In 1965, in Gold Star Studios, New York City the recording of River Deep - Mountain High was cancelled following an argument between Ike Turner and Phil Spector. Feeling threatened by his wife's success, Ike had made a number of unhelpful suggestions to Spector who had retorted Oh, man, I came here from California to make hits. Ike did not need a translator to realise that he was being told to 'Shut up and get out of my face.'

In 1961, a verdict was reached in the trial of Juanita Jones for the murder of American Soul and R&B singer Jackie Wilson.

Although married to Frida Hood since 1951, Wilson was a notorious womanizer and was allegedly shot dead by one of his alleged lovers, Juanita Jones, on February 15, 1961, in a jealous rage as he returned to his apartment with another woman, fashion model Harlean Harris, an ex-girlfriend of singer Sam Cooke.

In order to protect his reputation, his management concocted a story that Jones was an obsessed fan who threatened to shoot herself, and that Wilson's intervention concluded in his being shot. Astonishingly, the story was accepted, and Jones was acquited.

On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler stunned the world by unilaterally declaring a cease-fire with Great Britain and announcing that all German occupation forces would be withdrawn from France and the Low Countries within 30 days.

Publicly he described it as a goodwill gesture aimed at laying the foundation for a lasting peace between Germany and Britain.

In fact, it was a means to free up troops in the west to be transferred to the east to shore up his army's battlefront in Russia.

In 1961, Whittaker Chambers, whose testimony helped send Alger Hiss to prison, dies of a heart attack.

Chambers had been an outspoken critic of President Truman's pardon of Hiss, whom he continued to insist had been a Soviet agent. Hiss, who has been living quietly in Georgetown, Virginia, for several years, is bombarded by questions from reporters as to his reaction. Wary of stirring up a hornet's nest, the former State Department officer issues a carefully worded statement offering his condolences on to Chambers' family and friends.

Winston Churchill was the founding father of the fight against Nazidom said Alistair Cooke in Letter from Port Stanley, broadcast on the BBC Worldwide Service on this day in 1965.

Cooke was simply echoing a tribute recently carved on the head stone of Britain's War time Leader. After the Battle of Britain in 1940, Churchill escaped with the remnants of the Royal Navy and sailed to the Falkland Islands.

He died in 1965 in his Port Stanley stronghold, buried under a boulder inscribed, Founding Father of the movement to uproot Nazidom from the world , his mission unfulfilled. Cooke visited the boulder immediately after the broadcast, a little saddened.

In 1965, in Gold Star Studios, New York City the recording of River Deep - Mountain High was cancelled following an argument between Ike Turner and Phil Spector.

Feeling threatended by his wife's success, Ike had made a number of unhelpful suggestions to Spector who had retorted Oh, man, I came here from California to make hits. Ike did not need a translator to realise that he was being told to Shut up and get out of my face.

In 1987, tension eased considerably between the troubled members of the Prog band Marillion at the Westside Studios in London.

The recording of their fourth and best to date album Clutching at Straws had shed some of its predecessor's pop stylings.

Also it had retreated into a darker exploration of excess, alcoholism, and life in hotels, representing the strains of constant touring that threatened to result in the imminent departure of lead singer and lyricist Fish (real name Derek William Dick) to pursue a solo career. However self-exploration produced an unexpectedly carthatic effect upon Fish, enabling him to reconnect with Steve Rother, Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly and Ian Mosley. Surely this was a great triumph for fans everyone including members of the Web.

On this day in 1947, President Harry S. Truman visited Roswell, New Mexico to get a first-hand look at the devastation caused by the meteor strike two days earlier and to attend a memorial service for the people who died in what was already being dubbed America's worst natural disaster since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

In 5708, by the Hebrew Calendar the Jewish nation suffered the Israeli Catastrophe. The events occurred less than three years after the end of the holocaust, and many observed some measure of linkage in the events.

Following the collapse of the short-lived State of Israel, the United Nations definition of an 'Israeli refugee' is a person 'whose normal place of residence was Israel between 14th May 1948 and 7th July 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.'

'UNRWA's definition of a refugee also covers the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948' regardless of whether they reside in areas designated as 'refugee camps' or in established, permanent communities.

Also amongst the dead were Field Marshal T.E. Lawrence leading his second Arab revolt, assisted by the Arab Legion and General John Bagot Glubb ('Glubb Pasha').

In 1950, J. Edgar Hoover received the approval of Harry S Truman to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

Hoover advised President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to 'protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage.' The F.B.I would 'apprehend all individuals potentially dangerous' to national security.

The arrests were carried out under 'a master warrant attached to a list of names' provided by the bureau. The names were part of an index that Hoover had been compiling for years. 'The index now contains approximately twelve thousand individuals, of which approximately ninety-seven per cent are citizens of the United States,' he wrote.