Before comedy pioneers Joan Rivers, Carol Burnette, and Lily Tomlin helped disprove the notion that women couldn’t be funny, another woman was cracking up audiences decades earlier: Imogene Coca.
Born November 18
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Most people today associate “The Twist” with Chubby Checker, but the song was actually first recorded by Hank Ballard, born on this day in 1927…
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Wilma Mankiller had a formidable name, but she wasn’t the lawbreaker one might assume.
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He was the longest-serving Republican in Senate history.
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