Selena was a Mexican-American singer who has been called the "queen" of Tejano music. She took the award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 1987 at the Tejano Music Awards and landed a recording contract with EMI a few years later. Her fame continued to grow throughout the early nineties, especially in Spanish-speaking countries. Her album Selena Live! won a Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American album at the 36th Grammy Awards and her 1994 album Amor Prohibido was nominated for another Grammy and produced four number one Spanish hits. Selena attained further notability in the United States and Mexico after Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club, murdered her at the age of 23. Warner Brothers made a film based on her life starring Jennifer Lopez in 1997. As of June 2006, Selena was commemorated with a museum and a bronze life-sized statue (Mirador de la Flor in Corpus Christi, Texas).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

69: Vespasian became the fourth Roman Emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Four_Emperors)

1913: Arthur Wynne published the first crossword puzzle in the New York World. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword)

1937: The animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, premiered to a widely receptive audience. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film))

1962: Rondane National Park, Norway's first national park, was established. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondane_National_Park)

1988: Pan Am Flight 103: A terrorist bomb exploded and destroyed a Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270, including 11 on the ground. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103)

_____________________ Wikiquote of the day:

This is the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center is also the circumference of all. We are awake in the night. We turn the Wheel to bring the light. We call the sun from the womb of night. Blessed Be! -- Starhawk (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Starhawk)