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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”

12th February 2018
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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3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

2nd August 216 BCE: Hannibal defeats the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

24th August 1967: Abbie Hoffman throws money inside the NY Stock Exchange

23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu

22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA

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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