By Sabrina Mason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country music singer-songwriter. He is known for performing a style widely regarded as “neotraditional country“, as well as writing many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 21 studio albums, including two Christmas albums, and two gospel albums, as well as three greatest-hits albums.
Jackson is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide, with 44 million sold in the United States alone. He has had 66 songs appear on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart; of the 66 titles, and six featured singles, 38 have reached the top five and 35 have claimed the number one spot. Out of 15 titles to reach the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, nine have been certified multi-platinum. He is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards and nominee of multiple other awards. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017 by Loretta Lynn and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Native Americans named October’s Moon the Hunter’s Moon because it was the time to hunt in preparation for winter. Other tribes called it the Travel Moon and the Dying Grass Moon. See Almanac.com/moon-october for more information!
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
You may travel abroad in a carriage whose name read backward or forward is always the same.
Gig (a light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by a single horse)
Died
- Frederic Chopin (composer) –
- Laura Secord (Canadian heroine) –
- Julia Ward Howe (author) –
- S. J. Perelman (writer) –
- Joan Hickson (actress) –
- Betty Hill (the woman known as the first lady of UFOs.” Hill and her late husband had the first publicized and best-documented UFO experience”) –
- Ray Boone (baseball player) –
- Joey Bishop (comedian) –
- Levi Stubbs (lead singer of The Four Tops) –
Born
- Buck Ewing (first catcher to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame) –
- Arthur Miller (author) –
- Rita Hayworth (actress) –
- Tom Poston (actor) –
- Jimmy Breslin (columnist) –
- Evel Knievel (stunt motorcyclist) –
- Michael McKean (actor) –
- Margot Kidder (actress) –
- George Wendt (actor) –
- Mae Jemison (astronaut, physician, professor) –
- Alan Jackson (country musician) –
Events
- Charles II of England sold Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds–
- Sam Patch, the Yankee Leaper, jumped 120 feet from a platform atop Niagara Falls into the river below. He survived.–
- Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion by a federal court in Chicago and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.–
- Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany–
- Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Donald Duck’s nephews) first appeared in a comic strip–
- An earthquake 50 miles out at sea shook eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island–
- Mother Teresa of India was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.–
- Frank Giannino completed his run across the United States. It took him 46 days, 8 hours, and 36 minutes.–
- A meteorite chunk struck a house in the San Francisco Bay Area–
- Ashrita Furman balanced 100 ice cream scoops on cone–
Weather
- Three inches of snow fell on Huntertown, Indiana–
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