November 28 / 1974 – In a rare public performance, former Beatle John Lennon joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City...is a multi-purpose indoor arena in midtown Manhattan in New York City. Located between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station...
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November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy...December 1 – A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board..December 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European communities' heads of state and government, commences...December 24–December 25 – Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy...December 30 – Japanese soldier digs in on the Indonesian island of Morotai, 34 years after beginning service... Within hours a Douglas C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft landed on the now captured airstrip...the way things are looking the massage will reach its destination around the year 27,000...
24 December – Former government minister John Stonehouse was found living in Australia having faked his own death, it was publicly revealed that he had been an agent for the communist Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence....
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Stonehouse maintained the pretence of normality until he faked his suicide on 20 November 1974, leaving a pile of clothes on a Miami beach. He was presumed dead, and obituaries were published despite the fact that no body had been found. In reality, he was en route to Australia, hoping to set up a new life with his mistress and secretary, Sheila Buckley.. He lives at 12 Coleridge Close, part of the "Poets Estate" in a south London suburb called Climthorpe, a development different from those around it only by having the streets named after famous poets.."Reggie", as he is known, daydreams in Walter Mitty style.. Part of the narrative demonstrates what voices in his head are saying. Although he appears to love his wife, he fantasises about his secretary, Joan Greengross. As his behaviour becomes more erratic, he is unable to dictate letters without uttering words like "breast". Far from being offended, Joan welcomes the attention, adjusting her posture to show her figure...
"I didn't get where I am today by comparing Jimmy to Sir Winston Churchill." Flare (countermeasure), an aerial countermeasure against heat-seeking missiles...The first novel in the series, The Death of Reginald Perrin, was published in 1975...
1975 April 4 – Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash \April 13 – Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese civil war /May 27 – The Dibbles Bridge Coach Crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England results in 32 deaths (the highest ever toll in a United Kingdom road accident) \ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1975
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Timothy Charles "Tim" Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American singer and musician.. born in Washington, D.C. on St. Valentine's Day, to Elaine Buckley (née Scalia), an Italian American, and Timothy Charles Buckley Jr., who was the son of Irish immigrants from Cork...In 1975, Buckley quit using drugs and engaged the musical press regarding a live album comeback...Long-time friend and lead guitarist, Lee Underwood, has stated that "on many previous occasions Buckley had ingested considerably more alcohol and drugs than this...Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead,was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...Born in Anaheim, California,and was the only son of Mary and Tim...The color lilac is often used in greeting cards given by grandchildren to grandparents or vice versa...
I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Gonzalez was a British R&B and funk band. Their first album was released in 1974 and they recorded a total of six albums before disbanding in 1986. They are best known for their single success with their worldwide Disco hit, "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" (1979) -- this is the extended "disco single" version...Born in Hudson, Ohio, Christine Chubbuck attended the Laurel School for Girls in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. During her years at Laurel, she started a small tongue-in-cheek group called the "Dateless Wonder Club". ..
June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany..July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup \ July 15 – News anchor Christine Chubbuck commits suicide during a live broadcast on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida / August 4 – A bomb explodes in an Italicus Express train between Italy and West Germany, killing 12 and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility \ August 14 – Turkey invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory / September 8 – TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people \ ...
"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. It was a number-one hit in 1973 for Roberta Flack. The song has been remade by numerous artists, most notably Fugees, whose rendition, simply titled "Killing Me Softly", contributed to their Grammy Award-winning album, The Score.
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter—Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin—who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly ones law enforcement authorities won't pursue. Often these crimes involve some element of the supernatural or science fiction, such as fantastical creatures...which aired on ABC on January 11, 1972..
1972 / January 7 – An Iberian Airlines passenger plane crashes into a 250-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed..Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce Clifford Irving's supposed biography of him / January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor \ January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan / 20 January – Unemployment exceeded 1,000,000 for the first time since the 1930s -almost double the 582,000 who were unemployed when Edward Heath's Conservative government came to power less than two years ago...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Frank endless premature fussing about the unborn baby drives everyone nuts, even when he's not bringing Betty to the hospital for another trial run or false alarm to Dr. Boyde's rising horror. Frank is still unable to do it properly when the time comes, in fact it goes badly wrong. Still they insist Frank comes inside the delivery room...(27 Dec. 1973)...
