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1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62

1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting

1954 Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown

1940 John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales

1931 Billy Vaughn, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, singer, Chapel by the Sea

1929 Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ator, Combat, Adam 12, Sierra

1910 Eero Saarinen, Finnish/U.S. architect, IBM Building, MIT Chapel

1874 Milton Bennett Medary, U.S., architect, Washington Chapel

1864 Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]

1829 Royal Military Chapel forms

1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South

1802 Richard Upjohn, U.S., gothic architect, Trinity Chapel, New York

1768 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City)

1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London

1614 Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies

1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in Sistine Chapel

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited

1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel


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