ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Date: 20 January 1888
WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.--Capt. Abner H. Merrill, First Artillery, has been ordered to report to the Army Retiring Board at San Francisco for examination; Second Lieut. M. E. Sebree, Signal ....
Lead Belly Birthday, Date of Birth
Huddie William Ledbetter ( HYOO-dee; January 1888 or 1889 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines" (also known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and “Black Girl”), "Pick a Bale of Cotton", "Goodnight, Irene", "Black Betty", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields", and "Boll Weevil".
Ledbetter usually played a twelve-string guitar, but he also played the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, and windjammer (accordion). In some recordings he also used clapping or stomping to accompany his singing.
Ledbetter's songs covered a wide range of genres, including gospel music, blues, and folk music, as well as a number of topics, including women, liquor, prison life, racism, cowboys, work, sailors, cattle herding, and dancing. He also wrote songs about people in the news, such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Jean Harlow, Jack Johnson, the Scottsboro Boys and Howard Hughes. Ledbetter was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008.
Though many releases credit him as "Leadbelly", he wrote his stage name as "Lead Belly". This is the spelling on his tombstone and is used by the Lead Belly Foundation. He did not care for the "Lead Belly" stage name and always introduced himself by his given name, Huddie Ledbetter.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Friday, January 20, 1888
- Place of Birth
- Mooringsport
- Age
- 138
- Star Sign
- ♑
The January 20, 1888 was a Friday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 19 day of the year. President of the United States was Grover Cleveland.
If you were born on this day, you are 138 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 129 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, January 20, 2027, in 235 days. You have lived for 50,533 days, or about 1,212,811 hours, or about 72,768,715 minutes, or about 4,366,122,900 seconds.
Some people who share this birthday:
20th of January 1888 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 20, 1888
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Date: 21 January 1888
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.--Second Lieut, F.R. Rivers, Third Cavalry, has been relieved from recruiting duty at Memphis, Tenn., and ordered to join his troop. Capt. Frank Baker, Ordnance Department, has been ordered to inspect certain medical property at Philadelphia, for which Capt. James ...
GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS; NOTES FROM MEXICO. A MOVEMENT TO PROHIBIT BULL FIGHTS.
Date: 20 January 1888
Bull Fights; Movement to Suppress
LONDON'S NEWS BUDGET.; HICKS-BEACH SPEAKS AGAIN--ATLANTIC CABLE RATES.
Date: 21 January 1888
Direct United States Cable Company; Rates to be Increased
CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. LONG ISLAND. NEW-JERSEY.
Date: 21 January 1888
The Britannia was allowed to come up to the city yesterday afternoon. She reached her dock so late that her passengers were not taken off.
CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS; NEW-YORK. BROOKLYN. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. NEW-JERSEY.
Date: 20 January 1888
"W.H.C."--Gen. Sherman resides at the Fifth-Avenue Hotel. "W.F.A."--The reports were published in THE TIMES of Dec. 27.
GENERAL TELEGRAPH NEWS; THE MEN STILL HOLD OUT. A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSES THE READING STRIKE.
Date: 21 January 1888
Philadelphia and Reading Knights of Labor Miners and Railroad Hands Strike; Coal Miners Join
NEWS OF THE DAY ABROAD; BALFOUR'S BRUTAL COURSE IN IRELAND. ANOTHER PARNELLITE SENT TO JAIL-- THE FRANCO-ITALIAN SQUABBLE-- GERMAN ARRESTS ON THE FRONTIER.
Date: 21 January 1888
BY Commercial Cable From Our Own Correspondent.copyright, 1888, By the New-York Times
Commercial From
Blaine, Alexander; Imprisonment for Inciting Tenants to Resist Evictions; Trial
THE PROUD SONS OF YALE; CHEERING GOOD NEWS OF THEIR ALMA MATER. THE ALUMNI LISTENING AT THEIR BANQUET TO CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW,PRESIDENT DWIGHT, AND OTHERS.
Date: 21 January 1888
Alumni Association; Annual Dinner
THE COPPER SYNDICATE.
Date: 21 January 1888
Copper, under the influence of the news that the French syndicate had secured the output of the Tamarack Mine for the next three ...