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Today in Music History
March 29​

1975:
Led Zeppelin makes history with six albums in the Billboard Albums chart simultaneously following the release of Physical Graffiti. Their latest release, Physical Graffiti, is at #1, with their previous five albums also on the chart: Led Zeppelin IV (#83), House of the Holy (#92), Led Zeppelin II (#104), Led Zeppelin (#116) and Led Zeppelin III (#124).

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1980:
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon sets a record with its 303rd week on the US album chart, beating the record by Carole King's 1971 LP Tapestry. Though it only stayed at the summit of The Billboard 200 for a week, it remained in the chart for an unparalleled 736 nonconsecutive weeks, from March 17, 1973, to July 16, 1988.

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1980:
Brian Johnson of the band Geordie gets a new, slightly more high-profile gig: replacing the deceased Bon Scott in AC/DC. Johnson's first album with the band is Back In Black, which becomes the second-best selling album worldwide behind Thriller.




1795:
Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.

1951:
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I, based on the novel "Anna and the King of Siam", opens at St James Theater, NYC. The Broadway musical runs for 1,246 performances, winning 5 Tony Awards. Star Yul Brynner would lead the cast of the 1956 film version, and play the role over 4,200 times.

1958:
Elvis Presley begins boot camp in Ft. Hood, Texas, where he insists on doing KP and guard duty just like the other soldiers.

Connie Francis enjoys her first chart success as Who's Sorry Now? reached Billboard's #4 spot. Over the next ten years she will place 55 more songs on the Billboard hit parade.




1959:
Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell is born Peretz Bernstein in Queens, NYC. His stage name is a play on the word "peripheral," in the sense that he's "on the edge." Farrell fronts the bands Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros, but is most famous for launching the Lollapalooza music festival.




1962:
Gene Chandler received a gold record for Duke of Earl.




1966:
The Rolling Stones played a concert in France. About 85 people were arrested for rioting after the show. Mick Jagger was injured during the gig after a fan threw a chair at the stage; Jagger required eight stitches.
The Rolling Stones - Paris 1966 (early & late shows) [68 minute YouTube audio]




1967:
The Beatles began recording With a Little Help from My Friends at EMI Studios in London, England. With the other members of the band standing around the microphone for moral support, Ringo Starr belted out the rare lead vocal for the group. The song would be added to the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.



1969:
Blood, Sweat & Tears' self titled second album hits #1. The LP featured the singles You've Made Me So Very Happy (US #2), Spinning Wheel (US #2), and And When I Die (US #2).

John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Black Sabbath, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Curved Air, J.J. Jackson's Dilemma, Shy Limbs, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Sunflower Brass Band and Toe Fat all appeared at the London Free Easter Festival in Bethnal Green, London.




1970:
The Ed Sullivan Show broadcasts live from Vietnam hospitals, featuring Bobby Gentry and Gladys Knight and the Pips.




1973:
Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, who have a hit with The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone'" appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. According to members of the group, they really did buy five copies for their mothers, just like the song said.

1975:
Labelle's Lady Marmalade hits #1 in America as listeners track down friends who took French in high schools to translate the line, Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir. The words are a sexual proposition that translates into English as "Do you want to sleep with me, tonight?" Lead singer Patti LaBelle later claimed that she was completely oblivious to its overall message, saying: "I didn't know what it was about. I don't know French and nobody, I swear this is God's truth, nobody at all told me what I'd just sung a song about."




1975:
Jeff Beck releases Blow by Blow, one of, if not the best rock instrumental albums of all time. It is his most successful album in the US, reaching the top five and selling over one million copies.

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1978:
After a tumultuous ordeal that lasted nearly two years, Tina Turner is officially divorced from abusive husband Ike.




1978:
David Bowie kicked off his Low / Heroes 77-date World Tour at the San Diego Sports Arena.

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1979:
With their money from Roxanne, The Police hit up Manny's Music in New York City, where they buy up much of the inventory. At their soundcheck that night at My Father's Place in Long Island, they start experimenting with the effects units and bass pedals that help define their sound moving forward.

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1982:
Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney release Ebony And Ivory.




1985:
Madonna stars in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan alongside Rosanna Arquette.

1985:
Jeanne Deckers - known as The Singing Nun - and her companion Annie Pécher die in a double suicide at their home. As a Belgian nun, Deckers had a US #1 hit in 1963 with Dominique, but she left the convent in 1966 and went through a series of setbacks, including devastating financial problems. Deckers is 51, Pécher is 40.

1986:
Austrian singer Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus hits #1 in the US, the first German-language song to do so.

The Beatles' records are officially licensed for sale in the Soviet Union, more than two decades after their initial release in the west. Before that, only tapes were available on the black market, but most Soviet music lovers could not afford them. There was little information about The Beatles in the USSR and official Soviet publications about the band were mainly critical and condemnatory.




1993:
A Whole New World from the Disney animated film Aladdin wins the Academy Award for Best Song.




