Terror strikes unsuspecting Americans starting their workday, a long standoff with the feds comes to a fiery end, and a New Yorker takes Boston by storm. Time Rewind looks back at the events of April 19th.
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Violent rumblings on the West coast, jubilation on the East coast, plus a George Michael-Aretha Franklin collab lands on top of the pop chart. Time Rewind rolls it back for April 18th.
🚗 Ford Mustang gallops onto the scene, Apollo 13 ends its 'odyssey' and Pink Floyd makes album chart history. It's Time Rewind for April 17th.
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 16, 1966: 🎤 “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration,” by The Righteous Brothers, is in the middle of three weeks as a No. 1 single. Billboard goes on to rank the track as the No. 3 single for all of 1966.
🖌️ Album cover art: Verve Records
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 16, 1972: The Chinese government sends President Richard Nixon two giant pandas as a sign of friendship. The gesture becomes known as “Panda Diplomacy.” Female panda Ling-Ling and male companion Hsing-Hsing settle in at the National Zoo in Washington.
📷 Charles Tasnadi/AP
A devastating explosion nearly wipes a Texas community off the map and astronauts set out to find treasures on the moon. It’s Time Rewind for April 16th.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 15, 2013:💥 Two bombs go off near the Boston Marathon finish line, killing 3 spectators and wounding more than 260 others. Four days later authorities capture one of the suspects. His older brother and fellow suspect dies following a shootout with police.
📷 Boston Globe/AP
MLB's color barrier is broken, the golden arches rise and the pop chart loves a double-dose of Sinatra. It's Time Rewind for Tax Day, April 15th.
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 14, 2001: 🎤 "All for You," by Janet Jackson, begins seven weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and goes on to win a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. It becomes the longest-reigning single of 2001.
🖌️ Album art: Virgin Records
THIS DAY IN HISTORY April 14, 1918: 🎖During WWI, two pilots from the U.S. Army Air Service’s 94th Aero Squadron engage in America’s first aerial dogfight with enemy aircraft over Europe’s Western Front. Aviators Douglas Campbell (left) and Alan Winslow shoot down a pair of German two-seaters.
A bullet and an iceberg dramatically alter the course of history. Find out more in your April 14th Time Rewind.
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 13, 1958: 🌎 British teen Laurie London kicks off four weeks on top of the Billboard singles chart with his version of the spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." It becomes the most successful gospel song ever on the American pop chart.
🖌️ Capitol Records
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 13, 1928:🛫🛬 German pilot Hermann Köhl, Irish aviator James Fitzmaurice and Baron Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld complete the first Europe to North America transatlantic flight, leaving Ireland and landing on a small Canadian island.
📷 Bundesarchiv Bild photo
History at the Oscars, trouble in space and Metallica heads to court. Time Rewind recalls the events of April 13th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Nala Gutierrez at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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🥀 Americans lose their longest-serving president and the Soviets score points in the Space Race. We've got those stories plus Hall & Oates in the April 12th edition of Time Rewind.
LBJ makes good on "the promises of a century," Apollo astronauts find 13 to be an unlucky number and The Beatles do it for the last time. Time Rewind recalls the events of April 11th
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 10, 1999: 🎤 "No Scrubs" becomes TLC's third No. 1 single and holds the top spot on the Hot 100 for four weeks. The track also garners the girl group a Grammy nod for Record of the Year. Can you correctly name at least one of TLC's other chart-toppers?
🖌️LaFace/Arista Records
THIS DAY IN POP CULTURE: April 10, 1953: 🎥The first color 3D movie released by a major studio opens in NY. It’s “House of Wax,” starring Vincent Price. In addition to sparking the 3D movie craze of the 1950s, it also launched Price’s successful career as a star of the horror genre.
🖌️ Warner Bros.
🚢 From Titanic to Temptations and patents to pets, Time Rewind turns it back for April 10th.
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 9, 1969:🎤Columbia Records releases #BobDylan’s “Nashville Skyline” album, showcasing Dylan’s foray into #country music. It spawns the hit “Lay Lady Lay,” which climbs as high as No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
🖌️ Album cover art: Columbia Records
#60s #onthisday
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 9, 1965: ⚾️ Baseball is played indoors for the first time as the Houston Astrodome, the world's first domed stadium and so-called "Eighth Wonder of the World," opens to the public. A sold-out exhibition game between the Houston Astros and NY Yankees ends with an Astros win.
🚀 NASA introduces America's first astronauts and it's Sharks, Jets and ABBA. You'll find those stories and more in your April 9th Time Rewind.
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 8, 2006: 🎤Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Powter begins five weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with “Bad Day.”
🖌️ Album cover art: Warner Bros.
#2000s #popchart #hot100
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 8, 1992: 🎾 Tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from a blood transfusion during heart bypass surgery he underwent in 1983. Ashe, the first Black man to win Wimbledon, dies from the disease less than a year later at 49.
📷 Marty Lederhandler (AP)
⚾️ A powerful bat smashes Babe Ruth's record, Clint Eastwood moves from big screen to political scene and David Lynch brings the surreal to primetime. Time Rewind remembers April 8th.
#baseball #California #TwinPeaks #popculture #onthisday
THIS DAY IN MUSIC, April 7, 1962: 🎸🎙 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet Brian Jones at the Ealing Jazz Club in London and begin laying the groundwork for formation of The Rolling Stones. And the rest, as they say, is rock and roll history.
📷 Photo credit: Mark and Colleen Hayward, Getty Images
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, April 7, 1776: ⚓️ U.S. Navy Captain John Barry (a.k.a. “Father of the American Navy”), commander of the warship Lexington, achieves the first American naval capture of a British vessel when he seizes the British warship HMS Edward off the coast of Virginia.
John Wayne corrals his first and only Oscar and Vicki, Kenny and Taylor conquer the pop chart. Time Rewind is reminiscing the sights and sounds of April 7th.
#UnitedNations #Oscars #popmusic #history #onthisday
A couple of revolutionary products enter our lives and stick with us for years to come. Literally. That and more in your April 6th Time Rewind.
#cooking #notes #Tonys #baseball #onthisday
🎸 The guru of grunge is gone, plus the world unites in song for a life-saving cause. That and more in your April 5th Time Rewind.
#KurtCobain #grunge #RIP #popmusic #onthisday
