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1915 - Billie Holiday, Eleonora Fagan and later called Lady Day, was born on the 7th of April.
1939 - She opened the new Greenwich Village club Cafe Society on January.
1941 - Married trombonist Jimmy Monroe on the 25th of August.
1943 - Voted as the best jazz Vocalist in the Esquire magazines readers poll.
1945 - Holiday married trumpet player Joe Guy, and together they ran a band that later lost large sums of money.
1952 - Married Mafia "enforcer", Louis McKay on the 28th of March.
1959 - She was taken in Metropolitan Hospital in New York suffering from liver and heart disease on the 31st of May
- Died on the 15th of July in a hospital bed where she had been under house arrest since 12th of June for possession of narcotics. She had a $750 taped on her leg, an advance for a magazine for a series of articles about her life.
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- "You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."
- "All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you."
