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2014
Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King’s last live performance, at the House of Blues in Chicago.
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2008
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2004
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1997
Gordie Howe, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL’S Detroit Vipers.
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1992
Sinead O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”
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1986
Ground-breaking ceremonies held for SkyDome, Toronto’s 56,000 seat stadium built on vacant railway land on Front Street.
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1981
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1974
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1955
“Mickey Mouse Club” premieres
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1945
Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing ‘Old Shep’, Elvis was 10 years old at the time.
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1893
1872
Bloomingdale’s department store in NY opens.
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1863
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