On This Date

1683 - Composer Johann David Heinichen was born.
1741 - Composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann was born.
1774 - Composer Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek was born.
1882 - Composer Artur Schnabel was born.
1953 - Benny Goodman returned to Carnegie Hall after 15 years.
1960 - Eddie Cochran died in Bath, England, from severe brain injuries sustained in a car crash near Chippenham, Wiltshire. Gene Vincent was seriously injured in the accident.
1964 - The Rolling Stones' debut album, "The Rolling Stones" was released in the U.K.
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1964 - The FBI lab reported that it could not determine the lyrics to "Louie Louie."
1964 - Them made their first concert appearance.
1965 - The Beach Boys' "Help Me Rhonda" was released.
1969 - The Band played its first concert as an independent group.
1970 - Johnny Cash performed at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon. He played "A Boy Named Sue."
1980 - Bob Marley and the Wailers performed as the official guests of State at Zimbabwe's Independence festival.
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1982 - Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" was #1 on the British albums chart.
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1993 - Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) and screenwriter M. Jay Roach were married.
1995 - Courtney Love and her band Hole performed on the sixth season premiere of MTV's "Unplugged."
2002 - Tammy Wynette's four daughters reached a confidential agreement with Wynette's doctor over her death. Wynette's daughters filed a lawsuit that claimed the Pittsburgh doctor had contributed to Wynette's death in 1998.

FEBRUARY BREAK

 

Dawn Boyle  

The children have been home on February break since Friday....I swore once that I would never go through another winter break without going away, I lied.

A few months ago while figuring what to get my in-laws for the holidays,we decided that we would go away together and skip presents. It started out with us hitting Florida for a few days. Getting a house on the beach, swimming all day and bbq'n every night. It was going to be perfect. I was going to find a house, get the flights, rent a car and set everyone up with a very in-expensive get away.

Was I wrong, airline tickets to travel during winter break was going to cost us two mortgage payments and a house on the ocean would be another. Thinking about it....did I really want to spend my "vacation" cooking and cleaning someone else's house?