Your Travalanche Daily Digest for August 15, 2025

The new Travalanche posts for today (August 15, 2025) are ones on:

The 80th Anniversary of V-J Day

The 60th Anniversary the Beatles at Shea Stadium

Hawaiian Statehood Day

The 100th Birthday of Oscar Peterson

The 150th Birthday of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (sic)

Previous posts for this day include ones on:

Rose Marie

Ethel Barrymore

Writers Edna Ferber and Sir Walter Scott and Aben Kandel

Huntz Hall of the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids, and Bowery Boys

Napoleon Bonaparte

William Rexford Fields Morris (secret son of W.C. Fields)

Little Person Johnny Roventini

Stripper Honey Harlow (wife of Lenny Bruce)

Chief Yowlachie

Puppeter Bil Baird

Edward Flanagan of Flanagan and Edwards

Mike Connors of Mannix

Silent movie star Billie Rhodes

Violinists Florian Zabach and Albert Spalding

Stage and screen star Mary Nash

Vaudeville vet Roger Imhof

Tin Pan Alley songwriters Charles Tobias and Ned Washington

Actress Lori Nelson

Opera singer Emma Calve

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