TODAY IN HISTORY: Led Zeppelin
In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
In 1598, the Marquis de La Roche was awarded a fur trading monopoly in the New World by the King of France.
In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
In 1598, the Marquis de La Roche was awarded a fur trading monopoly in the New World by the King of France.
In 1759, James Wolfe was promoted to major-general and commander-in-chief of British land forces for the planned invasion of New France, which came later in the year. Wolfe was soon killed when his forces invaded Quebec.
In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized, in Charleston, S.C.
In 1819, St. Boniface College was founded at Red River in what was to become Manitoba.
In 1842, the first issue of Prince Edward Island’s “The Islander” was published, edited by John Inge.
In 1910, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador to the U.S. pioneered smoking by women in public at a White House reception.
In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
In 1916, a government order-incouncil boosted the number of Canadian soldiers committed to the First World War to 500,000.
In 1928, Russian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz made his U.S. debut with the New York Philharmonic.
In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, after serving out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
In 1935, Amelia Earhart Putnam set a record of 18 hours, 16 minutes on a solo flight of 3,860 kilometres, from Honolulu to California.
In 1942, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt re-established the National War Labor Board.
In 1945, German forces in Belgium retreated during the Battle of the Bulge in the Second World War.
In 1968, The Supremes (Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Cindy Birdsong) guest-starred on the “Tarzan” episode “The Convert.” The Supremes played nuns.
In 1969, Led Zeppelin released its self-titled debut album (above). Songs included “Dazed and Confused,” “Good Times Bad Times” and “I Can’t Quit You Baby.” In a poll of music critics, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it as the 29th greatest album of all time.
In 1979, the Bee Gees — the Australian singing trio of brothers Robin, Barry and Maurice Gibb — got their star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Their charity single “Too Much Heaven” was at the top of the charts at the time.
In 1991, “Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814” became the first album to generate seven top-5 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 when “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” reached No. 4.
In 1991, country singer Johnny Paycheck was released from an Ohio prison after serving two years of a seven-year sentence for shooting a man in a barroom.
In 1995, Canadian Neil Young was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Other inductees included Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Janis Joplin, Martha and the Vandellas and Frank Zappa.
In 2008, seven teenagers, all members of a Bathurst, N.B., high school basketball team, and their coach’s wife — a local teacher — were killed when the van bringing them home from a game in Moncton collided with a truck on an icy road just outside Bathurst.
In 2011, Sgt. Ryan Russell, an 11-year veteran of the Toronto police force, suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by a stolen snowplow during a wild police chase through snowy streets. Richard Kachkar, a 44-year-old drifter who was shot and seriously wounded by police, was charged with first-degree murder.