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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 3, 2022 5:39:54 GMT
3rd June In 1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast. In 1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed in Paris. In 1965 Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White); mission included 1st US spacewalk. In 1970 Ray Davies of The Kinks travels round trip NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola) because of BBC commercial reference ban.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 4, 2022 6:05:24 GMT
4th June In 1887 Pasteur Institute founded by French biologist Louis Pasteur in Paris. In 1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business. In 1969 In Glenrowan, Australia, hundreds of people signed a petition protesting against the casting of Mick Jagger in the role of the Australian folk hero Ned Kelly in the film of the same name. The film, directed by Tony Richardson, was released in October 1970. In 1994 Wet Wet Wet started a fifteen-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Love Is All Around', from the film 'Four Weddings & A Funeral'. The song was written by Reg Presley of The Troggs and was a former Top 10 hit for his band in 1967.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 5, 2022 7:41:10 GMT
5th June In 1851 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era." In 1949 Enid Blyton's wooden toy character Noddy first appears in the "Sunday Graphic." In 1956 Elvis Presley appeared on ABC-TV's 'Milton Berle Show'. During the performance, Presley abruptly halted an uptempo rendition of 'Hound Dog' with a wave of his arm and launched into a slow, grinding version accentuated with energetic, exaggerated body movements. Presley's gyrations created a storm of controversy. In 1964' Liza Jane' became the first recording to be released as a single by David Bowie (but under the name Davie Jones with the King Bees). Despite promoting the single on the television shows Juke Box Jury, Ready Steady Go! and The Beat Room, and receiving good radio coverage, the single sold poorly and the band was subsequently dropped from the label Vocalion Pop.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 6, 2022 5:42:11 GMT
6th June In 1903 President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France. In 1921 Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. In 1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II In 1969 Elton John released his debut album Empty Sky in the UK, (released January 1975 in the US). 'Skyline Pigeon' is the best known song on the album, and is the only one which John, albeit infrequently, performs as part of his live shows.
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Post by woodsongs on Jun 6, 2022 15:12:16 GMT
6th June In 1903 President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France. In 1921 Southwark Bridge in London is opened to traffic by King George V and Queen Mary. In 1944 Operation Overlord: D-Day begins as the 156,000-strong Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France, during World War II In 1969 Elton John released his debut album Empty Sky in the UK, (released January 1975 in the US). 'Skyline Pigeon' is the best known song on the album, and is the only one which John, albeit infrequently, performs as part of his live shows. Elton John has just bought his pet rabbit a treadmill. It’s a little fit bunny. (Sorry, I'll get my coat).
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Post by jackinthegreen on Jun 6, 2022 15:36:24 GMT
Elton John has just bought his pet rabbit a treadmill. It’s a little fit bunny. (Sorry, I'll get my coat). That's a cracker
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 7, 2022 6:14:48 GMT
7th June In 1917 Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world. In 1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA. In 1953 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants. In 1969 British supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Rick Grech and Steve Winwood made their live debut at a free concert in London's Hyde Park.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 8, 2022 6:13:09 GMT
8th June In 1896 First car thief; Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot is stolen by his mechanic in Paris. In 1942 Bing Crosby records "Silent Night." ( It's a bit early Bing ) In 1949 Secker & Warburg publishes George Orwell's seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in the totalitarian state of Oceania. In 1968 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power."
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 9, 2022 5:42:48 GMT
9th June In 1902 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia. In 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane. In 1962 Warner Bros "Bill of Hare" with Bug Bunny premieres in USA. In 2016 Paul Simon said he was "elated" to notch up his first UK No.1 studio album in 26 years after his 13th solo album, Stranger To Stranger, topped the charts.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 10, 2022 5:28:08 GMT
10th June In 1752 Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment. In 1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1947 Saab produces its first automobile. In 1966 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in UK; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 10, 2022 10:22:12 GMT
10th June In 1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 11, 2022 7:26:16 GMT
11th June In 1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1944 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC. In 1960 Drummer Tommy Moore made the fateful decision to quit The Beatles and return to his job of driving a forklift at Garston bottle works. He was briefly replaced by Norman Chapman, who was called into National Service after just three gigs. After going drummerless and mostly jobless for a few weeks, the band hired Pete Best on August 12th, only one day before they were to go to Hamburg to play a string of club dates. In 1966 The Rolling Stones started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Paint It, Black', the group's third US No.1 single. Also a No.1 in the UK, it was the first No.1 single to feature a sitar on the recording.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 12, 2022 6:57:13 GMT
12th June In 1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours. In 1939 Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor. In 1963 "Cleopatra" directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made. In 2008 Coldplay release their 4th studio album " Viva la Vida or Death" (winner of 3 Grammys)
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 13, 2022 6:13:02 GMT
13th June In 1895 Emile Levassor wins the first automobile race in history the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, taking 48 hours and 48 minutes (1,178 km) In 1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady, NY) In 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1988 George Harrison releases single "This Is Love."
