March 10, 1973 The Dark Side Of The Moon was officially released in the US.  It was later released in the UK March 23.

I spent the day with the band helping to set up for their concert later that evening in the Kent State University gym where I was a student at the time.  We got free tickets to the show for helping out.  I can still visualize a lot of the parts of the concert after all of this time.

Had no idea at the time how big of a deal this was.  I was just finally getting to see them after following them since 1968 when Saucerful Of Secrets was released.

KSU was in the middle of the last leg of a short US tour that was also the end of them playing in small venues.  The next tour later on in June 1973 was now in arenas and the like.

Life for all involved had changed drastically.

The rest is history.

1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.

1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.

1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.

 Manbird wrote:

That's because Jimmy Crack Corn.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

 Manbird wrote:


  
Neither does Honey Badger

 oldviolin wrote:

shingles doesn't care

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
An inconvenient truth (tooth)...

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

2022 – Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine.

1920 – The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany

1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.