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WDKX.com » Blog » Today In Black Music History 2.23.09
Feb 23rd 2009 6:01 am
Today In Black Music History 2.23.09
by Dean


1811 - Composer George Washington Hewitt was born.

1993 - Little Richard received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.

1995 - Melvin Franklin (Temptations) died of heart failure.

2000 - Sean "Puffy" Combs was indicted on charges of bribing a witness. According to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Combs offered money and jewelry to his driver, and asked him to claim ownership of a gun that police recovered from the Comb's car following a Dec. 27, 1999, shooting at a New York nightclub.