| It
was on this day... | 1969
John Lennon album confiscated | | USA:
Police at Newark Airport, New Jersey confiscated around 30,000 copies of the new
John Lennon and Yoko Ono album, Two Virgins. The cover of the album featured a
nude picture of Lennon and Ono which was considered pornographic. Vice squad officers
in Chicago also shut down a store for displaying the cover. |
| It
was on this day... |
2000 Last daily Peanuts comic
strip is published | Charles
Schulz, creator of one of the most endearing cartoon strips of its time, Peanuts,
retires, thus ending a daily comic strip run which began in October 1950. Mr Schulz
died on February 12, 2000, aged 77 (ironically he died on the eve of his last
Sunday Peanuts strip being published). The strip, which featured the lives of
his comic creations Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus and Snoopy, was published in 2,600
newspapers around the world in 75 countries and read in 21 languages. (Comics
Heaven) |
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