On this day ...........

Find out what happened on this day, in History, music, etc.

http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun05.htm

Just a sample for 5th June. (tomorrow in the USA, UK, etc.) :-D

1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began.

1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning.

1973 - The first hole-in-one in the British Amateur golf championship was made by Jim Crowford.

1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.

1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS.

Hope you find it interesting. Bazza

 

Music on this day (extract). Type in any date and see what happened in the world on that day.

Thumbnail of music history attached. I remember some of them. Getting (got) old. Bazza

 

An extract from today.

 

$100K for a block long billboard in times square???

wonder what that would cost now? cool link bb

 

Re: On this day ...........June 18th

Today, in Music History (extract).

33 1/3 records released today, 60 years ago.

Bazza

 

I bookmarked that site the other day, cool site, but, it takes you ALL DAY to read thru what all happened and the next day, ya hafta start alllll over:-D

 

To make it easier, bookmark and go to http://www.on-this-day.com/ and you will get today's date and select Music, History, etc., from there on. Hope this helps. Bazza

OR go to http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/dayselect-music.htm and select any day. Baz

 

in History, for 20th June 2008.

Some famous and infamous names, today.

 

Today in Television History

1938 - The first television theater opened in Boston, MA. The variety show was performed on a floor above the theater and transmitted downstairs by TV.

1960 - Freddy Cannon performed "Happy Shades of Blue" on "American Bandstand."

1984 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell asked to be released from his duties on "Monday Night Football." He said that he was "tired of being tied to the football mentality."

2002 - It was announced that the South African version of "Sesame Street" would be introducing a character that was HIV-positive.

Go to
http://www.on-this-day.com/cgi-bin/otd/tvotd/tvotd.pl

 

On this day I posted :-D
My best friend was born on this day