This week in 1981: Sandra Day O'Conner became the first woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court; the first solar-powered airplane flew across the English Channel, completing a 165-mile trip 25 ...
Country singer Mickey Gilley, best known as the pioneer of the "urban cowboy" style, died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, his publicist Zach Farnum said. He was 86. Gilley had 17 number one country ...