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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

14th March 2020
Tagged as: Culture, Gold, Grammy, Music, Perry Como, Recording, USA

Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory publicity.

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16th November 1990: Milli Vanilli stripped of Grammy Award for not singing on their album

16th November 2019
Tagged as: America, Culture, Frank Farian, Germany, Grammy, Lip-sync, Milli Vanilli, Miming, Music, USA

German pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist after it emerged that they did not sing any of the vocals on their debut album.

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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

16th November 1990: Milli Vanilli stripped of Grammy Award for not singing on their album

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10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War

15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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