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Post by specialk on Sept 16, 2005 7:47:13 GMT
Harry Windsor Oh of course - and there was me thinking you meant Harry Secombe or Harry Enfield or someone vaguely interesting. Although Harry is definately a bit fit (for his age of course) oh and x
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 17, 2005 6:25:54 GMT
September 17th
1972 - The first episode of "M*A*S*H" aired on CBS.
1953 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1932 The Need for Speed
Sir Malcolm Campbell set yet another speed record on this day, reaching 76.27mph over a half mile. His thirst for speed developed early in life, and he won three gold medals in the London-Edinburgh motorcycle trials as a young man, before developing an interest in airplanes. Campbell later became intrigued by automobile racing, gaining fame through his 30-year domination of the land-speed trials. He set six new land-speed records in various types of vehicles, all christened Blue Bird by Campbell. After he broke the 300mph barrier at age 50, he turned to boat racing and broke several water-speed records. Campbell's racing magic proved to be genetic; his son, Donald, was the first person to set land and water speed records in the same year.
Birthdays
879 Charles III [The Simple], king of France (893-923) 1931 Anne Bancroft 1955 Rita Rudner
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 17, 2005 17:43:00 GMT
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 17, 2005 20:29:53 GMT
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 18, 2005 10:20:55 GMT
September 18th
1970 Jimi Hendrix dies
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies at the age of 28, following a drug overdose in London.
Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942. He grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury that exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix backed such musicians as Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. He moved to New York in 1964, where he played in coffeehouses.
It was at one of these coffeehouse gigs that British bassist Bryan Chandler of the Animals first heard Hendrix play. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.
In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar. In the next two years, the band released classic songs like "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).
After the band dissolved in 1969 over creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve, 1969. The band released only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, which was released in 1971. Jimi Hendrix played his last concert in August 1970, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Britain.
1830 Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 18, 2005 16:56:17 GMT
18 sept
1851: The first issue of the New York Daily Times appears. The word "Daily" will be dropped from the newspaper's title six years later.
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Post by reg on Sept 19, 2005 10:47:35 GMT
September 19
1900 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid pull off their first robbery together
Robert Parker and Harry Longbaugh, better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, rob the First National Bank in Winnemucca, Nevada, marking the first time that the duo worked as a team. Up until this point, both men had been loosely affiliated with the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, named after a secret Colorado mountain hideout.
While growing up in Utah, Robert Parker fell under the guidance of his neighbor, Mike Cassidy, who became Parker's criminal mentor and taught him how to shoot. In the 1890s, after borrowing his neighbor's name, Butch Cassidy robbed banks and trains throughout the West and, for a while, managed to stay one step ahead of the posses that were constantly on his tail. However, he was nabbed by a sheriff in Wyoming in 1894 and spent two years in jail for cattle rustling. Cassidy had actually come up with a more efficient way of rustling by simply extorting money from ranchers so that their steers weren't stolen.
After getting out of jail, Cassidy hooked up with the Hole-in-the-Wall crew. By all reports, he was the most levelheaded of the group.
Harry Longbaugh took his name from Wyoming's Sundance jail, where he had spent some time for horse theft. His reputation as an exceptionally fast and accurate shooter quickly spread. When the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy met in 1900, they immediately became friends and partners.
Seeking respite from the Pinkerton detectives who were hot on their trail, Sundance, Cassidy, and Etta Place, a schoolteacher with whom Sundance had become involved while hiding out in Texas, made their way to South America. Place scouted out banks in Argentina for Cassidy and Sundance, who then robbed the poorly guarded depositories. When they became too well known in Argentina, Cassidy and Sundance moved to Bolivia, where they worked honest jobs for a few years before their identities were discovered.
According to most reports, the pair was ambushed by Bolivian soldiers and killed in San Vicente. Yet, rumors still persisted that Cassidy survived and lived a quiet life on a Nevada ranch until the 1920s.
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 19, 2005 11:52:32 GMT
sept 19
1928: Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the animated short Plane Crazy. Later that year, he will star in Steamboat Willie, the first animated film with synchronized sound.
On this day in 1783, the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon by sending a duck, a sheep, and a rooster into the air and landing them. Humans went up for the first time two months later.
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Post by Bizzie Lizzie on Sept 20, 2005 6:17:42 GMT
September 20th
1984 Marvin Gaye's father accepts a plea bargain
On September 20, 1984, Marvin Gay Sr. agrees to a plea bargain agreement that will keep him out of jail for shooting his son, singer Marvin Gaye, during an argument on April 1. Originally charged with first-degree murder, Gaye's 70-year-old father agreed to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter after an investigation into the shooting revealed that he had received massive bruises from the violent argument. In addition, Gaye, who was to turn 45 the next day, had cocaine in his system.
Marvin Gaye, who added the "e" to his name when he broke into show business, was one of Motown's biggest stars with massive hits such as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "What's Going On," and "Sexual Healing." He was also the third acclaimed soul singer of the 1960s to die a premature and tragic death. Sam Cooke ("You Send Me," "Cupid"), who had just crossed over into becoming a mainstream star, was shot to death in December 1963 outside a Los Angeles motel. And Otis Redding, one of the finest rhythm and blues singers, perished in a 1967 plane crash, right before his "Dock of the Bay" became a No. 1 hit.
A popular singer throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gaye's career hit a lull during the disco era. But, just prior to his death, he had made a comeback with one of his biggest-selling albums, Midnight Love.
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Post by specialk on Sept 20, 2005 8:18:27 GMT
Ans What amazing people all of them. Otis Redding in particular was one of my favs. and I might just raise a glass to dear old Marvin - what a guy
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 20, 2005 12:23:08 GMT
sept 20
1973: In a $100,000 tennis match at the Houston Astrodome, billed as the Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
1519: Five vessels commanded by Ferdinand Magellan sail from Spain to attempt a circumnavigation of the world. Although Magellan is killed in the Philippines, one of the ships completes the voyage in 1522.
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Post by reg on Sept 20, 2005 15:31:26 GMT
September 20
1975 David Bowie's first chart-topper
David Bowie scores his first No. 1 hit with "Fame," from his album Young Americans.
Bowie, born David Jones, attended high school in London but dropped out to play music with a series of bands. He became interested in theater and art movements in the mid 1960s, studying mime and Japanese Kabuki theater. He formed his own mime company while recording several albums. His first album, The World of David Bowie, was released in 1967. Like his next few albums, it presented Bowie as a singer-songwriter.
Bowie's intense interest in theater ultimately led to the creation of the glamorous, androgynous Ziggy Stardust character, introduced in the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). Intended as a parody of larger-than-life rock stars, Ziggy was actually taken seriously by many rock critics and fans, and made Bowie a major star.
Bowie toured England and the United States before retiring the Ziggy persona in July 1973. He continued to win fans with his later albums Diamond Dogs and Young Americans and reinvented himself as a mainstream pop singer in the 1980s with Let's Dance. In 1989, he released an album with his new band, Tin Machine.
Meanwhile, he also launched an acting career on stage and screen and became one of the earliest artists to take an interest in the Internet and new media--his concert staff was using email in the early 1980s. In 1988, he launched the first artist newsgroup on the Internet and he was the first artist to release an Internet-only single: "Telling Lies," in 1997. The same year, he allowed investors to participate in his financial future when he issued "Bowie Bonds"-a 10-year security paying investors 7.9 percent. He raised some $55 million through the bond issue. The following year, he launched his own Internet service provider, BowieNet.
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