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Titolo: Certo meno importante per noi

5 marzo 1985: una canzone mondiale 
"We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who make a
brighter day so 
let's start giving...". Chi non l'ha mai canticchiata? Il contagioso
coretto, registrato nel 
gennaio 1985 durante la notte degli American Music Awards, č stato uno dei 
tormentoni benefici simbolo degli anni Ottanta. Interpretata a strofe
dalle maggiori 
star della musica, da Michael Jackson a Bob Dylan, da Cyndi Lauper a Bruce 
Springsteen, la canzone era nata per un progetto benefico in favore dei
bambini 
dell’Etiopia. Trasmessa in contemporanea mondiale sulle frequenze di oltre
5000 
emittenti radiofoniche il 5 marzo 1985, il singolo esaurě in un solo
week-end le 
800.000 copie in cui inizialmente era stato prodotto. Lo stesso anno,
grazie allo 
strepitoso successo, vinse il Grammy come migliore canzone. 
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5 marzo 1969: Jim Morrison is charged with lewd behavior at a Miami concert
    The Dade County Sheriff’s Office in Florida issues an arrest warrant
for The 
Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison. He is charged with a single felony count
and three 
misdemeanors for his stage antics at a Miami concert a few days earlier.
    When Morrison first got word of the charges for lewd and lascivious
behavior, 
indecent exposure, profanity, and drunkenness, he thought it was a
practical joke. 
But he soon learned that Miami authorities were entirely serious. In fact,
they later 
added an additional charge: simulated oral copulation on guitarist Robbie
Krieger 
during the concert.
    The trial did not begin until August 1970, when the prosecution
presented 
witnesses who claimed to be shocked at the scene that they had witnessed
at The 
Doors concert. Interestingly enough, virtually every witness was somehow 
connected to the police or the district attorney’s office. There was some
question as 
to whether Morrison had ever actually exposed himself on stage. But there
was little 
doubt that he was so drunk that he had been able to do little more than
mumble 
during the show. Morrison turned down a plea bargain arrangement for the
band to 
play a free concert in Miami.
    This turned out to be a mistake, as he was convicted and sentenced to
six 
months in prison and forced to pay a $500 fine. Morrison died in Paris
before he 
could serve the sentence. Twenty years later, Dade County once again
placed itself 
in the middle of a rock-concert controversy by prosecuting 2 Live Crew for
alleged 
obscenity on stage.
1960 Elvis discharged from army
Elvis Presley is discharged from the army after a two-year stint. Presley
had already 
become the first big rock and roll star, gaining national fame in 1956
with his first No. 
1 hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," which led to several appearances on national
television. 
Presley's remarkable career began in 1954, shortly after he paid $4 to
record two 
songs, "Casual Love Affair" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way," for his
mother's 
birthday. The office assistant at Sun Records, where he cut the record,
was so 
impressed that she brought a copy of the recording to studio executive Sam
Phillips, 
who signed him. A week after Presley recorded "That's All Right" in the
summer of 
1954, the song hit No. 4 on the country-western charts in Memphis. 
Elvis soon began performing regularly on radio programs and made his
television 
debut on a Memphis show in March 1955. That September, he had his first
No. 1 
country record-a rendition of Junior Parker's "Mystery Train." RCA
purchased 
Presley's contract, and he made his first RCA recordings in Nashville in
1956, 
including "I Got a Woman," "Heartbreak Hotel," and "I Was the One." On
January 28, 
1956, television audiences met Presley on the Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show.
He 
appeared on several variety shows before filming his first movie, Love Me
Tender 
(1956), which took just three days to earn back its $1 million cost. All
of his singles 
that year went gold. Elvis' controversial dancing, with his trademark hip
gyrations, 
upset parents but delighted teenage girls. During an appearance on The Ed
Sullivan 
Show in 1956, cameras showed him only from the waist up. 
Elvis received his draft notice in December 1957 but took a deferment to
finish 
filming his fourth movie, King Creole. Before his induction he recorded
enough 
material so that a steady stream of Elvis hits were released during his
tour of duty. 
He continued to dominate the charts through the mid-'60s and made more
than 20 
movies. 
Elvis stopped performing live in 1961 but made a comeback in the late 60s, 
becoming a Las Vegas fixture and releasing several top singles, including
"In the 
Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds" in 1969. As his popularity continued to
skyrocket, 
the "King of Rock and Roll" allegedly turned to drugs. His final live
performance was 
on June 25, 1977, and on August 16, 1977, the day of his next scheduled
concert, 
his girlfriend found him dead in a bathroom at Graceland, the Memphis
mansion he 
built and named after his mother. Congestive heart failure was initially
cited as the 
cause of death, but prescription drug abuse was suspected as a
contributing factor. 
