"My Love" is a love song written by Paul McCartney to his first wife Linda and was a number 1 single, spending four weeks atopthe BillboardHot 100 chart.The ballad was the most successful track from the Paul McCartney and Wings album Red Rose Speedway (1973).
The first Boeing 737 (100 series) makes its maiden flight.
The first Boeing 737 under construction at Boeing Field in 1966.
The original Boeing 737 prototype is given a champagne christening during the January 17, 1967 roll out event by flight attendants representing the aircraft’s customers.
At Appomattox Court House, Virginia on this day in 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean’s home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their side arms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.
On this day in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s statue is toppled in Baghdad.
NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven astronauts on this day in 1959.
On this day in 1939, Marian Anderson sang a landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and blazed a trail for other black classical singers.
More than 75,000 people come to the Lincoln Memorial on that Easter Sunday to hear Anderson. She had been scheduled to sing at Washington’s Constitution Hall, but the Daughters of the American Revolution, a political organization that helped manage the concert hall, denied her the right to perform because of her race. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt who had resigned the DAR in protest of their decision, Marian performed a free open air-concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
Marian Anderson(February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993)
Britain’s Prince Charles with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall acknowledges the crowd at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in England following their wedding on this day in 2005.