Oregon became the 33rd member of the Union.

ED DANAHUE

Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is 78 today.

Kenny Rogers attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston
and joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the
band dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He starred as
race car driver Brewster Baker in the 1982 comedy/drama film
Six Pack. Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2013.

Oregon was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859. Founded as a refuge
from disputes over slavery, Oregon had a "whites only" clause in its original state Constitution.

Ed Donahue