On February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr., considered one of the
greatest drivers in National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) history, died at the age of 49 in a last-lap crash at the
43rd Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Earnhardt died of a basilar skull ring fracture, the most serious
type of skull fracture.        
        
        
   
       

Ralph Dale Earnhardt
(April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)

Lisa Lopez-Galvan has been identified as a victim of the
Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting that saw 29
injured, including nine children. 

William “Bill” Post, the Michigan man widely credited
with inventing Pop-Tarts for the Kellogg’s breakfast
food company, died on Saturday.

Post’s invention debuted in 1964 with four flavors,
strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and
apple currant. There are now more than 20 flavors.

The snack has $1 billion in U.S. annual sales.

Singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.Waylon Jennings is
considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in
country music.

Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed
at fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first
band, the Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age
sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a
performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge,
Arizona, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’
first recording session, a cover of Jole Blon, and hired him to
play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in
1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper"
Richardson and Ritchie Valens.

Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at
his home in Chandler, Arizona, aged 64.

Waylon Jennings ,left, on bass guitar and Buddy Holly.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Edwards, who anchored National Public
Radio’s “Morning Edition” for just under 25 years and was the
baritone voice who told many Americans what had happened
while they slept, has died.

Edwards, who died Saturday, was 76 years old. NPR gave no
further details.

His cause of death was reported to be "metastatic bladder
cancer and a heart ailment."

Red Barber, left, is shown with Bob Edwards on Oct. 22, 1992.
(AP)