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John Nolan (musician)
1978Feb, 24

John Nolan (musician)

John Nolan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
John Thomas Nolan (born February 24, 1978) is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Taking Back Sunday, and the former lead singer, pianist, and guitarist of Straylight Run.Nolan left Taking Back Sunday in 2003 along with bassist Shaun Cooper, with whom he formed Straylight Run. During March 2010, he and Cooper rejoined Taking Back Sunday, reforming the Tell All Your Friends-era lineup. Nolan is also a solo artist and has recorded an album called Height and "Live at Looney Tunes."

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Events on 1978

  • 11Feb

    Aristotle

    Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
  • 27Apr

    Watergate scandal

    Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  • 25Jul

    In vitro fertilisation

    Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
  • 22Oct

    Pope John Paul II

    Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
  • 18Nov

    Jim Jones

    In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.