Back in Time – This Day in History – April 13
2009: Phil Spector
By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com
1250: The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt and Louis IX of France is captured.
1517: The Ottoman army occupies Cairo.
1570: Birth of Guy Fawkes.
1598: King Henry IV of France endorsed the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to the Protestant Huguenots. (The edict was abrogated in 1685 by King Louis XIV, who declared France entirely Catholic again.)
1668: John Dryden is appointed the first Poet Laureate by Charles I.
1742: Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” is performed for the first time at New Music Hall, Dublin.
1743: Birth of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the US.
1796: Napoleon’s forces defeat allied armies of Austria and of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont at the Battle of Millesimo.
1796: The first elephant brought to the U.S. arrived at New York City from Bengal, India. She was exhibited by Jacob Crowninshield at the corner of Beaver Street and Broadway. The elephant was two years old and 6-1/2 feet high, and had behaviour described as, "It eats thirty pounds of rice besides hay and straw - drinks all kinds of wine and spiritous liquors, and eats every kind of vegetable; it will also draw a cork from a bottle in its trunk."
1861: After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to the Confederates in the American Civil War.
1865: Raleigh, North Carolina, is captured by Union forces in the American Civil War.
1866: Birth of outlaw Butch Cassidy (Robert Leroy Parker) in Utah.
1868: The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide.
1873: A mob of former Confederate soldiers and Ku Klux Klan members killed dozens of Black militia men occupying the Grant Parish, La., courthouse after a contested gubernatorial election. The deadly confrontation came to be known as the Colfax massacre.
1906: Birth of novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett in Ireland.
1917: American business tycoon James “Diamond Jim” Brady, known for his jewelry collection as well as his hearty appetite, died in Atlantic City, New Jersey at age 60.
1919: British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350.
1928: The first transatlantic flight from Europe to the US.
1932: Democrats at a Jefferson Day luncheon accused the Hoover administration of wrecking the economy, plunging millions into misery and engulfing the government in debt due to extravagance.
1936: Luton Town’s Joe Payne scores 10 of the goals in a 12-0 Division 3 (South) game against Bristol Rovers – the most goals any player has scored in a League match.
1939: The Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. on the 200th anniversary of the third American president’s birth.
1945: The Red Army occupies Vienna. On the same day, Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberates the Dutch town of Zwolle by fooling the Germans into thinking a raid had begun.
1949: Philip S Hench announces discovery of cortisone to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
1954: Physicist and father of the atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer is accused of being a communist by Senator Joe McCarthy.
1956: Elvis performed at the Municipal Auditorium, in Amarillo, Texas at 7:00p.m. and again at 9:00p.m. (From EP Fans of Nashville@EPNashvilleFans)
1958: Van Cliburn of the United States won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition for piano in Moscow; Russian Valery Klimov won the violin competition.
1962: The Beatles, with Pete Best still on drums, make their third trip to Germany for a 48-night residency at The Star Club, Hamburg.
1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first black person to win the best actor Oscar for his role in the film Lilies Of The Field. On the same day, Ian Smith becomes Prime Minister of Rhodesia.
1965: The Beatles record the John Lennon song Help! during an evening recording session at EMI Studios, Abbey Road.
1967: Nancy and Frank Sinatra were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Somethin' Stupid', (making them the only father and daughter to have a UK No.1 single as a team). The song was written by folk singer C. Carson Parks and originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as "Carson and Gaile". Robbie Williams recorded the song as a duet in 2001 with actress Nicole Kidman which went on to top the UK charts.
1968: Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" hits #1 in the US, where it stays for five weeks. A love-it-or-hate-it song, it tells the story of a man whose wife dies and is reminded of her every time he looks at the tree she planted.
US TOP 20 : Singles chart:
1. Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
2. The Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett - Young Girl
3. Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
4. The Box Tops - Cry Like A Baby
5. Aretha Franklin - (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
6. The Beatles - Lady Madonna
7. Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde
8. The Delfonics - La - La - Means I Love You
9. The Monkees - Valleri
10. Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)
11. James Brown And The Famous Flames - I Got The Feelin'
12. Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'amour Est Bleu)
13. Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair (/Canticle)
14. Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
15. 1910 Fruitgum Co. - Simon Says
16. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - If You Can Want
17. Gene And Debbe - Playboy
18. The Intruders - Cowboys To Girls
19. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues
20. Petula Clark - Kiss Me Goodbye
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1970: Apollo 13 announces “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here”, as an oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon.
1972: The first Major League Baseball strike ended, eight days after it began.
1973: The Who's lead singer, Roger Daltrey, releases his first solo album, Daltrey.
