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On This Day In History – Oct 24th

Angie and the Stones and Cher and Lenny and spanking bad kids. Good bye 11 years ago – In 2011, Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi was captured and killed by the…

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Angie and the Stones and Cher and Lenny and spanking bad kids.

Good bye

11 years ago - In 2011, Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi was captured and killed by the local rebel militia.

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Maybe it was a number 2

18 years ago - In 2004, Lenny Kravitz was sued for causing over $300,000 worth of water damage to a neighbor's apartment when his penthouse toilet overflowed two months earlier.

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Freebird

45 years ago - In 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and his sister / backup singer Cassie, were killed when Skynyrd's single engine plane crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, Mississippi.

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Bad kid

47 years ago - In 1975, the Supreme Court ruled that teachers could spank their pupils after a warning.

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Angie

49 years ago - In 1973, the Rolling Stones "Angie" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 . . . knocking Cher's "Half-Breed" to #2.

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