Today in Elvis History

It's September twenty-sixth, and on this day in 1956... Elvis Presley returned to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, for a triumphant homecoming concert at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Sho...

26 Sep 20251min

It's September twenty-fifth, and on this day in 1956... Elvis received a telegram from RCA celebrating an unprecedented achievement: his single *Love Me Tender* had been certified a gold record **befo...

25 Sep 20251min

It's September twenty-fourth, and on this day in 1956... Elvis returned to Humes High School in Memphis, where he and his friend Nick Adams paid a surprise visit to his former senior homeroom teacher,...

24 Sep 20251min

It's September twenty-third, and on this day in 1955... Elvis attended a gospel concert by the Blackwood Brothers at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis. When James Blackwood learned that Elvis had quietly pu...

23 Sep 20251min

It's September twenty-second, and on this day in 1958... Elvis Presley arrived at the Brooklyn Army Terminal at 9:00 a.m. aboard a troop train, preparing to ship out for military service in Germany. B...

22 Sep 20251min

It's September twenty-first, and on this day in 1977... the Memphis Development Foundation paid sculptor Fin Parks \$151,000 to create a towering twenty-five-foot, fifty-ton bronze statue of Elvis Pre...

21 Sep 20251min

It's September twentieth, and on this day in 1949... the Presley family moved into public housing for the first time, settling into a two-bedroom, first-floor apartment at 185 Winchester Street in Mem...

20 Sep 20251min

It's September nineteenth, and on this day in 1974... Elvis Presley caused a stir at Memphis's Methodist Hospital when he visited Linda Thompson's sister-in-law in the labor room. Wearing a surgical m...

19 Sep 20251min