Folk singer Pete Seeger is 94
Actress Ann B. Davis (“The Brady Bunch”) is 87
Actor Alex Cord (“Airwolf”) is 80
Singer Frankie Valli is 79
Sports announcer Greg Gumbel is 67
Singer Mary Hopkin is 63
Singer Christopher Cross is 62
Drummer Cactus Moser of Highway 101 is 56
Keyboardist David Ball of Soft Cell is 54
Country singer Shane Minor is 45
Bassist John Hopkins of Zac Brown Band is 42
Country singer Brad Martin is 40
Actor Dule’ (doo-LAY’) Hill (“Psych,” ”The West Wing”) is 38
Country singer Eric Church is 36
Dancer Cheryl Burke (“Dancing With The Stars”) is 29
Singer Michael Kiwanuka is 26
Actress Jill Berard is 23.

On May third, 1937, Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel, “Gone With the Wind.”

In 1968, The Beach Boys began a U.S. tour that featured the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. For the most part, audiences were turned off by the Maharishi’s lectures, so half of the tour dates were canceled.

In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was arrested at Toronto International Airport for possession of narcotics. He was released on $10,000 bail.

In 1971, Grand Funk Railroad agreed to meet with reporters, despite their previously rocky relationship with the press. The band’s manager invited 150 reporters, but only six showed up.

In 1976, Paul McCartney performed his first U.S. concert in 10 years when he opened his “Wings Over America” tour.

In 1978, the movie “FM” premiered in Los Angeles. More people bought the soundtrack than saw the movie.

In 1986, Dolly Parton opened Dollywood Amusement Park near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

In 1988, Madonna debuted on Broadway in “Speed the Plow.” She received mixed reviews.

In 1991, the last episode of “Dallas” aired on CBS.

In 2002, the movie “Spider-Man” opened.

In 2003, “Friends” star Matt LeBlanc married Melissa McKnight in Hawaii after five years of engagement. They split after three years of marriage.

Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, has died. He was 49.

Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side.

The guitarist had recently begun writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. He had been slowly recovering from what was believed to be a spider bite that nearly cost him his arm after he failed to seek immediate treatment.

Robinson-Fitzgerald says it’s believed the bite contributed to the failure of his liver, but it is unclear whether an autopsy will be scheduled. No funeral arrangements have been made.

Hanneman co-founded the thrash metal pioneers in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 1982.

Actor Theodore Bikel is 89
Singer Englebert Humperdinck is 77
Actress and political activist Bianca Jagger is 68
Country singer R.C. Bannon is 68
Singer Lesley Gore is 67
Country singer Larry Gatlin is 65
Singer Lou Gramm (Foreigner) is 63
Actress Christine Baranski is 61
Singer Angela Bofill is 59
Actress Elizabeth Berridge (“The John Larroquette Show”) is 51
Country singer Ty Herndon is 51
Wrestler-actor Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) is 41
Actress Jenna Von Oy (“Blossom”) is 36
Actress Ellie Kemper (“The Office”) is 33
Actor Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”) is 32
Singer Lily Allen is 28
Guitarist Jim Almgren of Carolina Liar is 27
Actress Kay Panabaker (“No Ordinary Family,” ”Summerland”) is 23.

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On May second, 1957, Elvis Presley recorded the song “Jailhouse Rock,” the title song to his next movie. In the film, Elvis choreographed the dance sequence that accompanied the song.

In 1960, Ben E. King left The Drifters to go solo.

In 1967, Capitol Records announced that The Beach Boys had abandoned their “Smile” album project.

In 1979, “Quadrophenia,” the film based on The Who’s album of the same name, opened in London. On the same day, The Who played its first concert with new drummer Kenney Jones, who replaced the late Keith Moon.

In 1980, the South African government banned the Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two).” The song, which includes children chanting the chorus, “We don’t need no education,” had been adopted as the anthem for black children who boycotted schools because of inferior education standards.

In 1982, Adam and the Ants disbanded after singer Stuart Goddard decided to go solo rather than find replacements for his departed bassist and drummer. Goddard then became known as Adam Ant.

In 2010, the stage at the Grand Ole Opry was submerged after record rains and flooding hit Nashville.

(AP)-Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic Jump, has died, according to authorities. He was 34.

Investigator Betty Honey of the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office said the 34-year-old Kelly was pronounced dead around 5 p.m. Wednesday at the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Center.

Honey said authorities are unsure of Kelly’s cause of death and that an autopsy has yet to be performed.

Kelly, known as “Mac Daddy,” and Chris Smith, known as “Daddy Mac,” were introduced to the music world in 1992 by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri after he discovered the pair in an Atlanta mall. The duo wore their clothes backwards as a gimmick, but they won over fans with their raps.

Their first and by far most successful song was Jump. The hit, off their multiplatinum 1992 debut album Totally Krossed Out, featured the two trading verses and rapping the refrain, the song’s title. The duo had surprising maturity in their rap delivery, though the song was written by Dupri. It would become a No. 1 smash in the United States and globally, and one of the most popular songs of that year.

Their success led to instant fame: They toured with Michael Jackson, appeared on TV shows, and even had their own video game.

The group was never able to match the tremendous success of their first song, though they had other hits like Warm It Up and Tonite’s tha Night.

Earlier this year, the group performed together to celebrate the anniversary of Durpri’s label, So So Def.

Miss Nebraska Scholarship and Miss Teen Nebraska Pageant tickets will go on sale May 13.

The event will be June 5, 6 & 8th at the North Platte High School Performing Arts Center.  Tickets may be purchased at missnebraska.org, Farm Bureau Financial Services, 410 East Francis #3 or through Jay Engle 534-9694.

This years pageant will feature 16 of Nebraska’s most talented and intelligent young women, competing for thousands of dollars in college scholarship and a chance to represent the State at the Miss America Pageant.

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The Strategic Air & Space Museum will unveil its new mobile observatory and outreach laboratory this week.

The new facility will be unveiled on Thursday at the museum in Ashland.

The mobile facility is trailer that features everything needed to transport and deliver an astronomy experience throughout the state and region. It includes living quarters, as well as a full complement of handheld ham radios for communication and telemetry, an APRS tracking system, and a complete weather station. It also has red interior lights for night vision and an extensive remote hook-up system for computer control of outdoor telescopes.

The Strategic Air & Space Museum also is launching a contest to name the mobile observatory. The winner will receive a scholarship to the museum’s Astronaut Academy Summer Camp.

Actor Keith Baxter is 80
Bluesman Otis Rush is 79
Singer Bob Miranda of The Happenings is 71
Country singer Duane Allen of The Oak Ridge Boys is 70
Singer Tommy James is 66
Bassist Wayne Secrest of Confederate Railroad is 63
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 59
Actress Kate Mulgrew (“Star Trek: Voyager”) is 58
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 56
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 55
Actress Eve Plumb (“The Brady Bunch”) is 55
Country singer Stephanie Bentley is 50
Singer Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips is 45
Actor Paul Adelstein (“Private Practice”) is 44
Actress Uma Thurman is 43
Rapper Master P is 43
Actress Darby Stanchfield (“Scandal”) is 42
Country singer James Bonamy is 41
Bassist Mike Hogan of The Cranberries is 40
Actor Tyler Labine is 35
Actress-model Taylor Cole is 29
Actor Zane Carney (“Dave’s World”) is 28.