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 14, 2022 6:10:07 GMT
14th June In 1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine. In 1942 Anne Frank begins her diary. In 1964 Drummer Ringo Starr re-unites with the Beatles in Melbourne, Australia, after recovering from tonsillitis. In 1980 Billy Joel started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Glass Houses', his second US No.1 album. The album features Joel's first song to peak at No.1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me.'
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 15, 2022 5:48:13 GMT
15th June In 1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory. In 1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated. In 1959 Galapagos Islands are made Ecuador's first national park, banning the capture of species. In 1965 Bob Dylan records single "Like a Rolling Stone" (#1 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time")
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 15, 2022 10:57:40 GMT
15th June In 1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated. Just a few hours away and very beautiful ...
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 16, 2022 5:35:05 GMT
16th June In 1903 Pepsi Cola company forms. In 1922 Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1967 The first Montreux Jazz Festival is held in Switzerland, created by Claude Nobs. In 1979 The Electric Light Orchestra started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Discovery' their first No.1 LP, featuring the tracks 'Shine A Little Love', 'Don't Bring Me Down' and 'The Diary Of Horace Wimp'.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 17, 2022 5:27:36 GMT
17th June In 1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established. In 1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service. In 1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day. In 1976 Blondie released their debut single 'X Offender'. Written by Gary Valentine and Debbie Harry, the title of the song was originally 'Sex Offender', written about an 18-year-old boy being arrested for having sex with his younger girlfriend. Debbie Harry changed the lyrics so that the song was about a prostitute being attracted to the police officer that had arrested her. Private Stock, the band’s label insisted that the single be changed to 'X Offender' because they were nervous about the original title.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jun 17, 2022 10:11:11 GMT
17th June In 1976 Blondie released their debut single 'X Offender'. Written by Gary Valentine and Debbie Harry, the title of the song was originally 'Sex Offender', written about an 18-year-old boy being arrested for having sex with his younger girlfriend. Debbie Harry changed the lyrics so that the song was about a prostitute being attracted to the police officer that had arrested her. Private Stock, the band’s label insisted that the single be changed to 'X Offender' because they were nervous about the original title. "X-Offender" OMG !!! LINK
[Spoken] I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine. I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled, I laid my heart on the line You read me my rights and then you said "Let's go" and nothing more I thought of my nights, and how they were They were filled with
I know you wouldn't go You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in I had to know so I asked You just had to laugh
We sat in the night with my hands cuffed at my side I look at your life and your style I wanted nothing more I know you wouldn't go You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in I had to know so I asked You just had to laugh
Walking the line, you were a marksman Told me that law, like wine, is ageless Public defender You had to admit You wanted the love of a sex offender
I know you wouldn't go You'd watch my heart burst then you'd step in I had to know so I asked You just had to laugh
My vision in blue, I call you from inside my cell And in the trial, you were there With your badge and rubber boots
I think all the time how I'm going to perpetrate love with you And when I get out, there's no doubt I'll be sex offensive to you
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 18, 2022 6:16:55 GMT
18th June In 1847 American photographer Thomas Martin Easterly takes the earliest known photograph of lightning using the daguerreotype process in St. Louis, Missouri. Born on this day in 1942, Paul McCartney, The Beatles Wings, solo. The most successful rock composer of all time. McCartney first met John Lennon on July 6th 1957, who was impressed that Paul could tune a guitar. With The Beatles he scored 21 US No.1 & 17 UK No.1 singles plus McCartney has scored over 30 US & UK solo Top 40 hit singles. He has written and co-written 188 charted records, of which 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1 totalling 1,662 weeks on the chart. In 1954 4th Berlin International Film Festival: "Hobson's Choice" wins the Golden Bear. In 1988' Doctorin' The Tardis' by The Timelords was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. The Timelords were Scottish duo Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, who formed KLF. The song was a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme music, Gary Glitter's 'Rock and Roll (Part Two)' with sections from 'Blockbuster!' by Sweet.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 19, 2022 6:32:47 GMT
