MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1968
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer
Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. It opened
on this day in 1943 on Broadway.
Opening on this day in 1889.
Glen Campbell in a recent photo with wife Kim.
(FoxNews) – Glen Campbell’s wife Kim (shown above) says Alzheimer’s disease
has robbed the 80-year-old singer’s ability to play guitar. She said her husband occasionally breaks into a solo air guitar routine, which she says is "kind of fun."
Kim says Glen continues to sing, although the words are gibberish and "it’s not
a melody that we recognize, but you can tell that it’s a happy song and he has
a song in his heart," so that brings her great comfort.
Glen Campbell was diagnosed with the brain-ravaging disease in 2011 and
went on a world tour afterward. The singer known for such hit songs as
"Rhinestone Cowboy," ”Wichita Lineman" and "Southern Nights" was moved
to a long-term care facility in 2014.
SANDY KOZEL
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first man to
conduct a spacewalk in 1965.
The staff at the Pinellas Park hospice facility disconnected the
feeding tube on March 18, 2005, and Schiavo died on March 31,
2005.
John Edmund Andrew Phillips
(August 30, 1935 – March 18, 2001)
Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of
the vocal group The Mamas & the Papas.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
