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Events on Monday 5 January 1998 1
1935 – 1998Sonny Bono (1935-1998)Died 5 January 1998, aged 62Sonny Bono, singer and later a US Congressman from California, died in a skiing accident at Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe on 5 January 1998. He had risen to fame in the 1960s as half of the duo Sonny & Cher before entering politics.