December 1 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia \ 5 – The speed limit on motorways was reduced to 50 mph from 70 mph until further notice / 15 – Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II \ 31 - As a result of coal shortages caused by industrial action, the electricity consumption reduction measure - the 3 -Day Week, announced on 17 December - came into force at midnight. / The Secondary Banking Crisis of 1973–75 was a dramatic crash in property prices in Great Britain which caused dozens of small ("secondary") lending banks to be threatened with bankruptcy exacerbated by the global 1973–1974 stock market crash, which hit the UK when it was already in the midst of the housing price crash \ 18 – Islamic Development Bank created as a specialized agency / Martin Amis's novel The Rachel Papers... 23 – OPEC doubles the price of crude oil \ 28 – The Endangered Species Act is passed / 30 – Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman ...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In 1970, a 14-year-old boy dialed into a nationwide computer network, uploaded a virus he had written and caused the entire network to crash..That boy was Bill Gates. 5 years later, he founded Microsoft.The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method - a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's controversial and cancelled Policy Analysis Market...
“The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.”
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A member of a Gifted Golfing Family, he won more than 90 international tournaments in an illustrious career, including 5 major championships between 1979 and 1988: The Open Championship 3 times, and the Masters Tournament twice. He gained attention in the Golfing World in 1976, when at the age of 19 he finished second at The O-pen...
Carway (Welsh: Carwe) is a village situated to the north of the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the Gwendraeth Fawr valley... It is part of the Llanelli Rural community..The Glyn Abbey Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course designed by Hawtree & Son golf architects and opened in 1992.. The course is a par 70 course which is some 6202 yards in length with greens covering an area of 490m²... The club was named Welsh Golf Club of The Year 2009..Carway is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cardston County..As of the year 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017...The rest of region is dominated by the semi-arid prairies of the Palliser's Triangle, where farms and ranches have been built..Division No. 3 is a census division in Alberta, Canada..
1976 Feb 2nd - "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV \ 4 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site / 11 – John Curry becomes Britain's first gold medalist in skating at the Winter Olympics / Feb 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site \ 13th - Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes /\ 14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site / 17th - "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances \/ Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 v India, his 1st match-winning spell /\ Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) / 19 – Iceland breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain over the Cod War \ Feb 22nd - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic / 26th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site \ 27th - Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The Five Families are the five original Italian American Mafia crime families of New York City which have dominated organized crime in the United States since 1931..The families are: Lucchese, Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo...Gambino quickly built the family into the most powerful crime family in the United States. He was helped by Meyer Lansky's offshore gaming houses in Cuba and the Bahamas, a lucrative business for the Cosa Nostra..
The Gambino crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominates organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). The group is named after Carlo Gambino, boss of the family at the time of the McClellan hearings in 1963, when the structure of organized crime first gained public attention. The group's operations extend from New York and the eastern seaboard to California. Its illicit activities include labour and construction racketeering, gambling, loansharking, extortion, money laundering, prostitution,fraud, hijacking, pier thefts, and a fence is an individual who knowingly buys stolen property for later resale, sometimes in a legitimate market. The fence thus acts as a middleman between thieves and the eventual buyers of stolen goods who may not be aware that the goods are stolen...
Gambino died of a heart attack on October 15, 1976, while watching his beloved New York Yankees at his home.. He was buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Queens in New York City, as was Charles Luciano, and more than 10 other lifetime friends. His funeral was said to have been attended by at least 2,000 people, including police officers, judges and politicians.. Gambino left behind sons Thomas, Joseph and Carlo, daughter Phyllis Sinatra, and a family with a crew of 500 soldiers, after leading the Gambino crime family for 20 years, and The Commission for more than 15...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gambino sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Big-Brother--Gov...?limitstart=0#121725"It was a man and he was begging, and pleading, and praying, I guess. And he was, 'Please, God, no,' all over the place. So I told him he could have a half an hour to pray to God and if God could come down and change the circumstances, He'd have that time. But God never showed up and he never changed the circumstances and that was that. It wasn't too nice. That's one thing, I shouldn't have done that one. I shouldn't have done it that way."
