Jody Miller (November 29, 1941 – October 6, 2022)
(Fox News) – "Queen of the House" country singer Jody Miller has
died.
Miller died on Thursday in Blanchard, Oklahoma, from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, Fox News Digital confirmed.
Miller’s first single "He Walks Like a Man" hit the Billboard Hot 100
chart in 1964. She went on to win a Grammy Award for one of her
biggest hits, "Queen of the House," the following year.
MIKE GRACIA
Singer John J. (Cougar) Mellencamp is 71 years old today.
Mellencamp has sold over 30 million albums in the US and
over 60 million worldwide.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 2018.
On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno staged the
first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from
an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.
Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’ holdup
but, these previous crimes had all been burglaries of stationary
trains sitting in depots or freight yards.
The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop a
moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could carry
out their crime without risking interference from the law or curious bystanders.
On October 5, 1892, the famous Dalton Gang attempted the daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time.
But if the gang members believed the sheer audacity of their plan
would bring them success, they were sadly mistaken. Instead, they
were nearly all killed by quick-acting townspeople.
For a year and a half, the Dalton Gang had terrorized the state of Oklahoma, mostly concentrating on train holdups. Though the
gang had more murders than loot to their credit, they had managed
to successfully evade the best efforts of Oklahoma law officers to
bring them to justice.
