February 3, 1959 — Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper die in a plane crash
The facts, as generally agreed upon, are these: At approximately 1AM on February 3, 1959, Holly, Valens and Richardson (‘the...
January 14, 2018
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February 7, 1959 — Guitar Slim dies
Eddie Jones – better known to most as “Guitar Slim” – was only 32 when he died pf pneumonia (which...
January 9, 2018
May 14, 1959 — Sinatra finishes recording “No One Cares”
On this day, Sinatra completed the recording of this, his third album for the year, after a break of over...
December 29, 2017
May 28, 1959 – Space Monkeys Able and Miss Baker become the first living beings to safely return to Earth
In the early days of space exploration, no government seemed ready to send humans into space. After all, no one...
December 24, 2017
June 25, 1959 — Charles Starkweather is executed for murder
One of the earliest modern spree killers, Charles Starkweather was responsible for the deaths of eleven people in Nebraska and...
December 19, 2017
January 4, 1960 — Albert Camus dies
Albert Camus was not an existentialist. He’d have been the first one to tell you that. He was mates with...
December 4, 2017
January 25, 1960 — The NAB announces fines for DJs found accepting payola
While there had been rumours about payola in the music industry for years, the practice became more prevalent in the...
November 29, 2017
May 16, 1960 — Khrushchev demands that Eisenhower apologise for U-2 spy flights
On May 1, American pilot Gary Powers was shot down while flying a Lockheed U-2 over the USSR on a...
November 24, 2017
January 27, 1961 — Soviet submarine S-80 is lost with all hands in the Arctic Sea
Originally launched on October 21, 1950 at Krasnoye Sormovo Factory in Gorky, the S-80 was a Whiskey Class submarine, and...
November 4, 2017
May 25, 1961 — Kennedy pledges to put a man on the Moon by the decade’s end
It was a bold announcement at the time – at any time, really. When JFK addressed a joint session of...
October 29, 2017
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