On This Day In History

[Piper]

1980-Mount St.Helens
erupts in Washington state,
killing 57 people.

[Piper]

yes you have,you just posted about him. Your assertion was true before you made that post.

Yeah, only that day when I looked in The TV Guide, but before that no!

[Piper]

1935-T.E Lawrence,
whose life inspired the film
Lawrence Of Arabia, dies at
age 46, following a motorcycle
accident.

[Piper]

1865-The paddle steamer
City of Dunedin left wellington
at around 5 pm and is never
heard from again.Wreckage
was found the following day,
but there was no trace of the
four dozen people on board.


1955-The Rolling stones debut
( "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" )
on the American variety show
shindig! They make sure one
of their musical heroes, 'Howlin
Wolf, is also on the show and
introduce his performance
"How Many More years."


1979-Elton John becomes
the first western pop star to
tour the USSR.


1993-The 274th and final
episode of the sitcom Cheers
screens in the US.It was the
second- highest-rated series
finale at the time, behind
M*A*S*H.

[Piper]

1975-After a show in Knoxville, Alice
Cooper leaves one of his stage props,
a 13 foot boa constrictor, in the hotel
bathroom, where it escapes down the
toilet.
The snake show up two weeks later
in a room occupied by country singer
Charley Pride, Cooper learns to put the
lid down.

[Piper]

1884-The first representative
New Zealand rugby team
played it's first match, defeating
a Wellington X V 9-0.


1994-New Zealand athlete
Norman Read, who won gold
at the 1956 Olympics in the
50km walk, dies of a heart
attack.
He was 62.


2001-Actor Jane Fonda and
CNN founder Ted Turner divorce
after 10 years of marriage.

[Piper]

1969-The Who released their album Tommy
about a deaf dumb and blind kid who plays
a mean pinball.

[Piper]

1993-At the Cannes Film
Festival, the Jane Champion
directed movie The Piano wins
the Palmer d'Or jointly with
Chen Kaige"S film Farewell My
Concubine.

[Piper]

1978-Keith Moon performs for the last time
with The Who at the Shepperton
Film studio in England for the movie
The Kids Are Alright.

[Piper]

1967-EMI releases The
Beatles ' album Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Heart Club Band a few
days early in the UK. It would
go to No.1 for 22 weeks in the
UK and 15 weeks in the US.


1975-The single Rhinestone
Cowboy by Glen Campbell is
released.


2002-Eminnem releases
his fourth album The
Eminem Show. It won 2002
Billboard Album of the year
and the Grammy Award for
Best Rap Album 2003.

[Piper]

1940-British and Allied
forces begin the evacuation of
Dunkirk ( Operation Dynamo )
during World War II.


1977- British Punk band The
Sex Pistols release the single
God Save The Queen, sparking
major controversy and leading
to a ban on the song by the
BBC.

[Bikkie]

1980-Rock bassist Carl Radle (of Derek & the Dominos) dies of a drug-and-alcohol-related kidney infection at age 37.

1973-George Harrison releases his second post-Beatles album, Living In The Material World. It goes to #1 in America, where the single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" also hits the top spot. Publishing royalties from that song and others on the album go to Harrison's Material World Charitable Foundation.

1971-Patrick Dalheimer (bassist for Live) is born in York, Pennsylvania.

1970-Ray Stevens, known for novelty hits like "The Streak," hits #1 in America with "Everything Is Beautiful."

1968-Fresh from a retreat to India, The Beatles begin recording the White Album at Abbey Road Studios in London. The first song they work on is "Revolution."

1964-Country singer Wynonna Judd is born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky. She rises to fame alongside her mom, Naomi Judd, in the duo The Judds.

1964-Guitarist Tom Morello is born in Harlem, New York. He graduates from Harvard in 1986 with a degree in political science, and in 1991 forms Rage Against The Machine, becoming heavily involved in activism. When Rage disbands in 2000 he forms Audioslave with lead singer Chris Cornell.

1963-Lesley Gore makes her first TV appearance, performing "It's My Party" on American Bandstand.

1960-Stephen Duffy is born in Alum Rock, Birmingham, England. A founding member of Duran Duran, he leaves the band shortly before they are signed to EMI. He later finds moderate success as a solo artist under the name Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy with the song "Kiss Me."

1958-Marie Fredriksson (half of the pop-rock duo Roxette) is born in Össjö, Sweden.

1955-Topper Headon (drummer for The Clash) is born Nicholas Bowen Headon in Bromley, Kent, England. His nickname comes from the comic Topper because he looks like the character Mickey the Monkey.

1944-Lenny Davidson (guitarist for The Dave Clark Five) is born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.

[Piper]

1859-The famous clock
tower known as Big Ben starts
ticking over London for the
first time.


1969-John Lennon and
Yoko Ono record Give Peace A
Chance and, on the same day,
Stevie wonder releases the
soul classic My Cherie Amour