By Lucy Santiago
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Agneta Åse Fältskog KVO1kl (born 5 April 1950), known as Agnetha Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈnêːta ˈfɛ̂ltskuːɡ] ⓘ) and Anna Fältskog, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and a member of the pop group ABBA. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 self-titled debut album. She rose to international stardom in the 1970s as a member of ABBA, which is one of the best-selling music acts in history. She is the youngest member of ABBA, and the only one born in the 1950s.
After the unofficial break-up of ABBA in December 1982, she renewed success later in the decade as a solo artist with three albums and a leading role in a movie. She became reclusive in the 1990s, avoiding outside publicity and residing on the Stockholm County island of Ekerö.
Fältskog stopped recording music for 16 years until she released a new album, My Colouring Book, in 2004. She returned in 2013 with A, her highest UK charting solo album to date. ABBA has since reformed, and Fältskog has resumed her previous role with the group.
She and fellow ABBA member, Björn Ulvaeus were married from 1971 to 1980.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
I live in the Midwest and am interested in planting day lilies. What time of year should I plant them?
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Solar eclipse
Puzzle of the Day
What do you get from a pampered cow?
Born
- Booker T. Washington (educator & activist) –
- Washington Atlee Burpee (botanist, seedsman) –
- Spencer Tracy (actor) –
- Bette Davis (actress) –
- Gregory Peck (actor) –
- Colin Powell (former U.S. Secretary of State) –
- Agnetha Fältskog (singer in the Swedish rock group ABBA) –
- Franklin Chang-Diaz (astronaut) –
- Krista Allen (actress) –
Died
- Howard Hughes (industrialist & producer) –
- Sam Walton (businessman) –
- Kurt Cobain (musician) –
- Allen Ginsberg (poet) –
- Lee Petty (race car driver) –
- Saul Bellow (author of Humboldt’s Gift and other novels, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) –
- Charlton Heston (actor) –
Events
- Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe–
- New York Chamber of Commerce formed–
- Anne Sullivan made a breakthrough with blind/deaf student Helen Keller, by conveying the meaning of the word water–
- Jess Willard knocked out Jack Johnson to win world heavyweight boxing title–
- Women granted the right to vote in British Columbia–
- Richard J. Daley elected to his first term as Chicago’s 39th mayor–
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, declared a security risk in 1954, is named winner of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Enrico Ferni award–
- My Fair Lady won an Academy Award for Best Picture–
- Bobby Orr first NHL defenseman to win scoring title–
- Basketball star Kareem Abdul- Jabbar of the L.A. Lakers became the highest scoring player in NBA history. He reached 31,420 points, beating Wilt Chamberlain’s record–
- A camel named Bert was deputized, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California –
- A minor earthquake shook southeastern Massachusetts–
- Elsie McLean, at 102 years old, became the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course–
Weather
- This was the last day of a four-day snowstorm in the northern Rockies and the Black Hills, with the town of Lead, South Dakota, receiving 52 inches–
- A blizzard left 27.2 inches of snow in St. John’s, Newfoundland–
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