ED DANAHUE

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.

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.

In March 1836, in the midst of armed conflict with the
Mexican government, Texas declared its independence
from Mexico.

On December 29, 1778, British Lieutenant Colonel Archibald
Campbell and his force of between 2,500 and 3,600 troops,
which included the 71st Highland regiment, New York
Loyalists, and Hessian mercenaries, launched a surprise
attack on American forces defending Savannah, Georgia.

On December 28, 1895, the world’s first commercial movie
screening took place at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film
was made by Louis and Auguste Lumière, two French
brothers who developed a camera-projector called the
Cinematographe.

On December 28, the entrepreneurial siblings screened a 
series of short scenes from everyday French life and they
charged admission for the first time.

       
        
        
        
       
Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, the fathers of
cinema.        

The brothers developed a combination movie camera
and projecting, capable of projecting images on a
screen to be seen by audiences.