Happy Birthday Linda!!! Happy Birthday Steve Howe! April 8: in 1093 the new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin; in 1820 the Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos; in 1913 the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law; in 1935 the Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law; in 1945, after an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis; in 1975 Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseballs first African American manager. Birthdays: astronomer David Rittenhouse (1732); actress Mary Pickford (1892); figure skater/actress Sonja Henie (1912); 40th First Lady of the U.S. Betty Ford (1918); comedian Shecky Greene (1926); English author James Herbert (1943); Yes/Asia guitarist Steve Howe (1947); Grand Funk bassist Mel Schacher (1951); Julian Lennon (1963); English race car driver Mark Blundell (1966). Music: In 1961 the BBC bans Gene McDaniels hit 100 Pounds Of Clay because of the lyrics supposedly blasphemous suggestion that God made women from the substance; in 1967 Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T. and the MGs, Eddie Floyd, and Arthur Conley perform at Londons Hammersmith Odeon; in 1971 Chicago becomes the first rock group to play Carnegie Hall; in 1966 The Beatles are in the studio recording Got To Get You Into My Life; in 1978 Eddie Moneys Baby Hold On enters the charts.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:12:06 +0000
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