Daily Archives: March 25, 2020

Ringo Starr interviewed for BBC Radio 1’s ‘Scene and Heard’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 1970)


Video: 'The Beatles Tapes - Ringo Starr Interview Pt 2 July 1970 David Wigg' (Mar. 25, 1970, at 3:26-4:58)

(Wednesday, March 25, 1970) — Ringo Starr of The Beatles was interviewed today by David Wigg at the band’s Apple headquarters in London’s Savile Row for the Mar. 29 and Apr. 5, 1970, editions of the BBC radio show Scene And Heard. Continue reading Ringo Starr interviewed for BBC Radio 1’s ‘Scene and Heard’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 1970)

Arsonist torches 87 people in horrific Happy Land fire 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 1990)


Video: 'Happy Land Social Club fire in Bronx WABC 3/25/90'

(Sunday, March 25, 1990, 3:30 a.m. EST; during the Happy Land fire) — 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed early this morning when a deliberately set fire raced through an illegal overcrowded social club, the Happy Land, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Continue reading Arsonist torches 87 people in horrific Happy Land fire 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 1990)