Daily Archives: March 2, 2015

‘Sugar Walls’ by Sheena Easton peaks at #9 in USA 30 years ago today (Mar 2 1985)

(Saturday, March 2, 1985) — “Sugar Walls” by Sheena Easton peaked at #9 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.

(Saturday, March 2, 1985) — “The Old Man Down the Road” by John Fogerty peaked at #10 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.

Video: 'The Sound of Music' (trailer)

(Tuesday, March 2, 1965) — The Sound of Music, the movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical about a who woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower, premiered today at New York’s Rivoli Theater. Continue reading ‘The Sound of Music’ premieres in New York 50 years ago today (Mar 2 1965) →

Video: 'Popular Claudette Colvin Videos'

(Wednesday, March 2, 1955; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Nine months before Rosa Parks’ famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old black high school student in Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested today after refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger.

Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Mar. 2, 1965, at 28:50)

(Tuesday, March 2, 1965, 3:45 p.m. ICT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Operation Rolling Thunder, a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign, began today as more than 100 U.S. jet aircraft bombed a North Vietnamese munitions depot and also provided air cover for 60 South Vietnamese bombers striking at a Communist naval base. Continue reading Operation Rolling Thunder against North Vietnam begins 50 years ago this hour (Mar 2 1965) →