Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker debut as Cream

Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England on July 29, 1966.

Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker.

Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, combining the psychedelia-themed lyrics, Eric Clapton's blues guitar playing, Jack Bruce's voice and blues bass playing and Ginger Baker's jazz-influenced drumming. The group's third album, Wheels of Fire, was the world's first platinum-selling double album. Cream is widely regarded as being the world's first notable and successful supergroup. In their career, they sold over 15 million albums worldwide.

Cream with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker music included songs based on traditional blues such as

"Crossroads" and "Spoonful", and modern blues such as "Born Under a Bad Sign", as well as more eccentric songs such as "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Toad". Cream's biggest hits were "I Feel Free" (UK, #11), "Sunshine of Your Love" (US, #5), "White Room" (US, #6), "Crossroads" (US, #28), and "Badge" (UK, #18)

Retro History for July 29 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
1989 Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32
1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
1988 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion
1988 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989
1988 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
1988 Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes
1988 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
1988 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
1988 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
1987 Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed
1986 Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire vs. Lancashire
1986 New York jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
1985 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
1984 12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1983 "Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV
1983 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
1982 Andy Taylor of rock group Duran Duran weds Tracie Wilson
1981 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated
1981 Iran ex-president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
1981 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diane Spencer
1980 and Bob Lemon will become General Manager

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
1978 Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in
1976 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1975 Ford became 1st U.S. President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
1975 Military coup by General Mohammed/President Jakubu Gowon fired
1974 Mamas And The Papas singer Cass Elliot died in her sleep from a heart attack after playing a sold out show in London, England.
1974 2nd impeachment vote against Nixon by House Judiciary Committee
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 St. Louis Card Lou Brock steals his 700th base
1973 $180,000 in Led Zeppelin receipts are robbed from New York, Hilton
1973 600,000 attend "Summer Jam" rock festival, Watkins Glen, New York
1973 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
1972 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecticut

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1968 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
1968 Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
1968 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
1968 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
1968 Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland
1967 The International Love-In Festival took place at Alexandra Palace London with Pink Floyd, Brian Auger Trinity with Julie Driscoll, The Animals, Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Tomorrow, Blossom Toes, Creation, The Nervous System and Apostolic Intervention.
1967 Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
1967 Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage
1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
1966 Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England.
1966 Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup
1965 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
1965 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
1965 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 Phillies lose 1st of 23 straight games
1961 Wallis and Futuna Islands become a French overseas territory

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1958 President Eisenhower signs NASA and Space Act of 1958
1958 Southern Pacific Bay ferries stop running
1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.
1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres
1956 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1956 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1955 Smokey Burgess hits 3 home runs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1953 U.S. bombers shot down at north of Wladiwostok
1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
1950 Pee Wee Reese, hits the 3,000th Dodger home run

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The Watkins Glen Outdoor Summer Jam Begins

The Watkins Glen outdoor summer jam was held outside of Watkins Glen, New York with The Allman Brothers, The Grateful Dead and The Band. Over 600,000 rock fans attended. Many historians claimed the event was the largest gathering of people in the history of the United States. 150,000 tickets were sold for $10 each, but for all the other people it was a free concert. The crowd was so huge that a large part of the audience were not able to see the stage on July 28, 1973.

The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival." An estimated 600,000 rock fans came to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973, to see The Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and the Grateful Dead perform.

The Watkins Glen outdoor summer jam was produced by Shelly Finkel and Jim Koplik, two promoters who previously organized a successful Grateful Dead concert at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1972.

Similar to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, an enormous traffic jam created chaos for those who attempted to make it to the concert site. Long and narrow country roads forced fans to abandon their vehicles and walk 5–8 miles on that hot summer day. A young woman, 8–9 months pregnant, travelled on foot as well. Once in the concert area, she went into labor. Ambulances struggled to reach her until after her baby was born. 150,000 tickets were sold for $10 each, but for all the other people it was a free concert. The crowd was so huge that a large part of the audience was not able to see the stage; however, twelve huge sound amplifiers, installed courtesy of legendary promoter Bill Graham, allowed the audience to at least hear.

Although The Watkins Glen outdoor summer jam was scheduled to start on July 28, thousands of music fans were already at the concert site on the 27th.

