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.
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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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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
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