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TODAY IN HISTORY

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      teletype print

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      Ross Simpson

 

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1959

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"Poison Ivy" went to #1 on the R&B chart and #7 on the Billboard
Hot 100
chart. It was their third top-ten hit of that year following
"
Charlie Brown" and "Along Came Jones."

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Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman) from Batman,
1997

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Mike Gracia

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SINGER LINDA RONSTADT IS 67 TODAY

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Linda Marie Ronstadt

Linda has released over 30 studio albums and 15 greatest hits albums. She
charted thirty-eight Billboard Hot 100 singles with twenty-one reaching the top
40, ten to the top 10, three to No. 2. In addition, she has charted three No. 1
albums on the Billboard Pop Album Charts.

In 1980, Linda Ronstadt made her dramatic debut in the musical comedy "The
Pirates Of Penzance" at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park.

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FAMOUS BOOK PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1946

The_Common_Sense_Book_of_Baby_and_Child_Care_(hardcover) 

When “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” was first 
published, both the book and Dr. Spock, attained fame instantly, 
selling 500,000 copies in its first six months.   .

By 1998, when Spock died, over 50 million copies of the book had
been sold, making it the best-selling book of the twentieth century
in America, aside from the Bible. As of 2011, the book had been
translated into 39 languages.

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Pediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock 

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A well used soft cover copy of Dr. Spock’s book

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