On this day

1956 - Elvis Presley (with Scotty Moore and Bill Black) made his first National Television appearance on the Dorsey Brother's 'Stage Show'
It was the first of eight performances recorded and broadcast from CBS TV in New York City.

1965 - The Moody Blues were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Go Now!' the groups only UK No.1.

1968 - Jim Morrison of The Doors (Legend) was arrested and charged with public drunkenness after harassing a security guard at a Las Vegas adult movie theatre.

1983 - British Rock & Roll singer Billy Fury died of heart failure.

1984 - Backstage after a Motley Crue show in Buffalo,New York,Tommy Lee found out that his girlfriend had posed for the current issue of Penthouse magazine without his knowledge,after a fan passes comment on the pictures.
Tommy Lee punched the fan unconscious with one hit, Motley's manager Doug Thaler convinced the fan not to press any charges.

1988 - Eleven years after it was released,The Sex Pistol's album 'Never Mind The Bollocks,Here's The Sex Pistol's' went Gold in the US with sales over 500,000.

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1949 - RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single,the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible.

1963 - 17 year-old Neil Young performed his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg.

1964 - The Beatles started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' the first US No.1 by a UK act since The Tornadoes 'Telstar' in 1962 and the first of three consecutive No.1's from the group.

1965 - P.J Proby split his pants during his first number at the ABC,Luton;the manager stopped the show and gave everyone in the audience a refund.
The incident caused a ban on Proby's performance in UK halls and TV.

1968 - The Who kicked off their third North American tour at the Civic Auditorium San Jose,California.

1972 - Chuck Berry had his first UK No.1 single with a live recording of a song he'd been playing live for over 20 years 'My Ding-A-Ling.'
UK public morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse attempted to have the song banned due to It's innuendo-laden lyrics.
The Average White Band members Onnie McIntyre and drummer Robbie McIntosh played on the single.

1975 - Pilot were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'January' the Scottish group's only UK No.1.
The song was a No.1 hit in Australia for eight weeks.

1975 - Neil Sedaka had his second US No.1 single with 'Laughter In The Rain' over 12 years after his last chart topper 'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.'

1986 - Diana Ross married Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Naess in Geneva,Stevie Wonder performed at the reception.
The couple divorced in 2000.

1992 - George Michael & Elton John went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me',also a No.1 in th UK.
All proceeds from the single went to Aids charities.

1997 - Blur went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Beetlebum'
The song's title is said to be a stab at Liam Gallagher,lead singer of Oasis,for his over-idolisation of The Beetles.

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1959 - Buddy Holly,Richard Valens and The Big Bopper all appeared at the Surf Ballroom,Clear Lake,Iowa.
This was all three acts last ever gig before being killed in a plane crash the following day.

1962 - The Beatles played their first professional organised gig outside of Liverpool at The Oasis Club,Manchester.
The groups set started with their version of 'Hippy Hippy Shake.'

1963 - Cliff Richard and The Shadows started a 14 week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Summer Holiday.'

1966 - The Rolling Stones released '19th Nervous Breakdown' it peaked at No.2 on the UK singles chart.

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played live on UK TV show Top Of The Pops performing 'Purple Haze.' (exellent tune)

1973 - Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer injured his hands when his piano rigged to explode as a stunt,detonated prematurely during a concert in San Francisco.

1974 - Barbra Streisand started a 4 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the theme from the film 'The Way We Were'
The single won a Grammy for 'Song of the year.'

1979 - Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City.
There had been a party to celebrate Vicious's release on $50.000 bail pending his trial for murder of his former girlfriend,Nancy Spungen,the previous October.
Party guests said that Vicious had taken heroin at midnight.
An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent with heroin overdose.
A syringe,spoon and heroin residue were discovered near the body.

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1807 - The United Kingdom captures Montevideo, now capital of Uruguay, from the Spanish Empire as part of the Napoleonic Wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_M...deo_(1807)

1813 - As part of the Argentine War of Independence, Jose De San Martin of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, gains an important victory over the Spanish in the Battle of San Lorenzo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Lorenzo

1913 - The 16th Amendment to the United States' Constitution is ratified. The amendment allows U.S. Congress to levy income tax without it based on census results or apportioned among the states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_A...nstitution

1959 - Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (aka the Big Bopper) are killed in a plane crash at Clear Lake, Iowa. It is dubbed 'The Day the Music Died'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died

1960 - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan causes outrage and upset in South Africa with his infamous 'Wind of Change' speech.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates...714525.stm

1986 - The Pope visits Calcutta and meets Mother Teresa and visits her home for the sick and dying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates...117617.stm

1965 - The Righteous Brothers were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Phil Spector song 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ' Also a US No.1 at the same time.
1999 the PRS announced that it was the most played song of the 20th century.

1966 - Bob Dylan and The Band played at the Convention Center in Louisville,Kentucky.
This was the first date on a world tour which would become noted as Dylan's first that used electric instruments,after he had 'gone electric' at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

1967 - The Monkees self-titled debut album started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK chart.

1968 - Billed as 'Tour 60 Cities in 66 Days' The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared at the Winterland in San Francisco.

1968 - Working at Abbey Road studios,London,The Beetles recorded 'Across The Universe.'
John & Paul decided the song needed some falsetto harmonies so they invited two girl fans into the studio to sing on the song.
The two were Lizzie Bravo,a 16 year-old Brazilian living near Abbey Road and 17 year-old Londoner Gayleen Pease.

