By Cynthia Charlene Greason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973, in Pocahontas, Illinois) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She made her debut in March 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single “Redneck Woman“, a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
Overall, Wilson has charted 13 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which five have reached top ten: the number one “Redneck Woman”, as well as “Here for the Party” (#3, 2004), “When I Think About Cheatin'” (#4, 2004), “Homewrecker” (#2, 2005), and “All Jacked Up” (#8, 2005). The album Here for the Party was certified 5× multi-platinum by the RIAA for sales of five million copies, while All Jacked Up was certified platinum. She has sold over 8.2 million records worldwide.
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- Arthur Middleton (U.S. statesman, signed U.S. Declaration of Independence) –
- Lord Kelvin (physicist, inventor of the Kelvin temperature scale) –
- Pearl S. Buck (Nobel prize-winning author, humanitarian) –
- Peter Lorre (actor) –
- Chris Isaak (singer) –
- Sean Hayes (actor) –
- Chris O’Donnell (actor) –
- Gretchen Wilson (country singer) –
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- Roy Campanella (baseball player) –
- Jay Berwanger (football player, first winner of the Heisman Trophy) –
- Strom Thurmond (died at age 100. He was the longest-serving senator in U.S. history) –
- Liz Claiborne (fashion designer) –
- Norma Lyon (fourth official butter cow sculptor of the Iowa State Fair) –
- Nora Ephron (screenwriter & director) –
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- John Tyler became the first president to marry while in office–
- The first boardwalk in the world was completed at the resort town of Atlantic City, NJ–
- Coney Island’s Cyclone roller coaster made its debut–
- United Nations charter signed, San Francisco, CA–
- Opening ceremonies took place for the St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic–
- President John F. Kennedy visited W. Berlin and gave his Ich bin ein Berliner” speech”–
- CN Tower, 1,815 ’ high, opened to the public, Toronto, Ontario–
- Bob Barker, host of the television game show The Price is Right, was inducted into the Academy of Television and Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame–
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- Phoenix, Arizona, reached 122 degrees F–
- Los Angeles, California, soared to 112 degrees F–
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