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Hiram King "Hank" Williams
(September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953)
Williams was a singer-songwriter, regarded as one of the
most significant and influential American singers and
songwriters of the 20th century. Williams recorded 55
singles that reached the top 10 of the Billboard Country
& Western Best Sellers chart, five of which were released
posthumously, and 12 of which reached No.1.

TV SITCOM ACTRESS HAS DIED AT AGE 87
NEW YORK (AP — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage
actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat
wearing waitress on the CBS – TV sitcom "Alice," has died.
Her representative, Bill Veloric, said Lavin died in Los
Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently
discovered lung cancer.
Photo shows Linda Lavin (as waitress Alice Hyatt) and Vic Tayback (as Mel Sharples, owner of the diner) from "Alice."
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
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 MASSACRE AT WOUNDED KNEE
"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.
The conflict at Wounded Knee was originally referred to as a
battle, but in reality it was a tragic and avoidable massacre.
A depiction of the Ghost Dance.

US Attorney General Eric Holder laying a wreath at the
site of the Wounded Knee Memorial.
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