​Today is May 7, and we have storms moving in from the west. We could have hail and storm winds. Oklahoma is again in the bulls eye. Spellbound would love to be sitting on my front porch.
Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport made history twice today. One was the non stop flight between DFW and Beijing China, and the new state of the art Boeing 787 Dreamliner first flight between DFW and Chicago O'Hare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=i_EmnNUX4Sk
1915 -- One hundred years ago today a German submarine fired a torpedo and sank the British liner Lusitania off the Irish coast, killing nearly 1,200 people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7ZOqw5XEaN0
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-fw71tt5f9s
1940 - Winston Churchill became British Prime Minister.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzplrfKF7vI&feature=player_detailpage
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
[video=youtube;svRBivcvnd0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svRBivcvnd0&feature=player_detailpage&list=PLpgaBWmESy-0BB-3-HI3ELRQQwQZAHO8B[/video]
1945 - Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the European conflict of World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7k6ZdcneKJo
1947 - "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ka4honG5s&feature=player_detailpage
1954 - Johnny Ray's song "Such a Night" is banned in the U.K. because of it's suggestiveness. He was for trashing pianos and rolling on the floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsL_o21Mm9c&feature=player_detailpage
1955 - Ray Charles breaks through with his first R&B #1, a revamped version of a gospel standard called "It Must Be Jesus" called "I Got A Woman."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=81cyUwnM71U
1958 - The Champs appear on ABC-TV's American Bandstand to perform their hit instrumental "Tequila." ( I loved Peewee Herman. The firs time I saw him was in Cheech and Chong movies. He was a hotel clerk and the hamburger dude in another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UVKsd8z6scw
1965 - At a hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Keith Richards can't sleep because there's a guitar riff running through his head. He messes around with his new Gibson Fuzz Box amp, put a tape on the recorder, falls asleep and wakes up the next morning to find he's recorded the riff to I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gd6ODRkzSUc
1970 - The Beatles twelfth and final album, 'Let It Be' was released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82pmQHA-jyY&feature=player_detailpage
1971 - The Concorde the worlds first faster than sound passenger plane took off for a 75 minute publicity flight to Toulouse carrying the french president on board. (My husband would have a chance of a lifetime when the Concorde flew into DFW on a round the world trip, We went to see it land and take off, and was at the gate when the pilots came off the plane and man asked if he could take some photo's of the cockpit, looked at my husband, smiled and they both climbed in for a look. We went to one of the overpasses and took photos of it when she took off for Hawaii, their next stop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGu9kj5b8k&feature=player_detailpage
1977 - Seattle Slew won the Kentucky Derby on his way to horse racing's Triple Crown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9siJk0wQNLY&feature=player_detailpage
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Hotel California by the Eagles hits the hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Yyy4yaVwsv0
1978 - Yvonne Eliman sings " If I Can't Have You" to # 1 on Billboards Pop Hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-pgJByML5xY
1984 - The Cars released the single "Magic."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E0Kv6vxZwL8
1993 - Mark Knopfler received an honorary music doctorate from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6jxsnIRpy2E
1994 - “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOtTBKog_ko&feature=player_detailpage
1999 - Ricky Martin went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Livin' La Vida Loca'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=p47fEXGabaY
2002 - BTO's Randy Bachman acts as conductor in Vancouver for a 1,322-guitar orchestra, performing the band's hit "Takin' Care Of Business" for over an hour and, in the process, setting a new world record. (My brothers band was rock and roll club one night and a drunk man kept coming up being obnoxious up and asking for them to play a country and western song, so after the third time he told his band to crank it up and took care of business.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSzaScsWh4&feature=player_detailpage
2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B73QmrLwLZw&feature=player_detailpage