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

14th March 2018
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 2017
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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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

21st May 1972: Laszlo Toth attacks and seriously damages Michelangelo’s Pietà statue

15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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