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Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song “When a Man Loves a Woman“, a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, Gold-certified disc from the RIAA.

Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. In later years, Sledge received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation‘s Career Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

TODAY’S ALMANAC

1660s

• 1664: FRENCH WEST INDIA COMPANY SECURED ROYAL GRANT OF ALL FRENCH COLONIES IN AMERICA

1770s

• BORN 1779: THOMAS MOORE (POET)

1840s

• DIED 1843: NOAH WEBSTER (WRITER)

1870s

• 1870: FIRST STAMP AUCTION IN THE U.S.

1890s

• 1892: THE SIERRA CLUB, DEDICATED TO THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, WAS FOUNDED

1900s

• BORN 1908: IAN FLEMING (WRITER)

1910s

• 1915: PATENT APPLICATION FOR JOHN B. GRUELLE’S RAGGEDY ANN DOLL FILED
• 1919: R.H. MACY & CO. WAS INCORPORATED

1920s

• 1929: ON WITH THE SHOW, THE FIRST ALL-COLOR TALKING PICTURE, PREMIERED IN NEW YORK CITY

1930s

• BORN 1930: FRANK DRAKE (AMERICAN ASTRONOMER)
• 1937: GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE OPENED TO VEHICLES

1940s

• BORN 1944: RUDY GIULIANI (POLITICIAN)
• BORN 1944: GLADYS KNIGHT (SINGER)
• BORN 1945: HUNTER “PATCH” ADAMS (DOCTOR)

1960s

• BORN 1964: CHRISTA MILLER (ACTRESS)
• 1966: WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN BY PERCY SLEDGE TOPPED CHARTS
• BORN 1968: KYLIE MINOGUE (SINGER)

1970s

• 1971: MARS 3 ORBITER AND LANDER WAS LAUNCHED50 Years Ago
• BORN 1977: ELISABETH HASSELBECK (THE VIEW CO-HOST)
• BORN 1979: JESSE BRADFORD (ACTOR)

1980s

• 1984: AN UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER KILLED DURING THE VIETNAM WAR WAS BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS IN THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA. (HE WAS LATER IDENTIFIED VIA DNA TESTING, AND EXHUMED.)
• 1985: THE COVER OF VANITY FAIR FEATURED A PHOTO OF PRESIDENT REAGAN AND FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN KISSING
• BORN 1986: MICHAEL OHER (FOOTBALL PLAYER)

1990s

• DIED 1998: PHIL HARTMAN (ACTOR)
• 1998: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTOGRAPHED UNKNOWN OBJECT TMR-1C
• BORN 1999: CAMERON BOYCE (ACTOR)

2000s

• DIED 2002: MILDRED WIRT BENSON (ORIGINAL AUTHOR, UNDER THE PEN NAME CAROLYN KEENE, OF THE NANCY DREW MYSTERY BOOKS)
• 2004: “BABY JESSICA” MCCLURE, WHO HELD THE ATTENTION OF THE NATION WHEN SHE FELL INTO AN ABANDONED WELL AT 18 MONTHS OLD, GRADUATED FROM GREENWOOD HIGH SCHOOL IN TEXAS
• 2008: IN GERMANY, SEVERAL PEOPLE REPORTED SEEING WHAT SEEMED TO BE UFOS. A POLICE INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT IT WAS A 29-YEAR OLD MAN PROPOSING TO HIS GIRLFRIEND ACCOMPANIED BY GLOWING PAPER LANTERNS

2010s

• DIED 2014: MAYA ANGELOU (POET)

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