American singer-songwriter and actress

Cindy Herron

Cynthia Ann Herron, professionally known as Cindy Herron and sometimes credited as Cindy Herron–Braggs, is an American singer and actress. Herron is best known as a founding member of the R&B/pop group En Vogue, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. She sang lead vocals on the group's first single "Hold On", which garnered mainstream success and sold over a million copies. Despite being absent from the group during certain periods, Herron and fellow group member Terry Ellis are the only original members to appear on all of the group's album releases to date.

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1961

September 26

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1960s

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-46 Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
715 Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.
1087 William II is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
1142 Stephen of Blois's army approached Oxford, beginning the siege of Oxford.

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The world in 1961

When Cindy arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah 932– Arab caliph (died 975) Andrew Bolt 1959– Australian journalist Anne Robinson 1944– English journalist and game show host Cuthbert Collingwood 1750–1810 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (born 1748) Daniel Sedin 1980– Swedish ice hockey player George Gershwin 1898–1937 American pianist, songwriter, and composer (born 1898) George Raft 1901–1980 American actor and dancer (born 1901) Gloria E. Anzaldúa 1942– American scholar of Chicana cultural theory (died 2004) J. Frank Dobie 1888– American journalist and author (died 1964)

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Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman David Brooks 1961– American journalist and author

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