Randy Travis (born 1959) is an American country and gospel music singer

and songwriter. He has recorded more than 20 studio albums and charted

more than 50 singles on Billboard's Hot Country Songs charts, including

16 that reached the number-one position. Travis's commercial success

began in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life,

which was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry

Association of America. His major songs include "On the Other Hand",

"Forever and Ever, Amen", "I Told You So", "Hard Rock Bottom of Your

Heart", and "Three Wooden Crosses". Travis is noted as a key figure in

the neotraditional country movement, a return to more traditional sounds

within the genre following the country pop crossovers of the early

1980s. Since surviving a near-fatal stroke in 2013, which severely

limited his singing and speaking ability, he has released archival

recordings and made limited public appearances.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1804:

German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the

largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess.

1902:

The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and

based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in

France.

1937:

The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by

Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek

SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died.

2000:

Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in

Singapore, was launched.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

cannoneer:

(military) An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical)

a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  There are two Births, the one when Light  First strikes the new

awak’ned sense;The Other when two Souls unite;  And we must count

our life from thence:When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you,Then both of

us were born anew.  

-- William Cartwright

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