lennon - 9th October 1940 - Liverpool, England
Died 8th December 1980
John Lennon singer, songwriter, guitarist with The Beatles who have sold over 20m singles in the UK (1962-1970), and scored more UK & US No.1 albums than any other group. (Their 1967 Sgt. Pepper is the UK's biggest selling album ever)
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1975 - Sean Lennon
Sean Taro Ono Lennon was born, the only child of John Lennon by Yoko Ono.
Lennon retired from music for five years (<>) to become a house-husband.
(Sean went on to become a singer, song()writer, musician and actor).
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1980 - (<>)He returned with the Ono collaboration Double Fantasy.
- He was shot and killed in the archway of his Manhattan apartment building three weeks later

1985 - Marking what would have been John Lennon's 45th birthday, Yoko Ono formally opened the three and a half acre garden at the Strawberry Fields site in New York's Central Park.
The area was planted with trees, shrubs and flowers gathered from across the world and with a $1m donation from Yoko.

1990 Lennon's song 'Imagine was played simultaneously in 130 countries to commemorate what would've been his 50th birthday.


2007 - The Imagine Peace Tower
The Imagine Peace Tower was officially unveiled in Kollafjorour Bay near Reykjav’k, Iceland.
The memorial to John Lennon from his widow, Yoko Ono, consists of a tall "tower of light", projected from a white stone monument that has the words "Imagine Peace" carved into it in 24 languages.
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John Lennon - Wikipedia