Monthly Archives: June 2011

The Beatles complete first recording sessions

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The Beatles: "Cry For A Shadow" (1961)

(Friday, June 23, 1961) — The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best), an English rock band formed in Liverpool, today completed their first professional studio recording sessions (which began yesterday, Thursday, June 22) at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg, West Germany, backing Tony Sheridan on four tracks, plus recording their own Cry For a Shadow, an instrumental written by John Lennon and George Harrison.

TV series finale: ‘Twin Peaks’

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Black Lodge sequence, part one

(Monday, June 10, 1991, 9/10 p.m. ET) — Cooper must overcome his deepest fears as he tracks down Windom Earle, who has taken the kidnapped Annie, and has taken her into the sinister realm of the Black Lodge on tonight’s final two episodes of the TV series Twin Peaks. Continue reading TV series finale: ‘Twin Peaks’

Season 4 debut: ‘Sex and the City’

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(Sunday, June 3, 2001, 9 p.m. ET) — When Carrie turns 35, all the girls reflect on how it feels like being in their thirties and still single on tonight’s episode of the TV series Sex and the City. Another new episode The Real Me immediately followed. Continue reading Season 4 debut: ‘Sex and the City’

Lou Gehrig dies of rare disease

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(Monday, June 2, 1941, 10:10 p.m ET)Lou Gehrig, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” died today at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, of a degenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He was 37.

Season 2 finale: ‘The Twilight Zone’

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"The Obsolete Man" (part one)

(Friday, June 2, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — In a future totalitarian society where books have been banned, librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is put on trial for the crime of being obsolete on tonight’s season two finale of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Season 2 finale: ‘The Twilight Zone’