BS: 50 Years Ago...Today?

Subject: BS: 50 Years Ago...Today?
From: pdq
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 03:34 PM

This could be a bit of fun. And interesting.

Each day post what happened or what you remember from this date in 1964, a very interesting year.


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Thursday, April 16, 1964 — The Rolling Stones' first album, eponymously titled The Rolling Stones was released in the United Kingdom today by Decca Records (a slightly different version debuted in the United States a month and a-half later).

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 04:30 PM

Geez but that makes me feel old.

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From: pdq
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 04:51 PM

I don't believe anyone has to remember what happened personally, or even be alive at the time. Just know something intersesting that happened.

I don't remember this, but...



April 16, 1964 -- Nine men were each sentenced to 25-30 years in prison for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery."

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From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 07:04 PM

Phil Collins was one of them right?

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From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 07:45 PM

From the Ledger-Enquirer [April 16, 1964]

McNamara Denies Viet Nam Coverup

Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara Wednesday denied an Air Force sergeant's charges that U.S. casualty figures in South Viet Nam had been "covered up".

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From: Padre
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 09:51 PM

I took the physical examination for my enlistment in the armed forces of the United States of America. It was the beginning of a 26 year career.

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From: Bill D
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 11:05 PM

". Just know something intersesting that happened."....oh, indeed!


Feb 25... Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston. I know because I was in Hattiesburg, Miss., for a voting rights march, and was on the street with a group of local kids who were strongly for Liston, as opposed to that loudmouth braggart... *grin*.


Then I went back to Kansas and tried to resume my college studies. The events of 1964 made that kinda hard, and at Thanksgiving '64, I was back in Mississippi, in McComb... for a 2nd trip. I just discovered an old newspaper clipping my mother had saved, telling about it all.


Quite a year

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From: Janie
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 11:19 PM

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Mustang.

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From: Amos
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 11:38 PM

Other years of note for this date:

1943 Switzerland LSD 16th April 1943 : Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist accidentally consumes LSD-25. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations.

1944 World War II 16th April 1944 : Allied Bombers hit Budapest and Belgrade as continued attacks on enemies lines of communications and Rail Lines were carried out overnight.

1953 UK Royal Yacht Britannia 16th April 1953 : The Queen launches the Royal Yacht Britannia in at a ceremony at the Clydebank yard of John Brown and Co. The Royal Yacht had a 250 strong crew who ensure Britannia is always immaculate for its foreign trips. The Royal Yacht Britannia after travelling more than one million miles is decommissioned in 1997 and is now a tourist attraction at the port of Leith, in Edinburgh.

1963 U.S.A. Birmingham, Alabama 16th April 1963 : Police break up walk to city hall to register to vote in Birmingham Alabama and arrested the first 15 Negroes in the walk to the county courthouse





1964 UK The Rolling Stones 16th April 1964 : "The Rolling Stones band's debut album, "The Rolling Stones" issued in the US as "England's Newest Hit Makers" was released. The band consisted of Jagger, Jones, Richards, Wyman, and Watts.


1970 Northern Ireland Reverend Ian Paisley 16th April 1970 : The Protestant hard liner the Reverend Ian Paisley has won a seat in parliament. The Reverend Ian Paisley is opposed any form of power sharing in Northern Ireland.

1972 U.S.A. Apollo 16 16th April 1972 : NASA launched the Apollo 16 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida

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From: Janie
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 12:36 AM

Apparently 4/16/64 was the official sneak preview of the Mustang. 4/17 was the official launch.

April 17, 1964. Ist woman completes a fsoko flight around the world. Cool!

The Flying Housewife
On April 17, 1964, Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, an unassuming
housewife from Columbus, Ohio, did what no other women had
ever done – completed a solo flight around the world. Mock made
the 23,103-mile flight in 29 days 11 hours 59 minutes, landing at
Port Columbus Airport, Ohio. Ev
en more astounding, this petite
pilot, the mother of a 17-, 16-, a
nd 4-year, undertook the flight in a
1953 Cessna 180 single-engine monoplane called the
Spirit of
Columbus

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 03:22 AM

I can't remember a thing, mind you they say if you can remember it..........you weren't really there.

