This nebula was discovered in 1946 by Rudolph Minkowski (Min 1-90) and classified as «diffuse and peculiar nebulosity». Later in 1959 it was included in the catalogue of H-II by Stewart Sharpless. He already noted that nebula may also be a planetary nebula.

In 1961 the Soviet astronomer Boris Aleksandrovich Vorontsov-Vel’Yaminov confirmed Sh 2-71 (V-V 1-9) to be a planetary nebula and noted: «Overexposed in the red, with a kind of dark band in the middle and with extremely faint appendages; the edge, however, is sharp. The brigt part measures 2.5′ x 1.3′. In the blue, this is evidently a planetary nebula in the form of a broad ring, one-half of which is far brighter than the other. There are two stars in the centre, one of which should be the nucleus.» 3,300ly

Eddie Henderson (born October 26, 1940 NY) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock‘s Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.

• Born October 26, 1951 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Died January 21, 2017 · New York City, New York, USA (breast cancer)
  Margaret Roche was born on Oct. 26, 1951, and grew up in Park Ridge, N.J. She and her two younger sisters sang in Roman Catholic church choirs, and she started writing songs after getting a guitar for her birthday in 1964. She and Terre formed a duo, performing at first for Democratic Party fund-raisers in New Jersey. The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey.

Bassam Saba (26 October 1958 – 4 December 2020) was a Lebanese musician and a promoter of Arabic music in the west.

He was a co-founder of the New York Arabic Orchestra and the director of Lebanon’s national conservatory of music.

He died of complications from COVID-19 in Beirut, Lebanon, on December 4, 2020. Saba was born on 26 October 1958, in Tripoli, Lebanon. His father, Antoine Saba, worked for an oil company. His mother, Delena Saba, was a homemaker. His family was musical, and his older siblings taught him to play the nay. At the outset of the Lebanese Civil War in 1976 he went to Paris to study music at the Conservatoire Municipal des Gobelins in Paris, where he earned his BA in Western Classical Music and Flute Performance, and the Gnessin School in Moscow, where he received a master’s degree in Western Flute Performance and Music Education. He then moved to the United States and settled in Northport, New York.

Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Palmer was one of the most prolific studio musicians of all time and played on thousands of recordings, including nearly all of Little Richard‘s hits, many of Fats Domino‘s hits, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” by the Righteous Brothers, and a long list of classic TV and film soundtracks. According to one obituary, “his list of credits read like a Who’s Who of American popular music of the last 60 years”.

Big Happy Birthday to my October 25th friends Ethiopian mystic Lij Theodros Tamrat, sound engineer Christopher Blood and actor Richard Weber as well as Pablo Picasso, Georges Bizet, Earl Palmer, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Lang, Chad Smith, Mia Wasikowska, Craig Robinson, Katy Perry, Helen Reddy, mick laBriola etc

Two members of KARIBUNI, Joe & mick, will be performing at the Warehouse Winery 6415 Cambridge St, Minneapolis, MN 55416 from 7-8pm for Global Village Connect Gala event. https://www.globalvillageconnect.org/gala.html