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Today's featured article Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. Often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", Presley began his career in 1954 and became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll in the late 1950s. Conscripted in 1958, he relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. In 1968, he returned to live performance in a television special that led to an extended Las Vegas residency and a string of tours. In 1973, he staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, seen by around 1.5 billion viewers. Prescription drug abuse severely affected his health, and he died suddenly in 1977. With wide success in many musical genres, Presley is one of the best-selling solo artists in the history of popular music. He won three Grammys, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 36. (Full article...) Recently featured: Gerald Durrell Maria Trubnikova Cyfeilliog On this day... January 8 Blackstone Library 1697 – Scottish student Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. 1904 – Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated. 1977 – Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people. 1981 – In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time". 2011 – Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others. Prince Albert Victor (b. 1864) Mary Arthur McElroy (d. 1917) Joseph Franklin Rutherford (d. 1942) T. J. Hamblin (d. 2012) More anniversaries: January 7 January 8 January 9

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