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
Billy Joel
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
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
June 1, 1961 — “Stranger in a Strange Land” is published
One of the most famous science fiction novels of all time, Robert Anson Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” remains...
October 24, 2017
September 25, 1962 — Sonny Liston defeats Floyd Patterson
Charles L. ‘Sonny’ Liston pushed hard to get his shot at the title. He was a kid from the wrong...
September 19, 2017
June 21, 1963 — Giovani Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
Cardinal Montini of Milan has been considered by some as a potential papal candidate in 1958, but as a non-member...
August 9, 2017
November 22, 1963 — U.S. President John F Kennedy is assassinated
One of the defining events of its era, the assassination of President Kennedy remains a remarkably controversial one, even today....
July 24, 2017
July 21, 1969 — Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the Moon
Really, what needs to be said? Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins took off from the Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Canaveral,...
November 29, 2016
August 15, 1969 — Woodstock
Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition”,...
November 14, 2016
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