TIM MAGUIRE – ASSOCIATED PRESS
Troyal Garth Brooks is a country singer/songwriter. He’s
64 years old today.
Brooks is the only artist in music history to have released
nine albums that were certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, surpassing The Beatles.
SANDY KOZEL
Elvis Presley at 2 years old with his
parents in the year 1937.
Singer/actor Elvis Aaron Presley,
known as the “King of Rock and Roll,”
was born in Tupelo, Mississippi; his
family moved to Memphis, Tennessee,
when he was 13.
His music career began there in 1954,
at Sun Records with producer Sam
Phillips, who wanted to bring the
sound of African-American music to
a wider audience.
Newly declassified photo of the Bomb.
On August 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only
nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when a B-29
bomber, dubbed the “Enola Gay,” dropped an atomic bomb
on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000
people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another
35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by
the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the
end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited
the Cold War.
MIKE GRACIA
Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) the former
drummer with The Beatles is 84 today.
ED DANAHUE
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)
The domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing.
