What Entertained Westerners On 26 February Throughout History, Or Since 1966, Anyway

On February 26th, 1966, the Rolling Stones released the single "19th Nervous Breakdown." In 1970, The Beatles album "Hey Jude" was released in the U.S. and Canada. It was made up of singles that were previously unavailable in the U.S. In 1977, bluesman Bukka White, also known as Booker T. Washington, died in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 70. His guitar-playing influenced B.B. King and many others. In 1986, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Robert Penn Warren was named the first "poet laureate" of the U.S. by the Library of Congress. In 1990, singer Cornell Gunter of The Coasters was found shot to death in Las Vegas. Authorities said he was found in his car, shot twice. Gunter had joined The Coasters in 1957. In 1993, police in Augusta, Georgia, fined singer Bobby Brown $580 for pretending to have sex with 1 of his backup singers during a concert. She also was fined $580. In 1998, a jury rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas cattlemen against Oprah Winfrey. The suit accused her of disparaging them on her talk show by implying US beef was unsafe. In 2004, Rosie O'Donnell and girlfriend Kelli Carpenter were married at City Hall in San Francisco. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.