1970 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono donated their hair for auction in aid of the Black Power movement.

1978 - The Bee Gees started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Staying Alive.'
From the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever,it gave the brothers their fifth US No.1 also No.1 in the UK.

1983 - Karen Carpenter died aged 32 of cardiac arrest at her parent's home in Downey,California; The coroner's report gave the cause of death of Imbalances associated with Anorexia Nervosa.

1996 - Former Milli-Vanilli member Rob Pilatus was hospitalised after a man hit him over the head with a baseball bat in Hollywood,California.
Pilatus was attempting to steal the man's car at the time of the attack.

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1169 - An estimated 15,000 people are killed during the Sicily Earthquake. It strikes just off the eastern coast of the island and measures between 6.4 and 7.3 on the Richter Scale.

1859 - German scholar Constantin Von Tischendorf rediscovers the Codex Sinaiticus - a 4th Century manuscript of the Greek Bible. It is found in Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai.

1974 - 11 people including eight off-duty soldiers and two young children are killed in a coach bombing. They were travelling along the M62 from Manchester to an army base in Catterick, North Yorkshire. The Provisional IRA were suspected.

1988 - The strike of seaworkers rages on despite calls from the National Union of Seamen (NUS) to end it. The NUS started the strike four days previously in support of the 161 workers sacked by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

2002 - Cancer Research UK, largest independent cancer research charity in the world, is formed following the merger of Cancer Research Campaign and Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

2006 - 78 people killed and another 400 injured in a stampede at the Philsports Stadium in Pasig City, Manila, Philippines.

2007 - The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI (41) in front of a crowd of 74,512 people at Dolphin Stadium, Miami, Florida. Lovie Smith (Bears) and Tony Dungy (Colts) become the first African American coaches to coach in the Super Bowl.

1958 - George Harrison joined Liverpool group The Quarrymen.
The group who were named after Lennon's school featured John Lennon,Paul McCartney,Len Garry,Eric Griffiths and John Lowe.

1971 - Led Zeppelin announced a small UK club tour which would see the group playing Universities and small venues with ticket prices at 12 shillings (60p).
Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant said, 'We decided to do clubs and forget about the bread (money) and the big concert halls.

1981 - Composer Hugo Montenegro died in California.
He had the 1968 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'The Good The Bad And The Ugly' from the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western film.
He worked for RCA records,producing a series of soundtracks and television themes,including two volumes of Music from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1986 - Udertones singer Feargal Sharkey's mother & sister were held at gunpoint by terrorists in Londonderry,Northern Ireland.

1989 - Jamaican sound engineer,and producer King Tubby died after being shot in the street outside his home.
He worked with Robbie Shakespeare & Sly Dunbar AKA Sly & Robbie.

1990 - Billy Idol suffered serious injuries when he failed to pull up at a stop sign and crashed into a car.

1990 - Over 200 women filed court actions against Chuck Berry after it was alleged that he had been secretly filming them in the toilets of the restaurant he owned.

1998 - American singer and guitarist Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys died aged 51 after a long battle with lung cancer.
He sang lead vocals on 'God Only Knows,' 'Good Vibrations,' and 'I Can Hear The Music.'
Wilson also sang backing vocals on Elton John's 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me.'

1998 - Austrian singer Falco (Johann Holzel) was killed in a road accident after his car collided with a bus.
He scored the 1986 UK & US No.1 single 'Rock Me Amadeus' making him the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK & US No.1 hit single.

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(06-02-2013 01:49 )The Truth Wrote:  1990 - Over 200 women filed court actions against Chuck Berry after it was alleged that he had been secretly filming them in the toilets of the restaurant he owned.

In the late 1980s, Berry bought a restaurant in Wentzville, Missouri, called The Southern Air, and in 1990 he was sued by a number of women who claimed that he had installed a video camera in the ladies' bathroom. Berry claimed that he had the camera installed to catch red-handed a worker who was suspected of stealing from the restaurant. Though his guilt was never proven in court, Berry opted for a class action settlement with 59 women. Berry's biographer, Bruce Pegg, estimated that it cost Berry over $1.2 million plus legal fees.

Reportedly, a police raid on his house did find videotapes of women using the restroom, and one of the women was a minor. Also found in the raid were 62 grams of marijuana. Felony drug and child-abuse charges were filed. In order to avoid the child-abuse charges, Berry agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor possession of marijuana. He was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, two years' unsupervised probation, and ordered to donate $5,000 to a local hospital.

1958 - Munich Air Disaster: British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team who were returning from a European Cup tie against Red Star Belgrade. Twenty of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash and three more died in hospital, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.

Eight players died, along with 3 back-room staff, 8 journalists, 2 crew members, the travel agent who arranged the trip and a supporter who was a friend of Matt Busby's.

Initially the German authorities blamed the crash on the pilots and started legal proceedings against one of them (the other one had died), but after a concerted campaign it was proved that the crash had been caused by a build-up of slush on the runway. The case was dropped and the pilots exonerated.


1993 - Former tennis player Arthur Ashe died at the age of 49. Ashe, an African American, was the first black player ever selected to play for the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980.

In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in May 1976.

In the late 1980s, Ashe contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery. Ashe publicly announced his illness in April 1992 and began working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his death from AIDS-related pneumonia on February 6, 1993.

On June 20, 1993, Ashe was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.