Video: 'The Beatles - Got to Get You into My Life (Anthology 2 Disc 1)' (take 5)
(Thursday, April 7, 1966, 8:15 p.m.-1:30 a.m. BST) — The English rock band The Beatles resumed production their seventh studio album Revolver this evening at EMI Studio 3 in London, recording the first five takes of Paul McCartney’s “Got to Get You into My Life.”
Video: '1966 Palomares B-52 crash'
(Thursday, April 7, 1966; during the Cold War) — After an 80-day operation, the U.S. Navy today finally recovered the hydrogen bomb that the U.S. Air Force had lost off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea following a B-52 crash.
After being raised from the sea by a winch, the bomb was loaded onto the rescue ship USS Petrel for shipment back to the United States.
Video: ‘William R. King Top # 5 Facts’
(Friday, April 7, 1786) — William R. King, the 13th Vice President of the United States, was born today in Sampson County, North Carolina.
The future U.S. Senator from Alabama would briefly serve as vice president under President Franklin Pierce, a Democrat, from March 4, 1853 until his death of tuberculosis only 45 days later.
Video: 'The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Anthology 2 Disc 1)' (take 1)
(Wednesday, April 6, 1966, 8:00 p.m.-1:15 a.m. BST) — The English rock band The Beatles began recording their seventh studio album Revolver this evening at EMI Studio 3 in London, tracking the first three takes of John Lennon’s “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
Video: 'Elvis Presley Blue Suede Shoes Screen Test Paramount Studios 1956'
(Friday, April 6, 1956) — Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract today just a few days after his first screen test.
Video: 'Olympic Games, Athens, 1896'
(Easter Monday, April 6, 1896) — The opening ceremonies of the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first modern Olympic Games, were held today in Athens as King George I of Greece and a crowd of 80,000 spectators welcomed 241 athletes from 14 nations to the international competition (which continued through Apr. 15, 1896).
Video: 'The Secret History: Howard Hughes, Bizarre Billionaire'
(Monday, April 5, 1976, 1:27 p.m. CST) — American business tycoon, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, filmmaker and philanthropist Howard Hughes, 70, died today of kidney failure on board an aircraft en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas (other accounts indicate that he died in the flight from Freeport, Grand Bahama, to Houston).
(Saturday, April 5, 1986) — “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” by John Cougar Mellencamp peaked at #2 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
(Saturday, April 5, 1986) — “Calling America” by Electric Light Orchestra peaked at #18 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
(Monday, April 5, 1976) — During an outdoor demonstration against court-ordered school busing in Boston, a white teenager swung a pole holding an American flag at a black attorney in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph now known as The Soiling of Old Glory, taken by Stanley Forman of the Boston Herald American.
