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."
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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 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.
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024)
The 39th president of the United States.
The Carter Center announced in a statement made today,
Jimmy Carter passed away peacefully Dec. 29 at his home
in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by family.
Carter, the oldest living U.S. president of all time, died less
than three months after his 100th birthday and more than
a year after the Carter Center said he had opted to receive
hospice care at home with his family after "a series of short
hospital stays."
His specific cause of death was unclear. Carter’s death
followed the passing of his wife Rosalynn on Nov. 19,
2023. She died at the age of 96.
(FOX NEWS)
