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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS EVENTS
MYSTRY BIDDER BUYS HITLER’S JACKET
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945)
(FoxNews) – A man from Argentina shelled out more than $676,000 this weekend
at an auction selling the personal belongings of Adolf Hitler and his deputy,
Hermann Goering.
The man, who remained anonymous, spent $312,000 alone on what is believed
to be one of Hitler’s last uniform jackets.
The mystery buyer showed up at the Hermann Historica’s auction in Germany
dressed in dark clothes and wearing a baseball cap.
Other items auctioned were a pair of Hitler’s pants with leather pockets, X-rays
after his assassination attempt in 1944, and the brass container from where
Goering swallowed cyanide while awaiting trial in Nuremberg.
The Argentinian bidder also paid $47,500 for an aviator watch that belonged to
Goering, as well as some if his silk underwear for $3,400.
BRIAN WILSON IS 74 TODAY
Brian Douglas Wilson was born in Inglewood, California.
Wilson co-wrote over twenty-five top forty hits with the Beach Boys and was
inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He won Grammy Awards
for Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) and The Smile Sessions (2011). In
lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the "100 Greatest
Singers of All Time” in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson
number 8 in its "50 Greatest Producers Ever" list.

ALBUM RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1966
Yesterday and Today is the ninth Capitol Records album release by the Beatles
and the eleventh overall American release.The album is remembered primarily
for the controversy surrounding its original cover image, the "butcher cover"
featuring the band dressed in white smocks and covered with decapitated baby
dolls and pieces of meat.

FROM PDX RETRO ~

This year the solstice falls today at 6:34 p.m. EDT. This is the “summer”
solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The word solstice is from the
Latin solstitium, from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop). Astrologers say
the sun seems to ‘stand still’ at the point on the horizon where it
appears to rise and set, before moving off in the reverse direction.
This 1958 single reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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