History Blog

February 13

Happy Birthday RIP “Tennessee” Ernest Ford(1919–1991) ; Brigadier General Charles “Chuck” Yeager–96 Marilyn “Kim” Novak–86 George Segal Jr–85 Gerald “Jerry” Springer–75 “Stockard Channing”(Susan Stockard)–75 Peter Gabriel–69 Neal McDonough–53 Robert “Robbie” Williams–45 Mena Süvari–40 Daniel Portman–27 ; 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.