WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – May 5
1862 – Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1891 – Carnegie Hall opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor.
1956 – Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. His debut album also went to No.1.
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1963 – On a recommendation by George Harrison, Dick Rowe Head of A&R at Decca records, (and the man who turned down The Beatles), went to see The Rolling Stones play at Crawdaddy Club, London. The band were signed to the label within a week.
WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – April 16
1789 – George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1867 – Co-father of flight, and presumed drawer of the short straw, Wilbur Wright, born in Millville, Indiana.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
1889 – Silent film legend, Hollywood pioneer, co-founder of United Artists studio, actor, director, writer and producer, Charlie Chaplin is born in Walworth, London, England.
1915 – The ‘Chicago Automatic Machine & Tool Company’ invents and obtains the patent on the first patented jukebox.
1922 – Annie Oakley sets women’s record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1929 – New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order
Town of Olds Press Release - April 12th: On Sunday, April 11th, 2021 at approximately 09:33hrs the Olds Fire Department was dispatched to a report of unknown chemicals abandoned on the side of a rural road North of Olds on Range Road 14 in rural Mountain View County. Olds Fire arrived to find several containers with va. Galen Hartviksen
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