The Marvelettes in a 1963 promotional photo. Clockwise
from top left: Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson,
Georgeanna Tillman, and Wanda Young.

Katherine Anderson-Schaffner, a founding member of
The Marvelettes, has died at age 79. A cause of death
is unknown.

The news was confirmed by her daughter, Keisha
Schaffner, on Wednesday (Sept. 20) via Facebook.

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Debut album in 1961

ED DONAHUE

James Abram Garfield
(November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881)

President James A. Garfield, who had been in
office just under four months, succumbed to
wounds inflicted by an assassin 80 days
earlier, on July 2.       

Roger Whittaker, one of the UK’s most celebrated folk music
singers, has died.   

A family statement, reported by German media outlet Bild,
confirmed he died on September 13 in a hospital in southern
France.

Whittaker was best known for hits including Durham Town,
New World In The Morning and a version of Wind Beneath
My Wings – and being an expert whistler.

    
Tim Maguire

The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth and
longest work stoppage in baseball history, as well as the fourth
in-season work stoppage in 22 years. The strike began on
August 12, 1994, and resulted in the remainder of that season,
including the postseason and the World Series, being canceled.

This was the first time in ninety years, since 1904, that a World
Series was not played. The strike was suspended on April 2,
1995, after 232 days, making it the longest such stoppage in
MLB history and the longest work stoppage in major league.

A German U-boat sunk a British troop ship, the Laconia, killing
more than 1,400 men on September 12, 1942. The commander
of the German sub, Capt. Werner Hartenstein, realizing that
Italians POWs were among the passengers, strove to aid in
their rescue.

The Laconia, a former Cunard White Star ship put to use to
transport troops, including prisoners of war, was in the South
Atlantic bound for England when it encountered U-156, a
German sub (below). It was under the command of Captain
Rudolph Sharp.

Werner Hartenstein
(27 February 1908 – 8 March 1943)