Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018)
Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul” has died after a battle with advanced
pancreatic cancer.
Franklin received numerous honors throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which she became the first
female performer to be inducted.
Flowers and tributes are placed on the star for Aretha Franklin on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (AFP)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1977.
Forest Hill Cemetery.
Sports Illustrated was published for the first time on this day in
1954. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold
before the first issue came off of the presses.
Madonna Louise Ciccone is 60 years young today.
Pop icon and diva Madonna was one of the most prominent faces in
music during the 1980’s. She has sold over 300 million albums across
the world. Her best known songs include "Like A Virgin," "Papa Don’t
Preach," and "4 Minutes."
She grew up in an Italian-American household and was a straight A
student, as well as a cheerleader, in high school. After earning a degree
from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, she
moved to New York City to pursue dance.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1945, the U.S. B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb
named "Little Boy"(pictured below) was dropped over the center
of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed.
The above August 6, 1945 file photos shows the destruction from the atomic bomb explosion on Hiroshima, Japan.
The Voting Rights Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson
on this day in 1965.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. at the
Capitol after the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini)
Pope Paul VI reigned from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978 at age 80.
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) He died
in London of a heart attack.
Fleming was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His
best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world’s
first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mold
Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris
Chain. Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming’s
discovery.
Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015)
Fifteen years and five #1 hits after breaking into the music industry by
working in a style completely different from her famous father’s, Natalie
Cole stopped distancing herself from Nat King Cole’s musical legacy
and instead embraced it, recording an entire album of standards from
her father’s old repertoire. Though it exposed her to charges of
exploiting his memory, it also gave Cole the biggest hit album of her
professional career: Unforgettable: With Love, which climbed to the
top of the Billboard 200 album chart on July 27, 1991.
Cole had "ongoing health issues". According to Cole’s publicist, Maureen O’Connor, the singer’s death was the result of congestive heart failure. She
was 65. (HISTORY)
Natalie and Nat King Cole singing.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying
the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long
Knives."
America’s food and drug safety took a big step forward with the
Pure Food and Drug Act on this day in 1906.
The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth on this day in
1971. The three cosmonauts (left) were found dead inside.
Margaret Mitchell (above) with her book, "Gone with the Wind,"
that was published on this day 1936.
The 1939 epic historical romance film, adapted from the Margaret
Mitchell novel.
On this day in 1994, The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped
Tonya Harding (left) of the 1994 national championship and banned
her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan (right).
Nancy Kerrigan just after the attack.
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)
Twentieth-century African-American singer and actress Lena Horne
famously sang "Stormy Weather," won a Grammy Award for a 1981
album entitled Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and appeared
in film versions of The Wiz, Broadway Rhythm, and Ziegfeld Follies.
Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the
1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of
congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.
