Dolly recorded her first single “Puppy Love” for Goldband
              Records at the age of 13. The song was written by Dolly
              Parton and her Uncle Bill Owens.

Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean turned 71 in January.

British born actress Emma Thompson won the Academy Award for Best Actress
for her role as Margaret Schlegel in the 1992 film Howards End. She also won
an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her script for the 1995 film
Sense and Sensibility, which she also starred in. Her other film credits include 
Actually (2003) and Stranger than Fiction (2006). In 2004, she portrayed
Professor Sybill Trelawney (below) in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban.

The song "Ain’t That a Shame" was written by Fats Domino and Dave
Bartholomew.  released by Imperial Records. I became a hit, eventually
selling a million copies. It reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart
and number 10 on the pop chart. The song is ranked number 438 on
Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. turned 89 on
February 26.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1865

Occurred on this day in 1912.

The Ampex Design Team with the first broadcast videotape
recorder on this day in 1956
.

The Ampex Mark IV prototype Quad Videotape Recorder is seen
here being demonstrated to CBS television network affiliate representatives.

Loretta Lynn (Webb) is 85 today.

Loretta Lynn released a new album called Full Circle on March 4,
2016, marking her first studio album in more than 10 years. 

Loretta focused on raising a family until receiving a guitar for an anniversary
gift. After teaching herself to play, she went on to play with the Pen Brothers’
band The Westerners.

SANDY KOZEL

          
              It was on this day in 1970.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826)

Pope John Paul ll (left) shakes hands with Rabbi Eilo Toaff upon
visiting the main Synagogue in Rome on this day in 1986.

The Pope’s meeting marked the beginning of a new era in Catholic-Jewish
relations. It was the first time a pope had entered the Rome synagogue.

On this day in 1964,Sidney Poitier became the first African- American
to win an Academy Award Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Lilies
of the Field.

Sidney Poitier turned 90, February 20.