(between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506)

The first Columbus Day celebration took place on October
12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York, better
known as Tammany Hall, held an event to commemorate
the 300th anniversary of the historic landing.
 

In 1966, Mariano A. Lucca, from Buffalo, New York, founded
the National Columbus Day Committee, which lobbied to
make Columbus Day a federal holiday.      

These efforts were successful and legislation to create
Columbus Day as a federal holiday was signed by then
President Lyndon Johnson (below) on June 28, 1968,
to be effective beginning in 1971.       

Eddie Templeton (pictured) found a portion of an Ice Age-
era elephant tusk exposed in a steep embankment while exploring in Madison County, Mississippi. (Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality).

Columbian mammoths (below) were larger than wooly mammoths that roamed the northern regions of North
America, growing up to 15 feet and weighing over 10
tons, according to the MDEQ. (Mississippi Department
of Environmental Quality)
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TIM MAGUIRE

SANDY KOZEL

 
William (Billy) Martin Joel is 73 years old today.      
  

Billy Joel, nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his first single and
signature song of the same name as well as the similarly named
1973 album, he has led a commercially successful career as a
solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums
from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001.

He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as 
the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-
selling solo artist in the U.S.with over 160 million records sold
worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2,
is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

ROSS SIMPSON

Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh)
(May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)

Tammy Waynette was one of country music’s best-
known artists and biggest-selling female singers
during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s.

Wynette charted 20 number-one songs on the
Billboard Country Chart. She is credited with
having defined the role of women in country
music during the 1970s.

Tammy died on April 6, 1998, at the age of 55
while sleeping on her couch in her Nashville,
Tennessee, home. Her doctor from said she
died of a blood clot in her lung.