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.