#OnThisDay in 1933, #PerryBotkinJr, American arranger, composer ("Nadia's Theme"), and producer (Incredible Bongo Band), born in New York City (d. 2021).
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1935, #BobbyVinton, American pop singer, known as "The Polish Prince" ("Roses Are Red (My Love)"; "Blue Velvet"; "My Melody Of Love"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
#HappyBirthday #90

Today in 2007, 18 years ago: in Blacksburg (United States), a young man kills 32 people on the campus of the Technical University of Virginia. It is the biggest massacre in a university.

#OnThisDay in 1939, #DustySpringfield [Mary O'Brien], British pop vocalist ("I Only Want To Be With You"; "Son Of A Preacher Man"), born in West Hampstead, London (d. 1999).
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1947, #GerryRafferty, Scottish guitarist and vocalist (Stealers Wheel - "Stuck In The Middle With You"; solo -"Baker Street"), born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (d. 2011).
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1963, #JimmyOsmond, American pop singer ("Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"), born in Canoga Park, California.
#HappyBirthday #62

"My comrades, who did far more and suffered more profoundly than I, are not here to speak. Because of this, I speak for them."

#OnThisDay, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.

Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.

#OnThisDay in 1971, #Selena [Quintanilla-Pérez], Mexican-American singer-songwriter known as the Queen of Tejano music (Grammy-1994), born in Lake Jackson, Texas (d. 1995).
#RIP

Today in 2013, 12 years ago: an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in the provinces of Sistan and Balochistan (Iran), leaving 35 dead and 117 injured.

#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music
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Chancelor Bennett AKA Chance The Rapper, rapper/singer/songwriter/producer, 1993
Aliaune Thiam AKA Akon, rapper/singer/songwriter/producer, 1973
Sean Cook, bass, Spiritualized, 1969
Dave Pirner, singer/songwriter/musician/producer, Soul Asylum, 1964
"Little" Jimmy Osmond, singer, solo, The Osmonds, 1963
Nick Berry, actor/singer, 1963
Jason Scheff, singer/musician, Chicago, 1962
Paul Buchanan, singer/songwriter, The Blue Nile, solo (session), 1956

Today in 1942, 83 years ago: King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.

#OnThisDay in 1973, #Akon, Senegalese American #singer-#songwriter and producer ("Trouble"; "Lonely"; "Smack That"), born in St. Louis, Missouri. ⋆.˚༘⋆
#HappyBirthday #52

Today in 1947, 78 years ago: Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

#OnThisDay in 1980, #MorrisStoloff, American violinist, Academy Award-winning composer, music director (Columbia Pictures, 1938-62), and orchestra leader (Moonglow/Theme from Picnic), died at 81.
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1993, #ChancetheRapper, American #rapper and record producer (Acid Rap; Coloring Book), born in Chicago, Illinois.
#HappyBirthday #32

#OnThisDay in 2007, 6th CMT Video Music Awards: #CarrieUnderwood & Kenny Chesney wins.

#OnThisDay in 2013, #GeorgeBeverlyShea, Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer (Billy Graham Crusades, 1947-2013), died at 104.
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1894, #BessieSmith, American blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues" (recorded over 200 songs), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1937). †
#RIP