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Post by elvisuk on Apr 26, 2011 18:17:04 GMT
on this day 26 April
1960 - The filming of "G.I. Blues," with Elvis Presley, began.
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 27, 2011 15:13:11 GMT
On this day, 27th April in 4977 B.C.... the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets. bcove.me/3gdsh5m7 (sorry about the ad at the start  ) |
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 27, 2011 18:42:08 GMT
On this day
2006 - In New York, NY, construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of former World Trade Center.
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Post by marcus on Apr 30, 2011 6:15:54 GMT
On this day .....
30th April 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide
On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a 1,000-year Reich
Source : wikipedia
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Post by nocky2 on Apr 30, 2011 9:58:50 GMT
On 30th April 1952: Anne Frank published in English  The moving diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish victim of the Holocaust, is now available in British book shops entitled The Diary of a Young Girl. The book was first published in Dutch in 1947 under the title Het Achterhuis (The Secret House) by her father Otto Frank, who survived the concentration camps. It is a lively and at the same time disturbing account of a teenager living in hiding with seven others in fear of their lives in occupied Holland. Anne died just before her 16th birthday in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
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Post by elvisuk on Apr 30, 2011 18:32:14 GMT
On this day 30 April
1960 - Fats Domino recorded "Walking to New Orleans."
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Post by elvisuk on May 1, 2011 16:44:19 GMT
On this day 1 May (mayday)
1967 - Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu were married. They were together until 1973.
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Post by marcus on May 1, 2011 17:40:51 GMT
On this day ....
1st May 1961
Betting shops were legalized in Britain.
Marcus
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Post by marcus on May 2, 2011 14:30:52 GMT
On this day ....
2nd May 1933
The Loch Ness monster is sighted
Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on 2 May 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface." The story of the "monster" became a media phenomenon.
Marcus
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Post by elvisuk on May 2, 2011 15:22:02 GMT
On this day 2 May
1956 - For the first time in "Billboard" chart history, five singles were in both the pop and the R&B top 10. The singles were Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel," Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes," Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," the Platters' "Magic Touch," and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love."
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Post by nocky2 on May 2, 2011 17:22:00 GMT
2nd May 1982 :
The General Belgrano in the Argentine navy is struck by two Tigerfish torpedoes from HMS Conqueror and sunk. The sinking of The Belgrano is controversial because the ship was outside the 200-mile total exclusion zone. The Belgrano had a complement of about 1,000 men and 368 lives were lost in the sinking
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Post by marcus on May 3, 2011 7:06:02 GMT
On this day ....
3rd May 1926
General Strike
3rd May 1926 : A General Strike is called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an attempt to force the government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners. The strike lasted 9 days with about 1.5 - 1.75 million taking part and included workers from key industries, such as railwaymen, transport workers, printers, dockers and ironworkers and steelworkers, the strike did not achieve it's objective in fact many miners did not get their jobs back and those that were employed were forced to accept longer hours and lower wages.
Source : wikipedia]
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Post by nocky2 on May 3, 2011 12:21:07 GMT
3rd May 1951 The Festival of Britain was opened by King George VI on London's South Bank, at a cost of over £8 million, to represent the achievements of post-war Britain.  |
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Post by elvisuk on May 3, 2011 18:33:10 GMT
On this day 3 May
1960 - "The Fantasticks" opened. The show became the longest-running musical in theater history on May 13, 1984 with performance number 10,000.
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Post by marcus on May 4, 2011 18:04:07 GMT
On this day .......
4th May 1780
First running of the Derby horse race
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Post by nocky2 on May 4, 2011 18:11:49 GMT
On the 4th May, 1859
The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England.
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Post by elvisuk on May 4, 2011 18:19:41 GMT
On this day 4 May
1956 - Gene Vincent and his group, The Blue Caps, recorded "Be-Bop-A Lula."
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Post by nocky2 on May 5, 2011 9:46:41 GMT
5 May 1961
U.S. sends the first American into space
On this day in 1961, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Post by elvisuk on May 5, 2011 11:23:21 GMT
On this day 5 May
1968 - Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" was released.
