WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, April 7, 2023
1927 Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Laboratories broadcast the first official TV picture from Washington D.C. to New York over telephone lines.
1933 Prohibition officially came to an end. Hence today is National Beer Day!
1949 Rogers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opened on Broadway.
Music History:
The Police released ‘Roxanne’ as the first single from their debut album Outlandos d’Amour. The song was written from the point of view of a man who falls in love with a prostitute. The title came from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, which Sting saw on an old poster which was hanging in a hotel foyer in Paris, where the group had been staying.
Notable Birthdays today:
Russell Crowe is 58
Jackie Chan is 68
John Oates (of Hall & Oates) is 74
Director Francis Ford Coppola is 83
Thanks to:
Thisdayinmusic.com and Thisdaytrivia.com
