Monday’s Nostalgic News – May 29

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1952 – Hank Williams and his wife, Audrey, were divorced.
• 1962 – Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.   
• 1973 – Clive Davis was fired at Columbia Records for misappropriating $100,000.
• 1973 – Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles.
• 1974 – U.S. President Nixon agreed to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts.
• 1992 – The FBI recovered 44 nude photographs of Madonna which had been stolen in America from fashion photographer Steven Meisel.
• 1997 – Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley disappeared after talking a swim in the Mississippi River, his body was found on 4th June 1997 after being spotted by a passenger on a tourist riverboat.
• 1997 – Sharitha Knight filed a suit at LA, Superior Court claiming she was owed $1 million (£588,000) as Snoop Doggy Dogg’s personal manger between 1993-6. The claim alleged that Snoop had withheld the 20 percent she was owed.
• 1999 – Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.

“NATIONAL DAYS”

• National Coq Au Vin Day
• National Paperclip Day
• Memorial Day  – Last Monday in May