Daily Archives: March 19, 2016

First basketball team to start five black players in a national title game wins 50 years ago this hour (Mar 19 1966)


Video: '1966 NCAA Basketball Championship'

(Saturday, March 19, 1966, at approximately 11:30 p.m. EST); during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — The Texas Western Miners, the first basketball team to start five black players in a national title game, defeated the heavily favored all-white Kentucky Wildcats, 72-65, tonight to win the NCAA Championship played in College Park, Maryland.

‘Roll Over Beethoven/Rock And Roll Music’ episode airs on ‘The Beatles’ cartoon series 50 years ago this hour (Mar 19 1966)


Video: 'The Beatles Cartoons Episode 26'

(Saturday, March 19, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — Before returning to England, the Beatles decide to have a quick look around (for old times sake), and later, mistaken for a string quartet, the band is invited to give a performance at a party for a royal Duke on this morning’s season one finale episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.