Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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...on February 3rd, 1959?




Not sure what day of the week that was... but if a weekday I would have
been at Saint Mary's Elementry School grade 4 during school hours...or at
home before & after.
On a weekend ...around home. We didn't go far those days in the dead of
winter.




It was "the day the music died."

The Day the Music Died refers to February 3, 1959, a date on which a
small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States, killed three
popular American rock and roll musicians: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens,
and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger
Peterson. The phrase was coined by Don McLean in his 1971 tribute song
about the crash, "American Pie". From wiki...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died


I was wondering earlier if it had been 50 years yet. Damned close.