Rainy Day Trivia

 

 

I have always been a History & Trivia nerd.  So here I am today pushing my trivia lust upon you.  

 

 

 

     On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.

 

1923 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding became the first Chief Executive to pay taxes and account for his income. Harding’s tax bill amounted to nearly $18,000.

 

MUSIC

 

     On this day in 1958, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the first gold record. It was Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star on RCA Victor Records.

 

 

 

Is there really a gold record inside the wooden frame presented to winners?

Those who know say, “No.” Its a gold-leaf veneer of maybe 18 kt. gold and/or it is a record painted gold. Yes, the song earning the award is supposed to be the one making up the gold record, but this is not always the case, according to several artists who have tried to play theirs.

1959 - Elvis Presley made the album charts, but no one would have known by the title of the disk. For LP Fans Only was the first LP ever issued without the artist’s name to be found anywhere on the cover -- front or back.

On selected copies of the album, however, some record buyers who held the record up to their ears could plainly hear Elvis screaming, "Help! Get me outta here! It’s me, Elvis!" Not everyone. Just some record buyers...

 

TELEVISION

1968 - After two seasons on television, ABC-TV showed the last episode of Batman, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Robin. 

 

 

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