Robbie Robertson of the Band requested to do a soundcheck, but was perplexed that so many people were sitting in front of the stage. Bill Graham allowed the soundcheck with the crowd of people in front, and the Band ran through a few numbers to the delight of the audience. The Allman Brothers Band did their soundcheck next, playing "One Way Out" and "Ramblin' Man". The Grateful Dead's legendary soundcheck turned into a two set marathon, featuring their familiar tunes such as "Sugaree", "Tennessee Jed" and "Wharf Rat". They also performed a unique jam that was eventually included on their retrospective CD box set So Many Roads (1965-1995).

On July 28, the day of the concert, 600,000 music fans had arrived in Watkins Glen. The Grateful Dead performed first, playing two long sets. They opened with "Bertha" and played many hits such as "Box Of Rain", "Jack Straw", "Playing in the Band", "China Cat Sunflower" and "Eyes of the World".

The Band followed the Dead with one two-hour set. However, their set was cut in half by a drenching thunderstorm, in a scene again reminiscent of Woodstock, people were covered with mud. During the storm, keyboardist Garth Hudson performed his signature organ improvisation "The Genetic Method;" when the rain finally let up, the full Band joined Hudson on stage, and segued into their signature song "Chest Fever," in a manner similar to how the songs were presented on the Band's live album Rock of Ages.

Retro History for July 28 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1989 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
1988 Yankees' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
1987 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
1987 Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1983 George Brett's 2 run home run against Yankees on July 24 (pine tar game)
1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 home run game
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
1976 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1973 Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched
1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Great Britain starts using postal codes
1959 Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show
1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

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John Lennon is granted a green card

John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S. on July 27, 1976

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

John Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism.

John Lennon moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.

On 23 March 1973, John Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days.

Yoko Ono, meanwhile, was granted permanent residence. In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference on 1 April 1973 at the New York City Bar Association, where they announced the formation of the state of Nutopia; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people". Waving the white flag of Nutopia (two handkerchiefs), they asked for political asylum in the US. The press conference was filmed, and would later appear in the 2006 documentary The U.S. vs. John Lennon. John Lennon's Mind Games (1973) included the track "Nutopian International Anthem", which comprised three seconds of silence. Soon after the press conference, Nixon's involvement in a political scandal came to light, and in June the Watergate hearings began in Washington, DC. They led to the president's resignation 14 months later. Nixon's successor, Gerald Ford, showed little interest in continuing the battle against Lennon, and the deportation order was overturned in 1975. The following year, his US immigration status finally resolved, Lennon received his "green card" certifying his permanent residency, and when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president in January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball.

Retro History for July 27 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
1988 Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
1986 14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1986 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0)
1986 Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France
1984 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single vs. Philadelphia
1983 104 degrees F (40.3 degrees C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1983 Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal
1982 California catches A's Rickey Henderson stealing 3 times
1982 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years
1982 Menken and Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in New York City
1980 Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1980 Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 "Broadway Opry '79" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 6 performances
1979 France performs nuclear Test
1978 Indians Duane Kuiper is 3rd to hit 2 bases-loaded triples (vs Yankees)
1978 Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares
1976 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S.
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1974 Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs
1973 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1970 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
1970 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1970 L Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines enter Hall of Fame

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
1968 Race Riot in Gary, Indiana
1967 Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns
1967 Helmond Sport soccer team forms
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence
1967 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1963 General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King, Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1960 Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India vs. England on debut
1959 William Shea announces he plans to have a baseball team in New York City in 1961
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA French Lick Golf Open
1957 St. James' Theater in London closes
1956 Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1954 36th PGA Championship: Chick Herbert at Keller Golf Club St. Paul Minnesota
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1953 1st insulin isolated by F Banting and C Best in Toronto
1953 North Korea and United Nations sign armistice
1953 Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory
1953 Dizzy Dean, Al Simmons Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, Harry Wright, Ed Barrow, and Bill Klem and Tom Connolly are inducted into Hall of Fame
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record marathon (2:23:03.2)
1950 President Truman promises aid to Taiwan

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Elvis Costello arrested at The London Hilton Hotel

Elvis Costello was arrested as he performed outside a CBS Records sales conference at The London Hilton Hotel and was fined £5 on July 26, 1977.

