March 3rd in Elvis History

It's March third, and on this day in 1959… Elvis Presley, while stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, took a break from military life and traveled to Munich with his buddies Red West and Lamar Fike. Their destination? A visit with 18-year-old German actress Vera Tschechowa, whom Elvis had met earlier that year during a publicity shoot for the March of Dimes. In a classic Elvis move, he bought out every ticket to the small theater where Vera was performing—despite not speaking a word of German—and sat through the play with Red and Lamar. That night, the group went out to dinner with Vera and her circle of theatrical friends, then capped the evening with a visit to the Moulin Rouge—Munich's answer to a striptease club.