Father of the Blues

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• HP's Chief Counsel Resigns.
• Two dead in yesterday's Colorado hostage drama. One of the hostages was shot in the back of her head when she tried to escape. The suspect a certain Duane Morrison, 53, shot himself after shooting the young hostage.
  
• Owens denies suicide attempt.
• Hundreds of homes in California might be affected by forest wild fire. The fire has been burning since Labor Day and has flared several times.
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• U.S. to send an additional 12,000 Soldiers to Afghanistan to help and serve NATO.
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From the Library of Congress
FATHER OF THE BLUES
On September 28, 1912, the publication of William Christopher Handy's "Memphis Blues" changed the course of American popular song. Handy introduced an African-American folk tradition, the blues, into mainstream music. By the 1960s, the blues sound had significantly influenced the development of jazz and rock and roll, quintessential American musical forms.

Today is the 271st day of the year
272nd in leap years.

Today Hilary Duff turns 19 years.

In History:

• 1989 :Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos died in exile in Hawaii at age 72.
  
• 1964 : nmJNJAjJaThere was no Conspiracy in President Kennedy's murder.
  The Warren Commission concludes that there was no conspiracy surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy and that gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted on his own.
• 1944 :Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.
• 1944 :Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.
• 1939 :Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
  
• 48 BC :Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt (may have occurred September 29, records unclear).