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Postby Macc » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:24 pm


Decided to start a new thread to commemorate anniversaries of significant events.

19 January 1975 - At 11am, a new radio station 2JJ started broadcasting in Sydney. The first song played was one banned on commercial stations.



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Postby offwork » Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:53 pm


Cool thread Macc :smile: ...

20th January music history...


1586 - Composer Johann Hermann Schein was born.

1703 - Composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco was born.

1855 - Composer Amedee-Ernest Chausson was born.

1870 - Composer Guillaume Lekeu was born.

1894 - Composer Walter Hamor Piston was born.

1899 - Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born.

1942 - Harry Babbitt sang as Kay Kyser and his Orchestra recorded, "Who Wouldn't Love You", on Columbia Records.

1958 - "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes was released.

1958 - Elvis Presley got his orders to report to duty from the U.S. Army. He was allowed a 60-day deferment so he could finish the film "King Creole".

1964 - The album "Meet the Beatles" was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.

1965 - The Rolling Stones and the Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV's "Shindig!"

1967 - Arthur Conley recorded "Sweet Soul Music".

1969 - Elvis Presley recorded "In the Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds." It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.

1973 - Jerry Lee Lewis mades his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.

1974 - Stevie Wonder played his first show after an auto accident that almost took his life five months earlier.

1982 - Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat in Des Moines, IA, and was hospitalized to undertake a series of rabies shots.

1999 - Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.

2002 - Sting won his first Golden Globe for his song "Until" from the "Kate & Leopold" soundtrack.


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Postby SKaVeN » Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:20 pm


By Godfrey, here comes another Wikipedia thread! :lol:


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Postby offwork » Thu Jan 21, 2010 7:53 am


jAN 21...

1966 - George Harrison and Patricia Anne Boyd were married.
Patty eventually left Harrison for Eric Clapton...


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Postby offwork » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:36 pm


JAN 22...

1959 - Buddy Holly made his last recordings alone with an acoustic guitar and tape recorder...
The songs were released posthumously...

1941 - Britain captured Tobruk from German forces...


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Postby atefooterz » Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:44 pm


22 Jan is the McClymonts "Sam`s" Birthday :grin:


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Postby Macc » Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:56 pm


Michael Hutchence was born on 22 January 1960. He would have been 50 today.


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Postby Macc » Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:54 pm


24 Jan

Winston Churchill died in 1965.

The Apple Macintosh first went on sale in 1984.


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Postby SKaVeN » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:54 pm


I always thought Churchill died in the seventies for some reason...


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Postby Macc » Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:00 pm


28 January

1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time.

1958 - Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen patented interconnecting blocks he called Lego.

1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart after liftoff.


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