MARCH 8, 1997 – Rapper Notorious B.I.G. was shot & killed in Los Angeles.
MARCH 8, 1970 – “Diana Ross” opened her first solo concert at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit after leaving the Supremes!!
BOSTON — Mitt Romney has a new position with his son’s Boston-area venture capital firm. Last year’s Republican presidential nominee will serve as chairman of the executive committee for Solamere Capital. The firm was founded by Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, and the national finance committee chairman for his presidential campaign, Spencer Zwick. Romney has been […]
March 7, 1977 – Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience. It was a Governor’s meeting at the White House and Pearl Bailey was to sing. In the middle of her set, she invited President Nixon on stage to play the piano for her and he did, and it was called the […]
March 7, 1965 – ON THIS DAY – The Selma Freedom March began!!! THE REST WAS HISTORY!
A judge sentenced a member of gospel music’s Winans family to nearly 14 years in prison Wednesday for an $8 million financial scam that was promoted in church pulpits, reports the Associated Press. Two of Michael Winans Jr.‘s victims spoke in federal court, telling a judge that the scheme to sell Saudi Arabian oil bonds […]
MARCH 5, 1998 – “TONI BRAXTON” – was given the annual Echo Awards at the Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany for Best International Female Artist.
MARCH 5, 1993 – Pattie LaBelle, Luther Vandross and Natalie Cole co-hosted the seventh annual Sold Train Music Awards.
March 5, 1977 – The Supremes hit song “Let Yourself Go” was their last song to hit the charts.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday issued pardons for 17 people, largely for minor offenses. Those receiving pardons came from 13 states and had been sentenced for crimes that included falsely altering a money order, unauthorized acquisition of food stamps, drug violations, and possession of an unregistered firearm. No one well-known was on the […]