B-Days: English King Henry II Plantagenet,
Joachim Murat, Gudson Borglum, David Lean, Gloria Steinem is 82, Mary
Flannery-O’Connor, Arturo Toscanini, Aretha Franklin, Bela Bartok', Howard
Cosell, Bonnie Bedelia, Anita Bryant, Simone Signoret, Elton John is 68, Sarah
Jessica Parker is 51.
1954- RCA began mass production and
marketing of color television sets. At the time the set cost as much as an
automobile -$1,000, 12 inch screen and
there was very little programming in color.
1955- US Customs seize a shipment of 258
copies Alan Ginsburg’s poem Howl printed in the UK on the grounds it was
obscene." I saw some of the finest minds of my generation destroyed by
madness." Next year when Lawrence Ferlinghetti of San Francisco’s City
Lights Bookstore printed the poem he was arrested.
1960- Thirty five years after it was
written and published in Europe an American judge rules that D.H. Lawrence's
novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover" was not pornography and could finally be
sold in the U.S. Whaddaya think of that, John-Thomas?
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls
& butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today"
album, It was later pulled.
1967 -The Who & Cream make their US
debut at Murray the K's Easter Show.
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono began their
week-long "love-in" for peace in the bed of Room 902 of the Hilton
Hotel, Amsterdam.
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