Today in history.

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Friday, June 6, 2008
PASSION PIT DAY.

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The first U.S. drive-in to show movies was opened in Camden, New Jersey, on Crescent Boulevard, this night in 1933. Those first drive-in moviegoers got to see Wife Beware, a flick not destined to be a classic. The screen measured a huge 40 feet by 50 feet and was easily seen by everyone in the first cars in the front to the 500th car in the back row. Everyone (including the whole town) could hear the sound, too ... with a slight delay for the folks in the back row because the sound emanated from speakers mounted next to the screen. Admission was 25 cents per person plus 25 cents for the car, maximum $1.00.

As drive-in movies became popular throughout the country, families would regularly park their cars in the front rows so the kids in their PJs could play on the swings and monkey bars before the movie started. The rest parked wherever, since a good number of those moviegoers weren’t there to see the movie anyway!

The passion pits that dotted the country, some with in-car heaters and through-your-radio sound have all but disappeared, as TV, video cassettes and DVDs have made movie viewing more convenient. Those drive-ins that do remain, however, offer more than just all-day swap shops in their huge lots. Some have four or five, even six screens, showing first run films at about $7.00 per carload. (Those stowing away in the trunk will be tossed out of the theatre immediately.)

Be sure to visit the snack bar at intermission for the pizza with the mushroomy-rooms ... and try not to spill your drinks and popcorn while searching for your car ... and remember to remove the speaker from your side window before you drive off. The breaking glass kinda puts a damper on the passion...
More reading on this here, (http://www.driveinmovie.com/) here, (http://www.driveintheater.com/index.htm) and here. (http://www.driveintheater.com/history/1930.htm)
Events
June 6th.


1816 - Ten inches of wonderful wet, white snow fell this day in New England. It was one of the latest snowfalls ever (or maybe one of the earliest!) Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

1833 - The first U.S. President to ride in a railroad car was Andrew Jackson. President Jackson boarded a B&O (Baltimore & Ohio) passenger train in Baltimore, MD.

1844 - The first YMCA was founded in London by George Williams, a young draper’s assistant who had come to London to learn the drapery trade. At that time, wholesale drapery houses employed large numbers of young men, who were given room and board at their work places. They worked long hours and had poor living conditions. Williams sought permission to hold prayer meetings in his bedroom with other young men who, like himself, shared the Christian faith. Soon, the group expanded, drawing to it young men who were alone and lonely in the City of London.

1882 - The first electric flatiron, or what we call the electric iron, was patented by Henry W. Seely of New York City. We bet he probably had the nicest pressed shirts in the neighborhood.

1904 - The National Tuberculosis Association was formed in Atlantic City, NJ.

1932 - The first U.S. federal tax on gasoline was enacted. The rate was a penny per gallon. Ride a bike. Save some money.

1938 - Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red radio network. The serial was “the true to life story of mother love and sacrifice.” Stella Dallas continued to do this and so much more until 1955.

1942 - Adeline Gray made the first nylon-parachute jump in Hartford, CT. It proved, no doubt, better and much more comfortable than the first cinder block-parachute jump...

1944 - CBS radio saluted America’s war doctors with The Doctor Fights, presented for the first time this day.

1944 - This was D-Day, the day thousands of Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, France. Their objective: to open a second major European front in the battle against the Nazis. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of these united forces (and, who later became President of the United States) said, “This landing is but the opening phase of the campaign in Western Europe. Great battles lie ahead. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us.”

1946 - New York City was the site of the formation of the Basketball Association of America.

1956 - Gogi Grant (born Audrey Brown) reached the top spot on the Billboard singles chart for the first and only time in her career. Her hit, The Wayward Wind, stayed at the top of the top-tune tabulation for eight weeks and on the music charts for 22 weeks. It was her second record release. The first, in October, 1955, was Suddenly There’s a Valley which climbed to number nine.

1962 - The Beatles auditioned for producer George Martin of EMI Records. After listening to a playback of the audition tapes, Martin said, “They’re pretty awful.” He changed his mind after meeting the group, however. The rest, of course, is rock-music history.

1971 - For the last time, we saw Polish dancing bears, a little mouse named Topo Gigio, remembered The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, the comedy of Jackie Mason, John Byner, Rich Little, Richard Pryor and so many more, as The Ed Sullivan Show left CBS-TV. Gladys Knight and The Pips and singer Jerry Vale appeared on the final show. The Ed Sullivan Show had been a showcase for more than 20 years for artists who ranged from Ethel Merman to Ella Fitzgerald, from Steve and Eydie to the Beatles. The Ed Sullivan Show was the longest running variety show on TV -- a “rillly big sheeeew.”

1973 - Barry White was awarded a gold record for I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby. It was his first hit and his first of five number one million-sellers. White began recording in 1960. He formed the group, Love Unlimited, in 1969 and married one of the group’s singers, Glodean James. He also formed the 40-piece Love Unlimited Orchestra which had the number-one hit, Love’s Theme in 1973. I’m Casey Kasem. Now back to the count down...

1978 - Proposition 13 passed in California. Voters joined Senator Howard Jarvis in cutting property taxes by 57 percent. This was seen as the birth of a taxpayer’s revolt against high taxes and excessive government spending.