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill anybody...It was Recorded August 1977 / 3 – United States Senate hearings on Project MKUltra are held \ 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts / 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York \15 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope receives a radio Wow! signal from deep space..Herbert Kappler (Ardeatine massacre ) escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome / It was released on 27 / 10 \ 1977 through Virgin Records...
He's has been dying from the same heart attack for the last 20 years...Our friend and associate Hyman Roth is in the news.. His passport's been invalidated, except for his return trip to the States...There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer..What I am saying is, we have now what we have always needed, real partnership with ...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
1978 \ Concrete Cows first erected in Milton Keynes / November – 2: 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's 2nd television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air \ 5 – Rioters sack the British Embassy in Tehran / 18 – Jonestown cult in a mass murder that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children \19 – The first U.S. Take Back the Night march occurs in San Francisco / 27 – In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White \ 29 – Viv Anderson, the 22-year-old Nottingham Forest defender, becomes England's 1st black international footballer / Ian McEwan's novel The Cement Garden...
An American Prayer is the 9th and final studio album by The Doors... 7 years after J M died and 5 years after the remaining members of the band broke up and reunited and recorded backing tracks over JM's poetry (originally recorded in 1969 and 1970)..Released Nov 17 1978 ..TV death which the child absorbs...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The Jackson Police Department provides law enforcement services to approximately 185,000 citizens encompassing 122 square miles (320 km2) of Jackson, Mississippi. JPD is composed of approximately 430 sworn officers who are supported by over 250 civilian personnel...There are now four precincts. In 1979, officers were provided with individual walkie-talkies which gave them an emergency distress button. In 1983, the size of the department grew to over 400 sworn police officers...A charter was granted by the State of Tennessee on August 16, 1910 and construction began on July l, 1911...Aviator Steve Fossett and Thomas Harris were born in Jackson... is the capital of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Located south of the Yazoo River, it is considered to be the southern border of the Mississippi Delta...was named for General Andrew Jackson ( 1767–1837 parents were Scots-Irish colonists in the village of Boneybefore celebrated by a mural on Belfast's Shankill Road ), later the 7th President of the United States...
1975 / 6 Nov – The first public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols took place at St. Martin's School of Art in London \ 7 – A vapor cloud explosion at a petroleum cracking facility in Geleen, Netherlands leaves 14 dead and 109 injured, with fires lasting for 5 days / 14 – Spain abandons Western Sahara \ 26 – The cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in America / 27 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder with his twin was shot dead by the IRA \ 29 – Racing driver G Hill, 46, died in an air crash..Released "Mississippi" was a popular single by Dutch group Pussycat.. Colin Dexter's 1st Inspector Morse novel Last Bus to Woodstock..Another version of this song was recorded by Barbara Fairchild..There was also a Czech version...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
Why did the women in films have pointy boobs and big bushes in the 1070's?
The impending approach of Venus - known to cause "disturbing erotic behaviour" - sends 2 men with very different missions..1 to save the schoolgirls from lust, the other to test a new aphrodisiac...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
In the 1970s, more permissive legislation permitted the rise of adult theaters in the United States and many other countries. There was also a proliferation of coin-operated "movie booths" in sex shops that displayed pornographic "loops" (so called because they projected a movie from film arranged in a continuous loop)...The first explicitly pornographic film with a plot that received a general theatrical release in the U.S. is ...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
"Going Steady/Jilted John" (July 1978) Rabid TOSH 105, reissued (August 1978) with A and B sides flipped EMI International (EMI 567) (UK #4)"True Love/I Was A Pre Pubescent" (January 1979) EMI International (EMI 577)...
July 25 / Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK \ August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France.
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
1979 / November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests \ 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial \ 9 The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends in England with all 4 men found guilty. Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect an apparent massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled / 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis \ 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran / 20 – Grand Mosque Seizure:after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded \ 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4, disturbing Pakistan–United States relations / 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board...
The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you.. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that, they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!
The EPA (environmental protection agency) and OSHA took air samples in the days following September 11th, they reported that they found no excessive levels of asbestos contrary to other findings....
With the anniversary of September 11th literally just around the corner, unanswered questions still remain for families who lost loved ones during the tragic event, as well as from families...
In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a series of lower court rulings that restrict the United States Navy's use of sonar in submarine detection training exercises off...
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