[According to Wikipedia]:
The U.S. adopted the version of the flag with 13 stars and stripes, and one star for every state in the union, then 20 (1818).
Los Angeles was incorporated as a city (1850).
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol (the round one with the chicken foot in the middle, that hippies are so fond of), was displayed in public for the first time in London (1958).
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968).
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen (1975).
And, Zinzi Clemmons was born on this otherwise inauspicious day in Baltimore, Maryland (1985).
It seems a little cruel to post the song written for his birth on the day that he died, but this is everyone’s song now. They played it every day on the oldies station my parents listened to when they would read the celebrity birthdays, around the time they would pick me up from school. Thus, the chorus is forever imprinted in my mind. A classic.
