"Rock Around the Clock" was a Last-Minute Addition to
the recording session. 

On April 12, 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded
“(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” at a Decca
recording session in New York City.

If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution,
then “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” was
its Declaration of Independence. And if Bill Haley
was not exactly the revolution’s Thomas Jefferson,
it may be fair to call him its John Hancock.

The song was chosen to play over the opening
credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, which is
how it became a pop sensation, selling a million
copies in a single month in the spring of 1955.

William (Bill) John Clifton Haley
(July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981)

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission,
was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida,
carrying astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and
Fred W. Haise.

On April 11, 1921, KDKA in Pittsburgh aired the first live
sporting event on the radio, a boxing match between
Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee.

On April 10, 1953, the horror film The House of Wax, starring
Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater.

Released by Warner Brothers, it was the first movie from a
major motion-picture studio to be shot using the three-
dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process and one of the
first horror films to be shot in color.

Directed by Andre De Toth, The House of Wax was a remake
of 1933’s Mystery in the Wax Museum.     
    
    
    
    
   

SANDY KOZEL

The RMS Titanic set sail on her ill-fated and only voyage on April
10th, 1912 from Southampton, England.

The Titanic was carrying about 1320 passengers and 907 crew on
the ship. She struck an iceberg near Newfoundland and sank with
the loss of 1,523 of her 2,200 passengers and crew.