WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – May 5
1862 – Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1891 – Carnegie Hall opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor.
1956 – Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. His debut album also went to No.1.
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1963 – On a recommendation by George Harrison, Dick Rowe Head of A&R at Decca records, (and the man who turned down The Beatles), went to see The Rolling Stones play at Crawdaddy Club, London. The band were signed to the label within a week.
1965 – Alan Price announces he’s gotta get out of this place so, he is leaving the Animals at the peak of their popularity. He is replaced by Dave Rowberry.
1969 – Stevie Wonder meets President Nixon at the White House.
1973 – At Tampa Stadium in Florida, 56,800 Led Zeppelin fans see Led Zeppelin. The band grosses $309,000. At the time the show set a record for the largest paying crowd at an American rock concert.
1973 – Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in 1:592⁄5, a record that stands unbeaten today
1983 – DCEU Superman, Henry Cavill was born in Jersey, England
1986 – Ahmet Ertegun announces that Cleveland will be the site of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1990 – A tribute concert to John Lennon organized by his widow Yoko Ono draws less than one-third of the expected 45,000 fans in Liverpool, England.
1995 – Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler was arrested on a felony count of possession of heroin, as well as two misdemeanour drug charges.
1997 – “Married With Children” final episode on Fox TV
2002 – Two disc jockeys from Denver’s KRFX-FM, Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax, stopped a live radio interview with Detroit rocker Ted Nugent after he used derogatory racial terms for Asians and Blacks. The station received dozens of complaints.
And the Top 10 Singles chart on this day in 1976 looked like this…
1 – WELCOME BACK – John Sebastian
2 – RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM – Maxine Nightingale
3 – BOOGIE FEVER – The Sylvers
4 – FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE – Elvin Bishop
5 – SILLY LOVE SONGS – Wings
6 – SHOW ME THE WAY – Peter Frampton
7 – LOVE HANGOVER – Diana Ross
8 – GET UP AND BOOGIE (That’s Right) – Silver Convention
9 – LET YOUR LOVE FLOW – The Bellamy Brothers
10 – DISCO LADY – Johnnie Taylor
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