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Madonna in 1976.
Madonna, singer and actress known for her boundary-
pushing, ever-changing persona. Hits include "Like a
Virgin" and "Like a Prayer", is 67 years young today.
16
Aug
PAST NEWS THAT MADE HISTORY
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15
Aug
MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENED ON THIS DAY
On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened on
a patch of farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New
York town of Bethel.
Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and
Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise
funds to build a recording studio and rock-and-roll retreat near
the town of Woodstock, New York.
The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob
Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience,
the young promoters managed to sign a roster of top acts,
including the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, the Grateful Dead,
Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more.
15
Aug
EPIC WAR FILM RELEASED ON THIS DAY
Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed by
Francis Ford Coppola, opened in theaters around the United
States on August 15, 1979.
The film, inspired in part by Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella
Heart of Darkness, among other sources, told the story of
an Army captain (played by Martin Sheen) and crew of men
who are sent into the Cambodian jungle to kill a U.S. Special
Forces colonel (Marlon Brando) who has gone AWOL and is
thought to be crazy.
Apocalypse Now, which co-starred Robert Duvall and Dennis
Hopper, became notorious for its long, difficult production,
which included budget problems, shooting delays due to bad
weather on the Philippines set, a heart attack for Sheen and
a nervous breakdown for Coppola.
Despite the production hurdles, the film became a commercial
success and won two Academy Awards (Best Cinematography
and Best Sound); it received six other Oscar nominations,
including Best Director, Best Picture and Best Supporting
Actor (Duvall). The film included the memorable line “I
love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Francis Ford Coppola (86)
Martin Sheen (85)
Robert Duvall (94)
Harrison Ford (83)
14
Aug
REMEMBERING THE BLACKOUT OF 2003
On August 14, 2003, a major outage knocked out power across
the eastern United States and parts of Canada. Beginning at
4:10 p.m. ET, 21 power plants shut down in just three minutes.
Fifty million people were affected, including residents of New
York, Cleveland and Detroit, as well as Toronto and Ottawa,
Canada.
Although power companies were able to resume some service
in as little as two hours, power remained off in other places for
more than a day.
The outage stopped trains and elevators, and disrupted everything
from cellular telephone service to operations at hospitals to traffic
at airports. In New York City, it took more than two hours for
passengers to be evacuated from stalled subway trains.
In New York City alone, the estimated cost of the blackout was
more than $500 million.
14
Aug
NEW DEAL ACT WAS SIGNED INTO LAW
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social
Security Act on August 14, 1935.
Press photographers snapped pictures as FDR, flanked by
ranking members of Congress, signed into law the historic
act, which guaranteed an income for the unemployed and
retirees in the wake of the Great Depression.
FDR commended Congress for what he considered to be a
“patriotic” act.
The Social Security system has remained popular and
relatively unchanged since 1935.
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