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On this day in 1975 One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers, Graham Hill, 46, is killed along with his four passengers when a plane he was piloting crashes on a golf course in Hertfordshire.
Also George Harrison died on this day in 2001 aged 58.
Also George Harrison died on this day in 2001 aged 58.
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On this day 29-11- 2001 George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the home of a friend in Los Angeles.
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1953 Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party
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1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
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1989 Stefan Edberg of Sweden claims his first and only ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title with a 4–6, 7–6, 6–3, 6–1 win over defending champion Boris Becker at Madison Square Garden, NYC
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Last one for today. 2018 David Attenborough warns collapse of civilisation and the natural world on the horizon at UN climate summit in Poland.
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On this day, Dec 07 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, "A day that will live in Infamy"
Japanese bombers launched a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, precipitating the entry of the United States into World War II.
Japanese bombers launched a surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, precipitating the entry of the United States into World War II.
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Greg Lake, (Gregory Stuart Lake), British musician (born Nov. 10, 1947, Poole, Dorset, Eng.—died Dec. 7, 2016, London, Eng.), was a founding member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson Lake & Palmer (ELP). Lake was admired for his soaring vocals and his musicianship on the bass and lead guitars. He studied guitar from the age of 12, and he played with a succession of groups, taking up songwriting along the way. In the late 1960s Lake was asked by a boyhood friend, guitarist Robert Fripp, to join a band. The ensemble, King Crimson, debuted in 1969 at a large free concert, with Lake playing bass and singing. Lake’s vocals anchored the group’s seminal first album, In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), as well as the 1970 follow-up, In the Wake of Poseidon. However, at a 1969 concert at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, Lake met keyboardist Keith Emerson, then playing with the Nice, and they decided to form, with drummer Carl Palmer, the art-rock band ELP. That group debuted in 1970 at the Plymouth Guildhall. The ensemble’s self-titled debut album, released in 1970, featured long eclectic songs that focused on keyboard rather than guitar and blended classical influences with rock music, and it charted on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The album contained ELP’s biggest hit single, “Lucky Man,” written and sung by Lake. Subsequent releases, including rock versions of classical songs, were also hits. Brain Salad Surgery (1973) was ELP’s most-successful LP, and it was followed by a three-album concert recording, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends (1974). The symphonic bombast of art rock fell out of favour by the late 1970s, however, though Lake had a solo hit in 1975 with “I Believe in Father Christmas,” which became a seasonal standard. He released two solo albums and later participated in a reunited ELP.
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John Lennon fatally shot by deranged fan
On this day in 1980, British musician John Lennon—who rose to fame with the Beatles and had a successful solo career—was fatally shot by Mark David Chapman in New York City, causing a global outpouring of grief.
On this day in 1980, British musician John Lennon—who rose to fame with the Beatles and had a successful solo career—was fatally shot by Mark David Chapman in New York City, causing a global outpouring of grief.
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Sammy Davis, Jr., (born December 8, 1925, New York, New York, U.S.—died May 16, 1990, Los Angeles, California), American singer, dancer, and entertainer.
On this day December 8th 1542, Mary Queen of Scots born In Linlithgow Palace in Scotland, a daughter is born to James V, the dying king of Scotland. Named Mary, she was the only surviving child of her father and ascended to the Scottish throne when the king died just six days after her birth.
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American singer and songwriter James Brown, known as “the Godfather of Soul,” died in Atlanta.
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Charlie Chaplin, the British comedic actor and director who is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in motion-picture history, died in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. [Did you know that Chaplin's body was stolen and held for ransom? Read about seven individuals who were not allowed to rest in peace .]
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