On This Day
John Lennon, October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980
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December 7, 1941 – At 7:55 am local time, Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
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December 6, 1933 – A federal judge rules that Ulysses by James Joyce is not obscene. The book had been banned immediately in both the UnitedStates and England when it came out in 1922. With its radical stream-of-consciousness narrative, Ulysses deeply influenced the development of the modern novel.
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December 4, 1956 – Four young rock-and-roll giants, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered around a piano singing the kind of music they’d all grown up on: gospel. The location was the modest storefront recording studio at 760 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, owned by Sam Phillips, the legendary producer of Sun Records fame.
The caption under the photo that ran in the next day’s Memphis Press-Scimitar was “Million Dollar Quartet.”
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December 2, 1972 – the Temptations earn the last of their four chart-topping hits when “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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December 1, 1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience.
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November 29, 1929 – American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes.
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