John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Actor, producer, and musician Johnny Depp has won the Golden Globe Award
and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. He became a teen idol on the
1980s syndicated television series 21 Jump Street (1987- 1991).
Depp dreamed of being a rock musician and dropped out of school at fifteen to
perform music with his band.
1990
2011
Father and daughter, Frank and Nancy Sinatra in 1957.
Nancy Sandra Sinatra was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Nancy Sinatra recorded the hit songs "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’"
and "Sugar Town," she is the daughter of famous crooner Frank Sinatra,
they recorded a hit duet version of the song "Somethin’ Stupid." Nancy
also had a brief acting career in the mid-1960s including a co-starring role
with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway (1968), and with Peter Fonda
in The Wild Angels (1966). In Marriage on the Rocks (1965), Frank and
Nancy Sinatra played a fictional father and daughter.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1998 James Byrd (above) was killed in Jasper TX
when he was picked up three white men while hitch-hiking. He
was beaten and chained behind their pick-up truck (below) and
dragged for three miles.
Takeover was complete on this day in 1948.
On this day in 1972, the musical "Grease" opened on Broadway.
Grease closed on Feb. 23, 1997 to make way for a revival of Annie.
Upon it’s release, "Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones
their first number one in the US. In 2004, Rolling Stone
magazine placed the song in the second spot on its list of
"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was added to the
National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in
2006.
The song “Be-Bop-A-Lula” sold well. It was successful on three
singles charts: it peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop music chart,
#8 on the R&B chart, and also made the top ten on the C&W
Best Seller chart peaking at #5.
Gene Vincent (second from left) and the Blue Caps.
Gene Vincent (Vincent Eugene Craddock)
(February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971)
