Red_Dragon wrote:


The Beatles play 12 songs, including their latest hit, "Help!" performing for about 30 minutes. The Shea sound system can't compete with the crowd, which the New York Daily News estimates is 75% teenage girls, all screaming like crazy. The crowd can barely hear The Beatles, and The Beatles can't hear themselves, but this is much more about spectacle than sound quality.

So how does the first rock show in a stadium pan out? Acoustically, it's a disaster, but logistically it goes quite well, with no major incidents. It's also a financial winner, taking in $304,000, about $160,000 of which goes to The Beatles. The verdict: stadium rock is a winner.

The cost of a ticket was $5.65.

1998 – Apple introduces the iMac computer.

1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

 Red_Dragon wrote: But, really, do you think that many people will find it useful or want one?

1981 – The IBM Personal Computer is released.

1883 – The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

1854 – American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden.

 sunybuny wrote: 
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 Red_Dragon wrote: Often duplicated.... way too often.... but ICONIC nonetheless.

1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).

1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

1930 – The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace, Los Angeles, CA.

1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.

1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: