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Robert Anthony Plant is 68 today.
Plant quit his training as a chartered accountant and became
deeply involved in the England Midlands blues scene. After
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, he began working as a solo
artist. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed duet album
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss called Raising Sand.
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Charles Robert Redford Jr. is 80 years old today.
Redford was asked to leave the University of Colorado, after
which he studied painting at the Pratt Institute and acting at
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He kick started his
acting career with guest starring roles on such TV shows as
Perry Mason (CBS), The Untouchables (ABC) and Alfred
Hitchcock Presents (NBC/CBS). He was also featured in a
episode of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone.
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The song "Last Train to Clarksville" was written by the songwriting duo Tommy
Boyce and Bobby Hart and was the debut single by The Monkees. It topped the
Billboard Hot 100 on November 5, 1966. Lead vocals were done by the groups
drummer Micky Dolenz. Clarksville was featured in seven episodes of the
Monkees TV show; the most for any Monkees song.
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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)
Madonna Louise Ciccone is 58 years young today.
Madonna 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. She received a Golden Globe
Award for Best Actress for her role as Eva Peron in the 1997 film Evita.
The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768 and appeared in fifteen
official editions. On March 14, 2012, Britannica announced it would not be printing
any more sets of its paper version, which accounted for less than 1 percent of its
sales, and would instead focus on its DVD and on-line versions. It had not printed
any new sets since 2010. The "Book of the Year" continues to be published even
today.
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