(Saturday, March 22, 1975) — “My Eyes Adored You” by Frankie Valli peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
‘Sad Sweet Dreamer’ by Sweet Sensation peaks at #14 in USA 40 years ago today (Mar 22 1975)
(Saturday, March 22, 1975) — “Sad Sweet Dreamer” by Sweet Sensation peaked at #14 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
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‘Emotion’ by Helen Reddy peaks at #22 in USA 40 years ago today (Mar 22 1975)
(Saturday, March 22, 1975) — “Emotion” by Helen Reddy peaks at #22 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
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‘The Early Beatles’ album by The Beatles released in USA 50 years ago today (Mar 22 1965)
Video: 'The Beatles-Baby It's You off of The Early Beatles vinyl'
(Monday, March 22, 1965) — The Early Beatles, the Beatles’ sixth release on Capitol Records and their eighth album for the American market, was relesed today.
The album resembles more of an early compilation because all of the tracks had previously been featured on the early 1964 Vee-Jay release Introducing… The Beatles.
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Allies secure Germany’s Rhine River 70 years ago today (Mar 22 1945)
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 19-Pincers(August 1944-March 1945)' (Mar. 22, 1945, at 50:35)
(Thursday, March 22, 1945; on the Western Front of World War II) — As of today, no German soldier was fighting west of the Rhine River along Germany’s western border.
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First regular electronic TV service begins in Germany 80 years ago today (Mar 22 1935)
Video: 'First 2 Television Broadcasts of The Third Reich Nazi Germany (1935 & 1936)'
(Friday, March 22, 1935) — The first regular electronic television service in Germany began today in Berlin, as Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk.
Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors).
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British Parliament passes unpopular Stamp Act 250 years ago today (Mar 22 1765)
Video: 'The Stamp Act of 1765'
(Friday, March 22, 1765) — The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act 1765 today to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.
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100,000 refugees crowd Da Nang by 40 years ago today (Mar 21 1975)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Mar. 21, 1975, at 29:21)
(Friday, March 21, 1975; during the The Hue–Da Nang Campaign of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 refugees, many of them troops and their families, had crowded into Da Nang by today as South Vietnam’s collapse intensified.
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Freedom march begins at Selma, troops on guard 50 years ago today (Mar 21 1965)
Video: 'Eyes on the Prize (VI) — Bridge to Freedom, 1965 [with English subtitles]' (Mar. 21, 1965, at 45:24)
(Sunday, March 21, 1965, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — Protected by federal and federalized troops, civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their successful march out of Selma today. Continue reading Freedom march begins at Selma, troops on guard 50 years ago today (Mar 21 1965)
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Tennessee bans teaching of evolution 90 years ago today (Mar 21 1925)
(Saturday, March 21, 1925) — Tennessee Gov. Austin Peay today signed the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in public schools. The law was challenged that summer by Dayton teacher John T. Scopes and the American Civil Liberties Union in what became known as the Scopes Trial.
