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  2. February 1949 - Wikipedia

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    Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was shot in the back and mouth during an unsuccessful assassination attempt. As the Shah was getting out of his car on the steps of Tehran University, a journalist pretended to take his picture but instead fired five shots at point blank range.

  3. Pat Rainey - Wikipedia

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    By February 1949, the 10" single "Gotta Love You 'Til I Die" / "Headin' For A Heartache" was released on Gold Medal GM 949. The single was reviewed by Billboard with favor for the A side while the B side prompted negative comparisons to Dinah Washington. [3] By March that year, the single was being touted in an ad as "the hottest record of the ...

  4. Jean Spangler - Wikipedia

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    Jean Elizabeth Spangler was born on September 2, 1923, in Seattle, Washington, as the youngest of the four children of Cecil Martin Spangler and Florence Matilda Morris. [1] [2] She had two brothers, Richard Martin and Edward Franklin Spangler, and an older sister, Betsy Anne Shreckengaust.

  5. Dickie Valentine - Wikipedia

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    On 14 February 1949, Valentine, an unknown, was signed by Ted Heath to join his band, Ted Heath and his Music, to sing alongside Lita Roza and Dennis Lotis. [4] He was voted the Top UK Male Vocalist in 1952 while singing with the Ted Heath Orchestra , the most successful of all British big bands , [ 5 ] and again after going solo in 1954.

  6. List of living centenarians - Wikipedia

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    February 14, 1924: 100 years, 360 days: Filipino: President of the Senate of the Philippines [232] Jose Petrick: F: February 14, 1924: 100 years, 360 days: British-born Australian: Historian and community advocate [233] Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin: M: February 17, 1924: 100 years, 357 days: British: Peer [234] Zheng Tuobin: M: February 24 ...

  7. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong was the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time magazine on February 21, 1949. He and his All-Stars were featured at the ninth Cavalcade of Jazz concert also at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. held on June 7, 1953, along with Shorty Rogers , Roy Brown , Don Tosti and His Mexican Jazzmen, Earl ...

  8. List of solved missing person cases: 1950–1999 - Wikipedia

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    Her body was found in Woodbine, 100 miles from her home, on April 26, 1958. [37] Murdered 144 days 1957 Anne Noblett: 17 United Kingdom Watford Technical College student who disappeared while travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath on December 30, 1957. Her fully clothed body was found in a wooded area near Whitwell on January 31, 1958. It ...

  9. Jack Carson - Wikipedia

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    Photo of a Chicago streetscape taken by Stanley Kubrick Look magazine, 1949, from State/Lake station People arriving at the Chicago Theatre for a show starring, in person, Jack Carson, Marion Hutton, and Robert Alda, taken by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine, 1949 Carson with Judith Anderson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of The Dick Powell Show ...