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Post by marcus on May 5, 2011 18:37:08 GMT
On this day .....
5th May 1980
'Operation Nimrod' : The British Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
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Post by nocky2 on May 6, 2011 10:45:55 GMT
On this day 6th May 1937.....  ...... the airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crew members. Frenchman Henri Giffard constructed the first successful airship in 1852. His hydrogen-filled blimp carried a three-horsepower steam engine that turned a large propeller and flew at a speed of six miles per hour. The rigid airship, often known as the "zeppelin" after the last name of its innovator, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was developed by the Germans in the late 19th century. Unlike French airships, the German ships had a light framework of metal girders that protected a gas-filled interior. However, like Giffard's airship, they were lifted by highly flammable hydrogen gas and vulnerable to explosion. Large enough to carry substantial numbers of passengers, one of the most famous rigid airships was the Graf Zeppelin, a dirigible that travelled around the world in 1929. In the 1930s, the Graf Zeppelin pioneered the first transatlantic air service, leading to the construction of the Hindenburg, a larger passenger airship. On 3 May 1937, the Hindenburg left Frankfurt, Germany, for a journey across the Atlantic to Lakehurst's Navy Air Base. Stretching 804 feet from stern to bow, it carried 36 passengers and crew of 61. While attempting to moor at Lakehurst, the airship suddenly burst into flames, probably after a spark ignited its hydrogen core. Rapidly falling 200 feet to the ground, the hull of the airship incinerated within seconds. Thirteen passengers, 21 crewmen, and 1 civilian member of the ground crew lost their lives, and most of the survivors suffered substantial injuries. Radio announcer Herb Morrison, who came to Lakehurst to record a routine voice-over for an NBC newsreel, immortalised the Hindenberg disaster in a famous on-the-scene description in which he emotionally declared, "Oh, the humanity!" The recording of Morrison's commentary was immediately flown to New York, where it was aired as part of America's first coast-to-coast radio news broadcast. Lighter-than-air passenger travel rapidly fell out of favour after the Hindenberg disaster, and no rigid airships survived World War II. |
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Post by marcus on May 6, 2011 16:40:43 GMT
On this day :
6th May 1840
Issue of the first postage stamp.
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Post by elvisuk on May 6, 2011 18:23:49 GMT
On this day 6May
1977 - Led Zeppelin set a new record for the largest audience at a single-act concert. 76,229 people were at a show in Pontiac, MI.
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Post by nocky2 on May 7, 2011 9:30:02 GMT
7th May 1941 :
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo." The song was first featured in the 1941 movie "Sun Valley Serenade," a movie that starred many of the biggest names of the day. It became one of the most popular hits from the era and even has its own website.
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Post by elvisuk on May 7, 2011 13:11:11 GMT
On this day 7 May
2003 - Pete Townshend was cleared of possessing pornographic images of children. He was placed on a national register of sex offenders for five years. Police determined that he did not possess images of child abuse but that he was guilty of accessing a child pornography Internet site in 1999.
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Post by marcus on May 7, 2011 18:27:08 GMT
On this day .....
7th May 1945
Surrender of Nazi Germany, World War II.
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Post by marcus on May 8, 2011 7:35:05 GMT
On this day ....
8th May 1926
Born : Sir David Attenborough
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Post by elvisuk on May 8, 2011 14:05:48 GMT
On this day 8 May
1977 - Olivia Newton-John made her New York City debut with a concert at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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Post by nocky2 on May 8, 2011 15:58:09 GMT
8th May 2000 :
The Tate Modern art gallery in a conversion of the former power station on Bankside in London opens its doors to the world's media ahead of the official opening by the Queen on May 11. The Tate Modern is the worlds largest modern art gallery with 84 galleries on three levels.
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Post by marcus on May 9, 2011 6:44:40 GMT
On this day .....
9th May 1887
Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opened in London.
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