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BILLIE HOLIDAY'S TIMELINE | |
| 1915: | born Eleanora Holiday on April 7 |
| 1932: | opens Covan's night club on W. 132 St. |
| 1933: | signs Joe Glaser, agent for Louis Armstrong and Mildred Bailey, as her agent. |
| records with Benny Goodman: "Riffin' the Scotch" featuring trumpeters JackTeagarden and Shirley Clay, and "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" | |
| records with Teddy Wilson's band under the Columbia label | |
| 1934: | performs with pianist Bobbie Henderson in her first appearance at the Apollo Theatre, November 23 |
| 1935: | sings at month-long Apollo engagement |
| sings with Ralph Cooper's band | |
| stars in film, Symphony in Black, with Duke Ellington | |
| sings in Fletcher Henderson's band | |
| 1936: | writes "God Bless the Child" |
| 1937: | meets tenor saxophonist and life-long friend, Lester Young |
| father, jazz ???, Clarence Holiday, dies. | |
| tours with Count Basie Orchestra | |
| tours with Artie Shaw | |
| 1938: | tours with Artie Shaw's band |
| plays at Cafe Society in Greenwich Village | |
| 1939: | records "Strange Fruit" under Commodore label |
| 1941: | elopes with Jimmy Monroe |
| writes "Don't Explain" | |
| starts Billy Holiday Band | |
| 1946: | institutionalized for drug addiction treatment |
| stars in film, New Orleans with Louis Armstrong | |
| 1947: | sentenced to a year in Federal Reformatory in Alderson, West Virginia |
| 1948: | performs 30-song comeback concert at Carnegie Hall |
| stars in Holiday on Broadway, with Slam Stewart, Bobby Tucker, and Cosy Cole, April 17, 1948 | |
| 1950: | obtains divorce from Jimmy Monroe |
| enters common law marriage with Louis McKay | |
| 1953: | Billie Holiday's Comeback Story airs on national television |
| 1954: | tours with Leonard Feather in Europe for three weeks |
| 1956: | Lady Sings The Blues, her autobiography is published |
| arrested for drug possession | |
| 1959 | dies on July 17 |
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