Charo
(María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza)

Celebrated singer, dancer, and comedienne Charo has released
hits like the #18 single from 1977, "Dance A Little Bit Closer." She
married Xavier Cugat when he was sixty-four in order to legally
enter the United States.

MIKE GRACIA

The debut of “Uncle Sam” as a cartoon figure in the New York
Lantern weekly newspaper in 1852.

Cartoonist Frank H. Bellew.

1996

Original Broadway Production, opened on this day in 1947 and
closed January 1, 1970.