Archive for May 1st, 2011

SINGER JUDY COLLINS IS 72 TODAY

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Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. As a
child, Collins studied classical piano, making her public debut at the age of 13, performing a Concerto by Mozart. Judy later developed an interest in folk music
and had the fortune of meeting many musicians through her blind father, who 
was a DJ for a Seattle radio station. Judy Collins received a Grammy Award for
Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording in 1968 for… “Both Sides Now”.


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ELVIS PRESLEY WAS MARRIED ON THIS DATE IN 1967

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Shortly before Christmas 1966, more than seven years since they first met, Elvis Presley proposed to Priscilla Beaulieu. They were married on May 1, 1967, in a brief ceremony
in their suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.

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CITIZEN KANE PREMIERED ON THIS DATE IN 1941

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Citizen Kane was directed by and starred Orson Welles. The groundbreaking film is
often considered the greatest of all time. It was the first feature film for Welles and was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories. It won an Academy Award for Best Writing (original Screenplay) by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane topped
the AFI’s 100 Years – 100 Movies list and the 10th Anniversary Update, as well as all
of the Sight & Sound polls of the 10 greatest films for nearly half a century. 

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Orson Welles shown arriving at the premier of Citizen Kane at RKO
Palace on Broadway in New York. 

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FORMER ASTRONAUT IS 86 TODAY

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Malcolm Scott Carpenter is best known as one of the original seven
astronauts selected for NASA’s Project Mercury in April of 1959. He was 
the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth in space, following 
Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, and John Glenn. Carpenter and Glenn are 
are the last living members of the Mercury Seven astronauts. 

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