On this Day…

On this day, March 4th, this happened…

1877 The microphone was invented by German born American inventor Emile Berliner.

1950 Walt Disney’s memorable version of Cinderella was released in the cinemas.

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1966 Beatle’s frontman John Lennon caused outrage amogst Christians by saying ‘We’re more popular than Jesus right now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuMwfUqJJM[/youtube]

1975 Charlie Chaplin was knighted by the Queen.

1986 ‘Today’ newspaper would be the first daily national newspaper to go on sale. However it did not last against it’s competitors and publication of the paper stopped in 1995.