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‘Disco Duck’ by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots peaks at #1 in USA 50 years ago today (Oct 16 1976)
(Saturday, October 16, 1976) — “Disco Duck” by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘Disco Duck’ by Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots peaks at #1 in USA 50 years ago today (Oct 16 1976)
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‘Ringo’s Rotogravure’ studio album by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr debuts at #57 in USA 50 years ago today (Oct 16 1976)
Video: 'Ringo's Rotogravure' (11 clips)
(Saturday, October 16, 1976) — Ringo’s Rotogravure, the fifth studio album by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, debuted at #57 on today’s Billboard 200 albums chart for two consecutive weeks. Continue reading ‘Ringo’s Rotogravure’ studio album by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr debuts at #57 in USA 50 years ago today (Oct 16 1976)
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Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic 110 years ago today (Oct 16 1916)
Video: 'Margaret Sanger - Mini Biography'
(Monday, October 16, 1916, morning EST) — Planned Parenthood had its beginnings today as Margaret Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in the Brownsville section of the New York borough of Brooklyn. Continue reading Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth control clinic 110 years ago today (Oct 16 1916)
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William T.G. Morton demonstrates surgical anesthesia 180 years ago this hour (Oct 16 1846)
Video: 'William T.G. Morton Biography'
(Friday, October 16, 1846, 10:00 a.m. local time) — Dentist William T. G. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether as an anesthetic today by administering it to a patient undergoing jaw surgery before an audience of doctors at the operating theater of the Massachusetts General Hospital, or MGH. Continue reading William T.G. Morton demonstrates surgical anesthesia 180 years ago this hour (Oct 16 1846)
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Mondale, Dole hold first vice presidential debate 50 years ago this hour (Oct 15 1976)
Video: 'Dole vs. Mondale: The 1976 vice presidential debate'
(Friday, October 15, 1976, 9:30-11:00 p.m. EDT; during the United States presidential election, 1976) — Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole met tonight at the Alley Theater in Houston, Texas, in a sporadically acrimonious debate, the first ever between vice-presidential nominees, and argued whether Republican fiscal prudence or Democratic social programs would best serve the nation’s economy.
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10 high-ranking Nazi officials executed by hanging for World War II war crimes 80 years ago this hour (Oct 16 1946)
Video: 'Post-Nuremburg Executions and Hermann Goering's Suicide (1946)'
(Wednesday, October 16, 1946, times of death ranged from 1:30-2:59 a.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — One by one, ten remaining Nazi war criminals on death row were hanged this morning in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises. Continue reading 10 high-ranking Nazi officials executed by hanging for World War II war crimes 80 years ago this hour (Oct 16 1946)
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Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring cheats hangman’s noose by poisoning himself 80 years ago this hour (Oct 15 1946)
Video: 'The suicide of Hermann Göring'
(Tuesday, October 15, 1946, 10:44 p.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring, the second-most powerful man in Hitler’s Germany, took his own life with a potassium cyanide capsule tonight in his prison cell in Nuremberg, just hours before he and ten other former high Nazi officials were to have been executed. Continue reading Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring cheats hangman’s noose by poisoning himself 80 years ago this hour (Oct 15 1946)
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McCartney, Wings finish sweetening sessions for ‘Wings Over America’ live triple album 50 years ago today (Oct 15 1976)
Video: 'Wings Over America' (28 videos)
(Friday, October 15, 1976) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his British-American band, Wings, today wrapped up two weeks of work preparing a three-record live album drawn from their recent North American tour, with the record set scheduled for mixing between Nov. 1-20, 1976, and release on Dec. 10, 1976. Continue reading McCartney, Wings finish sweetening sessions for ‘Wings Over America’ live triple album 50 years ago today (Oct 15 1976)
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Black Panther Party founded in Oakland 60 years ago today (Oct 15 1966)
Video: 'The Black Panther Party Documentary'
(Saturday, October 15, 1966) — The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was founded today in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Continue reading Black Panther Party founded in Oakland 60 years ago today (Oct 15 1966)
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs bill creating U.S. Department of Transportation 60 years ago this hour (Oct 15 1966)
(Saturday, October 15, 1966, 1:17 p.m. EDT) — President Lyndon B. Johnson signed today a bill creating the country’s 12th Cabinet unit, the United States Department of Transportation.