He was buried at Graceland. Nine years after his death, he was one of the
first 10 
people inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During his life, he
had earned 
94 gold singles and more than 40 gold LPs. 
1962 George C. Scott refuses Oscar nomination
George C. Scott turns down his nomination for Best Supporting Actor in The
Hustler,, 
disdaining the awards as self-serving and meaningless. He was the first
actor to 
decline a nomination. Despite his rejection, the Academy decided to uphold
the 
nomination, but he did not win the award. However, in 1971, he again
denounced 
the awards, calling them a "meat parade," but won the Best Actor Oscar,
which he 
refused, for his performance in Patton. Scott died in 1999.
1984 William Powell dies
Actor William Powell dies at the age of 91. Powell was best known for his
role in the 
popular "Thin Man" movies, in which he and co-star Myrna Loy starred as
detective 
couple Nick and Nora Charles. In the original movie and in the book by
author 
Dashiell Hammett, the "Thin Man" character was a mysterious stranger, but
the 
nickname quickly became associated with Powell's suave, sophisticated Nick 
Charles character. Before the advent of sound, Powell frequently appeared
in silent 
films as a villain. 
1953 Joseph Stalin dies
On this day, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, dies in
Moscow. 
Like his right-wing counterpart, Hitler, who was born in Austria, Joseph
Stalin was 
not a native of the country he ruled with an iron fist. Isoeb Dzhugashvili
was born in 
1889 in Georgia, then part of the old Russian empire. The son of a drunk
who beat 
him mercilessly and a pious washerwoman mother, Stalin learned Russian,
which 
he spoke with a heavy accent all his life, in an Orthodox Church-run
school. While 
studying to be a priest at Tiflis Theological Seminary, he began secretly
reading Karl 
Marx and other left-wing revolutionary thinkers. The "official" communist
story is that 
he was expelled from the seminary for this intellectual rebellion; in
reality, it may 
have been because of poor health.
In 1900, Stalin became active in revolutionary political activism, taking
part in labor 
demonstrations and strikes. Stalin joined the more militant wing of the
Marxist Social 
Democratic movement, the Bolsheviks, and became a student of its leader,
Vladimir 
Ilich Lenin. Stalin was arrested seven times between 1902 and 1913, and
subjected 
to prison and exile. 
Stalin's first big break came in 1912, when Lenin, in exile in
Switzerland, named him 
to serve on the first Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party-now a
separate entity 
from the Social Democrats. The following year, Stalin (finally dropping
Dzugashvili 
and taking the new name Stalin, from the Russian word for "steel")
published a 
signal article on the role of Marxism in the destiny of Russia. In 1917,
escaping from 
an exile in Siberia, he linked up with Lenin and his coup against the
middle-class 
democratic government that had supplanted the czar's rule. Stalin
continued to 
move up the party ladder, from commissar for nationalities to secretary
general of the 
Central Committee-a role that would provide the center of his dictatorial
takeover 
and control of the party and the new USSR. 
In fact, upon Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin began the consolidation of his
power 
base, conducting show trials to purge enemies and rivals, even having Leon
Trotsky 
assassinated during his exile in Mexico. Stalin also abandoned Lenin's New 
Economic Policy, which would have meant some decentralization of industry.
Stalin 
demanded-and got-absolute state control of the economy, as well as greater
swaths 
of Soviet life, until his totalitarian grip on the new Russian empire was
absolute.
The outbreak of World War II saw Stalin attempt an alliance with Adolf
Hitler for 
purely self-interested reasons, and despite the political fallout of a
communist 
signing an alliance with a fascist, they signed a nonaggression pact that
allowed 
each dictator free reign in their respective spheres of influence. Stalin
then 
proceeded to annex parts of Poland, Romania, and Finland, and occupy
Estonia, 
Latvia, and Lithuania. In May 1941, he made himself chairman of the
Council of 
People's Commissars; he was now the official head of the government and no 
longer merely head of the party. One month later, Germany invaded the
USSR, 
making significant early inroads. As German troops approached, Stalin
remained in 
the capital, directing a scorched-earth defensive policy and exercising
personal 
control over the strategies of the Red Army. 
As the war progressed, Stalin sat in on the major Allied conferences,
including those 
in Tehran (1943) and Yalta (1945). His iron will and deft political skills
enabled him 
to play the loyal ally while never abandoning his vision of an expanded
postwar 
Soviet Empire. In fact, after Germany's surrender in April 1945, Stalin
oversaw the 
continued occupation and domination of much of Eastern Europe, despite 
"promises" of free elections in those countries.