Dave H

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From: Lighter
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 08:14 AM

How could I forget Apr. 17, 1964?

It was a day like any other.

Except I had more energy.

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From: Musket
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 08:18 AM

Fuck me! You mean my teddy bear isn't a real bear? But he taught me to walk and manipulate grown ups to be at my beck and call!

From now, life cannot be taken at face value.

Musket
17.04.64

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From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 12:20 PM

I was in my forty-first year and trying to act younger; however I disliked the Rolling Stones and other purveyors of that kind of noise.

The Wietnam War- idiocy!

I thought about buying a Mustang.

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From: Bill D
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 12:24 PM

re: the Mustang

When in McComb, Miss in Nov. '64, I noticed an interesting thing while members of SNCC were showing us around. Several times I saw new Mustang convertibles 'cruising' with 3-4 white girls in them. I asked one guy if I was imagining it.

He said, "No... but what day is it?" I said..."Ummm.. it's Saturday." He said, "Yep... all their boyfriends are 'busy' sowing "wild oats" over on the other side of town. Tomorrow..(Sunday) they will be in church with their girlfriends... but this is the South, and the girls have to maintain a good reputation."
Remember... the Pill was only a couple years old in 1964, and very few 'good' white girls in Mississippi had adopted it.

Oh, '64 was a very educational year!

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 04:57 PM

Slightly astray but Google is telling me that the Peak District National Park was created on this day 63 years ago. The first in Britain and my earliest stomping ground. As well as the inspiration for many songs :-)

Cheers

DtG

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From: Joe_F
Date: 17 Apr 14 - 08:56 PM

On 17 April 1964 I was staying with friends in Pasadena, CA, having flunked out of Caltech in January & made a circuit of the country, and was preparing to move to Long Island and take up a job at The Physical Review. My calendar for the day says:
Have movers come / Call 9-19 a.m. / Wait 1-2 p.m. / Fred Klages
Dinner at Webb;s, 5:30
Pick up ticket

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From: frogprince
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 07:12 PM

I was in boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, taking one kind of crap or another from the company commander

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From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 07:30 PM

The 'Liverpool Sound' was at it's height and I remember a pop programme called Ready Steady Go. Although shown only in black and white for me it was the best televised popular music program that has ever been shown in the UK. Unlike Top of the Pops it went out live which made it even more interesting and exciting to me as a child beginning to take notice of the current music of that time.

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From: pdq
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 07:37 PM

The Beatles do a show sharing the billing with Frank Ifield.

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From: Janie
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 08:36 PM

Now I gotta go google Frank Ifield.

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From: Janie
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 08:45 PM

Now have to take a listen down the "top 40" play list. Salivated just having my memory from age 12 being jogged by the list.

Good thread, pdq!

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From: Janie
Date: 18 Apr 14 - 09:05 PM

TV show Hootenany from Purdue University. New Christy Minstrels, Bob Carely, Lidia & Brooks and Homer & Jethro. Saturday night at that day and age, I was probably watching with the whole family after supper.

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From: pdq
Date: 19 Apr 14 - 09:10 AM

"On this day in 1964, Mario Andretti competes in his inaugural Indy car race, in Trenton, New Jersey, finishing in 11th place. The following year, Andretti won the first of his four Indy car championships (also referred to as the U.S. National Championship) and was named Rookie of the Year at the prestigious Indianapolis 500, where he came in third. Andretti went on to become an icon in the world of motorsports. He is the only man to win the Formula One World Championship, the U.S. National Championship (1965, 1966, 1969, 1984), the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500, the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring (1967, 1970, 1972) and the Pikes Peak International Hill Club."

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From: Musket
Date: 19 Apr 14 - 09:37 AM

Talking of Frank Ifield and trying to drag it back to folk music. I once booked Dave Swarbrick and his band Whippersnapper back in the '80s when I was trusted with arts money for folk acts at a council owned theatre.

As the theatre was filling, I saw Dave peering through the curtains from the stage. He said it wasn't very full. I told him to wait, we had sold almost a sell out and we knew some were coming on the night.