1974: Paul McCartney's Band On The Run went to No.1 on the US album charts. McCartney's third US No.1, went on to sell over 6 million copies world-wide. It's commercial performance was aided by two hit singles 'Jet' and 'Band on the Run'.
1975: A woman becomes the sixth victim of a serial rapist operating in Cambridge.
1980: Seve Ballesteros wins his first US Masters. The musical Grease closes on Broadway after a record 3,883 performances.
UK TOP 20: Album chart:
1. Rose Royce - Greatest Hits - Rose Royce
2. Genesis - Duke
3. Status Quo - 12 Gold Bars
4. Judas Priest - British Steel
5. Saxon - Wheels Of Steel
6. Boney M - The Magic Of Boney M
7. Barbara Dickson - The Barbara Dickson Album
8. Sad Café - Fascades
9. Johnny Mathis - Tears And Laughter
10. The Police - Regatta De Blanc
11. Matt Monro - Heartbreakers
12. Various Artists - Star Tracks
13. Don Gibson - Country Number One
14. The Pretenders - Pretenders
15. Marti Webb - Tell Me On A Sunday
16. The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
17. Madness - One Step Beyond
18. Billy Joel - Glass Houses
19. UK Subs - Brand New Age
20. Bobby Vee - The Bobby Vee Singles Album
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1982: David Crosby is arrested when Dallas police discover him preparing cocaine backstage in his dressing room before a show.
1984: Christopher Wilder, the FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally killed himself as police moved in to arrest him in New Hampshire. Wilder was a suspect in the deaths, rapes and disappearances of 11 young women in eight states.
1986: Pope John Paul II visited the Great Synagogue of Rome in the first recorded papal visit of its kind to a Jewish house of worship.
1987: The Population Reference Bureau reported the world's population had exceeded 5 billion.
1989: At least six Palestinians are killed in an unsanctioned early morning raid by Israeli soldiers on an Arab village on the West Bank. A report the following month confirmed that troops had violated regulations.
1992: The Great Chicago Flood took place as the city’s century-old tunnel system and adjacent basements filled with water from the Chicago River. “The Bridges of Madison County,” a romance novel by Robert James Waller, was published by Warner Books.
1994: The Presidential Guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death.
1997: At age 21, Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the US Masters.
1999: Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, Michigan, to 10 to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder in the lethal injection of a Lou Gehrig’s disease patient. (Kevorkian ended up serving eight years.)
2003: The Beatles’ Apple Corp is listed as Britain’s fastest profit-growth firm with an annual profit growth of 194%.
2004: Death of TV presenter Caron Keating from cancer aged 41.
2005: A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks in back-to-back court appearances in Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta. Blues pianist Johnnie Johnson, known for his work with Chuck Berry, dies in St. Louis, Missouri, at age 80.
2006: Death of author Muriel Spark aged 88.
2009: Music producer Phil Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Los Angeles jury in his second trial for the 2003 slaying of Lana Clarkson, an actress and club hostess. He was sentenced to 19 years-to-life in prison.
2009: Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych died in an accident on his Massachusetts farm; he was 54. Harry Kalas, whose “Outta here!” home run calls thrilled Philadelphia baseball fans, died after collapsing in the broadcast booth before the Phillies’ 9-8 victory over the Nationals in Washington; he was 73.
2009: Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' was the most played song in public places in the past 75 years, according to a chart compiled for BBC Radio 2:
1. Procol Harum” - "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"
2. Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
3. The Everly Brothers - "All I Have To Do Is Dream"
4. Wet Wet Wet - "Love Is All Around"
5. Bryan Adams - ("Everything I Do) I Do It For You"
6. Robbie Williams - "Angels"
7. Elvis Presley - "All Shook Up"
8. ABBA - "Dancing Queen"
9. Perry Como - "Magic Moments"
10. Bing Crosby - "White Christmas"
2013: The Vatican announced that Pope Francis appointed eight cardinals to look into ways of reforming the Roman Catholic Church.
2014: Thirty-six people were killed when a bus slammed into a broken-down truck in Veracruz, Mexico. Bubba Watson won the Masters for the second time in three years. Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley to regain his WBO welterweight boxing title.
2015: Writer Gunter Grass dies aged 87.
2018: Death of director Milos Forman aged 86.
2020: A tornado outbreak in the U.S. Southeast killed dozens of people.
BIRTHDAYS:
Jack Casady, bassist (Jefferson Airplane) 77;
Al Green, singer, 75;
Ron Perlman, actor, 71;
Max Weinberg, drummer (The E Street Band) 70;
Jimmy Destri, keyboardist (Blondie) 67;
Alan Devonshire, footballer, 65;
Gary Kasparov, chess grandmaster, 58;
James Jordan, dancer, 43;
Claudio Bravo, goalkeeper, 38.
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