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On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner with interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Josif Stalin, truly Evil Bastard, did not emerge from his room the next day, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. Although his guards thought itContinue reading “Bizarre ironies of History –”

March 5, 1965 –The Mannish Boys released their second single I Pity The Fool, featuring a young David Bowie, produced by Shel Talmy, (who was also producing the early singles and albums by The Who and The Kinks). Jimmy Page was Talmy’s regular session musician and played the guitar solo on I Pity the Fool.

March 4, 1950 – One of the classic Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cartoons, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, was released on this date. This was another show I was not allowed to watch with my family because I laughed too loudly. By all means, please, stop eating or drinking while watching this cartoon, you may injury yourself.Continue reading “The Scarlet Pumpernickel premiered”

March 4, 1963 –The Beach Boys released Surfin’ U.S.A. a song with lyrics by Brian Wilson set to the music of Sweet Little Sixteen, written by Chuck Berry. Billboard ranked Surfin’ U.S.A. the No. 1 song of 1963. Many of the early Beach Boys’ songs were about surfing. Dennis Wilson was the only Beach BoyContinue reading “Surfin’ U.S.A. premiered”

March 4, 1849 – This is a US secret you probably don’t know – this is the day America had no President. James K. Polk (whose cause of death was officially listed as “diarrhea“) officially stepped down as the 11th US president and President Zachary Taylor (who would die in office after eating cherries andContinue reading “Another thing your teachers didn’t tell you”

March 4th It’s the day that tells you to do something. Demand Euphoria

March 4, 1982 –The David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker silliness, Police Squad, starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, premiered on ABC-TV on this date. According to an interview with David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker on the Nerdist podcast, the original choice for Frank Drebin was Robert Stack, but he turned itContinue reading “Police Squad premiered”

March 3, 1969 –Apollo 9, the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module. It carried astronauts James McDivitt, Russell Schweickart and David Scott and made 151 Earth orbits over 10 days. The mission was the second manned launch ofContinue reading “Apollo 9 launched”

March 3, 2008 –Chumbawamba break the record for longest album title with their 160-word release The Boy Bands Have Won… Using efficient typography, the British band get the full title on the cover: The record of longest album title was established in 1999 with Fiona Apple’s 90-word title for her second album, When The Pawn…Continue reading “Longest Album Titles”

March 3, 1876 –The Kentucky Meat Shower took place on this date in 1876, during which what appeared to be flakes of red meat measuring approximately 5 by 5 centimetres (2 in × 2 in) fell from the sky near the settlement of Rankin in Bath County, Kentucky. The incident sparked plenty of wild theoriesContinue reading “It’s raining meat”