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April 19, 1978 –The Patti Smith Group released the song Because the Night on this date. Bruce Springsteen wrote this song. He gave it to Patti Smith in 1976 because he thought it would suit her voice. He was also in a legal battle with his manager, Mike Appel, that kept him from recording forContinue reading “Because the Night went on sale”

April 18, 1955 –Nobel Prize recipient Albert Einstein died in his hospital bed from a ruptured aortic aneurysm on this date. Seven hours later, Dr. Thomas Harvey, chief pathologist at Princeton Hospital, performed Albert Einstein’s autopsy. He removed the brain and took it home. Thus began a 40 year journey of “They Stole Einstein’s Brain“.

Velociraptors are small vicious dinosaurs that usually ruin everyone’s day at your local millionaire’s amusement park. Remember large windows and doorways are Velociraptor points of entries. Mark them accordingly and avoid at all cost. Once you’ve finished locating possible velociraptor entry points within your building, you can mark those areas so that your loved onesContinue reading “It’s Velociraptor Awareness Day again.”

Once again, file this under ‘Lies my teacher told me‘:It was a tense April in Boston in 1775. The colonists were simmering with resentment toward the motherland, on account of King George III having strewn the colonies with excessive tacks, painful to step on and bothersome to the horses. Furthermore, British cabbies had refused toContinue reading “Paul Revere did something today”

April 18, 1971 –The first solo television special of Diana Ross, Diana!, premiered on ABC TV on this date. The special also featured appearances by Danny Thomas and Bill Cosby, plus performances by The Jackson 5, and also included Jackson 5 lead singer Michael Jackson’s solo debut.

April 18, 1979 –For some reason, never clearly explained by TV professionals, the George Schlatter produced weekly series profiling human interest stories, Real People, premiered on NBC TV on this date. Forms of reality television had been done in the past but Real People blended profiles of everyday citizens, comedic studio commentary and viewer interaction.Continue reading “Real People premiered”

April 18, 2004 –Eamon hits no. 1 on the Billboard Charts with F*ck It (I Don’t Want You Back), on this date. The song holds the record for the most expletives ever in a #1 song. (Kids, ask your folks if you can listen to this song.) There are 33 profane words in the lyrics,Continue reading “The dirtiest No. 1 song”

April 18th, 1923 –On the first day of the new baseball season, the gates of Yankee Stadium were opened and 74,200 people flooded through turnstiles, while another 25,000 were turned away – an amazing number, given that previous attendance record for a single game was 42,000 for the 1916 World Series in Boston. In anContinue reading “The House that Ruth built opened”

April 17, 1937 – Happy Birthday Daffy! Porky’s Duck Hunt, starring Porky Pig, is notable for being the first appearance of the character who would later be named Daffy Duck. It also notable that this is the first cartoon in which Mel Blanc voices both Porky and Daffy.

April 17, 2006 – A big-budget Coke commercial with a new song by Jack White called Love Is The Truth aired once on this date and was pulled. The video was directed by Japanese director Nagi Noda. Although I can find no reason why the commercial was pulled, Jack White has said that he “sawContinue reading “‘lost’ Jack White song”