2001:
A tribute to Brian Wilson is held at Radio City Music Hall, with Paul Simon, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Go-Gos, Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson and Aimee Mann all performing Beach Boys songs. Brian Wilson took the stage for the final three songs, Barbara Ann, Surfin' U.S.A. and Fun, Fun, Fun.




2005:
Neil Young has brain surgery to remove an aneurysm. His vision became blurry at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies, and a subsequent checkup discovered the aneurysm.

The Day Neil Young Had a Brain Aneurysm

Neil Young received treatment for a life-threatening brain aneurysm on March 28, 2000.

ultimateclassicrock.com

Neil Young Shares Detailed Aneurysm Experience - The Bee Foundation

By LAUREN RUSSELL Neil Young health: Doctors had to revive him after a ‘very serious’ illness – symptoms NEIL YOUNG has made his name recording timeless classics such as Old […]

www.thebeefoundation.org

2006:
Tom Jones is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.




2007:
Rihanna’s Umbrella, featuring Jay-Z, was released. One of the most-played singles of the decade, the song was an instant hit, spending seven weeks at #1. “Umbrella” earned the Barbadian singer and legendary rapper multiple awards, including two Grammys and two MTV VMAs. The song was the longest running #1 by a female artist since Whitney Houston's 1992 I Will Always Love You.

2009:
The video game Guitar Hero: Metallica was released.

2011:
A website that illegally sold Beatles songs online for 25 cents each agreed to pay record companies almost $1m to settle a legal case. BlueBeat.com, based in the US, streamed and sold music by The Beatles, Coldplay and others until it was sued in 2009. In the few days before it was forced to shut down, it had distributed more than 67,000 Beatles tracks.




2012:
A TV ad for Madonna's new perfume, Truth or Dare, was deemed too racy for ABC network television. Dressed in leotards, fish nets and harnesses, the Material Girl was shown licking her lips while wearing black lingerie and a mask, rolling around on the floor.

"Truth or Dare"by Madonna HD Fragance Commercial and Making of [Extra TV]

Madonna's "Truth or Dare" Fragrance Commecial and Behind the Scenes from Extra TV and again the commercial.

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2016:
Andy Newman from Thunderclap Newman died aged 73. Thunderclap Newman, whose 1969 No.1 hit Something in the Air became one of the staples of 1960s pop. Primarily a keyboard player his schoolfriends nicknamed him Thunderclap in honor of his playing technique. The band that would become Thunderclap Newman was formed in late 1968 at the instigation of the Who’s Pete Townshend.




2017:
The United States Library of Congress added Don McLean's 1971 hit American Pie to their National Recording Registry of 2016. "American Pie" joins Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow", N.W.A.'s album, "Straight Outta Compton" and the Eagles' 1976 "Their Greatest Hits" as treasures worthy of preservation.




2019:
Seventeen-year-old Billie Eilish releases her first album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which debuts at #1 in the US.

34th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Cure; Def Leppard; Janet Jackson; Stevie Nicks; Radiohead; Roxy Music; and The Zombies.




2020:
With most of the world homebound as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, Elton John hosts the Living Room Concert For America from his home, featuring virtual performances by Mariah Carey, H.E.R., Backstreet Boys, and Tim McGraw. The concert raises money to help local food banks and support first responders during the crisis.




2020:
Alan Merrill of The Arrows, who co-wrote I Love Rock And Roll, dies at 69; one of the first high-profile musicians to succumb to coronavirus. The song became a breakthrough hit for Joan Jett in 1982 and has since been covered by artists ranging from Britney Spears to Weird Al Yankovic.




2024:
Beyoncé drops Cowboy Carter, a sassy (mostly) country album with 27 tracks and appearances by Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and an unheralded Black country singer named Linda Martell, whose only album was released in 1970. When Cowboy Carter tops the country chart, it makes Beyoncé the first Black woman to do so.

 

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Today in US & World History
March 29​

1973:
Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees many of the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.

In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to support the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered limited bombing raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history.

During the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists’ Tet Offensive of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks.

In the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. Richard Nixon, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and “Vietnamization” of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere.

Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced.

In reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War.

On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, “You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated.” The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.




1974:
A Chinese farmer digging a well uncovers some pottery fragments, leading to an astounding discovery: an army of more than 8,000 lifesize soldiers and horses, created and buried 2,200 years ago to guard the tomb of China’s first emperor, Qin Shin-huang

845:
Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving

1461:
Edward IV defeated Henry VI for the throne of England in the bloodiest battle of the York-Lancaster conflict, known as the Wars of the Roses.

Wars of the Roses | Summary, History, Family Tree, & Facts | Britannica

Wars of the Roses (1455–85), in English history, the series of civil wars that preceded the rise of the Tudors. Fought between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, the wars were named years afterward from the supposed badges of the contenders: the white rose of York and the...

www.britannica.com

1790:
10th president of the US John Tyler was born in Virginia. He became the first vice president to succeed to the presidency when William Henry Harrison died 31 days into his presidency, becoming sick after delivering a two-hour inaugural address in the rain without a hat or coat.

