Today is St. Helena’s Day – a public holiday on St. Helena Island. It commemorates the discovery of the island by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova, said to be on May 21st, 1502. St. Helena is a British Overseas Territory and is one of the most remote islands in the world. It is about 1200 miles west of the coast of Africa and about 2500 miles east of South America. The island has a population of about 4400 and is about 47 square miles.
Today is the birthday, in 1941, of Jackie Landry Jackson, singer, from girl group, The Chantels, who had the 1958 top 20 hit ‘Maybe’ and the 1961 hit ‘Look In My Eyes’. She died on December 23, 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePTH1PWzAs
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