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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III
(December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994)

Cab Calloway was an American jazz singer, dancer,
bandleader and actor.

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Texan Dooley Wilson is best known for his role as Rick’s
friend and piano player Sam in “Casablanca.”

 

(Fox News) – A cassette tape containing a 51-year-old interview of
John Lennon and Yoko Ono has been sold for $75,000.

According to Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, a Danish auction
house, the five-figure winning bid included the hammer price and
buyer’s premium and supplied the winning bidder an original 33-
minute recording, an unreleased song and photographs of the
famous couple.

Representatives at the auction house did not immediately respond
to Fox News’ request for comment about the buyer who won a
piece of The Beatles history.

 

 

Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

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On this day in 1950, China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN
forces to retreat.

The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a
walled ghetto on this day in 1940.

On this day in 1973, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court
that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key
Watergate tape. Woods was President Nixon‘s personal
secretary.

The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the
Hollywood Theater in New York City on this day in 1942.

Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) is 78 today.

Considered the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner released
the single "Proud Mary" in 1971 and has received eleven
Grammy Awards, collaborating with many other popular artists.

Tina  picked cotton with her parents as sharecroppers, and soon
moved in with her great-aunt after her parents divorced in 1978
and later worked as a nurse’s aide, dreaming of becoming a
nurse someday.

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Alexander P. Butterfield (above) informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of President
Nixon’s recorded White House tapes on this day in 1973.

It was on this day in 1999.

Martha Stewart was convicted of insider trading and sent to jail
on this day in 2004. She is shown above with U.S. marshals, as
they leave the Manhattan federal court in New York.
 

On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL,
and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.

Apollo 11 Astronauts from left: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins &
Buzz Aldrin.