An Immoral and Scandalous Performance – Today In Southern History
5 June 1956
On this date in 1956…
Elvis Presley scandalized the airwaves with suggestive hip movements while performing “Hound Dog”, on the Milton Berle Show. Network complaints from indignant viewers were so bad that for fifteen years, any future broadcast of Presley will only show him from the waist up.
Other Years:
1794 – The U.S. Congress prohibited citizens from serving in any foreign armed forces.
1837 – The Republic of Texas incorporated the city of Houston.
1863 – The Confederate cruiser C.S.S. Alabama captured the northern ship Talisman in mid-Atlantic.
1917 – The World War I draft registration began.
1933 - US government dropped the Gold Standard when Congress enacted a joint resolution denying creditors right to demand payment in gold.
1956 - A US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery, Alabama buses is unconstitutional
2001 – Tropical Storm Allison brought heavy rains as it made landfall on the upper-Texas coastline and flooded Houston, causing $5.5 billion in damage, making Allison the most expensive tropical storm in U.S. history.
2024 - Boeing Starliner's Crew Flight Test mission launches aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.
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