On this day: January 30
POSTED: 10:26 PM PST Jan 28, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 29, 2013
An assassin's misfires spare President Andrew Jackson, "The Lone Ranger" debuts on radio, Gandhi is assassinated, The Beatles hit the roof for one last gig, and the first computer virus is written, all on this day.
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1971: Carole King's "Tapestry" album is released. It would go on to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist, staying on the Billboard 200 chart for 302 weeks, and sell 24 million copies worldwide. Its stay at No. 1 on the chart for 15 consecutive weeks in 1971 also gave it the record for the most weeks at No. 1 by a female solo artist for more than 40 years until surpassed by Adele's "21" in 2012.
