General Grant at Fort Donelson, from the painting by Paul Philippoteaux, courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
167 Polycarp, a disciple of St. John and bishop of Smyrna, is martyred on the west coast of Asia Minor.
1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery.
1689 British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.
1692 In the Glen Coe highlands of Scotland, thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are murdered by soldiers of the neighboring Campbell clan for not pledging allegiance to William of Orange. Ironically the pledge had been made but not communicated to the clans. The event is remembered as the Massacre of Glencoe.
1862 The four day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, begins.
1865 The Confederacy approves the recruitment of slaves as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained.
1866 Jesse James holds up his first bank.
1914 The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.
1936 First social security checks are put in the mail.
1945 The Royal Air Force Bomber Command devastates the German city of Dresden with night raids by 873 heavy bombers. The attacks are joined by 521 American heavy bombers flying daylight raids.
1949 A mob burns a radio station in Ecuador after the broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds."
1951 At the Battle of Chipyong-ni, in Korea, U.N. troops contain the Chinese forces' offensive in a two-day battle.
1953 The Pope asks the United States to grant clemency to convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
1968 The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
1970 General Motors is reportedly redesigning automobiles to run on unleaded fuel.
1972 Enemy attacks in Vietnam decline for the third day as the United States continues its intensive bombing strategy.
1984 Konstantin Chernenko is selected to succeed Yuri Andropov as Party General Secretary in the Soviet Union.
Born on February 13
1599 Alexander VII, Roman Catholic Pope.
1682 Giovanni Piazzetta, painter (Fortune Teller).
1764 Charles de Talleyrand, Napoleon's foreign minister.
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, Winston Churchill's father and member of Parliament.
1873 Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer.
1892 Grant Wood, painter (American Gothic).
1902 Georges Simenon, novelist.
1910 William B. Shockley, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country and gospel singer.
1923 Charles "Chuck" Yeager, American test pilot, the first man to break the sound barrier.
1933 Kim Novak, actress. =====================================================================================
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Peace In The Valley - Country Gospel
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Información personal
Nombre real Ernest Jennings Ford
Nacimiento 13 de febrero de 1919
Muerte 17 de octubre de 1991
Ocupación Cantante , actor
Información artística
Género(s) Pop
Instrumento(s) Voz, guitarra
Ernest Jennings Ford (Bristol, 13 de febrero de 1919 - Reston, 17 de octubre de 1991), más conocido como Tennessee Ernie Ford, fue un artista y presentador de televisión estadounidense que gozó de éxito en los géneros musicales del pop, country y gospel.
Biografía
Comienzos
Hijo de Clarence Thomas Ford y Maud Long,[1] nació en Bristol, Tennessee. Comenzó su carrera como locutor de radio en la estación WOPI en su pueblo. En 1939 deja la radio para estudiar música clásica y canto en el Conservatorio de Música de Cincinnati en Ohio. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial sirvió en la Fuerza Aèrea como teniente a bordo de un bombardero Boeing B-29 Superfortress en misiones sobre Japón. Después de la guerra, trabajó en las emisoras de radio en San Bernardino y Pasadena en California.
Carrera
Su carrera comenzó a finales de los años 40. Entre 1955 y 1956 compondrá canciones como Sixteen tons, Give me your word o The ballad of David Crockett, por las que pasaría a ser uno de los solistas más importantes del país.
A comienzos de los 60 su popularidad comenzaría a decaer. Desde 1962 a 1965 trabajó en la KGO-TV en San Francisco, la emisión por cable de la televisión ABC, dirigiendo el programa The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show.
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