Ray Charles Robinson Sr.
(September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

Ray Charles was an singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded
as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history,
and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius."

Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called
"Brother Ray." Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly
due to glaucoma.    
   
Ray Charles died on June 10, 2004, at age 73, of complications
resulting from liver failure at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

Statue in Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, Georgia.

In Akron, Ohio, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, two recovering alcoholics, founded Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), a 12-step rehabilitation program that would eventually help countless
people cope with alcoholism.

Based on psychological techniques that have long been used
in suppressing certain personality traits, members of the strictly anonymous organization control their disease through guided
group discussion and confession.

Dr. Robert Smith (1879 – 1950) and Bill Wilson (1895 – 1971)

In Washington, D.C. on June 9, 1893, the interior of ramshackle
Ford’s Theatre collapses, causing the deaths of 22 people.

The building—where President Lincoln was shot on April 14,
1865— houses hundreds of clerks employed by the War
Department’s Records and Pensions Division.      

An investigation determined the cause of the tragedy was a pier
that had given way during excavation in the basement for an
electric-light plant.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

A National Historic Site, Ford’s Theatre today.

TIM MAGUIRE

    
 Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known
as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of
the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log,
served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.

In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford,
recorded numerous records, selling millions of copies.
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Laborers in Central Asia came across the bones of an ancient
mammoth while quarrying on June 2. In a press release,
Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture explained that the remains
were found in "the sandy areas of the ancient floodplain of
the Jyrgalang River."

Kyrgyzstan is a country surrounded by Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and China. The discovery was found in the Issyk- 
Kul Region, which borders the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region of China.
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The discovered remains of the mammoth included its jaw
and teeth.