TIM MAGUIRE

Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

Buddy Holly was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who formed The
Crickets and pioneered rock music with the hit "That’ll Be the Day,"
which topped the Billboard U.S. Best Sellers list.

He won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing "Have
You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)."

He died in a plane crash less than two years after his career took off.

Rolling Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of All Time."

Buddy Holly & The Crickets on the Ed Sullivan Show, January, 1958.

   
  
TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist . McKinley succumbed
to his wounds on September 14, 1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
was sworn into office on the same day, succeeding McKinley, who had
been reelected in 1900. Gzolgosz was executed on October 29, 1901.
    
   

Leon Frank Czolgosz  (May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901)

The site of William McKinley’s tragic assassination in Buffalo, New
York is only marked by a plaque on a large boulder.        

SANDY KOZEL

Retired Scottish actor Sir Thomas Sean Connery
is 89 today.

James Bond: 1962-1969 and 1983

1989

     
     
  
 Barbara Eden (Barbara Jean Morehead)

Barbara is best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom  
I Dream of Jeannie on the NBC television network,  September 18,1965
to May 26, 1970.        
 

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