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Thursday February 25
James Brown receives a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 1992
Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammys, 1998
"Elvis Presley Day" is declared in Memphis and the state of Tennessee as the King performs his first post-Army concert (and first since 1957), a charity benefit in Memphis, 1961
Steve Wonder is given the Library of Congress award by President Barack Obama at the White House, 2009
Frank Sinatra guests on an episode of "Magnum, P.I." on CBS-TV, 1987
Adam Wade appears (as a former assistant to polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk, not as a singer) on CBS-TV's "To Tell The Truth", 1960
The Beatles first U.S. single ("Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why" on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records) is released (and Dick Biondi of WLS radio in Chicago plays the "A" side-- the first U.S. DJ to play a Beatles tune), 1963

Thursday February 25
James Brown receives a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, 1992
Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammys, 1998
"Elvis Presley Day" is declared in Memphis and the state of Tennessee as the King performs his first post-Army concert (and first since 1957), a charity benefit in Memphis, 1961
Steve Wonder is given the Library of Congress award by President Barack Obama at the White House, 2009
Frank Sinatra guests on an episode of "Magnum, P.I." on CBS-TV, 1987
Adam Wade appears (as a former assistant to polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas Salk, not as a singer) on CBS-TV's "To Tell The Truth", 1960
The Beatles first U.S. single ("Please Please Me"/"Ask Me Why" on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records) is released (and Dick Biondi of WLS radio in Chicago plays the "A" side-- the first U.S. DJ to play a Beatles tune), 1963