On this Day…

On this day, March 12th, this happened…

1969 Paul McCartney married his first wife, Linda Eastman on this day. They were married until her death in 1998.

1983 Bonnie Tyler had her first and only UK number 1 single ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo[/youtube]

1987 The day ‘Les Misrables’ opened on Broadway. It has now the longest running musical and now been released for the third time as a movie.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEFm84s4oI[/youtube]

1994 the Church of England ordained their first female priests.

2010 Pre orders for the first ever iPad happened on this day.

On this Day…

On this day, March 6th, this happened…

1475 The birth of one of the greatest artists, Michelangelo.

1961 Lancashire Born ukulele player, George Formby died today. He was famous of the song ‘When I’m cleaning windows’

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmAeijj5cM[/youtube]

1985 Yul Brynner played his his 4,500th performance in the musical “The King and I.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-t7uVdID3s[/youtube]

1997  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site.

Today is also Independence Day for Ghana, who released from British rule in 1957.

On this Day…

On this day, March 5th, this happened…

1962 The birthday of twins Charlie and Craig Reid, but you will know them as the crazy singing Scottish singing duo ‘‘the Proclaimers’.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0sTNtWDiI[/youtube]

1963, The Beatles recorded what would be their third single ‘From Me to You’ just five days after John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Jwfv8WQMA[/youtube]

1946 Winston Churchill delivered his speech on the divide between Eastern and Western Europe, which is now famously know as the ‘Iron Curtain’ speech.

1975  Also the birthday of the actress Eva Mendes, who rose to fame in the film Training Day back in 2001 but we probably most recognise her from the film Hitch (and for dating Ryan Gosling)

In Iran, today is National Tree Painting Day.

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.

On this Day…

On this day, March 2nd, this happened…

1930 The author of famous books such as Women in Love at the cult Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H., Lawrence, died at the age off 44 in the city of Vence in France.

1933 The world premiere of the original version of King Kong had released, a movie which has one of the most memorable scenes of all time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grMo5-2Y5oc[/youtube]

1947 The birthday of a man favourited to be the England football’s team next manager, Harry Redknapp.

2004 NASA  revealed that in the past that there was water on Mars in the past, due to evidence discovered by the Mars rover ‘ Opportunity’

2011 A wonderful day for techno-geeks, as Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple Ipad 2.

Photo: Sucello Leilões Virtuais

Photo: Sucello Leilões Virtuais

 

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