Monthly Archives: December 2022

‘I’m Stone in Love with You’ by The Stylistics peaks at #10 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1972)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s

(Saturday, December 9, 1972) — “I’m Stone in Love with You” by The Stylistics peaked at #10 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks. Continue reading ‘I’m Stone in Love with You’ by The Stylistics peaks at #10 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1972) →

‘Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)’ by Jim Croce peaks at #17 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1972)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s

(Saturday, December 9, 1972) — “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)” by Jim Croce peaked at #17 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)’ by Jim Croce peaks at #17 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1972) →

Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1992)

1990s


Video: 'Announcement of Separation of Prince & Princess of Wales - December 1992'

(Wednesday, December 9, 1992, 3:30 p.m. GMT) — Buckingham Palace wrote the unhappy ending today to a storybook marriage gone badly wrong: a seven-sentence-long announcement that Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and Diana, the Princess of Wales, had agreed to separate after 11 years as husband and wife. Continue reading Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announce their separation 30 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1992) →

American radio station WJZ makes first broadcast that could be heard across the Atlantic Ocean 100 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1922)

1920s


Video: '1920s Radio Broadcasting'

(Saturday, December 9, 1922, shortly after midnight EST) — The American radio station WJZ in Newark, New Jersey, (now WABC-AM in New York City) today became the first broadcasting station confirmed to have been heard in Europe. Continue reading American radio station WJZ makes first broadcast that could be heard across the Atlantic Ocean 100 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 9 1922) →

$10,000 in apparent Watergate hush money goes down in Chicago plane crash 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1972)

1970s, Watergate


Video: 'WGN-9 1972 United Flight 553 Crash!!! Chicago Coverage.'

(Friday, December 8, 1972, 2:29 p.m. CST, during the Watergate scandal) — Dorothy Hunt, 52, a CIA employee and the wife of Watergate burglary conspirator, E. Howard Hunt, was killed this afternoon when United Airlines Flight 553 from Washington to Chicago crashed during an aborted landing and go around while approaching Chicago Midway Airport during an ice storm. Continue reading $10,000 in apparent Watergate hush money goes down in Chicago plane crash 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1972) →

‘The Lonely Bull’ by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass peaks at #6 in USA 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1962)

1960s, Popular Music 1960s

(Saturday, December 8, 1962) — “The Lonely Bull” by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass peaked at #6 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘The Lonely Bull’ by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass peaks at #6 in USA 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1962) →

‘Monsters’ Holiday’ by Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers debuts at #80 in USA 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1962)

1960s, Christmas, Popular Music 1960s

(Saturday, December 8, 1962) — “Monsters’ Holiday” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers debuted at #80 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Continue reading ‘Monsters’ Holiday’ by Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers debuts at #80 in USA 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 8 1962) →

America’s final manned mission to the moon launched as Apollo 17 blasts off from Cape Canaveral 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 7 1972)

1970s, space exploration


Video: 'Launch of Apollo 17 TV Coverage' (video begins 13:02 before lift-off)

(Thursday, December 7, 1972, 12:33:00 a.m. EST) — Delayed for more than two hours by a minor technical error, Apollo 17 vaultedfrom launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida toward the moon early this morning, propelled by a fiery rocket on was man’s last voyage to another world. Continue reading America’s final manned mission to the moon launched as Apollo 17 blasts off from Cape Canaveral 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 7 1972) →