Today in History

On this Day - 4th December:
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THE BEATLES:
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1962 - - - The Beatles made their London-area debut on television when they appeared in a live broadcast from Wembley on Tuesday Rendezvous, on ITV station Rediffusion. The Beatles performed live, doing lip-sync performances of 'Love Me Do' and 45 seconds of ‘P.S. I Love You.’

1964 - - - The Beatles released their fourth album 'Beatles For Sale'. The album featured: ‘No Reply’, ‘I'm a Loser’, ‘Baby's in Black’, ‘Rock and Roll Music’, ‘I'll Follow the Sun’, ‘Mr. Moonlight’, ‘Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey’, ‘Eight Days a Week’, ‘Words of Love’, ‘Honey Don't’, ‘Every Little Thing’, ‘I Don't Want to Spoil the Party’, ‘What You're Doing’, and ‘Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby’. It spent 11 weeks as the UK No.1 album.


2015 - - - A new statue of The Beatles was unveiled in Liverpool - 50 years after their last show in Merseyside.
The bronze sculpture, by Andy Edwards which weighed 1.2 tonnes, had been given to the city by The Cavern Club the venue synonymous with the Fab Four in the 1960s.
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Today in History December 5th

1952 The Great Smog of London environmental disaster, England, United Kingdom

Great Smog of London, lethal smog that covered the city of London for five days (December 5–9) in 1952, caused by a combination of industrial pollution and high-pressure weather conditions. This combination of smoke and fog brought the city to a near standstill and resulted in thousands of deaths. Its consequences prompted the passing of the Clean Air Act four years later, which marked a turning point in the history of environmentalism.

 

On this Day - 5th December:

1945 = Aircraft Lost In Bermuda Triangle
Five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three hour training mission.
Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base.- - They never returned. This area is known as the Bermuda Triangle and is renowned for causing instrument malfunctions including Compass and Radio Malfunctions.

• The Bermuda Triangle is said to stretch from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to the Atlantic coast of Cuba and Santo Domingo.

Flight 19 - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 5th December:

2005 UK -- Civil Partnership Act

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The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (passed by the Westminster Parliament in November 2004), came into effect on December 5th 2005.
Under the Act, same-sex couples can register a civil partnership, which has almost the same legal effects, rights and obligations as marriage does for mixed-sex couples.

Civil Partnership Act 2004 - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 5th December:
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2013 South Africa
(His Excellency) Nelson Mandela (OMP SBG SBS CLS DMG MMS MMB) Dies
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The first Black president of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela, died at the age of ninety-five after suffering from a respiratory infection.
Mandela had spent nearly thirty years in prison for fighting against apartheid in South Africa.
After his release in the early 1990s he became the country's president and was revered worldwide as a fighter for freedoms.
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Many South Africans considered him the father of their modern nation


Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia

 

On this Day - 6th December:

• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1969 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1984 France performs nuclear test
• 1986 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

 

On this Day - 6th December:

1969 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love', it went on to make No.4 on the chart and was the first of six Top 40 singles for the group in the US.
During the bands career, Zeppelin never released any singles in the UK.


1975 - Elton John
Rev Charles Boykin of Tallahassee, Florida organised the burning of Elton John and The Rolling Stones records, claiming they were sinful.
Boykin was reacting to the results from a survey that said, 984 of the 1,000 local unmarried mothers had sex when listening to rock music.

1978 - Sid Vicious
Sex Pistols Sid Vicious out on bail from Riker's Island Detention Center in New York after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, smashed a glass in the face of Patti Smith's brother Todd Smith during a fight at New York City club Hurrah.

 

December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy

 

On this Day - 7th December:

1963 - Jeanine Deckers
The Singing Nun started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Dominique', it reached No.7 on the UK chart.
The song sold over 1.5 million copies in the US, winning a Grammy Award for the year's best Gospel song.



2020 Bob Dylan
Sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million

 

On this Day - 8th December:
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1864 The Clifton Suspension Bridge,

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Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is finally opened in Bristol, England, 5 years after his death

Clifton Suspension Bridge - Wikipedia
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On this Day - 8th December:
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1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr is kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe (Nevada)



At the age of 19, Sinatra Jr. was taken from room 417 of Harrah's Lake Tahoe.
He was released two days later after his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded by the kidnappers.
- -Barry Keenan, Johnny Irwin and Joe Amsler were soon captured, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to long prison terms for the kidnapping, of which they served only small portions. Mastermind Keenan was later adjudged to have been legally insane at the time of the crime and hence not legally responsible for his actions.

 

On this Day - 8th December:
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1966 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
The United States and Soviet Union submitted separate draft outer space treaties to the UN General Assembly in June 1966.
A mutually agreed treaty text was worked out over the next six months,
The UN General Assembly gave its approval of the treaty on December 19, 1966.

• 1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1981 France performs nuclear test

1987 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev treaty.

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In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty.
This landmark agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe

 

On this Day - 8th December:
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

1943 - Jim Morrison



Jim Morrison singer and lyricist with The Doors who had the 1967 US No.1 single 'Light My Fire' and 1971 single 'Riders On The Storm'.
Due to his wild personality and performances, he is regarded by some people as one of the most iconic, charismatic and pioneering frontmen in rock music history.
** Morrison died of heart failure in a bathtub in a Paris hotel room on 3rd July 1971.
The events surrounding his death continue to be the subject of controversy, as no autopsy was performed on his body after death, and the exact cause of his death is disputed by many to this day.

