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  • Weather Reports: 7 days a week throughout the day. Weather alerts when merited.
  • Old Farmer's Almanac: 7:55 a.m. Monday-Friday.
  • American Health Report: 10:30 a.m. Monday-Friday.
  • Farm Market Report: 12:45 p.m. Latest prices from the Chicago Trade, plus today's prices from Consolidated Grain in Jeffersonville.
  • Five Minutes Live: 8:15 a.m. each week.Mort Crim
  • Second Thoughts with Mort Crim: 2:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. (Click on photo to hear sample: 1.9 MB).

  • Ed Ames, 81; Della Reese, 77; Jerry Vale, 77; Tab Hunter, 77; Steve Lawrence, 73; Gene Chandler, 71; Sandy Stewart, 71; Bill Cosby, 71; Ringo Starr, 68; Ian Whitcomb, 67; Christine McVie, 65; Jan Bradley, 64; Arlo Guthrie, 61; Walter Egan, 60; Peter Brown, 55.
  • 1954: Memphis' WHBQ radio is the first station to play an Elvis Prsley record.
  • 1956: A Fats Domino concert in San Jose results in 12 people being hospitalized.
  • 1957: Paul McCartney and John Lennon meet for the first time, at a Liverpool church.
  • 1957: Dick Clark becomes host of a local Philadelphia TV Show — Bandstand.
  • 1962: The Rolling Stones make their concert debut, at the Marquee Club in London.
  • 1965: Jefferson Airplane forms.
  • 1967: In a strange combination, Jimi Hendrix opens for a Monkees' concert.
  • 1968: The Yardbirds disband, but Jimmy Page goes on to form Led Zeppelin.
  • 1980: West Berlin is the site of Led Zeppelin's final concert.
  • 1985: Drug problems send Three Dog NIght's Chuck Negron to a psychiatric hospital.
  • 1995: The Grateful Dead has its final concert at Soldier Field in Chicago.
  • 1999: Elton John has a heart pacemaker installed.


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