On February 3, 1959, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., better known by his stage name The Big ...

On Feb. 3, 1959, plane accident took the lives of entertainers Holly, Valens, Richardson. Americans died in several other air ...

Don McLean and Connie Valens tell PEOPLE about their unique experiences on 'The Day the Music Died,' when Buddy Holly, Richie ...

On this day 66 years ago (February 3, 1959) a plane crashed in a cornfield outside Clear Lake, Iowa. The crash unfortunately ...

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J.P. Richardson played at the Capitol Theatre just four days before all ...

February 3rd has witnessed a multitude of significant historical events that have shaped the course of nations and ...

On a different note, Monday is the 66th anniversary of The Day the Music Died - the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson. Don ...

So many sing about "the day that music died" on Feb ... identify each body by clothing. Maria Elena Holly told the Australian ...

Officials recovered 41 bodies from the Potomac River in Washington ... remained closed to prevent aircraft from flying over the crash scene, Terry Liercke, the airport’s vice president and ...

There has been no specific explanation from the Army for the one-day delay in releasing her name. But while the investigation into the crash has only ... to get all the bodies, he said.

The incident was the first fatal crash involving a major U.S. airline ... Emergency personnel pulled more than two dozen bodies from icy water, and federal transportation officials launched ...

It has been nearly a week since a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington’s Ronald ...