PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — After a lengthy 20-month
pregnancy, Rose-Tu, a 30-year-old Asian elephant at
the Oregon Zoo, gave birth to a healthy female calf
at 4:29 p.m. on Saturday February 1st.
The newborn, weighing around 200 pounds, is bonding
with her mother as zoo staff maintain a respectful
distance.
Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P.
“The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with pilot Roger Peterson,
were killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane
crashed in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on
a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota.
Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error.
Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with
“That’ll Be the Day.”
After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered
a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance
Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced
Holly’s band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and
Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane.
Singer Don McLean (above) memorialized Holly, Valens and
Richardson in the 1972 No. 1 hit “American Pie,” which
refers to February 3, 1959 as “the day the music died.”
Holly’s headstone in the City of Lubbock Cemetery.
The cultural icon Beyoncé, also took home the award for best country
duo/group performance for “II MOST WANTED” featuring
Miley Cyrus.
Newly elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair
David Hogg has previously called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for the
defunding of police.