Elvis Costello's first single for Stiff was "Less Than Zero," released on 25 March 1977.

Two months later, his debut album, My Aim Is True (1977), was released to moderate commercial success (No. 14 in the UK and, later, Top 40 in the US) with Elvis Costello appearing on the cover in what became his trademark oversize glasses, bearing some resemblance to Buddy Holly. Stiff's records were initially distributed only in the UK, which meant that Elvis Costello's first album and singles were initially available in the US as imports only. In an attempt to change this, Costello was arrested for busking outside a London convention of CBS Records executives, protesting that no US record company had yet seen fit to release his records in the United States. Elvis Costello signed to CBS's Columbia Records label in the US a few months later.

The backing for Elvis Costello's debut album was provided by American West Coast band Clover, a country outfit living in England whose members would later go on to join Huey Lewis and the News and The Doobie Brothers. Later in 1977, Costello formed his own permanent backing band, The Attractions, consisting of Steve Nieve (born Steve Nason; piano), Bruce Thomas (bass guitar), and Pete Thomas (drums; unrelated to Bruce Thomas).

Elvis Costello released his first major hit single, "Watching the Detectives," which was recorded with Nieve and the pair of Steve Goulding (drums) and Andrew Bodnar (bass), both members of Graham Parker's backing band The Rumour (whom he had used to audition for The Attractions).

On 17 December 1977, Elvis Costello and The Attractions appeared as the musical guest act on the episode of Saturday Night Live as a last minute fill-in for the Sex Pistols. Scheduled to play "Less Than Zero," he surprised the SNL crew by abruptly stopping the song mid-intro, and launching into "Radio Radio."

Retro History for July 26 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM
1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
1987 Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco
1984 Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1984 Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction
1984 Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czechoslovakia sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket
1982 Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, of Canada, crowned 31st Miss Universe
1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
1981 36th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley
1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record)
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run
1977 Elvis Costello was arrested as he performed outside a CBS Records sales conference at The London Hilton Hotel and was fined £5.
1977 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
1974 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 U.S.S.R.'s Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1973 Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London
1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
1970 Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive home runs of Phillies Steve Carlton

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1967 Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18
1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, New Hampshire (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy
1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1963 U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets home run record of 31 by a pitcher
1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1958 Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV
1957 Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 200
1957 U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1956 Egypt seizes Suez Canal
1955 37th PGA Championship: Doug Ford at Meadowbrook CC Detroit
1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits home runs twice in a game
1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites

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Bob Dylan booed off stage at The Newport Folk Festival

Bob Dylan played a full 'electric' set at The Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island and was booed off stage on July 25, 1965

Retro History for July 25 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

By 1965, Bob Dylan had achieved the status of leading songwriter of the American folk music revival.

On July 20, 1965, Dylan released his single, "Like a Rolling Stone", featuring a rock sound. On July 25, 1965, Dylan performed with a rock band at the Newport Folk Festival. Some sections of the audience booed Dylan's performance. Leading members of the folk movement, including Irwin Silberand Ewan MacColl criticised Dylan for moving away from political songwriting, and performing with an electric band.

On Saturday, July 24, 1965, Bob Dylan performed three acoustic numbers, "All I Really Want to Do", "If You Gotta Go, Go Now", and "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" at a Newport workshop.

According to Jonathan Taplin, a roadie at Newport (and later a road manager for the acts of Dylan's manager Albert Grossman) Dylan made a spontaneous decision on the Saturday that he would challenge the Festival by performing with a fully amplified band. Taplin said that Dylan had been irritated by condescending remarks which festival organiser Alan Lomax had made about the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, when Lomax introduced them for an earlier set at a festival workshop. Dylan's attitude, according to Taplin, was, "Well, fuck them if they think they can keep electricity out of here, I'll do it. On a whim he said he wanted to play electric." Bob Dylan then assembled a band and rehearsed that night at a mansion being used by festival organiser George Wein.

On the night of Sunday, July 25, Bob Dylan's appearance was sandwiched between Cousin Emmy and the Sea Island singers, two very traditional acts. The band that went on stage to back Dylan included two musicians who had played on his recently released single, "Like a Rolling Stone": Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar and Al Kooper on organ. Two of Bloomfield's bandmates from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band also appeared at Newport: bassist Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay, along with Barry Goldberg on piano.

