Rock legend Eddie Van Halen, 65, died following a decades-long battle with cancer on Oct. 6. The iconic guitarist, known for hits such as “Jump” and “Hot for Teacher,” had been first diagnosed with mouth cancer in 2000.
Eddie Van Halen’s death
My Most Anticipated Year was a Humdinger
This s my 68th year of living and there is no whole year that compares. When President Kennedy was killed I hold 1963 as a very strange year. In 1968 there was so much that happened from both Martin L. King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy being killed to the large people dying in the most […]
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Black Lives Matter protests
The police-involved killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor this year sparked a wave of peaceful — and sometimes violent — demonstrations and riots across the world to demand an end to police brutality and racial injustice. More protests erupted in August when 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop and […]
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Kobe Bryant’s death
The legendary Los Angeles Lakers player was killled along with his daughter, Gianna, and seven others when their helicopter crashed in Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 26.
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