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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48268)	4/7/2005 4:09:54 PM
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Today in history-April 7: 1963: Golfer Jack Nicklaus won the Masters Tournament at age 23. 1947: American industrialist Henry Ford died in Dearborn, Michigan. 1927: The first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred between Herbert Hoover in Washington, D.C., and officials of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) in New York City. 1922: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in return for cash gifts in the Teapot Dome Scandal. 1449: Felix V, the last antipope, abdicated. Billie Holiday Billie Holiday, born this day in 1915, was one of the greatest American jazz singers from the 1930s to the '50s. She was affectionately known as “Lady Day,” a sobriquet first given to her by her friend saxophonist Lester Young. With no technical training, she created a beautiful and sophisticated vocal style—her diction unique and her phrasing inimitable. "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose." Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues, 1956