1947 - Gregg Allman



Gregg Allman, keyboards, guitar, vocals, The Allman Brothers Band who released the classic album Eat a Peach in 1972 and had the 1973 US No.12 single 'Ramblin Man'. Allman was referred to as a Southern rock pioneer and received numerous awards, including several Grammys.
Following a series of health problems, including hepatitis C and a 2010 liver transplant,
** Allman died at his home in Richmond Hill, Georgia, on 27 May 2017, due to complications of liver cancer.

1951 - Dan Hartman



Dan Hartman, multi- instrumentalist, producer, worked with Edgar Winter. Had the 1978 UK No.8 & US No.29 solo single 'Instant Replay').
He died on 22nd March 1994. Wrote ‘Relight My Fire’ a UK No.1 for Take That and Lulu, collaborated with Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Tyler, Paul Young, James Brown, Holly Johnson and Steve Winwood.
** Hartman died on March 22, 1994 at his Westport, Connecticut, home of an AIDS-related brain tumor.

 

On this Day - 8th December:

1969 - Jimi Hendrix
On trial in Canada on drug possession charges, Jimi Hendrix told a Toronto court that he had only smoked pot four times in his life, snorted cocaine twice and took LSD no more than five times. Telling the jury that he had now 'outgrown' drugs. They found the guitarist not guilty.

1973 - Roxy Music
Roxy Music had their first UK No.1 album when 'Stranded' went to the top for one week.
The sleeve featured Playboy's Playmate of The Year, model Marilyn Cole, (who was the magazines's first full-frontal nude centerfold).

1984 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Power Of Love'.
The group's third No.1 of the year and final UK No.1. This made them the first group since Gerry And The Pacemakers to have a UK No.1 with their first three singles

2013 - Metallica
Metallica played a gig inside a dome at the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini, thus becoming the first band ever to play on all seven continents. During the concert audio was transmitted to an audience made up of competition winning fans from Latin America through headphones.
Staged in conjunction with Coca Cola Zero, it was only the second ever gig to take place on the continent, following a performance in 2007 from a group of musical scientists, called Nunatak, at British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station as part of the Live Earth climate change awareness concerts.

2016 - (Sir) Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger became a father again at the age of 73, after his 29-year-old girlfriend, American ballerina Melanie Hamrick, gave birth to a boy in New York City.
The singer already had seven children, whose ages range from 17 to 45 and he became a great-grandfather in 2014.

 

On this Day - 8th December:

LENNON = MURDERED
1980 - John Lennon

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John Lennon was shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City where John and Yoko lived.
Chapman had been waiting for Lennon outside the Dakota apartments since mid-morning and had asked for an autograph earlier in the day.
Lennon was pronounced dead from a massive loss of blood at 11.30pm. Chapman has since said he shot the former Beatle because he wanted to "steal" his fame — stating that now he was a bigger nobody than he was before.
He also revealed he planned the killing for three months and considered murdering other celebrities who he thought were "phonies."

 

On this Day - 9th December:

1967 - The Doors



The Doors appeared at the New Haven Arena, New Haven, Connecticut. Before the show a policeman found singer Jim Morrison making out with an 18 year-old girl in a backstage shower and after an argument the policeman sprays mace in Morrison’s face.
Once on stage Morrison tells the story of the backstage episode and starts taunting the police who drag him off the stage and arrest him.
The crowd riots leaving the venue in disarray and many are arrested. Later over 100 protestors gathered at the police station in demonstration and more arrests were made

 

On this Day - 9th December:
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1988 - Neil Diamond



According to a poll released in the US, the music of Neil Diamond was favoured as the best background music for sex, Beethoven was the second choice and Luther Vandross was voted third.

2006 - Mariah Carey

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Mariah Carey threatened legal action against porn star Mary Carey in an attempt to stop her trademarking her similar-sounding stage name.
The singer believed fans could get the two performers confused if the adult film actress Mary Carey's trademark application was successful.

 

On this Day - 10th December:
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Nobel Prize - Wikipedia



Prize winners:

• 1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
• 1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
• 1902 German organic chemist Emil Fischer is award the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine syntheses
• 1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of spontaneous radiation
• 1904 Ivan Pavlov awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on the physiology of digestion, first Russian to win a Nobel Prize
• 1904 John William Strutt [Lord Rayleigh] and William Ramsay are presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of Argon
• 1905 Austrian pacifist and writer Bertha von Suttner becomes the 1st woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1906 Frenchman Henri Moissan is presented with the Nobel prize for Chemistry for isolating Fluoride
• 1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
• 1909 Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
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On this Day - 10th December:
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Prize winners:

• 1910 Dutch Physicist Johannes van der Waals wins the Nobel Prize for physics1911 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize-
• 1911 Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
• 1913 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
• 1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"
• 1919 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
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• 1920 August Krogh is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the regulation mechanisms of capillaries in skeletal muscle
• 1922 Nobel prizes awarded to Niels Bohr (Physics), Francis William Aston (Chemistry) and Fridtjof Nansen (Peace)
• 1922 Danish physicist Niels Bohr awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on the structure of atoms, at a ceremony in Copehagen
• 1925 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
  
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On this Day - 10th December:
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Prize winners:

• 1930 German chemist Hans Fischer is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on haemin
• 1931 Jane Addams named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize; 1st American woman Nobel laureate
• 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
• 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
• 1935 James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron
• 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
• 1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
• 1938 Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
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• 1946 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
• 1947 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
  
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• 1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
• 1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
• 1959 Novel Prize for Literature awarded to Sicilian writer Salvatore Quasimodo for his lyrical poetry
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