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On this day in 2009: Kim Peek, inspiration for the movie Rain Man, dies of a heart attack.
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On this day in 1848: Emily Bronte dies of complications from a cold.
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On this day in 1940: Phil Ochs, folk singer, was born in El Paso, Texas
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On this day in 1918: Professor Longhair was born. He was an incredible jazz pianist, famous for such songs as “Tipitina” and “Mardi Gras in New Orleans”.
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On this day in 1957: Meredith Wilson debuted his musical “The Music Man” at the Majestic Theatre, New York City
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On this day in 1960: Neil Sedaka releases the criminally catchy “Calendar Girl”.
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On this day in 1777: George Washington’s Continental Army enters the military camp Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Cold and starvation ensue.
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On this day in 1918: Robert Ripley debuts his Ripley’s Believe it or Not! cartoon in the New York Globe. Back then, it was known as Champs and Chumps, and focused on sports.
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On this day in 1974: Ron Wood joins the Rolling Stones.
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On this day in 1941: Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
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