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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh)
(May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998)
Tammy Waynette was one of country music’s best-
known artists and biggest-selling female singers
during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s.
Wynette charted 20 number-one songs on the
Billboard Country Chart. She is credited with
having defined the role of women in country
music during the 1970s.
Tammy died on April 6, 1998, at the age of 55
while sleeping on her couch in her Nashville,
Tennessee, home. Her doctor from said she
died of a blood clot in her lung.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)
Washington was soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who
served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to
1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of
the Continental Army, George Washington led the Patriot forces
to victory in the American Revolutionary War.
FIRST WINTER OLYMPICS WAS HELD IN 1924
On January 25, 1924, the first Winter Olympics took off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. Spectators were thrilled by the ski
jump and bobsled as well as 12 other events involving a total of
six sports. The “International Winter Sports Week,” as it was
known, was a great success, and in 1928 the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) officially designated the Winter Games,
staged in St. Moritz, Switzerland, as the second Winter Olympics.
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