Back in Time – This Day in History – April 3

1933: Everest

By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com

1043: Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1367: Henry IV is born in Bolingbroke Castle, Lincs.

1721: Robert Walpole becomes Britain’s 1st Lord of the Treasury – effectively Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used.

1860: The legendary Pony Express began carrying mail between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. (The delivery system lasted only 18 months before giving way to the transcontinental telegraph.)

1865: As the Civil War drew to a close, Richmond, Va., and nearby Petersburg surrendered to Union forces.

1882: Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Missouri, by Robert Ford, a former gang member who hoped to collect the reward on James' head.

1913: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years in jail.

1920: Author F Scott Fitzgerald marries novelist Zelda Sayre in New York.

1922: Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Lenin.

1924: Born on this day: American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist Doris Day. She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart and sang two songs in the film, 'Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be), which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and 'We'll Love Again'. She died on 13 May 2019 age 97.

1933: First airplane flight over Mt Everest:

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1936: Richard Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for killing the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh.

1941: Churchill warns Stalin that a German invasion of Russia is imminent.

1942: During World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered six days later; the capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March.

1944: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Smith v. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white voters to participate in Democratic primaries.

1948: President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan, designed to help European allies rebuild after World War II and resist communism.

1951: Film star Doris Day marries producer Martin Melcher in Burbank, California.

1956: Elvis Presley appeared on ABC-TV's 'The Milton Berle Show' live from the flight deck of the USS Hancock in San Diego, California. He performed 'Heartbreak Hotel', 'Shake Rattle And Roll' and 'Blue Suede Shoes.' It was estimated that one out of every four Americans saw the show.

1957: Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” premieres in London.

1958: Fidel Castro’s rebels attack Havana.

1960: During recording sessions at RCA studios in Nashville, Tennessee, Elvis Presley recorded ‘It's Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’.

1961: The Marcels started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Rodgers and Heart song 'Blue Moon', also a No.1 in the UK.

1964: The US and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations.

1965: The United States launched the SNAP-10A nuclear power system into Earth orbit; it was the first nuclear reactor sent into space.

1965: US TOP 20 : Singles chart:

1. The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love

2. Herman's Hermits - Can't You Hear My Heartbeat

3. Freddie And The Dreamers - I'm Telling You Now

4. Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun

5. Jewel Akens - The Birds And The Bees

6. Roger Miller - King Of The Road

7. The Beatles - Eight Days A Week

8. Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

9. Martha & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

10. Vic Dana - Red Roses For A Blue Lady

11. Gerry And The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey

12. The Temptations - My Girl

13. The Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance?

14. Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - Red Roses For A Blue Lady

15. The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

16. Bobby Goldsboro - Little Things

17. Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders - Game Of Love

18. The Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You

19. The Moody Blues - Go Now!

20. Bobby Vinton - Long Lonely Nights

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1966: UK TOP 20: Album chart:

1. Original Soundtrack - The Sound Of Music

2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul

3. Walker Brothers - Take It Easy

4. Original Soundtrack - Mary Poppins

5. Bert Kaempfert - Bye Bye Blues

6. Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - Going Places

7. The Beach Boys - Beach Boys Party

8. Otis Redding - Otis Blue

9. Spencer Davis Group - The 2Nd Lp

10. Barbra Streisand - My Name Is Barbra Two

11. Andy Williams - May Each Day

12. Tony Bennett - A String Of Tony's Hits

13. Roy Orbison - The Roy Orbison Way

14. Frank Sinatra - A Man And His Music

15. Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina

16. Seekers - A World Of Our Own

17. The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn

18. The Beatles - Help!

19. Various Artists - Solid Gold Soul

20. Andy Williams - Almost There

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1968: North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.

1973: The first mobile phone call is made in Manhattan by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey.

1974: Deadly tornadoes began hitting wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; more than 300 fatalities resulted from what became known as the Super Outbreak.

1975: Bobby Fischer is stripped of the world chess title for refusing to defend it.

1976: Brotherhood of Man win the Eurovision Song Contest in The Hague with “Save Your Kisses For Me.”

1979: Kate Bush kicked off her 28-date ‘Tour Of Life’ trek making her concert debut at Liverpool’s Empire Theatre.

1981: Race riots break out in Brixton.

1982: The UN Security Council demands Argentina withdraw from the Falkland Islands.

1987: The Duchess of Windsor’s jewels are auctioned for £31,380,197.

