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Today in history:
1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.
1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry. So when someone says "Well, I'll be John Brown". Does this mean he's "hung"?
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.
1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City.
1942 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
2000 - American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig at The Metro in Chicago, Illinois.
2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (as of 2003 this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States).
1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned as the first Emperor of France in a thousand years.
1852 - Napoleon III becomes Emperor of France.
1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry. So when someone says "Well, I'll be John Brown". Does this mean he's "hung"?
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity.
1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City.
1942 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, "The Italian navigator has landed in the new world" was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
1970 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
2000 - American rock band The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig at The Metro in Chicago, Illinois.
2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (as of 2003 this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States).
THIS WEEK IN MUSIC HISTORY:
1949 - Gene Autry's song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," hit the record charts.
1957, Ed Sullivan airs the TV debuts of Sam Cooke singing "You Send Me," and Buddy Holly and the Crickets performing "That'll Be the Day"...
1959 - Bobby Darin was the subject of the TV show "This Is Your Life."
1965, the infamous blue flame strikes Keith Richards down on a stage in Sacramento when he grabs an ungrounded mic ... the indestructible Stone is on his feet and performing again inside of seven minutes...
1967 - Jimmie Rodgers was found in his car with a fractured skull after a serious accident. He recovered from the auto accident, but his singing career ended.
1968, Graham Nash quits the Hollies ... three days later he announces the formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash...
1969 - Cindy Birdsong (Supremes) was kidnapped. She later managed to escape her captor.
1969, this week sees the infamous Altamont Speedway concert with the Rolling Stones; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young on the playbill ... violence erupts and four people are killed, at least two in deliberate bloody assaults...
1970, a gold record goes to Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, and Steve Stills for Supersession, an album they put together out of an extended studio jam session...
1970, the documentary film Gimme Shelter, documenting the 1969 Stones tour and the Altamont debacle, is released on the occasion of the fateful concert's anniversary...
1970 - Eric Burdon is launching a "Curb the Clap" bumpersticker campaign aimed at fighting what he calls the "number-one sickness in the record business today -- VD." For every donation to the L-A Free Clinic, Burdon sends out a "Curb the Clap" bumpersticker.
1971 - Taj Mahal played for the men on death row at Wilmington State Penitentiary.
1971, The Montreux Casino in Geneva, Switzerland, catches fire during a show by the Mothers of Invention, inspiring Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water"...
1972 - Carly Simon releases "You're So Vain," a song which sets the whole country to wondering exactly who is so insufferably vain ... candidates for the post include Carly's relatively recent famous conquests Mick Jagger (who sang on the record), Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, and Warren Beatty ... when asked if she's "gone with" Beatty she says, "Hasn't everybody?" ... "I felt I was one among thousands at that point--it hadn't reached, you know, the populations of small countries" ... but, despite anything you may have heard to the contrary, Simon has never revealed who she had in mind when she wrote that song...
1973 - the Who and friends trash a hotel suite to the tune of $6,000 in damages and spend a night in the pokey for their troubles ... John Entwistle later writes a song about the occasion, "Cell Block Number Seven"...
1973 - Bob Dylan began taking ticket requests by mail. Over 658,000 tickets were sold. In San Francisco, traffic is backed up five blocks from one post office and in other cities, ticket requests are stamped "Return to Sender" because there are too many of them than can be handled. As expected, all the shows are sold-out meaning 658,000 tickets sold.
1974 - Ravi Shankar was hospitalized in Chicago after suffering chest pains. He rejoined the George Harrison Tour a week later.
1975 - Disco group Silver Convention earns a gold record for "Fly, Robin, Fly," which hit Number One on the pop chart.
1976, during a Battersea Power Station photo shoot for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals, a 40-foot helium-filled pig breaks loose from its moorings and floats up to an estimated 18,000 feet before finally touching down in Kent...
1976, Bob Marley and the Wailers are rehearsing at Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica when seven gunmen appear and shower the house with a hail of gunfire...Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor are all hit but miraculously nobody is seriously injured ... the band plays a gig two nights later...
1976, the Sex Pistols' Glenn Matlock uses the F word during an English TV interview and the resulting uproar proves that the Brits can be every bit as priggish and sanctimonious as the Yanks ... most of the Pistols' upcoming gigs are cancelled and by the next month they can't book a date anywhere in the U.K....
