TODAY IN HISTORY: FBI spends 31 months investigating rock and roll smash hit
The rock and roll smash hit Louie Louie was banned from being played on the radio in Indiana on February 1, 1964, on the order of Governor Matthew Welsh.
Welsh had deemed the song to be profane and graphic in its sexual content.
This claim was made despite the fact nobody in the Indiana government could discern what the actual lyrics were.
The Kingsmen had recorded the song in one take, and the song is famed for being scrappy, raw and raucous.
Because the studio only had one microphone dangling from the ceiling, singing Jack Ely had to scream at the top of his lungs to be heard over the drums, guitar and bass.
Welsh's ban was too little, too late. The song had already topped the charts around the country and was a massive hit.
On the day Welsh banned the song, it had been knocked from the top of the charts by an English band called The Beatles.
Their song I Want to Hold Your Hand topped the US charts for seven weeks before being knocked off by their follow-up single She Loves You.
But authorities were determined to find proof of obscenity in Louie Louie.
The FBI spent 31 months investigating the song, before giving up.
"The Department advised that they were unable to interpret any of the wording in the record," the final report read.
The lyrics to the song, as apparent from previous recordings, are remarkably tame.
But the FBI did not notice the profanity at the 54th second of the song.
After botching a fill, drummer Lynn Easton can be heard shouting "F—".
After nearly 30 years of work, the Oxford English Dictionary was published for the first time on February 1, 1884.
The dictionary was painstakingly assembled by a group of contributors from all over Great Britain.
It was late in the process that editor James Murray (pictured) discovered their most prolific contributor was sending in his work from a mental asylum.
William Chester Minor had been institutionalised in Broadmoor asylum after he shot someone on a London street.
While in care, Minor read voraciously and did remarkable work in the development of the dictionary.
Minor was eventually set free on the orders of Home Secretary Winston Churchill (second from left) and deported back to his home country of the United States.
There he was moved into another mental institution where he died in 1920.
Fed up with the presence of the King of Sweden and his sizable entourage living in his empire, Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III ordered an attack for February 1, 1713.
Hundreds of Swedish soldiers were living in what is now Moldova as "honoured guests" of the sultan.
But their expensive costs led the sultan to organise an attack when they refused to leave.
Thousands of Turkish troops attacked the Swedish camp, suffering hundreds of casualties as a result.
But the Swedes were overwhelmed, and King Charles XII was taken prisoner and deported.
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