Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place in Memphis, TN. on this day in 1954. He recorded "That’s All Right (Mama)" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
Elvis, Bill Black, Scotty Moore; Sam Phillips in foreground; Sun Records, Memphis, TN, 1954.
(Fox News) – Babe Ruth’s New York Yankees Opens a New Window. jersey from 1928-1930 sold at auction on Saturday for $5.64 million, setting setting the record for the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold. The gray road uniform was one of more than 400items that Ruth’s family and other collectors supplied for the auction at Yankee Stadium. Ruth’s granddaughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, said in a statement that a portion of the proceeds will go to charity.
On this day in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson (left), famous football player O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman (right) are brutally stabbed to death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson (below) became the chief suspect.
Robert Shapiro (l.) and Johnny Cochran sit with Simpson (right) during the murder trial.
In New York on this day in 2002, a ceremony was held to officially mark the end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.