NEW YORK (AP — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage
actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat
wearing waitress on the CBS – TV sitcom "Alice," has died.
Her representative, Bill Veloric, said Lavin died in Los
Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently
discovered lung cancer.
Photo shows Linda Lavin (as waitress Alice Hyatt) and Vic Tayback (as Mel Sharples, owner of the diner) from "Alice."
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Bo Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates)
(December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008)
Bo Diddley played a key role in the transition from
the blues to rock and roll. He influenced many artists,
including Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
His use of African rhythms and a signature beat, a
simple five-accent hambone rhythm, is a cornerstone
of hip hop, rock, and pop music.
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"The opening of the fight at Wounded Knee", engraved illustration by Frederic Remington. Appeared in
Harper’s Weekly, 1891.
On December 29, 1890, in one of the final chapters of America’s
long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Lakota Indians at
Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a
battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre.
A depiction of the Ghost Dance.
US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the
site of the Wounded Knee Memorial.
Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas
accepts U.S. annexation, Texas was admitted into the
United States as the 28th state.
After gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s,
Mexico welcomed foreign settlers to sparsely populated
Texas, and a large group of Americans led by Stephen F.
Austin settled along the Brazos River.
The Americans soon outnumbered the resident Mexicans,
and by the 1830s attempts by the Mexican government to
regulate these semi-autonomous American communities
led to rebellion.
In March 1836, in the midst of armed conflict with the
Mexican government, Texas declared its independence
from Mexico.
Stephen Fuller Austin (1793 – 1836)
