American guitarist (born 1921)

Franny Beecher

Francis Eugene Beecher was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated elements of jazz. He composed the classics "Blue Comet Blues", "Goofin' Around", "Week End", "The Catwalk", and "Shaky" when he was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets. He continued to perform with surviving members of the Comets into 2006. In 2012, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Beecher as a member of the Comets by a special committee, aimed at correcting the previous mistake of not inducting the Comets with Bill Haley.

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484 King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
1303 The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

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april 12 The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso, killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.
april 13 Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
april 14 Two bombs detonate at a bus station in Nyanya, Nigeria, killing at least 88 people and injuring hundreds. Boko Haram claims responsibility.
april 14 Boko Haram abducts 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.

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