Buddy Holly’s album "Buddy Holly" was released by Coral
Records. This was his first official solo album. It was rated
#19 in the best albums of 1958.

Side 2, cut No. 3.

President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that
created the U.S. Post Office.

The actual 1792 Postal Act.

CARLATA BRADLEY

John Glenn made space history on this day in 1962 when he orbited
the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He became the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7
Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter
while in flight.

In West Warwick, RI on this day in 2003, 100 people were killed
and more than 230 were injured when fire destroyed the nightclub,
The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display
being used by Jack Russel’s Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for 
the band, was one of the victims in the fire.

American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold
medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies’
figure skating title at Nagano, Japan on this day in 1998.
 

Tara Kristen Lipinski will be 36 on June 10.

Actor Sidney Poitier is 91 years old today.

1963

1967

Ed Wynn became the first big-name, vaudeville talent to sign on as a radio talent.

Ed Wynn on stage (second from left) as “The Fire Chief,” ca. 1935.

Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold)
(November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966)

Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in
February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22—Washington’s actual
day of birth—the holiday became popularly known as Presidents’ Day after
it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to
create more three-day weekends for the nation’s workers. While several
states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of George 
Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day is now
popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and present   
.