Stalin did not mellow with age; he prosecuted a reign of terror, purges,
executions, 
exiles to the Gulag Archipelago (a system of forced-labor camps in the
frozen north), 
and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything
that 
smacked of foreign, especially Western European, influence. To the great
relief of 
many, he died of a massive heart attack on March 5, 1953. He is remembered
to this 
day as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi domination-and as the
mass 
murderer of the century, having overseen the deaths of between 8 million
and 10 
million of his own people.
1815 Innovator of hypnotism dies
Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who pioneered the medical field of 
hypnotic therapy, dies in obscurity in Meersburg, Swabia (now Germany).
Born in 1734, Mesmer studied religion, philosophy, law, and medicine in
Vienna, 
Austria, but initially failed to excel at any of these fields. In the
1770s, he became 
fascinated with Father Glassner, a Swiss Roman Catholic priest who was
well known 
as a documented faith healer. After observing Glassner's seemingly
miraculous 
healings, Mesmer concluded that the cures were achieved by what he called
"animal 
magnetism." Mesmer believed that invisible magnetic fluids existed in
living beings, 
and that if this invisible magnetic flow was upset, sickness could occur.
He decided 
that Glassner was correcting obstructed magnetic flows by achieving a
rapport, 
French for "harmony" or "connection," with his patients.
In 1772, Mesmer began to develop various therapeutic treatments for curing
what he 
perceived to be animal magnetism obstructions, which included the use of
ethereal 
music as a hypnotic device, and intimate group-healing sessions. Despite
obvious 
errors in Mesmer's scientific theories, his process of mesmerism, as it
came to be 
known, produced hypnotic states in his patients that had an extraordinary
influence 
on their physical illnesses. His popularity grew, but the Viennese Medical
Council 
declared him a fraud, and in 1778 he left Vienna for the more liberal
environment of 
Paris.
In Paris, Mesmer treated peasants along with wealthy aristocrats and won a
handful 
of disciples in the scientific community. In 1784, King Louis XVI
appointed a 
committee of physicians and scientists to investigate his work; among the 
commission's members were the American statesman and inventor Benjamin 
Franklin and the French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. The commission 
reported that Mesmer was unable to support his scientific claims, and his
practice 
subsequently declined. In 1778, he left Paris and retired to obscurity in
his native 
Swabia.
Despite the eccentricities of his techniques, Mesmer is seen as a major
innovator of 
hypnotic therapy and also one of the first Western physicians to safely
treat 
psychosomatic illness and nervous disorders.
Birthday March 5 
1908
Rex (Reginald) Harrison (Academy Award-winning actor: My Fair Lady [1964], 
Cleopatra, Dr. Dolittle, The Agony and the Ecstacy) 
1927
Jack Cassidy (actor: The Eiger Sanction, The Andersonville Trial;
Broadway's She 
Loves Me; David and Shaun's father; Shirley Jones' husband) 
1928
Lou Levy (pianist: band: Supersax; recorded with Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Nancy
Wilson, 
Anita O'Day, etc.) 
1936 
Michael Landon (actor: Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to
Heaven; 
director: The Loneliest Runner, Killing Stone; writer: Killing Stone,
Sam's Son) 
1936 
Dean Stockwell (actor: Gentlemen's Agreement, Dune, Beverly Hills Cop 2,
Long 
Day's Journey into Night, Legend of Billie Jean) 
1938 
James Wainwright (actor: The President's Plane is Missing, Joe Kidd) 
1939 
Samantha Eggar (actress: Exterminator, Doctor Dolittle) 
1947 
Eddie Hodges (singer, actor: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Hole in
the 
Head, Live a Little Love a Little) 
1950 
Eugene Fodor (musician) 
1958 
Andy Gibb (singer: group: The Bee Gees; solo: Love is Thicker than Water,
I Just 
Want to be Your Everything, Shadow Dancing, (Our Love) Don't Throw It all
Away; 
host of TV's Solid Gold) 
Chart Toppers in SU March 5 
1955 
Melody of Love - Billy Vaughn / The Four Aces / David Carroll 
1964 
Please, Please Me - The Beatles 
I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles 
She Loves You - The Beatles 
1973 
Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack 
Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) - Deodato 
1982 
Centerfold - The J. Geils Band 
Open Arms - Journey 
Sweet Dreams - Air Supply 
Lord, I Hope this Day Is Good - Don Williams 
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