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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz

3rd June 2025
Tagged as: California, Culture, Jazz, Music, Rebellion, rock, Santa Cruz, Society, Teenagers, USA

Authorities in the Californian city of Santa Cruz banned rock and roll music at public gatherings.

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26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

26th February 2024
Tagged as: Chicago, Culture, Jazz, Music, New Orleans, New York, Recording

The resulting record was released in May, and went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”

12th February 2024
Tagged as: America, Culture, Gershwin, Jazz, Music, New York, USA

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at a concert by Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra called An Experiment in Modern Music.

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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz

26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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