Dolly recorded her first single “Puppy Love” for Goldband
              Records at the age of 13. The song was written by Dolly
              Parton and her Uncle Bill Owens.

Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean turned 71 in January.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Adolf Hitler ( April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) 

THE CUBAN EXODUS BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1980.

On this day in 1939, Ted Williams made his Major League
Baseball debut with the Boston Red Sox.

A once lost letter written by Abraham Lincoln responding to accusations of getting
in the way of a corruption investigation, is worth more than $80,000 – and it is now
for sale. The letter was one of several that were left in an abandoned house and
lost for many years. It is dated Feb. 12, 1864 and was addressed to Secretary of
the Treasury Salmon Chase, who Lincoln believed was behind “all the mischief”
in an accusation that the nation’s 16th president was thwarting a congressional investigation of corruption.   

Nathan Raab, the principal at The Raab Collection said…“This is a remarkable
find, we have no doubt it will find an appreciative new home.”

Abraham Lincoln, 1864.

Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer) (April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)

Actress and singer Jayne Mansfield appeared on Broadway in Will Success Spoil
Rock Hunter? in 1955. Her numerous Hollywood credits include The Girl Can’t
Help It (1956), and The Wayward Bus (1957).

As a child, Jayne was a talented pianist and violinist who often gave impromptu
concerts in her family’s driveway. She died at the age of only thirty-four in an
automobile accident.

John J. McDermott of New York won the first Boston Marathon with
a time of 2:55:10.

The Boston Marathon was the brainchild of Boston Athletic Association member
and inaugural U.S. Olympic team manager John Graham, who was inspired by
the marathon at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Fifteen
runners started the race but only 10 made it to the finish line.

John J. "J.J." McDermott was born
in Ireland  in 1871 or 1872. He was
a lithographer by trade.