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Sid Vicious
1957May, 10

Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (d. 1979)
Simon John Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), aka John Beverley, and widely known as Sid Vicious, was an English musician. He is best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Despite dying in 1979 at age 21, he remains an icon of the Punk subculture; one of his friends noted that he embodied "everything in punk that was dark, decadent and nihilistic."

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Events on 1957

  • 9Jan

    Suez Crisis

    British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
  • 8Mar

    Suez Crisis

    Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
  • 24Jun

    First Amendment to the United States Constitution

    In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
  • 6Jul

    Paul McCartney

    John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
  • 24Sep

    101st Airborne Division

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.