1848:
Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream

1852:
Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day




1867:
Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young is born in Gilmore, Ohio

1912:
British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, storm-bound in a tent near the South Pole, makes the last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1918:
Sam Walton was born in Oklahoma. Walton graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in economics (1940) and entered a JC Penney Company management training program in Des Moines. He opened his own Ben Franklin variety (five-and-dime) store in Newport, Arkansas, in 1945 and relocated the store to Bentonville, Arkansas, five years later. By the early 1960s he and his brother, James, operated a regional chain of Ben Franklin stores, and, when that company’s executives rejected his concept for a new discount store chain to be based in small towns, Walton decided to set up such a chain on his own. He opened the first store, Wal-Mart Discount City, in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, offering a wide variety of merchandise at discount prices in a no-frills setting.

Large American discount store chains typically situated their stores in or near large cities, but Walton was convinced that small towns could generate enough business to make such stores profitable. To operate in out-of-the-way locations, he situated a regional cluster of stores no farther than one day’s drive from a giant warehouse that made large-volume purchases and distributed the goods to the stores using its own trucking services. Volume buying and a low-cost delivery system enabled the stores to offer name-brand goods at discount prices in locations where there was little competition from other retail chains. As a result, the Wal-Mart chain experienced tremendous and sustained growth, with 190 stores by 1977 and 800 stores by 1985.

1932:
Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program

1936:
Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates

29/3/1936 - Nazi propaganda states that 99% of the German population had voted for candidates from the Nazi party... - Morashá

Nazi propaganda states that 99% of the German population had voted for Nazi party candidates in the country's most recent elections.

www.morasha.com.br

1937:
Billy Carter, brother of the 39th president, was born in Plains, Georgia

1943:
World War II rationing of meat, fats and cheese began, limiting American consumers to store purchases of an average of about two pounds a week for beef, pork, lamb and mutton using a coupon system.




1944:
Denny McLain was born in Illinois. He is the last pitcher to win 30 games in a season, winning the MVP and Cy Young Award while going 31-6 in 1968.

1951:
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in New York of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. (They were executed in June 1953.)

Rosenbergs convicted of espionage | March 29, 1951 | HISTORY

In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for ...

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The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I debuted on Broadway; a classic of the stage, it made Yul Brynner a star and was adapted into a popular film in 1956.

1952:
President Harry Truman removes himself from the presidential race.

President Harry S. Truman Facts & Biography

Learn presidential history with official Harry S. Truman facts and biography. Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri.

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1959:
Some Like It Hot, an comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, premieres at Loew's Capitol Theatre in NYC

1961:
The 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.




1962:
Jack Paar's final appearance on the The Tonight Show

1971:
Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. (Initially sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor, Calley’s sentence would ultimately be commuted by President Richard Nixon to three years of house arrest.)


A jury in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers for the 1969 Tate-La Bianca murders. (The sentences were commuted when the California state Supreme Court struck down the death penalty in 1972.)

1973:
Boston Celtics center Dave Cowens wins NBA MVP

1974:
Soviet author, historian and political dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is reunited with his family after being exiled from his home country. Publication of The Gulag Archipelago, his detailed history of the Soviet Union's vast system of prisons and labor camps, helped raise global awareness of the communist nation's rampant political repression. Its publication led Soviet authorities to arrest him for treason, strip him of his citizenship and physically expel him from the USSR.




1976:
Jennifer Capriati was born in Wesley Chapel, Florida. She was ranked as the world #1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association for 17 weeks. Capriati won 14 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2001 Australian Open, 2001 French Open, and 2002 Australian Open, and an Olympic gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted for shooting four Kent State students during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970.

At the 48th Academy Awards, One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest swept the five major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Adapted).

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1978:
TV variety show The Carol Burnett Show last airs on CBS, having won 25 Emmy Awards

1982:
19-year-old North Carolina freshman Michael Jordan makes a 16-foot jump shot with 15 seconds left to give the Tar Heels a 63-62 win over Georgetown for the NCAA Tournament championship.




1985:
Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist. On this same day in 1999 Gretzky scored the 894th and final goal of his career.




1989:
Junk bond king Michael Milken is indicted in New York for racketeering and securities fraud in an insider trading investigation




1999:
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 10,000 for the first time ever




2004:
President George W. Bush welcomed seven former Soviet-bloc nations (Romania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia) into NATO during a White House ceremony.


Ireland become the first country to ban smoking in all work places.




2020:
US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci warns America may see between 100,000 - 200,000 deaths from COVID-19




2021:
Trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd begins in Minneapolis




2022:
In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv

 

[1960Pats]

Great stuff. Thanks.

I remember watching that video from Atlanta and feeling bad for those fans. But not that bad.

Jules' fantastic catch was followed by a fantastic call by one of the refs who called it a catch immediately. That forced a challenge by Atlanta that cost them a TO that they could have used in their last possession.

In the same situation the Pats would have done things very differently. They would have run the ball more to run off some clock and they would have set up the team for the winning FG after if they had an 8 point lead at the 22, rather than going back to pass.

I got a little scared when the Pats forced the ball to the TE at the end. Luckily we got the PI call on the 2nd one.