Today is Internal Autonomy Day (Fête de l’autonomie), a public holiday in French Polynesia. Oddly (to me), Even though French Polynesia achieved self-rule in September 1984, the date of this holiday commemorates the annexation of the Kingdom of Tahiti and the turnover of native sovereignty by King Pōmare V to France on this day in 1880.
Hmmm.
Today is the birthday, in 1945, of Little Eva. She was babysitting for Carole King and Gerry Goffin who asked her to record a song they had written. It gave her the 1962 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘The Loco-Motion’.
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