December 12th in History
December 12th
884 ADKing Carloman II of West Francia was mortally wounded while out hunting.
1955 Christopher Cockerell patented his prototype of the hovercraft. He had tested his theories using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his work to have potential, but the idea took some years to develop, and he was forced to sell personal possessions in order to finance his research. Hovertravel is the only scheduled passenger hovercraft service in Europe and it operates between Southsea, Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
1966 English sailor Francis Chichester arrived at Sydney in his ketch Gipsy Moth IV - half way in his bid to become the first man to sail solo around the world. On 28 May 1967, after 226 days, he arrived back in Plymouth and became the first person to achieve a true, solo, circumnavigation of the world from West to East via the great capes. The voyage was also a race against the clock as Chichester wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century.
1969 - ClassicBands.com
December 12
Apple Records releases "Live Peace in Toronto 1969" by The Plastic Ono Band. Recorded at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival on the previous September 13th, it was the first live album by any member of The Beatles, as a group or solo. It would peak at #10 in the US, but did not chart at all in the UK. Much of the blame for the failure of the album was aimed at Yoko Ono's two songs that took up the entire Side Two, which were described as "screaming", "wailing", "pitchless" and "brainless". Somehow, the LP managed to sell over 500,000 copies in America, earning a Gold Record.
Here’s Yoko
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December 12
The Magic Christian, a movie featuring Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers, premieres to negative reviews in London. The film also featured appearances by John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski.
884 ADKing Carloman II of West Francia was mortally wounded while out hunting.
1955 Christopher Cockerell patented his prototype of the hovercraft. He had tested his theories using a hair-dryer and tin cans and found his work to have potential, but the idea took some years to develop, and he was forced to sell personal possessions in order to finance his research. Hovertravel is the only scheduled passenger hovercraft service in Europe and it operates between Southsea, Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
1966 English sailor Francis Chichester arrived at Sydney in his ketch Gipsy Moth IV - half way in his bid to become the first man to sail solo around the world. On 28 May 1967, after 226 days, he arrived back in Plymouth and became the first person to achieve a true, solo, circumnavigation of the world from West to East via the great capes. The voyage was also a race against the clock as Chichester wanted to better the typical times achieved by the fastest fully crewed clipper ships during the heyday of commercial sail in the 19th century.
1969 - ClassicBands.com
December 12
Apple Records releases "Live Peace in Toronto 1969" by The Plastic Ono Band. Recorded at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival on the previous September 13th, it was the first live album by any member of The Beatles, as a group or solo. It would peak at #10 in the US, but did not chart at all in the UK. Much of the blame for the failure of the album was aimed at Yoko Ono's two songs that took up the entire Side Two, which were described as "screaming", "wailing", "pitchless" and "brainless". Somehow, the LP managed to sell over 500,000 copies in America, earning a Gold Record.
Here’s Yoko
[media=https://youtu.be/c2WZzS0kH6Q]
December 12
The Magic Christian, a movie featuring Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers, premieres to negative reviews in London. The film also featured appearances by John Cleese, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski.
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