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Theodore (Ted) Samuel Williams
(August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002)

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On this day in 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13,
preventing a planned moon landing.

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SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line
(Società di navigazione Italia) home-ported in Genoa, Italy,
most famous for her sinking on this day in 1956, when 46
people died. Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, the        
Eastbound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line            
collided with it in one of history’s most infamous maritime 
disasters.

   
                                                      
  
 

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)
Born in Tacoma, Washington. 

Singer and actor.Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings,
and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. In 1948, American polls
declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson 
and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his records
filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded
radio music. Bing Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way.          

Bing Crosby (right) gives Bob Hope (left) a golf lesson.

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On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.

Loretta at age 9.

Loretta Lynn is a country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums
in a career spanning almost 60 years. She is famous for hits such as "You
Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’ 
(with) Lovin’ on Your Mind)", "One’s on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal
Miner’s Daughter." Loretta is 87 years young today.