Anyway, I said. I heard they had Frank Ifield last week here and only sold 50 odd tickets.

He said, "I remember you..... And you, and you and possibly you too..."

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Apr 14 - 01:18 PM

Frank Ifield was pretty folky. He taught me how to modal.

Shall I get my coat now or pick it up later?

:D tG

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From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 14 - 01:26 PM

He was a modal folker?

(grabbing both our coats for safety)

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From: GUEST,bubblyrat
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 06:41 AM

April 20th 1964

       I was under training to be a Junior Electrical Mechanic (Air) at a Royal Naval Air Station ( HMS Ariel ) at Lee-On-Solent in Hampshire . The food was DREADFUL !!

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From: Leadbelly
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 04:05 PM

Presumably, I woke up in the morning with a girl next by.

Like today. But this time it's my cat Schnuckie.

The times they are a-changing...

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From: Janie
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 04:12 PM

*grin*

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From: Leadbelly
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 04:50 PM

Not bad for a german,isn't it Janie?

Some of them still have some humour. Even more than british people are aware of.

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From: Janie
Date: 20 Apr 14 - 07:08 PM

50 years ago today would have been 3 Sundays after Easter Sunday. In my family, at that time, on the first Easter after turning age 12, you were considered ready to shave your legs, wear a straight skirt and stockings, and have your first pair of heels, no more than 1 1/2 inches high. I'm fairly certain I went to church, 50 years ago today, just so I could again don what a few weeks ago was my Easter outfit and now Sunday Best straight skirt, stockings and heels.    Probably kept them on all day, prissing around the house and taking many walks in the neighborhood to show how grown up I was. Surely annoyed the piss out of everyone unfortunate enough to come in contact with me.

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From: Pete Jennings
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 05:51 AM

50 years ago today (April 21st) was a Tuesday. And I became 12 years old.

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From: Janie
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 06:01 AM

Happy Birthday!

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From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 08:15 AM

It was 20 years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught his band to play.

DtG

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 09:49 AM

Play School started on BBC 2 - Toni Arthur on Radio 4 today talking about it

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From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 11:18 AM

Then and now.

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From: Janie
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 06:14 AM

50 years ago today the World's Fair opened in Queens, NY. Did anyone posting here go? If so, what was it like?

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From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 06:50 AM

All this discussion about Frank Ifield, can't wait to pass over: the sessions up in heaven must be something!

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From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Apr 14 - 08:47 PM

Janie: I had recently moved to Long Island & went with a friend. Like many people, I mainly remember the Belgian waffles.

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From: Musket
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 04:34 AM

I used to work with a Belgian who tended to waffle.

True, for what it's worth..

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From: pdq
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 05:38 AM

"Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0."

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From: pdq
Date: 02 May 14 - 12:11 PM

This day 50 years ago, there were major demonstrations in New York and San Francisco against the Vietnam War.

These were the first.

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From: pdq
Date: 07 May 14 - 12:58 PM

"Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed at 6:49 a.m. on May 7, 1964, near San Ramon, California, USA. The crash was probably the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a mass murder/suicide. Francisco Paula Gonzales, 27, shot both the pilot and co-pilot before turning the gun on himself, causing the plane to crash and killing all 44 aboard.

A former member of the Philippine sailing team at the 1960 Summer Olympics, Gonzales, a warehouse worker living in San Francisco, had been "disturbed and depressed" over marital and financial difficulties in the months preceding the crash. Gonzales was deeply in debt and nearly half of his income was committed to various loan payments, and he had advised both relatives and friends that he "would die on either Wednesday, the 6th of May, or Thursday, the 7th of May." In the week preceding the crash, Gonzales referred to his impending death on a daily basis, and purchased a Smith & Wesson Model 27 revolver through a friend of a friend, with serial number S201645. The evening before the crash, before boarding a flight to Reno, Nevada, he had shown the gun to numerous friends at the airport and told one person that he intended to shoot himself. Gonzales gambled in Reno the night before the fatal flight and told a casino employee that he didn't care how much he lost because "it won't make any difference after tomorrow.""