Entertainment History
On February 26th, 1966, the Rolling Stones released the single "19th
Nervous Breakdown. In 1970, The Beatles' album "Hey Jude" was released
in the U.S. and Canada. It was made up of singles that were previously
unavailable in the U.S. In 1977, bluesman Bukka White, also known as
Booker T. Washington, died in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 70. His
guitar-playing influenced B.B. King and many others. In 1986, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet and author Robert Penn Warren was named the first
"poet laureate" of the U.S. by the Library of Congress. In 1990, singer
Cornell Gunter of The Coasters was found shot to death in his car in
Las Vegas. Gunter had joined The Coasters in 1957. In 1993, police in
Augusta, Georgia, fined singer Bobby Brown $580 for pretending to have
sex with one of his backup singers during a concert. She also was fined
$580. In 1998, a jury rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen
against Oprah Winfrey. The suit accused her of disparaging them on her
talk show by implying U.S. beef was unsafe. In 2004, Rosie O'Donnell
and girlfriend Kelli Carpenter were married at City Hall in San
Francisco. They have since split. Today's Birthdays: Game show host Tom
Kennedy ("Name That Tune," 'Split Second") is 89. Singer Fats Domino is
88. Guitarist Paul Cotton of Poco is 73. Actor-director Bill Duke is
73. Singer Mitch Ryder is 71. Keyboardist Jonathan Cain of Journey is
66. Singer Michael Bolton is 63. Actor Greg Germann ("Ally McBeal") is
58. Actor Mark Dacascos ("Hawaii Five-0") is 52. Actress Jennifer Grant
is 50. Bassist Tim Commerford (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine) is
48. Singer Erykah Badu (AYR'-ih-kah BAH'-doo) is 45. Singer Rico Wade
of Society of Soul is 44. Singer Kyle Norman of Jagged Edge is 41.
Drummer Chris Culos of O.A.R. is 37. Singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 37.
Singer Nate Ruess (ROOS) of fun. is 34. Actress Taylor Dooley ("The
Adventures of Shark Boy and a Lava Girl in 3-D") is 23.
