George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)  

Harrison was an English musician, singer and songwriter who
achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

On 29 November 2001, Harrison died at a property belonging
to McCartney, on Heather Road in Beverly Hills, California. He
was 58 years old.

Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, 
was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African
American ever to sit in Congress.

During the Civil War, Revels, a college-educated minister,
helped form African American army regiments for the Union
cause, started a school for freed men, and served as a
chaplain for the Union army.

Hiram Rhodes Revels (
September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901)

Hiram Rhodes Revels bust by Edmond’s Bob Willis.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack (February 10, 1937- February 24, 2025)

(AP) – Singer Roberta Flack, known for the hit Killing Me Softly,
has died . 

Her manager, Suzanne Koga, stated she died from cardiac arrest
on her way to the hospital in Manhattan.

On February 24, 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William
Travis issued a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops
defending the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and fortress
under siege by the Mexican army.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Barret "Buck" Travis
(August 1, 1809 – March 6, 1836)

   
Zane as Match, was one of the three high school boys
who made up Biff Tannen‘s gang in Back to the Future 
(1985).

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Actor William George Zane Jr. was born in Chicago. His
breakthrough role was in the 1989 Australian film Dead
Calm, a performance that earned him a nomination for
the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most
Promising Actor.

He has since appeared in numerous films and television
series, and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley
in the epic film Titanic (1997), for which he and the rest of
the ensemble cast was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild
Award.