1935 – At age 17, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first songs. The two songs were “Love and Kisses” and “I’ll Chase the Blues Away.”
1959 – The album “Chuck Berry on Top” was released by Chuck Berry.
1959 – Bo Diddley released “Go Go Bo Diddley.”
1961 – “Travelin’ Man” became Ricky Nelson’s second #1 song of his career after “Poor Little Fool”
1964 – The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia and were greeted by an estimated 250,000 fans, (the biggest welcome the band would ever receive), who lined the ten mile route from the airport to the city centre. Temporary member Jimmy Nicol was standing in for Ringo on drums who was recovering from having his tonsils removed.
1965 – The Beatles were included in the Queen’s birthday honors list to each receive the MBE.
1965 – “Crying In The Chapel” by Elvis Presley spent the fourth week out of seven on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1965 – The Soundtrack to “Mary Poppins” spent a 10th consecutive week at #1 on the Album chart.
1965 – The Supremes scored their fifth consecutive US No.1 single (they were the first American group to accomplish this feat), when ‘Back In My Arms Again’, went to the top of the charts
1967 – Bob Dylan’s album Greatest Hits peaked at No.10 in the US chart.
1970 – David Bowie released the single ‘Memory of a Free Festival’, which featured guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey’s studio debut with Bowie’s band, bringing together the line-up that would shortly record The Man Who Sold the World.
1971 – “Want Ads” by the Honey Cone was the #1 song, toppling the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar”.
1971 – “Rainy Days and Mondays” was #1 for a third week for the Carpenters on the Easy Listening chart.
1972 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono released “Some Time In New York City.”
1976 – The Wurzels scored their only UK No.1 hit with ‘Combine Harvester’ the cider-drinking folkies from the West Country had reworked Melanie’s hit ‘Brand New Key.’
1976 – “Silly Love Songs” assumed the #1 spot on this date
1982 – Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and Gary ‘US’ Bonds all appeared at a rally for nuclear disarmament in Central Park, New York to over 450,000 fans.
1982 – Adam Ant was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Goody Two Shoes’, his third and last No.1.
1982 – “Ebony and Ivory” was #1 for a fifth week for Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1990 – Mariah Carey’s self-titled debut album was released in the U.S.
1993 – UB40 had their third UK No.1 single with (‘I Can’t Help), Falling In Love With You’, a No.1 hit for Elvis Presley in 1962.
“TV/RADIO TODAY”
1965 – Sonny and Cher performed “I Got You Babe” on “American Bandstand.”
1966 – The Dave Clark Five performed on The Ed Sullivan Show for the 11th time.
2011 – In the U.S., the switch from analog to digital TV transmission was completed.
“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”
1921 – U.S. President Warren Harding urged every young man to attend military training camp.
1923 – Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a straitjacket.
1939 – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
1967 – State laws which prohibited interracial marriages were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1972 – With the help of her mother, a barefooted Ronnie Spector left her husband Phil’s Beverly Hills mansion for the last time, leaving behind her adopted sons, three-year-old Donté and six-year-old twins, Louis and Gary. Within days she filed for a divorce that would be granted in 1974.
1981 – Major league baseball players began a 49-day strike. The issue was free-agent compensation
1985 – Wayne “The Great One” Gretzky was named the winner of the NHL’s Hart Trophy. The award is given to the league’s Most Valuable Player.
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1987 – U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1989 – Graceland opened the Elvis Presley Autoland Museum, which contains over 20 cars owned by Presley.
1991 – The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
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