Archive for August 29th, 2016

RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN 1964


Roy Orbison’s "Oh, Pretty Woman" spent three weeks at
number
one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 26,
1964, second single by Orbison to top the charts.

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COMEDY STAR GENE WILDER IS DEAD AT 83

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Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman) (June 11, 1933 – August 29, 2016)

(FOXNEWS) – Gene Wilder, star of "Willy Wonka" and several classic Mel Brooks comedies, is dead. Wilder’s nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman said the comedy
legend died late Sunday in Stamford, Conn. from complications from Alzheimer’s disease, a condition the actor kept private for three years so as not to disappoint
fans. His nephew said, "He simply couldn’t bear the idea of one less smile in the
world,"

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SPLASH DOWN ON THIS DAY IN 1965

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From left: Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr. and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a manned spaceflight in NASA‘s Gemini
program
. It was the third manned Gemini flight, the eleventh manned U.S.
flight, and the nineteenth spaceflight of all time, including two X-15 flights
above 100 kilometers (54 nmi). It was also the first time an American
manned space mission held the world record for duration, set on August
26, by breaking the Soviet Union’s previous record set by Vostok 5 in 1963

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BACK TO SCHOOL ~ 1944

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A RETROSPECTIVE OF PAST NEWS

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ROSS SIMPSON

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