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On this day in history.

 
I'm now getting these on this day in music history articles in my MSN news feed, so I'm sharing it here. It's not my favorite Beach Boy's hit, but I still like it, and I decided to use the Ed Sullivan show video just for nostalgia's sake...

1964 No. 1 hit was recorded 62 years ago today

I Get Around by The Beach Boys was recorded on this day in 1964.
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The legendary American rock band recorded the opening track to their album All Summer Long on April 2, 1964.
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The song, written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, was inspired by the group's rapid rise to fame and pressure to adhere to the status quo. The single was the band's first chart-topping hit in the United States. On June 6, 1964, the song debuted on the Billboard Top 40 chart at 17.
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(SNIP)



The Beach Boys - I Get Around (Live on “The Ed Sullivan Show” 9/27/1964) COLORIZED​


 
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In Canada:

April 2: 1975 CN Tower completed; reaches 555.35 metres in height, becoming the world’s tallest free-standing structure; the giant communications mast cost $44 million, uses 145,000 tonnes of concrete and steel. It holds the record for an unexpected 32 years, until being surpassed by the Burj Khalifa.
 
 
HAPPY EASTER​

TDIH for April 5th

1614
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe

1774
Benjamin Franklin publishes An Open Letter to Lord North

1792
George Washington exercises first presidential veto

1859
Charles Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of Species to his publisher

1862
Siege of Yorktown begins

1895
Writer Oscar Wilde arrested in England

1918
First stage of German spring offensive ends

1933
FDR creates Civilian Conservation Corps

1951
Rosenbergs sentenced to death for spying

1955
Winston Churchill retires as prime minister

1966
Government UFO Phenomenon Meeting (Washington D.C. USA)

1968
James Brown calms Boston following the King assassination

1976
Business magnate and famed aviator Howard Hughes dies

1984
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks NBA all-time scoring record

1992
Abortion rights advocates march on Washington

1994
Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide
 
1982 After a hectic three days Hermes as flagship sailed out of Gosport. None of us expected to even get to to the South Atlantic at that point.

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April 4 in Canada:
  • 1928 Reginald Fessenden awarded $2.5 million by Radio Trust; recognized as inventor of radio. He invented a practical method for transmitting voice over radio, an improvement to Marconi's work which transmitted Morse code.
  • 1896 News of the Yukon’s Klondike gold strike reaches the outside world.
  • 1949 Canada becomes a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
April 5 in Canada:
  • 1958 Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows leveled by the explosion of 1,375 tonnes of Nitramex 2H, an ammonium nitrate–based explosive; world’s largest peacetime non-nuclear non-volcanic explosion to date. Between 1850 and 1958, over 120 vessels were sunk or damaged colliding with the underwater hazard. The accidental Halifax Explosion of 1917 was the largest non-nuclear non-volcanic explosion to date. Link to Wikipedia article; link to YouTube video.
 
Yes, it's still used with the F-35s.
A short run and up the ramp allows a bigger weapon and fuel payload than a vertical takeoff or flat deck run.
It was installed on Hermes as a trial for the three Invincibles and is fitted to the new carriers.
 
 
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In Canada:

1859. John Brown brings first black slaves escaping to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

March 13

Highlights of the day 1859- John Brown brings first black slaves escaping to Canada on the Underground Railroad 1928 Eileen Vollick the first Canadian woman awarded a pilot’s licensed pilot.
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Geez. More Canadian history than anyone could possibly want to know. Though I did recognize/remember a few of the more recent ones.

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