“Crocodile Rock” became Elton John’s first U.S. number-one single, staying at the top spot for three weeks. 

Sir Elton Hercules John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) will
turn 66 on March 25.

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1950s

Original McDonalds Ronald Clown, 1963

(Fox News) – A California book repairer reportedly knew something was unusual
when she opened up an old Bible found last week amid thousands of materials
donated to the Friends of the Sacramento Public Library.

The Bible was signed by 30 players and manager Fred Haney from the 1953
Pittsburgh Pirates and was given to general manager Rickey, who was best
known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by signing Jackie
Robinson six years earlier when he ran the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The restored Bible could fetch as much as $800 according to collectors of
baseball memorabilia.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted.

The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, but it’s the coin’s
back story that adds to its cachet: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered
in a car wreck that killed its owner, declared a fake, forgotten in a closet for decades
and then found to be the real deal.

It all adds up to an expected sale of $2.5 million or more when it goes on the auction block this spring in suburban Chicago.

"Basically a coin with a story and a rarity will trump everything else," said Douglas
Mudd, curator of the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., which has held the coin for most of the past 10 years. He expects it
could fetch more than Heritage Auction’s estimate, perhaps $4 million and even up
to $5 million.

"A lot of this is ego," he said of collectors who could bid for it. "I have one of these
and nobody else does."

The sellers who will split the money equally are four Virginia siblings who never let
the coin slip from their hands, even when it was deemed a fake.

The nickel made its debut in a most unusual way. It was struck at the Philadelphia
mint in late 1912, the final year of its issue, but with the year 1913 cast on its face,
the same year the beloved Buffalo Head nickel was introduced.