April 22, 1966 New Musical Express
Elvis Presley
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Back in Time – This Day in History – April 22
1957: Elvis Presley By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 1370: Building begins on the Bastille in Paris. 1500: Pedro Alvares Cabral is the first European to discover Brazil and claims it for Portugal. 1521: French King Francois I declares war on Spain. 1616: Death of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, author of Don Quixote, from cirrhosis at 68. 1659: Lord Protector Richard Cromwell disbands parliament. 1671: Charles II sits in on parliament. 1692: Edward Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. 1769: Madame du Barry becomes King Louis XV’s “official” mistress. 1809: Napoleon beats Austria Archduke Karl at the Battle of Eckmuhl. 1864: Congress authorized the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins. 1870: Birth of Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov). 1876: Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake”. 1889: About 20,000 homesteaders massed along the border of the Okl...
April 21, 1962 Disc Weekly
Billy Fury, The Tornados, Hayley Mills, Frank Sinatra, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Sarah Vaughan
Back in Time – This Day in History – April 20
1959: Dolly Parton By Mick Ferris, Press Association, AP, UPI, calendar.songfacts.com, classicbands.com and thisdayinmusic.com 1611: First known performance of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at the Globe Theatre, London. 1657: Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: The English fleet under Robert Blake sinks the Spanish silver fleet. 1759: The composer Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey. 1785: Thomas Warton is appointed Poet Laureate by George III. 1792: France declares war on Austria and Prussia, beginning the French Revolutionary Wars. 1809: Napoleon and French forces defeat Austria at the Battle of Abensberg in Bavaria. 1862: First pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. 1871: The U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, impose heavy penalties against terrorist organizations and use military force to suppress the Klan. 1887: Georges Bouton wins the world’s firs...
Letter to Buddy Holly
Miss Alex Silba wrote this letter to Buddy in May of 1956. This was her first letter to Buddy, but she states that she had been writing to Sonny [Curtis] for a while. Miss Silba was an 18 year old super fan from Baird, Texas, and wrote to Buddy to ask for a picture and for some continued correspondence. She also informed Buddy that she and her friends thought that he sounded like Elvis when he sang “Love Me.” Given that Buddy and Elvis played a few shows together and generally got along quite well, it was a nice compliment on many levels! The letter reads: "Box 822 Baird, Texas Dear Buddy, I’ve heard your record a lot and I sure do like it, it’s a very good record and the music, it’s terrific. Sonny can sure play lead guitar. I first heard of you from Sonny, he writes to me pretty often, he told me about you before your record was out. Sonny is a very fine boy, even if I haven’t met him I still think he’s a fine boy, and so are you. You have a great voice, when my friends first h...