This Day In History

April 7

St. John the Baptist

1862  Union forces under the command of General Grant defeated the Confederate forces at the Battle of Shiloh.
1940  Booker T. Washington was the first black (or Aphro-American) to be pictured on a US postage stamp.
1947  Auto Inventor Henry Ford died in Dearborn, Michigan at the age of 85.
1970  Actor John Wayne won his first and only Oscar even though he made over 200 films.

1770  Poet William Wordsworth
1908  Composer Percy Faith
1915  Jazz Singer Billie Holiday (Eleanora Fagan)
1928  Actor James Garner (Baumgardner)
1933  Actor Wayne Rogers
1939  Film Director Francis Ford Coppola
1939  TV Host David Frost
1949  Songwriter John Oates
1954  Football Star Tony Dorsett

Top of the Chart Hits Courtesy of... 

1957

• Little Darlin' - The Diamonds

• Teen-Age Crush - Tommy Sands

• I'm Sorry - The Platters

• Butterfly - Charlie Gracie

1961

• Blue Moon - The Marcels

• Apache - Jorgen Ingmann

• But I Do - Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

• Don't Worry - Marty Robbins

1970

• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel

• Easy Come, Easy Go - Bobby Sherman

• Come and Get It - Badfinger

• Tennessee Birdwalk - Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan

1989

• Eternal Flame - Bangles

• Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli (who were actually two German Singers behind this myth)

• The Look - Roxette

• Baby's Gotten Good at Goodbye - George Strait

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