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Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played auto-harp in Austin bars.She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing and becoming drug-addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin and drummer Dave Getz). She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band's landmark second album, "Cheap Thrills". She formed her "Kosmic Blues Band" the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the "Full Tilt Boogie Band" and, on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood's Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her biggest selling album was the posthumously released "Pearl", which contained her quintessential song: "Me & Bobby McGee".- Arthur Mayne was born on 11 May 1894 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Precious Bane (1957), Gilbert and Sullivan: The Immortal Jesters (1961) and Mr. Justice Duncannon (1963). He died on 4 October 1970 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
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Mamie Wagner was born on 26 June 1886 in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. She was an editor. She was married to Theodore Sullivan. She died on 4 October 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sound Department
Harry Alphin was born on 10 February 1904 in Arizona, USA. He is known for A Rumor of War (1980). He died on 4 October 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers in 1998, Curtis Turner was perhaps the hardest charger ever to drive a race car. Turner was there from NASCAR's beginning. He finished sixth in the championship standings during NASCAR's first season in 1949 and won 18 races in NASCAR's top division in his career. He was also an entrepeneur; he owned a lumber business, owned and flew his own plane, and along with Bruton Smith built the Charlotte Motor Speedway (now Lowe's Motor Speedway). Though it was his dream, the Charlotte Motor Speedway project caused an unexpected interruption in Turner's driving career in 1961. Strapped for cash after numerous cost overruns, Turner turned to the Teamsters Union for help. In exchange for the money he needed to pay the debt on the speedway, Turner agreed to help organize NASCAR's drivers into the Federation of Professional Athletes. When Bill France, Sr. got wind of Turner's efforts, he called a meeting of the drivers and, with pistol in hand, declared that none of NASCAR's drivers would be involved with a union. He then banned Turner and fellow driver Tim Flock for life from NASCAR. From 1961-64, Turner raced in various non-NASCAR events winning, among other events, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. France and Turner eventually settled their differences and Turner was reinstated in late 1965. In his comeback, Turner won the American 500, the first race held at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, NC. He retired from racing in 1967 after a crash at the Atlanta International Raceway but was planning a comeback when he died. On October 4, 1970, Curtis Turner was flying his Aerocommander with professional golfer Clarence King when the plane crashed into a mountainside near Punxsutawney, PA. Turner was inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Hall of Fame in 1971, and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1992.