William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901)

William McKinley was 25th president of the United States and the
third to be assassinated while in office. He was also the last Civil
War veteran to become president. Financial problems ended his
college education prematurely, and he was forced to work as a
postal clerk and teacher.

Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016)

Paul Kantner, one of the giants of the San Francisco music scene, died Thursday.

Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, had suffered a heart attack
this week.

His death was confirmed by longtime publicist and friend, Cynthia Bowman, who
said he died of multiple organ failure and septic shock.

Paul Kanter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with other band
members in 1996.

Ross Simpson

Oprah Gail Winfrey is 62 today.

Winfrey was crowned Miss Black Tennessee while in college and began
co-anchoring the evening news when she was nineteen. She became
the world’s first female black billionaire and the richest self-made
American woman. She had a net worth of $2.9 billion in 2013.

Ted Weems and his orchestra, with Perry Como, Marilyn (Marvel)
Maxwell and Elmo Tanner, 1940.

Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to
1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the catch
phrase, "Give me a little traveling music”.

In the first series, broadcast on Sundays at 6:30pm from Chicago, host
Garry Moore read music-related questions submitted by listeners to band
members in the 14-piece Ted Weems Orchestra. Originally sponsored by
the General Mills cereal Kix, listeners whose questions were used on the
air received $10; those who stumped the band received $20 and a case
of Kix.

Garry Moore (born Thomas Garrison Morfit, III)
(January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993)

Kix cereal was introduced in 1937 by the General Mills company
of Golden Valley, Minnesota.

SANDY KOZEL

The crew of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.