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Country/pop singer-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro’s biggest hit was 
Honey in 1968. The song was recorded in one take. Bobby has
been retired from full-time performing since the 1980’s.

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Eugene B. Ely (above) made the first successful landing of an aircraft
on a floating vessel when he flew his Curtiss Pusher onto the deck of  
the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. He was 24 years old.

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A business associate says rock promoter Don Kirshner has died of heart failure at a Florida hospital at age 77.

Promoter Jack Wishna tells The Associated Press in Las Vegas that the man Time magazine once dubbed the "Man With the Golden Ear" died Monday at a Boca Raton hospital where he was being treated for an infection.

Wishna calls Kirshner an icon who touched many lives in the music industry.

Kirshner was behind the TV show "Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert" in 1972, and gave national exposure to many musicians. (AP)

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Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky) actor, dancer, and one of the
world’s best-known comedians. He died on March 3, 1987 at age 74.

Danny Kaye’s grave marker is a bench at Kensico Cementery in
Valhalla, New York.

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