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ROBERT CONRAD TURNED 84 TODAY

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 Robert-Conrad black sheep
The TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep aired on NBC from 1976 until 1978.

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NOTED TEST PILOT IS 90 TODAY!

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Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.

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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel
faster than sound in 1947.

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Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film  "The Right Stuff".

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Bob Dylan
(Robert Allen Zimmerman) will be 72 on May 24

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AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL MODEL DEALER

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MORE FROM THAT DAY IN 1959!

crash site memorial
Monument at the crash site, a corn field near Clear Lake, Iowa.

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Buddy Holly                         J. P. "The Big Bopper"   Ritchie Valens 
                                              Richardson
                

 

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rogerpeterson pilot

Roger Arthur Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot of
the 1947
Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed, taking
the lives of Holly, Valens,
and Richardson as well
as himself.

 

1947 beechcraft bonanza
A 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 (V-tail) similar to the one flown by
Peterson.

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