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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Aug 1950 | Richard Cowsill: Newport, Rhode Island -- Rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly) | |||
| 26 Aug 1950 | 39th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (4-1) | |||
| 26 Aug 1950 | birth Bill and Dick Cowsill, The Cowsills, (1967 US No.2 single 'The Rain The Park & Other Things', 1969 US No.2 single the theme from 'Hair'). TV's Partridge Family was based on the family. | |||
| 26 Aug 1950 |
death Ransom Eli Olds Died 26 Aug 1950 at age 86 (born 3 Jun 1864). American inventor and automobile manufacturer, designer of the three-horsepower, curved-dash Oldsmobile, the first commercially successful American-made automobile and the first to use a progressive assembly system, which foreshadowed modern mass-production methods. When young, he worked in his father's machine and repair shop, in Lansing, Mich., where he experimented with small steam engines. In 1887, for a distance of one block, Olds drove Lansing's first automobile, an experimental steam vehicle. He continued to work with steam, gasoline and electric power. Eventually he produced a gasoline-powered vehicle that seated four persons and could do 18 miles per hour on level ground. |
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| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Aug 1975 | Shea Seals: NBA guard (LA Lakers) | |||
| 26 Aug 1975 | Cullen Landis: Entertainer, dies at 80 | |||
| 25 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Aug 2000 | Douglas Allen Woody former bass player with The Allman Brothers was found dead in New York. | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 26 Aug 2005 | A plaque was unveiled by fellow Quarrymen John Duff Lowe and Colin Hantonat at the site where the band which was to become The Beatles made their first recordings. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison recorded a version of Buddy Holly's 'That'll Be The Day' and a Lennon-Harrison song, 'In Spite Of All The Danger' as The Quarrymen at the Percy Philips studio in Liverpool in 1958. | |||
| 26 Aug 2005 | A post office near the Los Angeles studio where Ray Charles recorded much of his music was renamed after the R&B legend. A federal bill was signed by US President George Bush to rename the post office. Charles, died in June 2004 at the age of 74, suffering from acute liver disease. | |||
| 26 Aug 2005 | Green Day were named best band on the planet at the 12th annual Kerrang! rock awards, they also won best live act. Welsh metal group Funeral For a Friend won best British band, while New Jersey's My Chemical Romance picked up best album and best video. Iron Maiden were inducted into the Kerrang! Hall of Fame and Marilyn Manson took the Icon Award. Best single went to Foo Fighters' 'Best of You' while Trivium were named best international newcomers. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor was named classic songwriter while Killing Joke were given a lifetime achievement accolade. | |||
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