MIKE GRACIA

Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) achieved international
fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He is 85 years old
today.

      
TIM MAGUIRE

Les Paul records with wife Mary Ford in his home studio
in the 1950s.

Les Paul  (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)

Les Paul, was a jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter,
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.

Paul is credited with many recording innovations. His early
experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on
sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing, and
multitrack recording.

George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader,
known as “Big Brother,” becomes a universal symbol
for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)

                 
SANDY KOZEL

HANK AARON HIT HIS FIRST CAREER HOME RUN   

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home
run of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years
later, Aaron become baseball’s new home run king when
he broke Babe Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career
homers.          
          

On April 5, 1974, Stephen King, a Maine high school teacher
who had been writing on evenings and weekends, saw his
first full-length novel, Carrie, published.

The release by Doubleday & Co. becomes a bestseller and
inspires a movie of the same name. For King, Carrie kicks
off a phenomenal writing career, one in which he would
come to be known worldwide as the Master of Horror.

Many more books have followed since, for a total of more
than 50 novels and novellas.

Stephen Edwin King ,crowned the "King of Horror,"
is 77 years old.