Randy Travis (born 1959) is an American country and gospel music singer and songwriter. He has recorded more than 20 studio albums and charted more than 50 singles on Billboard's Hot Country Songs charts, including 16 that reached the number-one position. Travis's commercial success began in the mid-1980s with the release of his album Storms of Life, which was certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. His major songs include "On the Other Hand", "Forever and Ever, Amen", "I Told You So", "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart", and "Three Wooden Crosses". Travis is noted as a key figure in the neotraditional country movement, a return to more traditional sounds within the genre following the country pop crossovers of the early 1980s. Since surviving a near-fatal stroke in 2013, which severely limited his singing and speaking ability, he has released archival recordings and made limited public appearances.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1804:

German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered one of the largest main-belt asteroids, naming it Juno after the Roman goddess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Juno

1902:

The first science fiction film, titled A Trip to the Moon and based on From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, was released in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

1937:

The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh and Uzbek SSRs; around 10 to 25 percent died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Koreans_in_the_Soviet_Union

2000:

Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner,_Singapore

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

cannoneer: (military) An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cannoneer

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There are two Births, the one when Light  First strikes the new awak’ned sense;The Other when two Souls unite;  And we must count our life from thence:When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you,Then both of us were born anew.   -- William Cartwright https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Cartwright_%28dramatist%29