Mt. St. Helens as it looks today from downtown Portland, Oregon.

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris)
(born Stevland Hardaway Judkins
Wonder suffered from retinopathy of prematurity, which caused his
retinas to detach, making blind. He signed with Motown Records
when he was eleven years old and released the hit song “Fingertips
(Pt. 2)" when he was thirteen. His album, “Songs in the Key of Life”,
was ranked at 56 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the top 500
albums of all time.
1977
John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut.
(May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859)
John Brown was an abolitionist who led armed anti-slavery
raids in Kansas and at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He studied
to become a Congregationalist minister; however, he soon
ran out of money and was forced to work at his father’s
tannery. He strongly believed that violent action was the
only way to bring an end to slavery.