1978, Ian Drury--the hot new British new waver--releases "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick," which will sell two million copies worldwide and hit number one in the UK without ever charting in the U.S....
1979 - Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were divorced.
1979 - Stevie Wonder performs at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, performing material from his recent "Journey through the Secret Life of Plants" LP, accompanied by the National Afro-American Philharmonic Orchestra. The last part of the three hour concert has Wonder doing his more conventional recent hits.
1981 - "Dreamgirls" opened on Broadway. The show was based on the careers of the Supremes.
1983 - MTV aired Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video for the first time.
1986 - Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome a painkiller addition.
1986 - Annie Lennox, lead singer for the Eurythmics, gets so carried away at a concert in Birmingham, England that she rips off her bra, which is the only thing covering her breasts ... this does not cause a national scandal...
1988 - Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Willie Nelson appeared on "Geraldo" to discuss "Sex on the Road."
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Shirelles, B.J. Thomas and Gene Pitney were owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties.
1993, revered rock weirdo, musical wizard, and spokesman for lyrical freedom Frank Zappa meets his demise from prostate cancer at the young age of 53...
1994 - Tupac Shakur was found guilty of sexually abusing a woman but was acquitted of more serious sex and weapons charges.
1995 - The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that Ace of Base's "The Sign" was the best-selling debut of all time, with 19 million copies sold.
1996 - Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee after he fell during a concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Duritz underwent orthoscopic surgery during the band's Christmas break.
1997 - Third Street Jazz and Rock Holding Corp., a Philadelphia record store, filed a class-action lawsuit against the six major U.S. record distributors. The suit claimed that EMI, Sony, WEA, Universal, Bertelsmann Music Group and Polygram conspired "to raise, fix, and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the wholesale prices" of CDs.
1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Garth Brooks turned on the lights on the Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
1998 - Shania Twain's video "That Don't Impress Me Much" debuted on CMT: Country Music Television.
1998 - Jimmy Buffett plays in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama for the first time in eight years. Proceeds from the concert go to help victims of Hurricane Georges.
Birthdays:
1863 - Charles Ringling , circus leader (d. 1926)
1941 - Tom McGuinness of Manfred Mann
1946 - Gianni Versace, designer (d. 1997)
1960 - Def Leppard's Rick Savage
1968 - Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters
1968 - Lucy Liu, actress
1981 - Britney Spears, singer
Deaths:
1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor, musician, band leader, composer
1949 - Gene Autry's song "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," hit the record charts.
1957, Ed Sullivan airs the TV debuts of Sam Cooke singing "You Send Me," and Buddy Holly and the Crickets performing "That'll Be the Day"...
1959 - Bobby Darin was the subject of the TV show "This Is Your Life."
1965, the infamous blue flame strikes Keith Richards down on a stage in Sacramento when he grabs an ungrounded mic ... the indestructible Stone is on his feet and performing again inside of seven minutes...
1967 - Jimmie Rodgers was found in his car with a fractured skull after a serious accident. He recovered from the auto accident, but his singing career ended.
1968, Graham Nash quits the Hollies ... three days later he announces the formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash...
1969 - Cindy Birdsong (Supremes) was kidnapped. She later managed to escape her captor.
1969, this week sees the infamous Altamont Speedway concert with the Rolling Stones; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young on the playbill ... violence erupts and four people are killed, at least two in deliberate bloody assaults...
1970, a gold record goes to Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, and Steve Stills for Supersession, an album they put together out of an extended studio jam session...
1970, the documentary film Gimme Shelter, documenting the 1969 Stones tour and the Altamont debacle, is released on the occasion of the fateful concert's anniversary...
1970 - Eric Burdon is launching a "Curb the Clap" bumpersticker campaign aimed at fighting what he calls the "number-one sickness in the record business today -- VD." For every donation to the L-A Free Clinic, Burdon sends out a "Curb the Clap" bumpersticker.
1971 - Taj Mahal played for the men on death row at Wilmington State Penitentiary.
1971, The Montreux Casino in Geneva, Switzerland, catches fire during a show by the Mothers of Invention, inspiring Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water"...