Footage of Bob Dylan's Newport performance can be seen in the documentary films Festival (1967), No Direction Home (2005) and The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 (2007). The footage begins with Dylan being introduced by Master of Ceremonies Peter Yarrow: "Ladies and gentlemen, the person that's going to come up now has a limited amount of time ... His name is Bob Dylan." In the documentary footage, the sound of both booing and cheering can be heard a few bars into Dylan's first song, "Maggie's Farm", and continues throughout his second, "Like a Rolling Stone". Dylan and his band then performed "Phantom Engineeer", an early version of "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry", but this song was omitted from The Other Side of the Mirror DVD.

After "Phantom Engineer", Dylan and the band left the stage. The sound of booing and clapping can be heard in the background. When Peter Yarrow returned to the microphone, he begged Dylan to continue performing. According to Robert Shelton, when Dylan returned to the stage, he discovered he did not have the right harmonica and said to Yarrow, "What are you doing to me?"Dylan then asked the audience for 'an E harmonica'. Within a few moments, a clatter of harmonicas hit the stage. He then performed two songs on acoustic guitar for the audience: "Mr. Tambourine Man", and then, as his farewell to Newport, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". The crowd exploded with applause at the end, calling for more. Dylan did not return to the Newport festival for 37 years. In an enigmatic gesture, Dylan performed at Newport in 2002, sporting a wig and fake beard

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
1988 Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA
1988 Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France
1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
1987 U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
1986 Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1985 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1985 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
1983 1st non-human primate, baboon, conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
1983 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
1982 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)
1982 37th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Janet Anderson
1982 France performs nuclear Test
1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn
1980 Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
1980 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose sets NL record hitting in 38 consecutive games
1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1976 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
1976 Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1975 "A Chorus Line," longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1972 43rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stad
1972 All star MVP: Joe Morgan (Cincinnati Reds)
1971 Judy Kimball wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1970 "(They Long to Be) Close to You" reaches #1

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York)
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1968 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
1967 Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway)
1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
1966 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..."
1966 Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River
1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1965 Bob Dylan played a full 'electric' set at The Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island and was booed off stage.
1965 Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament
1964 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances
1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks
1964 Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford
1964 Race riot in Rochester, New York
1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
1963 U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
1961 Maris hits home runs 37, 38, 39 and 40 in a doubleheader
1960 Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
1960 U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate


Retro History For The Decade 1950

1957 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston
1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm
1956 Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force
1954 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Fort Wayne Golf Open
1953 New York City transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1952 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico created (Constitution Day)
1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing U.S. commonwealth

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The Sex Pistols make their first TV appearance

The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, 'Pretty Vacant'. The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.

The Sex Pistols originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock.

Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious in early 1977. Under the management of impresario Malcolm McLaren, the band provoked controversies that captivated Britain. Their concerts repeatedly faced difficulties with organizers and authorities, and public appearances often ended in mayhem. Their 1977 single "God Save the Queen", attacking Britons' social conformity and deference to the Crown, precipitated the "last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium".

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Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1989 Greg LeMond wins Tour de France in fastest time
1989 Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
1987 Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe
1985 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 120 performances
1985 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St. George
1985 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
1985 Bernard Hinault wins his 5th and last Tour de France
1985 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1984 1st documented case of a robot killing a human in U.S.
1984 Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1984 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
1983 Storm cuts short free Diana Ross concert in New York's Central Park
1983 U.S. announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
1982 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1981 Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
1980 Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hours 18 minutes

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, New York) dedicated
1978 Bolivia military coup under general Juan Pereda, President Hugo Banzer flees
1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1978 World's strongest dog, 80-kg St. Bernard, pulls 2909-kg load 27 m
1977 Despite protests, The Sex Pistols made their first appearance on the UK music show Top Of The Pops, where they lip-synched to their third single, 'Pretty Vacant'. The performance helped push the song up the charts to No.7.
1977 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
1977 Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
1976 "Guys and Dolls" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 239 performances
1976 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1975 New York Met Felix Milan hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays
1974 29th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Haynie
1974 Eddy Merckx wins his 5th Tour de France
1974 House Judiciary approves 2 Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon
1973 Braves Hank Aaron hits Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th home run
1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1972 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain
1972 27.5 cm rainfall at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, state record
1972 Bloody Friday: 22 IRA-bombs explode in Belfast
1972 Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
1972 In New York, 57 murders occur in 24 hours
1971 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1970 Huge Aswan Dam opens in Egypt
1970 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1970 Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits and Padres lose, 3-0

