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In the first few months of his rule, Dubcek introduced a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms, including increased On January 5, , Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot announces a new constitution changing the name of Cambodia to Kampuchea and legalizing its Communist government. During the next three years his brutal regime was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1 to 2 million Cambodians. In the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston, Massachusetts.
In a signed and sealed affidavit presented to The Jewish artillery captain, convicted on flimsy evidence in a highly irregular trial, began Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On January 5, , construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3. Following the Gold Rush boom that began in , speculators realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would In all, Ruth had played six seasons with the Red Sox, leading them to three World On January 5, , President Harry S.
Truman announces, in his State of the Union address, that every American has a right to expect from our government a fair deal. Shearin's job on the song was to play the bass for 15 minutes straight, with no mistakes. Shearin described the session this way:. The drummer and I were sweating bullets because that's a long time. And this was in the days before samplers and drum machines, when real humans had to play things.
Sylvia said, 'I've got these kids who are going to talk real fast over it; that's the best way I can describe it. It's not like the guys involved were the 'real' hip-hop icons of the era, like Grandmaster Flash or Lovebug Starski.
So it's a pretty impressive fabrication, lightning in a bottle. Billboard Hot chart,[10] 4 on the U. It was the first Top 40 song to be available only as a inch extended version in the U.
Early pressings very few were released with a red label, with black print, on Sugarhill Records, along with a 7" 45rpm single which is very rare.
Later pressings had the more common blue label, in orange colored "roulette style" sleeves, while even later pressings were issued in the more common blue sleeves with the Sugarhill Records logo. In Europe, however, it was released on the classic 7-inch single format on French pop label Vogue, with a shorter version of the song. It was this 7" single that reached number one in the Dutch chart. During a dream sequence in the film Kangaroo Jack, the titular kangaroo sings a bit of the song.
The song is featured on the soundtrack of the game Tony Hawk's Underground 2. A February episode of Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon featured a mashup video of Brian Williams singing the song during the show's first week. The video also included Lester Holt.
The third track on the album, titled "Too Much", resembles "Rapper's Delight". The song is sung by the main characters in the movie Everybody Wants Some!!. On the Fox comedy The Simpsons, the song was parodied on a safety video using the lyrics to tell children to use a cross walk to cross the street. Retrieved February 24, Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 December National Public Radio.
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