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"Papa Jack" Laine is Born Born on this date in 1873, George Vital "Papa Jack" Laine
was a pioneering band leader in New Orleans in the years from the Spanish-American War
to World War I. He is often credited with being instrumental in the
development of jazz music as his Reliance Brass Band was the first to fuse European, African and Latin music together. The
earliest jazz musicians can be traced back to playing within the Reliance Brass Band or being influenced from those who
had. Many of the New Orleans musicians who first spread jazz around the
United States in the 1910s and 1920s got their start in Laines band, including the members of the Original Dixieland Jass
Band. Laine was a drummer, but was more noted for his skills at arranging and booking bands. Laine's musicians included
individuals from most of New Orleans' many ethnic groups such as African American, English, French, German, Italian, Jewish,
Latin American, Scottish, and more. Laine started leading bands in 1885 before the Jim Crow codes
went into effect in New Orleans. Due to the diverse background of
many of his bands members such as their cultural background, socioeconomic status, age variations from young to old as well
as musical experience (some having none at all) a broad range of ideas were developed and fused together leading to the
early beginnings of jazz music. Even after segregation laws started demanding "whites" and "colored" be kept separate,
Laine continued to hire light- and medium light-skinned African-American musicians, claiming
that they were "Cuban" or "Mexican" if any segregationist tried to start trouble. As such his band attracted
a large and diverse group of people such as Mexican clarinetist Lorenzo Tio Sr who was a pioneer of the jazz solo. Laine
believed music brought people together. 1920 L Hurricane .Once in the Gulf of Mexico, the storm quickly
intensified as it moved towards the north-northwest, reaching its peak intensity as a Category 2
hurricane with winds of 100 mph prior to making landfall near Houma with no change in intensity. People along
Lake Ponchartrain evacuated into New Orleans, causing hotels to overflow and forcing refugees
to take shelter in other public buildings including post offices after waves over the seawall at West End and
Spanish Fort were accompanied by 25 mph winds with gusts of 50-60 mph. All New Orleans
hotels were full and refugees also samped in the Custom House, the public library, and other public buildings on night of
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City Park Stadium Reopens City Park Stadium reopened for the first time after Hurricane Katrina in 2006 with the playing field re-named
Reggie Bush Field after the Saints football star donated $80,000 for its repair so high school teams could play there again.
The first post-Katrina event was the LHSAA game on September 21, 2006 pitting the Brother Martin Crusaders against the Higgins
High Hurricanes. The stadium/field has been the race party venue of the Crescent City Classic since 2000 as it was in the
March following Katrina. 2006 brought the reopening of the Driving Range, Storyland, and Carousel Gardens Amusement Park
(which only ran during Celebration in the Oaks in 2006 but reopened fully in 2007.
Established as an
open community of learners, classes began with 158 freshmen, one building and a faculty of fifteen. The University offered
ten courses in four academic disciplines, including Humanities, Science, Social Science and Commerce. The first graduation
took place in May 1963 when baccalaureate degrees were awarded to 15 graduates.
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The official death toll was raised to 1,036,
with 63 additional deaths recognized in Louisiana. This marked the first time since 1928 that a natural disaster in the
U.S. had been officially acknowledged to have killed at least 1,000 people. State-by-state death tolls: Louisiana 799, Mississippi
218, Florida 14, Alabama 2, Georgia 2, Tennessee 1. By September 21, 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers had begun closing two damaged canals at noon in preparation
for storm surges associated with Hurricane Rita. The 17th Street and London Avenue Canals were closed with steel sheet
piling by evening and remained closed until the threat of severe weather passed. Steel sheets would be driven deep into the
canal beds near Lake Pontchartrain, providing protection from possible storm surges from the lake rushing into the damaged
canals. More than 800 filled sandbags were on hand, and an additional 2,500 ordered. Work continued
around the clock to make emergency repairs to damaged canal walls and levees. Journalist Dean P. Baquet is Born Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist Dean P. Baquet was born in New Orleans
on this day in 1956. Baquet had held positions at the Times as an assistant managing editor, Washington bureau
chief, and is currently managing editor for news at The New York Times. He previously held the positions of managing
editor of the Los Angeles Times before becoming the editor of that newspaper. From 1995 to 2000, he was national editor of
The New York Times. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1988 for a
piece on corruption in the Chicago City Council.
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