Today in History

On this Day - 31st October: (MUSIC) (1)
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1952 - Chuck Berry
Pianist Johnnie Johnson hired 26 year old Chuck Berry as a guitarist in his band.
- While playing evening gigs in the St. Louis area, Berry kept his day job as a hairdresser for the next three years.
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1959 - The Quarry Men
The Quarry Men changed their name to Johnny and the Moondogs. The band were in Liverpool auditioning for the Carrol Levis show.
- The Quarry Men featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison.
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1964 - Ray Charles
Ray Charles was arrested by Logan Airport customs officials in Boston and charged with possession of heroin. This was his third drug charge, following incidents in 1958 and 1961.
- Charles avoided prison after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles, but spent a year on parole in 1966.
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1969 - David Bowie
David Bowie appeared at a Halloween night at the General Gordon, Gravesend, England. The gig lasted about 15 minutes, after Bowie sang 'Space Oddity' to everyone’s delight and then dragged a stool on stage, along with a huge book.
- He then sat and read poems and was booed off stage.

 

On this Day - 31st October: (MUSIC) (2)

1986 - The TUBE
A new series of TV's Channel 4's The Tube started with Jermaine Stewart, Troublefunk, Bob Geldof and Frankie Goes To Hollywood plus Spandau Ballet who played live in the studio at Newcastle upon Tyne.
- - - 1986 - Roger Waters
Roger Waters went to the high court to try and stop David Gilmour and Nick Mason from using the name 'Pink Floyd', for future touring and recording.
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1989 - Squeeze
The very first MTV unplugged show was recorded in New York, featuring UK band Squeeze, (the program was aired on 26th Nov 1989)
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1990 - Billy Idol
During a gig in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumped 600 dead fish in Faith No More's dressing room.
- They responded by walking on stage, naked during Idol's set.

 

On this Day - 31st October: (MUSIC) (3)

1970 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin started a four week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Led Zeppelin III the bands second US chart topper.

1974 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin held the UK launch for their new record label Swan Song at Chislehurst Caves, Kent, England on Halloween night.
Drinks were served by nuns in suspenders, a naked woman lay in a coffin covered in jelly and naked male wrestlers cavorted in recesses of the caves.

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The label was named after an unreleased Zeppelin instrumental track.

 

Today in History October 31st

Birthday: Peter Jackson, (1961) who was given a super 8 camera by a family friend as a child, and later became the director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

 

On this Day - 1st November:

1848 WHSmith

..... opens its 1st railway bookstall, at Euston Station in London, England
Other station bookstalls follow taking advantage of 'railway mania' in England.
These bookstalls become outlets for cheap editions of publications produced for railway travellers, the popular 'yellowbacks'.
WHSmith: a Retail Giant Born From a Widow's Might - On This Day
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1897 Italian football club Juventus F.C.



..... is founded by students in Turin as Sport-Club Juventus by pupils from the Massimo d'Azeglio Lyceum school in Turin, among them the brothers Eugenio and Enrico Canfari, but were renamed as Foot-Ball Club Juventus two years later. The club joined the Italian Football Championship in 1900.
Juventus F.C. - Wikipedia
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1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination



The first animal, a rabbit, conceived by artificial insemination was exhibited in the United States at the 12th Annual Graduate Fortnight at the New York Academy of Medicine. Gregory Pincus, an American biologist, removed an egg from the ovary of a female rabbit and fertilized it with a salt solution.
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On this Day - 1st November:
(TESTWATCH)

• 1951 1st H Bomb test, code named "Ivy Mike", detonates on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the north Pacific Ocean
• 1951 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico
• 1952 "Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean = Ivy Mike - Wikipedia
• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1980 USSR performs nuclear test

 

On this Day - 3rd November:
(BATTLE - Watch)

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  1760 Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
  Battle of Torgau - Wikipedia
  
  1812 Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
  Battle of Vyazma - Wikipedia
  
  1861 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina begins, Union victory (US Civil War)
  Battle of Port Royal - Wikipedia
  
  1863 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil Wa
  Battle of Bayou Bourbeux - Wikipedia
  
  1867 Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Giuseppe Garibaldi
  Battle of Mentana - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 3rd November:
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Space Dog Laika Launched to her Death

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space
Born: Laika (Лайка); c. 1954; Moscow,
Died: 3 November 1957 (aged 3); Sputnik 2, in Space.
Laika, a stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into low orbit on 3 November 1957.
No capacity for her recovery and survival was planned, and she died of overheating or asphyxiation shortly before she was to be poisoned.

Space Dog Laika Launched to her Death - On This Day

 

On this Day - 3rd November:
("HAPPY BIRTHDAY")

1930 - Mable John

American blues vocalist Mable John, the first female signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label.
After leaving Motown, John spent several years as a Raelette, backing many Ray Charles hits.

1933 - John Barry

English composer and conductor John Barry. He composed the scores for 11 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987. He wrote the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the theme for the British television cult series The Persuaders!
Barry died of a heart attack on 31st January 2011 aged 77.

1948 - Lulu

Marie Lawrie, (Lulu), UK singer, (1964 UK No.7 single 'Shout' plus over 10 other UK Top 40 singles including 1993 UK No.1 'Relight My Fire' with Take That and the 1967 US No.1 single 'To Sir With Love').


