On this day in history:
• 1956: The young country rock singer Elvis Presley makes his first ever television appearance on Television in the musical variety program Stage Show singing "Heartbreak Hotel".
• 1958: Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old high school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, go on a deadly road trip and kill a Lincoln businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a killing spree that began a week earlier when he killed Fugate’s stepfather and mother, and strangled Fugate’s two-and-a-half-year-old sister.
• 1978: First Episode of Fantasy Island Aired on Television. This show featured a guide known to have angelic qualities. This guide took people to an imaginary Island-one that they would want to go to, where their fantasies were to be fulfilled. However, even though this was a great opportunity, guests of Fantasy Island would pay as much as $50,000 dollars to benefit from this chance to escape.
• 1986: The space shuttle Challenger explodes just after liftoff, killing the seven astronauts aboard, this included a teacher from New Hampshire, Christa MacAuliffe, among the astronauts, as part of a new Teacher in Space project. The Launch was shown live on CNN and many schools set up televisions for children to watch due to the involvement of a teacher in the shuttle.
• 2013: Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands has decided to abdicate in order for her son Prince Willem-Alexander to take over the crown. She had recorded a televised address to declare her intentions and announced that she would formally step down on April 30th.
Anything important happen in your life on this date? For those born
before 1986, where were you when you learned of the Challenger
explosion?
Have a fangtastic day my friends! <3 Brock V"""V
Have a fangtastic day my friends! <3 Brock V"""V
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