Editorâs Note: This is the second in a six-part series looking back at the stories reported in 2020 by Appeal reporters. (Dates are when the news stories were published.)
March 1:Â Area residents refreshed their awareness of the legacy of Camp Beale, when a grenade was found in the backyard of a Wheatland residence. The base has a history with explosives, it was reported, from when the facility was the site of the old Camp Beale, 1942 to 1947. During WWII, the camp comprised 86,000 acres 10 miles east of Marysville â it was a training facility for the U.S. Army, including bombing and gunnery range.
Michael Jackson Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: June 25, 2009
Birth place: Gary, Indiana
Father: Joseph Jackson, crane operator/The Jackson 5 manager
Mother: Katherine (Scruse) Jackson
Marriages: Debbie Rowe (November 15, 1996-October 8, 1999, divorced); Lisa-Marie Presley (May 18, 1994-January 18, 1996, divorced)
Children: with an anonymous surrogate: Prince Michael II (aka Blanket), 2002; with Debbie Rowe: Paris, April 3, 1998; Prince Michael Joseph Jr., February 12, 1997
Other Facts
Seventh of nine children.
His sister, Janet Jackson, is a Grammy award-winning singer and entertainer.
Began performing at age 5 with four of his five brothers (Marlon, Jermaine, Tito and Jackie), as The Jackson 5.
Nominated for 38 Grammy awards, with 13 wins. Posthumously honored with the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and received the Grammy Legend Award in 1993.
Vinyl sales in the US just had their biggest week in history
The pre-Christmas rush saw more than 1.8 million LPs sold across the States
29th December 2020
Last week, the United States sold the most amount of vinyl records in history in a single week.
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Billboard reports, 1.842 million vinyl LPs were purchased in the US in the week leading up to Christmas, which ended on December 24.
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It broke the record set just one week before (December 10-17), where 1.445 million were sold. The new record is the biggest weekly sales of vinyl in the country since records began in 1991.
Record stores are facing uncertainty over the future of Brexit (Picture: Burak Cingi/Redferns)
Aided by campaigns such as LoveRecordStores, Record Store Day and National Album Day
29th December 2020
Sales of vinyl records in the UK this year are the highest since the early ’90s, new data has revealed.
End-of-year figures released by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) show that sales have soared despite two national coronavirus lockdowns, with vinyl sales growing for the 13th year running.
The new figures reveal that nearly one in five (18%) of all albums purchased across 2020 were vinyl, with 4.8 million LPs being purchased. The new numbers are 10% up on 2019’s figures, and the highest since the Britpop boom of the early 1990s.
Michael Jackson Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: June 25, 2009
Birth place: Gary, Indiana
Father: Joseph Jackson, crane operator/The Jackson 5 manager
Mother: Katherine (Scruse) Jackson
Marriages: Debbie Rowe (November 15, 1996-October 8, 1999, divorced); Lisa-Marie Presley (May 18, 1994-January 18, 1996, divorced)
Children: with an anonymous surrogate: Prince Michael II (aka Blanket), 2002; with Debbie Rowe: Paris, April 3, 1998; Prince Michael Joseph Jr., February 12, 1997
Other Facts
Seventh of nine children.
His sister, Janet Jackson, is a Grammy award-winning singer and entertainer.
Began performing at age 5 with four of his five brothers (Marlon, Jermaine, Tito and Jackie), as The Jackson 5.
Nominated for 38 Grammy awards, with 13 wins. Posthumously honored with the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 and received the Grammy Legend Award in 1993.