Good News In History, October 20

Good News In History, October 20

Good News In History, October 20 75 years ago today, Tom Petty , was born in Gainesville, Florida. As an 11-year-old he met Elvis Presley, which sparked his love of rock and roll. As a guitar-playing singer-songwriter, he was one of the best-selling musical artists of all time, with over 80 million records sold worldwide powered by mega hits like “American Girl,” “Won’t Back Down,” and “The Waiting (Song)”. READ more… (1950) Fair use The ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’ was the leader of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as the co-founder of a 1980s supergroup with George Harrison, the Traveling Wilburys. A biography written by his friend,  Petty: The Biography , details his struggle with heroin in the 1990s. More recently, until his death in 2017,  Petty touted the benefits of practicing Transcendental Meditation. MORE Good News on this Day: Yugoslavian cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated in World War II (1944) The Return of the King , the third and final volume of The…