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT
1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1968 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
1968 Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman
1966 Gemini X returns to Earth
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965 Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
1964 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex
1964 Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33)
1964 Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
1963 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary
1961 Launch of Mercury 4 (Liberty Bell) with Grissom
1960 Country of Katanga forms in Africa
1960 In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM
1960 Francis Chichester arrive in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 1st nuclear powered merchant ship, NS Savannah, christened, Camden, New Jersey
1959 Red Sox are last team to use a black player (Pumpsie Green)
1957 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson
1957 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club Dayton Ohio
1957 Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1956 Cincinnati Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1955 1st sub powered by liquid metal cooled reactor launched-Seawolf
1954 At Geneva, France agrees to independence of North and South Vietnam
1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1952 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet

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Buzzcocks make their live debut in 1976

Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience was, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) and Mark E Smith, (The Fall) and Mick Hucknall. Tickets £1 on July 20, 1976.

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley.

Buzzcocks are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock.

They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a "punk masterpiece". The widely covered "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" remains one of their best-known songs.

The name "Buzzcocks" was chosen by Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley after reading the headline "it's the buzz, cocks!" in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "cock" is Manchester slang meaning "mate" (as in friend/buddy). They thought it captured the excitement of the Sex Pistols and nascent punk scene

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Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 93 degrees F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona
1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1988 Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee
1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs
1986 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
1984 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
1983 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks
1982 IRA bomb attacks in London
1982 T Macauly and D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
1981 England set for innings loss vs. Australia, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
1981 Irene Saez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1980 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
1980 Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
1980 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causing $350 mil damage
1976 Last U.S. troops leave Thailand
1976 Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience was, Morrissey, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) and Mark E Smith, (The Fall) and Mick Hucknall. Tickets £1.
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1975 30th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1974 Heng Yo and Heng Ju, completes 1,000 mile (SF-Seattle) pilgrimage
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
1973 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
1973 Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with New York Yankees, 12-2, and 7-0
1972 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1970 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open
1969 Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France
1968 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
1967 Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes
1967 Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee
1965 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hour record)
1965 New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
1964 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City"
1964 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet
1963 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
1963 18th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills
1963 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1962 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony
1962 France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
1960 1st submerged submarine, George Washington, to fire Polaris missile (
1960 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
1960 U.S.S.R. recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1958 40th PGA Championship: Dow Finsterwald shoots a 276 at Llanerch CC PA
1958 Betty Jameson/Mary Lena Faulk wins Homestead 4-Ball Golf Tournament
1958 King Hussein of Jordan breaks off diplomatic relations with UAR
1956 France recognizes Tunisia's independence
1956 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1956 U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island
1956 Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs
1954 Armistice for Indo-China signed, Vietnam separates into North and South
1954 Tennis champ Maureen Connolly's right leg is crushed in an accident
1954 West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany
1953 U.S.S.R./Israel recover diplomatic relations
1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic Record 10K (29:17.0)
1952 Fausto Coppi wins Tour de France
1950 "Arthur Murray Party" premieres on ABC TV (later DuMont, CBS, NBC)

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Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart

Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Listen To What The Man Said', his fourth US No.1, a No.6 hit in the UK. Wings also had the US No.1 album chart with 'Venus And Mars'. Paul McCartney's fourth No.1 album since The Beatles on July 19, 1975.

Paul McCartney and Wings began recording sessions for its next album in London in November 1974, then moved to New Orleans to complete Venus and Mars (1975), the first release from the group on Capitol Records.

