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Robert Plant is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the
English rock band Led Zeppelin for all of its existence from 1968
until 1980, when the band broke up following the death of John
Bonham, the band’s drummer. He was inducted with the band
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their
list of the 100 best singers of all time. In 2011, Rolling Stone
readers ranked Plant the greatest of all lead singers. In 2006,
Hit Parader magazine named Plant the "Greatest Metal Vocalist
of All Time".           

In 2009, Plant was voted "the greatest voice in rock" in a poll
conducted by Planet Rock. Plant is 74 years old today.

Chuck Connors (1921-1992) and Johnny Crawford (1946-2021)

The Rifleman aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to
April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It
was one of the first primetime series on US television to
show a single parent raising a child.

The series starred Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas
McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain.

Chuck Connors with his Winchester Model 44-40 1892 rifle.

When Connors auditioned for the show, the director suddenly
threw a rifle at him; the former Major League Baseball player
caught it and got the job. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

A museum in New Jersey is giving people a fun and interactive experience from the past.

According to Reuters, the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park,
New Jersey, holds more than 150 working pinball machines that
visitors can play. Some of the machines date back to the 1950’s.

On August 19, 1909, the first race was held at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, now the home of the world’s most famous
motor racing competition, the Indianapolis 500.

Built on 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of Indianapolis, Indiana, the speedway was started by local businessmen as a
testing facility for Indiana’s growing automobile industry. The
idea was that occasional races at the track would pit cars from
different manufacturers against each other. After seeing what
these cars could do, spectators would presumably head down
to the showroom of their choice to get a closer look.

The rectangular two-and-a-half-mile track linked four turns, each
exactly 440 yards from start to finish, by two long and two short
straight sections. In that first five-mile race on August 19, 1909,
12,000 spectators watched Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer
win with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. The track’s
surface of crushed rock and tar proved a disaster, breaking up
in a number of places and causing the deaths of two drivers,
two mechanics and two spectators.

The surface was soon replaced with 3.2 million paving bricks,
laid in a bed of sand and fixed with mortar. Dubbed “The
Brickyard,” the speedway reopened in December 1909.

Louis Schwitzer (center) with his team.          
          
         

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta

AMC Theatres announced Thursday that it will play Grease in 135
of its theaters this weekend as a way of paying tribute to the
Paramount film’s iconic star, the late Olivia Newton-John. She
died Aug. 15 at her ranch in Southern California.

The cost per moviegoer will be $5, with $1 of every ticket sold
going to AMC’s charitable fund, AMC Cares. The proceeds will
be donated to breast cancer research.

First released in 1978, Grease is still considered one of the most enduring film musicals of all time.