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I refer you to my post of Saturday 13-1-18.

 

That was the day of the accident; today is the fiftieth anniversary of Masterton's death.

 

 

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Meyer Lansky went swimming with the fishes on this day 35 years ago, aged 80.

 

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Glenn Corbett came to the end of the route on this day 25 years ago, aged 59.

 

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Eugene Cernan took his final walk on the moon on this day one year ago, aged 82.

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5 years ago today, Mugabe deputy John Nkomo died at the age of 78, in turn giving me my first DDP hit.

 

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Checkmate for Bobby Fischer on this day 10 years ago, aged 64.

 

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Johnny Otis took the final beat of his heart today in 2002. This book is probably not how he'd want to be remembered:

 

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Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh died on this day 21 years ago.

He was later cremated, and some of his ashes were placed in the space probe New Horizons.

9 and a half years after launch, the spacecraft flew past Tombaugh's most famous and important discovery - Pluto.

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It was a dark and stormy night* back in 1873 when Edward Bulwer-Lytton, novelist, playwright, poet, politician, succumbed to post-operative complications of an operation to cure his deafness, aged 69, thus demonstrating the pain is mightier than the sword.

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*disclaimer - it might not have been stormy.

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Chancellor of the Excheque-Out for CofE and latterly Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell on this day 55 years ago.

 

 

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The Sheik was defeated on this day 15 years ago, aged 78.

 

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The Three Stooges became The Two Stooges when Curly Howard died on this day 66 years ago, aged 48.

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Carl Perkins wore his blue suede shoes for the last time on this day 20 years ago, aged 65.

 

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Etta James realised “...and here we are in heaven” 6 years ago today. My Nan loved her. 

 

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Ah, she also became my first ever DDP success in the process!

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I always get her visually confused with Eartha Kitt.  

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No more diamonds for Audrey Hepburn after this day 25 years ago, aged 63.

 

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Louis XVI lost his head on this day 225 years ago, aged 38.

 

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George Orwell wasn't even close to making it to nineteen eighty-four, dying on this day in 1950 (aged 46).

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What's that, Joker? You'll be back? Somehow, I don't think you will be...

 

Heath Ledger died 10 years ago today.

 

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LBJ went all the way to heaven on this day 45 years ago, aged 64.

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"Crusher" Jerry Blackwell died today in 1995. One of the top big men workers in wrestling history. He was one of Vince McMahon's top picks for his national expansion roster, but Blackwell got bored waiting to record his first TV interview with Titan and he quit the promotion before he had technically joined. Surely would have been a Hulk Hogan opponent at Wrestlemania if he'd just stuck around five more minutes...

 

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The last cutback for Duke Kahanamoku on this day 50 years ago, aged 77.

 

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The last blues for Kid Ory on this day 45 years ago, aged 86.

 

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