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This Day in History: The rapidly rising Republican Party- whose initial platform was for the abolition of slavery- is depicted for the first time with an elephant in Harpers Weekly, 1873; the Transcontinental Railway is completed in Canada, an epic achievement which linked far-flung reaches of the northern country, later depicted so beautifully by singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in his song Canadian Railroad Trilogy, 1885; another Canadian comes into the world- this time Joni Mitchell, who would go on to revolutionize the world of folk music with her simple, yet strikingly beautiful ballads and her later turn to a more blues and jazz-influenced genre which transformed the world of popular music, 1943; stoic, iconic and cool actor Steve McQueen dies after a long struggle with cancer, his persona living on in many others of his profession as the unflappable tough guy who could handle any situation in movies like The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, 1980 https://youtube/watch?v=6zwW7iWinrk
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:31:39 +0000

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