Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen will turn 68 in
September.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen will turn 68 in
September.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
In Britain on this day in 1967, the album "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles. It was released
June 2 in the U.S.
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
Icon and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe starred in the classic 1959 comedy
Some Like It Hot and became the most famous woman in the world during
the 1950s.
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III will turn 78 in November.
The Cable News Network (CNN) is a basic cable and satellite television news
channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. It
was founded by Ted Turner and went on the air on this day in 1980.
August, 1986
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877)
Brigham Young was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler
of the Western United States. He was the second President of The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847 until his death
in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of
the Utah Territory.
Samuel F.B. Morse formally opening America’s first telegraph line.
The four men convicted of bombing the New York’s World Trade
Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison on this day in
1994.
Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)
(May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901)
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until
1901. A national emblem of morality, she oversaw a great
period of expansion in the British Empire and had the longest
reign of any monarch (nearly sixty-four years) until Queen
Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015.
The Brooklyn Bridge on opening night, May 24, 1883. Photo from
Brooklyn Museum.
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) is 76 years old today.
Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized folk music in the 1960’s
with albums such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "Like
a Rolling Stone," and "Positively 4th Street." He changed his name to Dylan
after the poet Dylan Thomas. Bod Dylan was born into a Jewish family, but later
converted to Christianity.
On this day in 1945
It was on this day in 1886.
The Coca-Cola logo was created by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper,
Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. Robinson came up with the name
and chose the logo’s distinctive cursive script.
Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by The Beatles. It was
released on this day in 1970, almost a month after the group’s break-
up.
Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the
band the Rolling Stones. It was the band’s first studio album released with
Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor. The album spent an
interrupted four-week spell at number 1 in the US, going platinum.
DC Comic book ad.