The album topped the charts and contained the U.S. #1 single "Listen to What the Man Said", which also featured Dave Mason of Traffic on guitar and Tom Scott on saxophone. When the Venus and Mars recording sessions moved to New Orleans, Britton quit Wings and was replaced by Joe English. Like Seiwell before him, English won the job at a secret audition before McCartney. McCulloch co-composed (with former bandmate Colin Allen) and sang one song ("Medicine Jar"); Laine sang lead vocals on a McCartney song ("Spirits of Ancient Egypt"); Paul composed and sang the rest.

In the Autumn of 1975 Paul McCartney and Wings embarked on the Wings Over the World tour, following a postponement to allow McCulloch to recuperate from a hand fracture.

Starting in Bristol, the tour took them to Australia (November), Europe (March 1976), the United States (May/June), and Europe again (September), before ending in a four-night grand finale at London's Wembley Empire Pool. For this tour, added to Wings' stage act was a horn section consisting of Tony Dorsey, Howie Casey, Thaddeus Richard, and Steve Howard on horns, brass, and percussion.

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Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 home run game
1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 Geraldine Ferraro, Representative-D-New York 1979 - 1985, wins Democratic Vice Presidential nomination
1982 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington D.C.
1982 Bolivian government resigns
1982 David S. Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George
1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott
1980 David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago - 260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1978 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1978 Yankees start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win
1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1977 All star MVP: Don Sutton (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1976 Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony
1975 Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Listen To What The Man Said', his fourth US No.1, a No.6 hit in the UK. Wings also had the US No.1 album chart with 'Venus And Mars'. Paul McCartney's fourth No.1 album since The Beatles.
1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1974 Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 David Bowie's 'Diamond Dog' tour ends in New York City
1974 Soyuz 14 lands
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1971 Sudan military coup under Major Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1967 1st air conditioned New York City subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
1967 U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1966 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
1966 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1964 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open
1964 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits home run # 300
1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero
1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA
1960 Italian Government Tambroni, resigns
1960 San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 192 performances
1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum
1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 289 performances
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 276 performances
1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1950 New York Yankees obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris

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Bruce Springsteen plays at Max's Kansas City in New York City

Bruce Springsteen played the first of four nights at Max's Kansas City in New York City, New York, supported by Bob Marley and The Wailers who were on their first ever North American tour on July 18, 1973

Bruce Springsteen signed a record deal with Columbia Records in 1972, with the help of John Hammond, who had signed Bob Dylan to the same label a decade earlier.

Bruce Springsteen brought many of his New Jersey–based colleagues into the studio with him, thus forming the E Street Band (although it would not be formally named as such for several more years).

Bruce Springsteen debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in January 1973, established him as a critical favorite, though sales were slow.

Because of Springsteen's lyrical poeticism and folk rock–rooted music exemplified on tracks like "Blinded by the Light", (which would later be a hit for Manfred Mann and go to number one, making it the only time Springsteen had a number one single as a songwriter), and "For You", as well as the Columbia and Hammond connections, critics initially compared Springsteen to Bob Dylan. "He sings with a freshness and urgency I haven't heard since I was rocked by 'Like a Rolling Stone,'" wrote Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler in Bruce Springsteen's first interview/profile, in March 1973. Crawdaddy discovered Springsteen in the rock press and was his earliest champion. (Springsteen and the E Street Band acknowledged by giving a private performance at the Crawdaddy 10th Anniversary Party in New York City in June 1976.) Music critic Lester Bangs wrote in Creem in 1975 that when Bruce Springsteen's first album was released "... many of us dismissed it: he wrote like Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, sang like Van Morrison and Robbie Robertson, and led a band that sounded like Van Morrison's." The track "Spirit in the Night" especially showed Morrison's influence, while "Lost in the Flood" was the first of many portraits of Vietnam veterans and "Growin' Up", his first take on the recurring theme of adolescence.

In September 1973 Bruce Springsteen's second album, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, was released, again to critical acclaim but no commercial success. Springsteen's songs became grander in form and scope, with the E Street Band providing a less folky, more R&B vibe and the lyrics often romanticized teenage street life. "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "Incident on 57th Street" would become fan favorites, and the long, rousing "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" continues to rank among Springsteen's most beloved concert numbers.

