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February 3, 1959, was a Tuesday. It's also known in Rock & Roll history as The Day the Music Died, because that's the day when Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper all died in a plane crash.
In 1959 the Manchester United Players net with a air crash in Munich, when returning from Belgrade after a champion League match, Sir Bobby Charlton was a few to escape.
August 21,1959
They became states in the same year of 1959. Both had reached the population where they could become a state.
Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3rd 1959. Making it the 49th state admitted into the unionOn 3 January 1959
No. Buddy Holly was killed in plane crash with The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens (and the pilot) in 1959. Otis was in a crash in 1967.
In his song "American Pie," when Don McLean refers to "The Day the Music Died," he's talking about February 3, 1959, when a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson, known as "The Big Bopper."
The first fatal crash of a passenger airline jet killed 5 crewman on a training program.
Richie Valens died in the same airplane crash that killed Buddy Holly and J.P. Richardson on Feb. 3, 1959..
Darby Crash was born on September 26, 1959.
Darby Crash was born on September 26, 1959.
Lauffen bus crash happened in 1959.
Brad McCrimmon was 52 years old when he was killed in a plane crash in Russia on September 20, 2011 (birthdate: March 29, 1959).
Charisma was known as the famous label but that was founded in 1969 !
Although the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) only had one hit, he is more remembered as being one of the three musicians killed in a plane crash just outside of Clear Lake, Iowa, Feb. 3, 1959. The others killed included Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson. This day was called "The Day the Music Died" in a song by Don McLean, "American Pie."
They were going to the next "Winter Dance Party" tour stop in Fargo, ND.
Technically it's still going on, as Motown still exists as a record label within the Universal Music group; but most people consider the "Motown era" to be either from 1959 to 1972 - when the company was based in Detroit before moving to Los Angeles - or from 1959 to 1988, when the company was sold to RCA and ceased to be an independent label.