Today in History - Oct 17
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Today in history. It's our day in history here on
gold Sport, the seventeenth of October, the two hundred and
ninetieth day of the year. Pandasse even opens with the
Four Tops and their big hit, the same old song,
Sad Day for the band Today. In two thousand and eight,
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their lead singer, Levi Stubbs died It is Detroit Home
at the age of seventy two. The group signed with
Motown Records in nineteen sixty three and produced twenty top
forty hits over the following ten years. Great band. The
very first professional golf tournament was won by Willie Parks
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today at Prestwick in Scotland in eighteen sixty Not quite
sure what he shot for World under Willie and an
earthquake in nineteen eighty nine, measuring seven point one on
the Rector scale slammed into San Francisco Bay. Ally he
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killed sixty seven people. It was quite a dramatic day
that was nineteen eighty nine. Famous people on the birthday
list today and we open with this legendary singer, Gary Puckett,
lead singer for Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. It's
his eighty second birthday today. Many happy returns to him
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from the TV series Cheers comes George Went, who played
Norm Peterson in the series from eighty two to ninety three.
George Went is seventy six today. Haven't need everybody you know,
I love it? He had wonderful one lines right. One
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of the best and top selling country music singers of
all time. His name is Alan Jackson Brooke. Are We
Gone Durst? He's sixty six today. One of the best
selling music artists of all time, sold seventy five million
records worldwide. Many happy returns to Alan Jackson. Yeah, I've
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been working on I'm tying and honestly I have arms done.
It's Ziggy Ziggy Marley's birthday today. He's the son of
reggae icon Bob Marley and Rita Marley. His real name
is David Nesta Marley. ZIGGI Happy birthday, Little Ziggy. He's
fifty six today and Eminem birthdays fifty two today. American
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rapper's real name is Marshall Bruce Matts, the third Eminem
fifty two. D There we go. It's our day in history,
seventeenth day of October, sixty nine days till Christmas Day.
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