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jan 1, 1912 - Louis Armstrong dropped out of the Fisk School for Boys and started to earn a meagre living singing on the streets of New Orleans with a quartet. A musician named Joe "King" Oliver taught Louis to play the cornet

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jan 1, 1912
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~ 114 years ago