“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”
- 1602 – Cape Cod was discovered by Bartholomew Gosnold.
- 1862 – The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- 1930 – Ellen Church became the first female flight attendant.
- 1940 – Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
- 1951 – AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.
- 1958 – Sputnik III, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.
- 1967 – Paul McCartney met American photographer Linda Eastman for the first time, during a Georgie Fame concert at the Bag O’Nails nightclub in London, England. They married on March 12, 1969.
- 1970 – U.S. President Nixon appointed America’s first two female generals.
- 1974 – Frank Zappa and his wife announced the birth of their third child, a boy named Ahmet Rodan.
- 1990 – Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Doctor Gachet” was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.
- 1992 – Barbara Lee of the Chiffons died from a heart attack the day before her 45th birthday. Had the 1963 US No.1 single ‘He’s So Fine.’
- 1997 – Courtney Love sold the Seattle mansion she shared with Kurt Cobain. A local family purchased the house in the salubrious Denny Blaine area for $3m.
- 1998 – American singer and actor Frank Sinatra died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles aged 82, after suffering a heart attack.
- 1998 – Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1998 – George Michael was fined after being convicted of a “lewd act” in a Los Angeles lavatory.
“NATIONAL DAYS”
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