The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk
rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in February 1982 on Warner Bros.
Records. It was recorded in September 1981 at a free benefit concert in
Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of more
than 500,000 people. Proceeds from the endeavor went toward the
redevelopment and maintenance of the run-down green space in the middle
of Manhattan. This concert and album marked the start of a short-lived
reunion for Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The concept of a benefit
concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon
Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry
the concert, and worked with Delsener to decide on Simon & Garfunkel as
the appropriate act for this event. Besides hit songs from their years
as a duo, their set-list included material from their solo and duo
careers, and covers.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_in_Central_Park>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1356:
Hundred Years' War: English forces led by Edward the Black
Prince decisively won the Battle of Poitiers and captured King Jean II
of France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poitiers>
1692:
Salem witch trials: As Giles Corey was being crushed to death
for refusing to enter a plea to charges of witchcraft, his last words
were reportedly, "More weight!"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey>
1846:
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin
Giraud, experienced a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La
Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_La_Salette>
1964:
An armed revolt by Montagnards serving in the Army of the
Republic of Vietnam against the rule of Nguyen Khanh led to the deaths
of 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Khanh>
1982:
:-) and :-( were first proposed by Scott Fahlman for use as
emoticons.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon>
1991:
Ötzi, a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about
3300 BC, was discovered by two German tourists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jump down someone's throat:
To criticise with excessive and unexpected harshness.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jump_down_someone%27s_throat>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted, That, wisely doating,
ask'd not why it doated. And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills.
But now I find how dear thou wert to me; That man is more than half of
nature's treasure, Of that fair beauty which no eye can see, Of that
sweet music which no ear can measure; And now the streams may sing for
other's pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity.
--Hartley Coleridge
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hartley_Coleridge>