19th June In 1923 Comic Strip "Moon Mullins" debuts. In 1941 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia. In 1964 Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, home of the famous horticulturist, is designated a National Historical Landmark in Santa Rosa, California. In 1973 Edgar Winter's US No.1 hit 'Frankenstein' was awarded a Gold record. Winter named the song because of how many cuts and patches were contained in the original studio tape.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 20, 2022 6:11:48 GMT
20th June In 1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph. Born this day in 1942, Brian Wilson. Happy 80th birthday Brian In 1969 200,000 attend Newport '69', then largest-ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear. In 2007 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The Who headline; other performers include The Fratellis, Amy Winehouse, Shirley Bassey, Paul Weller, and Bright Eyes.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 21, 2022 6:20:57 GMT
21st June In 1893 1st Ferris wheel opens at Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Washington, D.C. In 1948 Columbia Records unveil the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record invented by Peter Carl Goldmark, allowing up to 20 minutes per side (available in 10 and 12 inch diameters), at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, NYC; over the next decade the popularity and profitability of the LP pushed the 78 rpm out of production. Peter Carl Goldmark In 1986 Genesis scored their fourth UK No.1 album with their 13th studio album 'Invisible Touch'. It remained in the charts for 96 weeks, making it the most commercially successful album of their career, eventually selling over 15 million copies worldwide and produced five US Top 5 singles, including the title track.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 22, 2022 5:49:43 GMT
22nd June In 1847 First ring doughnut supposedly created by Hanson Gregory. In 1940 France surrenders to Nazi Germany, with the northern half of the country occupied and the south established as the Nazi client state Vichy France. In 1962 1st test flight of a Hovercraft. In 1968 The Otis Redding album Dock Of The Bay went to No.1 in the UK. The posthumously released album, and his sixth studio album contained a number of singles and B-sides dating back to 1965 and one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit (Sittin' On The Dock) Of The Bay.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 23, 2022 6:20:48 GMT
23rd June In 1819 First editions of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." by Washington Irving released, featuring story "Rip Van Winkle." In 1943 RAF discovers Wernher von Braun's V1/V2-base in Peenemunde. In 1963 The Detroit March to Freedom occurs with 125,000 people participating, the largest civil rights demonstration in America up to that point. In 1973 10cc were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rubber Bullets', the first of three UK No.1's for the band, (who also had a No.1 as Hotlegs).
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 24, 2022 5:39:45 GMT
24th June In 1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso aged 19, opens in Paris. In 1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) In 1965 John Lennon's second book of poetry and drawings, 'A Spaniard In The Works', was published. The book consisted of nonsensical stories and drawings similar to the style of his 1964 book 'In His Own Write'. In 2016 A US jury concluded that Led Zeppelin did not copy the opening chords of 'Stairway To Heaven' from the US band Spirit, saying the riff Led Zeppelin was accused of taking from Spirit's 1967 song 'Taurus' "was not intrinsically similar" to Stairway's opening. During the trial, defence lawyers argued the chord progression in question was very common and had been in use for more than 300 years. I'll let you decide
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 25, 2022 6:03:42 GMT
25th June In 1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop. In 1947 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands. In 1967 First global satellite television program: "Our World" broadcast features 19 acts representing 19 nations including The Beatles singing "All You Need Is Love." In 1988 Debbie Gibson went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Foolish Beat', making Debbie (aged 17), the youngest female to write, produce and record a US No.1 single. A No.9 hit in the UK.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 26, 2022 7:00:09 GMT
26th June In 1906 Hungarian driver Ferenc Szisz in a Renault AK 90CV wins 1st Grand-Prix motor racing event in Le Mans, France. Born on this day in 1943, Georgie Fame, UK singer, keyboards, (1965 UK No.1 single 'Yeh Yeh'. 1968 UK No.1 single 'The Ballad Of Bonnie and Clyde'). In 1959 Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway. In 2019 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Kylie Minogue plays the Pyramid stage 14 years after cancer forced her to cancel.
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Post by bunkerfan on Jun 27, 2022 6:16:54 GMT
27th June In 1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for children's literature (Hendrik Van Loon) In 1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV. In 1963 US President John F. Kennedy spend his 1st full day in Ireland. In 1997 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: The Prodigy headline.
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