By Mariana Smithfield
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist.
He was one of country music’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most successful and versatile country “crossover” singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. His biggest crossover hits include “It Was Almost Like a Song“, “Smoky Mountain Rain“, “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me“, “I Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World“, “Any Day Now“, and “Stranger in My House“. He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 35 number-one country hits, fourth to George Strait, Conway Twitty, and Merle Haggard. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Robert Service (poet) –
- Ethel Merman (singer & actress) –
- William Kennedy (American writer) –
- Marilyn Horne (opera singer) –
- Ronnie Milsap (singer) –
- Debbie Allen (actress, dancer, & choreographer) –
- Sade (singer) –
- Kate Moss (supermodel) –
- Aaliyah (singer) –
Died
- Carole Lombard (actress) –
- Ted Cassidy (actor) –
- Leland Stowe (journalist) –
- Andrew Wyeth (artist) –
- Carl Milton Smith (American country music singer) –
- Pauline Friedman Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby advice columnist) –
- Russell Johnson (actor) –
Events
- Ivan the Terrible crowned as first Russian czar–
- Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.–
- US Department of State issues a ban on travel to Cuba–
- Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians became the first tribe in the U.S. to issue tribal license plates–
- Operation Desert Storm launched–
- 121.5-pound blue catfish caught, Lake Texoma, Texas–
Weather
- Last day of “The Great Snowstorm” raged from Georgia to Maine: 30+ inches in New York, New Jersey, and New England, with unusually high tides–
- Avalanche in northern Idaho–
- -40 degrees F in Coggon, Iowa–
- An arctic blast dropped temperatures across the Midwest and Northeast: -50 degrees F at Big Black River, Maine; -46 degrees F at Embarrass, Minnesota; -39 F at Berlin, New Hampshire; and -38 F at Monticello, Iowa–
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