Percy Sledge (November 25, 1941 – April 14, 2015)
Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital
orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on
the 1966 classic "When a Man Loves a Woman," died of natural
causes in hospice care early this morning in Louisiana.
This number-one hit in 1966 was Sledge’s debut single.
Sandy Kozel
Titanic in Cork harbour, 11 April 1912
The First Lady of Country, Loretta Lynn (née Webb) is 83 today.
The book “The Grapes of Wrath” won the National Book
Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited
prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel
Prize in 1962.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born in Salinas, California.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)
Steinbeck has been called "a giant of American letters".
