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

3rd June 2020
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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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”

12th February 2020
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

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

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23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

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

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

11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

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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