† In Memory - Nov 10: ***1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor and singer (b. 1910) James Wesley Dodd, better known by his nickname of Jimmie Dodd, (March 28, 1910 – November 10, 1964) was best known as the MC of the popular 1950s Walt Disney television series The Mickey Mouse Club, as well as the writer of its well-known theme song, The Mickey Mouse Club March. A slowed-down version of this march, with different lyrics, became the alma mater that closed the show. Dodd died of cancer on November 10, 1964, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was 54 years of age............ O:) ***1973 – David Stringbean Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915) David Akeman (June 17th, 1916 – November 10, 1973), better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was an American country music banjo player and comedy musician best known for his role on the hit television show, Hee Haw, and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973. On Saturday night, November 10, 1973, Akeman and his wife returned home after he performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Both were shot dead shortly after their arrival. The killers had waited for hours. The bodies were discovered the following morning by their neighbor, Grandpa Jones. O:) ***1992 – Chuck Connors, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1921) Kevin Joseph Chuck Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer and professional basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 12 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball and in the National Basketball Association. With a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated 1958–1963 ABC series The Rifleman. Connors had started smoking in 1940. For many years he smoked three packs of Camel cigarettes a day until he quit the habit in the mid-1970s, though he occasionally resumed smoking afterwards. He died on November 10, 1992 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 71 of pneumonia stemming from lung cancer.................... O:) ***2006 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919) Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Jack Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers. On November 10, 2006, Palance died of natural causes at age 87............... O:) ***2008 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter, actress, and activist (b. 1932) Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist. Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania............ O:) https://youtube/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco
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