1993 Death June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62 1955 Event WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting 1954 Birthday 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 1953 Birthday Alex Grey, born in Columbus, Ohio, sacred, visionary, psychedelic artist, co-founder, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, author of 'Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics' 1940 Birthday John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1931 Birthday Billy Vaughn, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, singer, Chapel by the Sea 1929 Birthday Jack Hogan, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ator, Combat, Adam 12, Sierra 1910 Birthday Eero Saarinen, Finnish/U.S. architect, IBM Building, MIT Chapel 1874 Birthday Milton Bennett Medary, U.S., architect, Washington Chapel 1864 Event Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie] 1829 Event Royal Military Chapel forms 1821 Birthday 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 Birthday Richard Upjohn, U.S., gothic architect, Trinity Chapel, New York 1768 Event 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City) 1682 Event Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London 1614 Death Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies 1541 Event Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in Sistine Chapel 1512 Event Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited 1498 Event Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