1988: The Traveling Wilburys record "Handle With Care" in Malibu, Florida. The Quintet is comprised of Nelson (George Harrison), Lucky (Bob Dylan), Otis (Jeff Lynn), Charlie (Tom Petty) and Lefty (Roy Orbison).

1989: Richard M. Daley was elected mayor of Chicago, the post his father, Richard J. Daley, had occupied for 21 years (1955-76). The new Mayor Daley was re-elected five times.

1990: American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan died of lung cancer. She had the 1954 US No.6 single 'Make Yourself Comfortable' and released over 50 albums. March 27, is "Sarah Lois Vaughan Day" in both San Francisco and Berkeley, California in honour of the singer.

1991: The U.N. Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.

1993: Ray Charles became the first performer to have hits on Billboard's charts in five different decades when his version of Leon Russell's "A Song For You" entered the R&B singles chart.

1993: 10 years after its first release, The Bluebells had a UK No.1 single with 'Young At Heart' after the track was featured on a Volkswagen TV commercial. The song was co-written by Bananarama member Siobhan Fahey. (and recorded by Bananarama). In 2002 session musician Bobby Valentino, who performed the violin solo on The Bluebells version of the song won the right to be recognised as co-author after taking legal action.

1995: Owners and players of Major League Baseball approved an agreement ending a 232-day strike that forced the cancellation of hundreds of games and the 1994 World Series.

1996: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 32 other Americans died when their plane crashed into a mountain in Croatia.

1996: The FBI raided a Montana cabin and arrested Theodore Kaczynski, a former college professor, accusing him of being the "Unabomber" whose mail bombs had killed three people and injured 23 since the 1970s. Kaczynski was sentenced to life in prison.

1999: English composer Lionel Bart died from cancer aged 69. Wrote 'Living Doll' for Cliff Richard, 'Little White Bull' for Tommy Steele, composed the musical, 'Oliver' And wrote the theme song for the 1963 James Bond film From Russia With Love.

2000: The Department of Justice ruled that Microsoft had become a monopoly and in the process, had violated U.S. antitrust law. Four months later the court ordered the breakup of the technology company.

2003: Atlantic magazine editor Michael Kelly, 46, became the first American journalist to be killed while covering the Iraq war.

2003: Stax records songwriter Homer Banks died aged 61.

2004: Islamic terrorists involved in the March 11 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

2007: Keith Richards denies saying he smoked his father’s ashes in an interview with New Musical Express.

2009: Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

2010: Apple released the first generation of its iPad and within a month had sold more than 1 million devices.

2010: Matt Smith’s first appearance as Doctor Who.

2014: Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells was put to death in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ demand that the state release information about where it had gotten its lethal injection drug. David Letterman announced during a taping of the “Late Show” on CBS that he was retiring as host in 2015 (Stephen Colbert was named as his replacement a week later).

2016: The so-called Panama Papers, an unprecedented leak of millions of documents, revealed that politicians, prominent world leaders, and celebrities hid millions in secret offshore tax shelters to skirt tax laws.

2017: A divided Senate Judiciary Committee panel voted 11-9 along party lines to favorably recommend Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to the full Senate. North Carolina scored the last eight points for a 71-65 win over Gonzaga and an NCAA title.

2019: San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich was ejected after a record-setting 63 seconds into a loss against the Denver Nuggets.

BIRTHDAYS: 

Dame Jane Goodall, anthropologist, 87; 

Jeff Barry, songwriter, 83; 

Tony Orlando (Michael Cassavitis), singer (Dawn) 77; 

Richard Thompson, guitarist/songwriter,72; 

Alec Baldwin, actor, 63; 

David Hyde Pierce, actor, 62; 

Eddie Murphy, comedian, 60; 

Simon Raymonde, bassist (The Cocteau Twins) 59; 

Nigel Farage, activist, 57; 

Sebastian Bach, singer (Skid Row) 53; 

Jamie Hewlett, artist (Gorillaz) 53; 

Matthew Priest, drummer (Dodgy) 50; 

Adam Scott, actor/comedian 48; 

Will Mellor, actor, 45; 

Matthew Goode, actor, 43; 

Cobie (Jacoba) Smulders, actress, 39; 

Ben Foster, goalkeeper, 38; 

Leona Lewis, singer, 36; 

Coleen Rooney, 35; 

Rachel Bloom, actress/writer, 34; 

Tim Krul, goalkeeper, 33; 

Gabriel Jesus, footballer, 24; 

Paris Jackson, model, 23.