(Saturday, January 3, 1976) — “Saturday Night” by Bay City Rollers peaks at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Daily Archives: January 3, 2016
Nazi radio propagandist ‘Lord Haw Haw’ executed 70 years ago today (Jan 3 1946)
Video: 'WILLIAM JOYCE HANGED'
(Thursday, January 3, 1946, 9:00 a.m. GMT) — William Joyce, the 39-year-old pro-Nazi radio propagandist known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was hanged today at Wandsworth Prison in south London for high treason, unrepentant and defiant to the end.
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Beatles producer George Martin born 90 years ago today (Jan 3 1926)
Video: 'The Fifth Beatle, George Martin Documentary.'
(Sunday, January 3, 1926) — British record producer, composer and musical arranger George Martin, sometimes referred to as “the Fifth Beatle” in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles’ original albums, was born today into a working-class family in Drayton Park, England.
