Source: Good News Network
Happy 61st Birthday to three-time Grammy Award-winner Gloria Estefan, whose family fled from Havana during the Castro revolution. The Cuban-American pop singer has sold more than one hundred million records worldwide with the Latin-inspired Miami Sound Machine and throughout a successful solo career.
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opened, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America (1897)
- Australia, New Zealand and the United States signed a mutual defense pact—the ANZUS Treaty—to bind the three nations in a cooperative military pact designed for the security of each, with foreign ministers meeting regularly for consultation (1951)
- Water began flowing in The Fountain of Time, a 126-foot-long sculpture in Chicago, as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent (1920)
- U2 released their very first record, an EP titled ‘U2-3’ with an initial run of 1,000 individually numbered copies only available in Ireland (1979)
- Canada adopted the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of its Constitution enshrining fundamental freedoms such…
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