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Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean is 70 today.

Dolly Parton grew up alongside eleven brothers and sisters in a one-
room cabin in Appalachia, Tennessee; she learned to sing while
attending the Pentecostal Church of God. 

She was given the nickname The Queen of Country Music, after
releasing more #1 hits than any other country singer in U.S. history.

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Carlota Bradley


Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

At age 25, King became the pastor at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
in Alabama.

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ACTOR ROBERT DUVALL IS 84 TODAY


Robert Selden Duvall

Actor and director Robert Duvall has been nominated for seven Academy
Awards
, winning for his performance in Tender Mercies (1983), seven
Golden Globes, winning four, and has multiple nominations and one win
each of the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Emmy Award. He
also received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Duvall has starred in
some of the most acclaimed and popular films and television series of
all time, including To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Twilight Zone (1963),
The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now
(1979), and Falling Down (1993).


Robert Duvall from Apocalypse Now

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SONG RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1941


“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”was nominated for an Academy
Award
for Best Song.

The song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” was recorded at Decca‘s
Hollywood studios nearly a year before the United States entered
World War II but after the start of a peacetime draft to expand the
armed forces in anticipation of American involvement in war. The
flipside was "Bounce Me, Brother, With a Solid Four". The Andrews
Sisters
introduced both songs in the Abbott and Costello 1941 film,
Buck Privates
which was in production when they made the record.
 

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SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1936


Miller was in the U.S. Army stationed in Korea, 1952.
 


Roger Dean Miller, Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992)

Country singer-songwriter Roger Miller sang "King of the Road," "Dang
Me," and "England Swings." He has won more than ten Grammy Awards
for his music.

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