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Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia, state record
1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1988 Shooting begins on "License to Kill"
1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties record of home runs in 8 cons games
1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1986 Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1985 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro California
1984 Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco
1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1982 "Blues in the Night" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 53 performances
1982 111th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 284 at Royal Troon
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1981 Part of Hyatt Regency Hotel Kansas City caves in (113 killed)
1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly, France
1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
1980 Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin 2 days of talks
1977 Hugh Leonard's "Da," premieres in London
1977 Vietnam becomes member of U.N.
1976 "Something's Afoot" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 61 performances
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1976 Lucien van Impe wins Tour de France
1976 Stockhausens "Sirius," premieres in New York City
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-minute firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Utah
1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1974 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1973 Bruce Springsteen played the first of four nights at Max's Kansas City in New York City, New York, supported by Bob Marley and The Wailers who were on their first ever North American tour.
1972 200,000 attend Mount Pocono rock festival in Pennsylvania
1972 Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1972 Mike Procter 8-73 with hat-trick, plus 51 and 102, Gloucs vs. Essex
1971 Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1970 "Boy Friend" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 119 performances
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1968 Intel incorporates
1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in New York
1966 Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins)
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1963 Failed military coup in Syria
1962 Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
1961 Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games
1960 1st United Nations troops reach Congo
1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and New York franchises
1960 Premier Kishi of Japan, resigns

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament, William Wright
1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset, UK-record
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1954 Cards losing 8-1 to Phillies begin stalling in 5th, they forfeit game
1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion

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Ray Davies of The Kinks announces that he is retiring

The Kinks appear at The Great Western Express festival at White City, west London. Ray Davies wife having recently walked out of their marriage, taking their young children with her, Ray Davies of The Kinks announces from the stage that he is sick of the whole thing and is retiring. He then walks into a local hospital and collapses from an overdose of tranquillizers.

In 1973, Ray Davies of The Kinks dived headlong into the theatrical style, beginning with the rock opera Preservation, a sprawling chronicle of social revolution, and a more ambitious outgrowth of the earlier Village Green Preservation Society ethos.

In conjunction with the Preservation project, The Kinks' lineup was expanded to include a horn section and female backup singers, essentially reconfiguring the group as a theatrical troupe.

Ray Davies marital problems during this period began to affect The Kinks adversely, particularly after his wife, Rasa, took their children and left him in June 1973.

Ray Davies went into a state of depression, culminating in a public outburst during a July gig at White City Stadium. According to a Melody Maker review of the concert, "Ray Davies swore on stage. He stood at The White City and swore that he was 'fucking sick of the whole thing'. ... He was 'sick up to here with it' ... and those that heard shook their heads." At the show's conclusion, as pretaped music played on the sound system, he declared that he was quitting. Sounds magazine reported that Ray looked "haggard and ill" before he kissed Dave Davies "gently on the cheek, and then delivered the bombshell". Ray subsequently collapsed after a drug overdose and was rushed to hospital. Dave later commented in an interview about the incident:

God, that was horrible. That was when Ray tried to top himself. I thought he looked a bit weird after the show—I didn't know that he'd taken a whole bloody bottle of weird-looking psychiatric pills. It was a bad time. Ray suddenly announced that he was going to end it all—it was around that time that his first wife left him. ... She'd left him and taken the kids on his birthday, just to twist the blade in a little more. ... I think he took the pills before the show. I said to him towards the end that he was getting a bit crazy. I didn't know what happened—I suddenly got a phone call saying he was in the hospital. I remember going to the hospital after they'd pumped his stomach and it was bad.

With Ray Davies in a seemingly critical condition, plans were discussed for Dave to continue as frontman for The Kinks in a worst-case scenario. Ray Davies eventually pulled through and recovered from his illness as well as his depression, but throughout the remainder of The Kinks' theatrical incarnation the band's output remained uneven, and their popularity, which had already faded, declined even more. John Dalton later commented that when Davies "decided to work again ... I don't think he was totally better, and he's been a different person ever since."