1954 - Adam Ant

English singer and musician Stuart Goddard, (Adam Ant), who had the 1981 UK No.1 single 'Stand And Deliver' with Adam and the Ants.
He scored 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three UK No.1 singles. He has also worked as an actor, appearing in over two dozen films and television episodes from 1985 to 2003.

 

On this Day - 7th November:
("HAPPY BIRTHDAY")
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1943 - Joni Mitchell



Birth name Roberta Joan Anderson - Also known as Roberta Joan Mitchell, Joni Anderson
Born November 7th, 1943 = Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Canadian singer, songwriter who in 1970 had a UK No.11 single 'Big Yellow Taxi', and 1974 US No.7 single ‘Help Me’.
Joni Mitchell - Help Me (1974) - YouTube
She wrote 'Both Sides Now' a hit for Judy Collins and 'Woodstock' a hit for Crosby, Stills Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort.
Mitchell's work is highly respected by critics, and she has deeply influenced fellow musicians in a diverse range of genres.
Joni Mitchell - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 7th November:
(Music - Elton John):

1967 - - - Reg Dwight (Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed to DJM publishing, their signatures had to be witnessed by their parents because they were both under 21 years of age.
Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express, the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums.


1975 - - - Elton John started a three week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Rock Of The Westies', the singers tenth studio album and seventh US No.1 contained the US No.1 and No.14 UK single, 'Island Girl', which was released prior to the album.


2004 - - - Elton John turned the air blue live on BBC Radio 1 using the words; f****ing, w**k, and t**s.
The singer was a guest on the Chris Moyles Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK.

 

On this Day - 7th November: (Music)

1974 - Ted Nugent


Ted Nugent won a National Squirrel-shooting contest after picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. The heavy metal guitarist also shot dead 27 other mammals during the three day event.
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1975 - Steve Anderson
A new world record was set for continuous guitar string plucking by Steve Anderson who played for 114 hours 17 minutes.
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1987 - Tiffany
Tiffany became the youngest act to score a US No.1 since Michael Jackson ('Ben', in 1972) with 'I Think we're Alone Now'. The song written by Ritchie Cordell was initially a 1967 hit for Tommy James & the Shondells.
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1991 - Guns N' Roses
Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin quit Guns N’ Roses and was replaced by guitarist Gilby Clarke. Stradlin citied a combination of Axl Rose's personal behaviour and the difficulties of being around Slash, Matt Sorum, and Duff McKagan, due to his new-found sobriety.
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2002 - Guns N' Roses
12 Guns N' Roses fans were arrested during a riot after a gig in Vancouver was cancelled. Promoters pulled the gig after Axl Rose's flight from Los Angeles was delayed.
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2002 - Bobby Brown
Whitney Houston's husband, Bobby Brown was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, speeding, driving without a licence and having no proof of insurance after he was stopped by police in Atlanta City.

 

1917

On this day (under the Gregorian calendar) the Bolshevik Revolution took place, deposing the the Menshevik Government led by Kerensky.

The revolution was signalled by the firing of the gun on the Battle Cruiser Aurora which was anchored in the River Neva not far from the Winter Palace.The Bolsheviks were led by Vladimir Illich Ulanyov

 

A fucking moron...

 

On this Day - 9th November:

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup d'état that overthrew the system of government under the Directory in France and substituted the Consulate, making way for the despotism of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The event is often viewed as the effective end of the French Revolution.

1872 The Great Boston Fire
The fire started around 7 pm on November 9 in the basement of a dry goods store at the corner of Kingston and Summer streets.
An outbreak of distemper sidelined many of the Boston Fire Department's trained fire horses. So the ever-vigilant Damrell hired 500 extra men to pull fire trucks to fires. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
Great Boston Fire of 1872 - Wikipedia

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I
Abdication of Wilhelm II - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 9th November: (BEATLE NEWS)

1961 - Brian Epstein
Brian Epstein saw The Beatles playing live for the first time during a lunchtime session at The Cavern Liverpool.
Epstein went on to be the group's manager. That night they appeared at Litherland Town Hall in Liverpool.
NOVEMBER 9, 1961 Brian Epstein saw The Beatles at The Cavern Club in Liverpool - The Beatles

1966 - John Lennon
John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time when he visited her art exhibition 'Unfinished Paintings and Objects' at the Indica Gallery in London. Ono was preparing for an exhibition of her work.
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They instantaneously connected and began a whirlwind (and at times controversial) romance.

1967 - Rolling Stone Magazine
The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, 'How I Won the War'

the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ‘n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

2015 - Andy White
Scottish session drummer Andy White died aged 82.
He was best known for replacing Ringo Starr on drums on the The Beatles' first single, ‘Love Me Do’.
White was featured on the American 7" single release of the song, which also appeared on the band's debut British album, Please Please Me. - He also played on ‘P.S. I Love You’, which was the B-side of ‘Love Me Do’.
White also worked with Chuck Berry, Billy Fury, Herman's Hermits and Tom Jones.
Andy White (drummer) - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 10th November:

1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone

... At Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
An illustration from Henry Morton Stanley's 1872 book "How I Found Livingstone"
Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871 (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
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1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room

The Gideons began distributing free Bibles, for which it is widely renowned, as the first Bibles were placed in rooms of the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana.
Members of The Gideons International currently average distribution of over 70 million Bibles annually.


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1954 "Marine Corps War Memorial"

... is unveiled in Arlington County Virgina = It is dedicated to US Marine Corps who died in defense of US since 1775
(inspired by 1945 Iwo Jima photo of servicemen raising US flag)

• United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima

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