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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

3rd June 2018
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”

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

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7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon

27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare

8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

23rd April 1516: The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law first introduced in Bavaria

16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon

15th February 1971: The UK and Ireland decimalise their currency

14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth

13th February 1689: William and Mary become co-regents

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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