Retro History for July 15 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan
1986 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1986 All star MVP: Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox
1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1984 39th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1983 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1982 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1980 Johnny Bench hits his 314th home run as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 34th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1978 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews
1976 36-hour kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
1975 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1975 All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (New York Mets)
1975 Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1974 Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 The Kinks appear at The Great Western Express festival at White City, west London. Ray Davies wife having recently walked out of their marriage, taking their young children with her, Ray Davies of The Kinks announces from the stage that he is sick of the whole thing and is retiring. He then walks into a local hospital and collapses from an overdose of tranquillizers.
1973 Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 home runs
1972 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1971 President Nixon announces he would visit China
1970 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader
1969 Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1968 "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
1968 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA)
1968 Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1967 "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 608 performances
1967 L.A. Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs
1967 Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1964 Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans
1963 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1961 "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 68 performances
1961 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 Spain accept equal rights for men and women
1960 Baltimore Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1958 President Eisenhower sends U.S. troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1956 Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1955 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 110 degrees F (43 degrees C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1954 KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1952 Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding

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Allen Ginsberg completes Plutonian Ode

Allen Ginsberg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado on July 14, 1978.

Allen Ginsberg was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression.

In the 1950s, Ginsberg was a leading figure of the Beat Generation. Allen Ginsberg's epic poem "Howl", in which he celebrates his fellow "angel-headed hipsters" and harshly denounces what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States, is one of the classic poems of the Beat Generation.

In "Howl" and in his other poetry, Allen Ginsberg drew inspiration from the epic, free verse style of the 19th century American poet Walt Whitman. Both wrote passionately about the promise (and betrayal) of American democracy, the central importance of erotic experience, and the spiritual quest for the truth of everyday existence. J. D. McClatchy, editor of the Yale Review called Ginsberg "the best-known American poet of his generation, as much a social force as a literary phenomenon." McClatchy added that Ginsberg, like Whitman, "was a bard in the old manner – outsized, darkly prophetic, part exuberance, part prayer, part rant. His work is finally a history of our era's psyche, with all its contradictory urges."

Allen Ginsberg was a practicing Buddhist who studied Eastern religious disciplines extensively. One of his most influential teachers was the Tibetan Buddhist, the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa, founder of the Naropa Institute, now Naropa University at Boulder, Colorado. At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Ann Waldman started a poetry school there in 1974 which they called the "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics". In spite of his attraction to Eastern religions, the journalist Jane Kramer argues that Ginsberg, like Whitman, adhered to an "American brand of mysticism" that was, in her words, "rooted in humanism and in a romantic and visionary ideal of harmony among men." Allen Ginsberg's political activism was consistent with his religious beliefs. He took part in decades of non-violent political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs. The literary critic, Helen Vendler, described Ginsberg as "tirelessly persistent in protesting censorship, imperial politics, and persecution of the powerless." His achievements as a writer as well as his notoriety as an activist gained him honors from established institutions. Ginsberg's book of poems, The Fall of America, won the National Book Award for poetry in 1974. Other honors included the National Arts Club gold medal and his induction into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, both in 1979. Ginsberg was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1995 for his book, Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986–1992.

Plutonian Ode is a poem written by American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1978 against the arms race and nuclear armament of the superpowers.

It is heavily inspired by Gnosticism which Ginsberg came to know after reading Hans Jonas's book on the subject. Philip Glass' Symphony No. 6 is based on and includes parts of this poem.

Retro History for July 14 The 50s 60s 70s 80s

Retro History For The Decade 1980

1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1988 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place
1988 WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1986 10 killed and 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 Richard W. Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1985 40th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1984 STS-41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London

Retro History For The Decade 1970

1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test
1978 Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1978 Allen Ginsberg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1977 North Korea shoots down U.S. helicopter, killing 3
1977 U.S. House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1976 Jimmy Carter wins Democratic President nomination in New York City
1976 U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1975 Disney EPCOT Center, Florida, plans announced
1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1973 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1972 Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test
1972 Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0
1970 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)

Retro History For The Decade 1960

1969 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
1969 Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick
1968 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal
1967 Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a U.S. tour
1965 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1964 Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Astro's Eddie Matthews hits home run #500
1961 Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1960 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300

Retro History For The Decade 1950

1959 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Massachusetts
1958 General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
1958 Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th and last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1958 Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1956 Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1955 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1954 117 degrees F (47 degrees C), East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Warsaw and Union, Missouri (state record)
1953 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 Communist offensive in Korea
1952 SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1951 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater New York City after 37 performances
1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 102 performances
1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1950 RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea

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