American singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos who had the 1994 UK No.4 single ‘Cornflake Girl’. Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She was expelled at the age of 11 for “musical insubordination”. Her 1996 hit ‘Professional Widow’ is widely rumoured to be about Courtney Love.
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan independence leader, is freed from prison Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is released by British colonial authorities after nearly nine years of imprisonment and detention. Two years later, Kenya achieved independence and Kenyatta became prime minister.
