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March 29, 1943 –Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you’ve about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don’t just pursue happiness, catch it. Eric Idle, comedian and composer, made his first public appearance at Harton Hospital, South Shields, England on this date.

March 29, 1975 –Labelle’s song Lady Marmalade (psst, it’s about New Orleans prostitutes) hit no. #1 on this date. (Please clear a space around your desk, while watching this clip; you will immediately feel the need to shake your groove thing and might injury yourself otherwise.) The chorus of “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir”Continue reading “Lady Marmalade topped the charts”

March 29, 1959 –Billy Wilder’s film, Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, premiered on this date. When Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon first put on the female make-up and costumes, they walked around the Goldwyn Studios lot to see if they could “pass” as women. Then they tried usingContinue reading “Some Like It Hot opened”

March 28, 1999 – We get to find out how Philip J Fry came to work for his great (×30) grandnephew and great (×31) grandson, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth when Futurama premiered on the Fox Network. According to Matt Groening, viewers were able to decipher the alien language that is sometimes seen in the backgroundContinue reading “Futurama debuted”

March 28, 1974 –Writer and comedian, Pat McCormick, carrying a cocktail streaked nude across the set of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, forcing NBC censors to black out the lower half of the screen. the streaker was arrested and later released, said Carson, for “lack of evidence.”

March 28, 1967 – NBC broke new ground in television programming by using a world-premiere, feature length movie as the preview of a potential new television series called Ironside, on this date. Chief Ironside is seen as a physically able character for about a minute at the beginning of the TV film. (I’ve often wonderedContinue reading “Ironside TV movie debuted”

March 28, 1973 –Atlantic Records released the fifth studio album by Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy, on this date. The cover photo for Houses of the Holy depicts a group of unnaturally hued feral children making their way up an ancient incline of geometric stones, evoking the band’s fascination with the supernatural and scienceContinue reading “Houses of the Holy went on sale”

March 28, 1964 –The first pirate radio station began to broadcast off the coast of England on this date. Radio Caroline debuted with a combination of rock music and lively disk jockey who’s patter played to a huge audience in Great Britain. British authorities, tried unsuccessfully, to shut down the radio station ship. Radio CarolineContinue reading “Radio Caroline started airing”

March 28, 1979 –The Unit 2 nuclear power plant (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock and Wilcox) on the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg suffered a partial core meltdown on this date. The Three Mile Island accident was the worst accident in American commercial nuclear power generatingContinue reading “The Three Mile Island accident”

March 27, 1987 –U2 played a rooftop concert in Los Angeles to film their video for Where The Streets Have No Name, on this date. In 1985, Bono visited Ethiopia after performing at Live Aid. Many assumed this song is about that trip, since the streets there really don’t have names, just numbers. The songContinue reading “U2 pretend to be The Beatles for a day”