1972 - Carly Simon releases "You're So Vain," a song which sets the whole country to wondering exactly who is so insufferably vain ... candidates for the post include Carly's relatively recent famous conquests Mick Jagger (who sang on the record), Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, and Warren Beatty ... when asked if she's "gone with" Beatty she says, "Hasn't everybody?" ... "I felt I was one among thousands at that point--it hadn't reached, you know, the populations of small countries" ... but, despite anything you may have heard to the contrary, Simon has never revealed who she had in mind when she wrote that song...
1973 - the Who and friends trash a hotel suite to the tune of $6,000 in damages and spend a night in the pokey for their troubles ... John Entwistle later writes a song about the occasion, "Cell Block Number Seven"...
1973 - Bob Dylan began taking ticket requests by mail. Over 658,000 tickets were sold. In San Francisco, traffic is backed up five blocks from one post office and in other cities, ticket requests are stamped "Return to Sender" because there are too many of them than can be handled. As expected, all the shows are sold-out meaning 658,000 tickets sold.
1974 - Ravi Shankar was hospitalized in Chicago after suffering chest pains. He rejoined the George Harrison Tour a week later.
1975 - Disco group Silver Convention earns a gold record for "Fly, Robin, Fly," which hit Number One on the pop chart.
1976, during a Battersea Power Station photo shoot for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals, a 40-foot helium-filled pig breaks loose from its moorings and floats up to an estimated 18,000 feet before finally touching down in Kent...
1976, Bob Marley and the Wailers are rehearsing at Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica when seven gunmen appear and shower the house with a hail of gunfire...Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor are all hit but miraculously nobody is seriously injured ... the band plays a gig two nights later...
1976, the Sex Pistols' Glenn Matlock uses the F word during an English TV interview and the resulting uproar proves that the Brits can be every bit as priggish and sanctimonious as the Yanks ... most of the Pistols' upcoming gigs are cancelled and by the next month they can't book a date anywhere in the U.K....
1978, Ian Drury--the hot new British new waver--releases "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick," which will sell two million copies worldwide and hit number one in the UK without ever charting in the U.S....
1979 - Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge were divorced.
1979 - Stevie Wonder performs at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, performing material from his recent "Journey through the Secret Life of Plants" LP, accompanied by the National Afro-American Philharmonic Orchestra. The last part of the three hour concert has Wonder doing his more conventional recent hits.
1981 - "Dreamgirls" opened on Broadway. The show was based on the careers of the Supremes.
1983 - MTV aired Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video for the first time.
1986 - Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome a painkiller addition.
1986 - Annie Lennox, lead singer for the Eurythmics, gets so carried away at a concert in Birmingham, England that she rips off her bra, which is the only thing covering her breasts ... this does not cause a national scandal...
1988 - Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Willie Nelson appeared on "Geraldo" to discuss "Sex on the Road."
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Shirelles, B.J. Thomas and Gene Pitney were owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties.
1993, revered rock weirdo, musical wizard, and spokesman for lyrical freedom Frank Zappa meets his demise from prostate cancer at the young age of 53...
1994 - Tupac Shakur was found guilty of sexually abusing a woman but was acquitted of more serious sex and weapons charges.
1995 - The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that Ace of Base's "The Sign" was the best-selling debut of all time, with 19 million copies sold.
1996 - Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee after he fell during a concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Duritz underwent orthoscopic surgery during the band's Christmas break.
1997 - Third Street Jazz and Rock Holding Corp., a Philadelphia record store, filed a class-action lawsuit against the six major U.S. record distributors. The suit claimed that EMI, Sony, WEA, Universal, Bertelsmann Music Group and Polygram conspired "to raise, fix, and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the wholesale prices" of CDs.
1998 - U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Garth Brooks turned on the lights on the Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
1998 - Shania Twain's video "That Don't Impress Me Much" debuted on CMT: Country Music Television.
1998 - Jimmy Buffett plays in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama for the first time in eight years. Proceeds from the concert go to help victims of Hurricane Georges.
Birthdays:
1863 - Charles Ringling , circus leader (d. 1926)
1941 - Tom McGuinness of Manfred Mann
1946 - Gianni Versace, designer (d. 1997)
1960 - Def Leppard's Rick Savage
1968 - Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters
1968 - Lucy Liu, actress
1981 - Britney Spears, singer
Deaths:
1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor, musician, band leader, composer
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