Storm causes power outage on Marco Island. Over 15,000 people on Marco Island were without power for more than seven hours Sunday morning. Violent storm winds Saturday night caused the main transmission line feeding the island to go down, leaving many businesses and homes in the dark.
In 1968 Hamer founded the Freedom Farms Corporation (FFC) a non-profit venture designed to help poor farming families. It also provided social services and grants for education. Fannie Lou Hamer died in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on 14th March 1977.
Christine Cavanaugh, who lent her distinctive voice to the title pig in Babe, Chuckie Finster on Rugrats and Dexter of Dexter's Laboratory, died December 22. She was 51. British rocker Joe Cocker died December 22 after a battle with lung cancer, Sony Music said in a statement. He was 70. Norman Bridwell, the creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, died December 12 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Scholastic. Bridwell was 86.