1978 - The ABC-TV newsmagazine 20/20 debuted. Producer Bob Shanks, realizing that the first show was a disaster, fired the co-hosts, magazine editor Harold Hayes and Australian art critic Robert Hughes. The next week, Shanks tapped former Today and Concentration host Hugh Downs, formerly of NBC, to take over the show.

1987 - Steffi Graf beat Martina Navratilova and won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open in Paris. She is the only player in tennis history to win each of the four Grand Slam titles at least four times [Wimbledon: 7, French Open: 6, U.S. Open: 5, Australian Open: 4].

1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and other dignitaries from around the world visited Normandy, France. Many D-Day veterans joined them to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Operation Overlord and to pay respect to the thousands who died there in World War II.

1998 - The Boy is Mine, by Brandy and Monica, zoomed to number 1 on the Billboard pop chart. It ruled the Hot 100 roost for 13 weeks -- putting it in the top ten of longest-running #1 singles in the modern rock era.

Birthdays
June 6th.

1606 - Pierre Corneille
playwright: Cinna, Le Cid, L’illusion Comique; died Oct 1, 1684

1755 - Nathan Hale
American patriot & Revolutionary War military officer: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”; arrested [Sep 20, 1776] by British troups while spying for General George Washington; executed Sep 22, 1776 at age 21

1756 - John Trumbull
artist: painter of the Revolution: The Battle of Bunker Hill, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Declaration of Independence; son of colonial Connecticut’s governor; died Nov 10, 1843

1799 - Aleksandr Pushkin
poet: Boris Gudunov, Eugene Onegin; died Feb 10, 1837

1875 - Thomas Mann
author: Little Herr Friedemann, Royal Highness, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man, Death in Venice, Reflections of an Unpolitical Man, Order of fhe Day, Disorder and Early Sorrow, Mario and the Magician; died Aug 12, 1955

1891 - Ted Lewis (Theodore Leopold Friedman)
clarinettist, singer, bandleader: Ted Lewis & His Band: Somebody Stole My Gal, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; died Aug 25, 1971

1898 - Walter Abel
actor: Raintree County, Mirage, Quick Let’s Get Married, 13 Rue Madeleine, Wake Island, Silent Night Bloody Night, Kid from Brooklyn, Holiday Inn, The Indian Fighter; died Mar 26, 1987

1903 - Aram (Ilyich) Khachaturyan
musician, composer: Sabre Dance, Spartacus; died May 1, 1978

1907 - Bill (William Malcolm) Dickey
Baseball Hall of Famer: catcher: NY Yankees catcher [1928-1946: played in 38 World Series games: 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946/record: caught 100 or more games 13 years in a row]; died Nov 12, 1993

1909 - Isaiah Berlin
philosopher, historian; died Nov 5, 1997

1926 - Tom Ryan
cartoonist: Tumbleweeds

1932 - David R. Scott
NASA astronaut: flew on Gemini 8, Command Module pilot [Apollo 9], walked and drove first Lunar Rover on the moon as commander of Apollo 15

1932 - Billie Whitelaw
actress: Frenzy, The Dressmaker, The Secret Garden, The Omen, Masterpiece Theatre productions

1934 - Roy Innes
civil rights leader: National Chairman of Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]

1935 - Jon Henricks
swimmer: Univ of Southern California, Olympic Gold Medalist: Melbourne: 2 gold [1956], Rome: 2 gold [1960]

1935 - Bobby Mitchell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Cleveland Browns running back; Washington Redskins wide receiver: 1st black player for Washington; All Pro [1962, 1964]; four Pro Bowls

1936 - Levi Stubbs (Stubbles)
lead singer: group: The Four Tops: Baby I Need Your Loving, I Can’t Help Myself, Reach Out I’ll be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Seven Rooms of Gloom, Bernadette

1939 - Gary U.S. Bonds (Anderson)
singer: Quarter to Three, New Orleans, Rendezvous, Come on Let’s Go

1939 - Ed (Edward) Giacomin
Hockey Hall of Fame goalie: NHL: NY Rangers [Vezina Trophy winner: 1970-71], Detroit Red Wings

1941 - Marshall Johnston
hockey: Univ. of Denver [NCAA Championship team: 1961], Canadian Olympic Team [1964, 1968]; NHL: Minnesota North Stars, California Golden Seals; coach: California Golden Seals, Denver Univ., Colorado Rockies, NJ Devils, NY Islanders, Ottawa Senators

1943 - Merv (Mervin Weldon) Rettenmund
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971], Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1975], SD Padres, California Angels

1943 - Joe Stampley
country singer: Soul Song, There’s Another Woman, Whiskey Chasin’, Back Slidin’, Double Shot of My Baby’s Love

1944 - Peter Albin
musician: bass, guitar & vocals: group: Big Brother and The Holding Company: Piece of My Heart

1944 - Monty Alexander
jazz musician: piano: So What?

1944 - Bud (Derrel McKinley) Harrelson
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969, 1973/all-star: 1970, 1971], Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers

1945 - David Dukes
actor: War & Remembrance, The Winds of War, Sisters, The Men’s Club, Snow Kill, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, The Josephine Baker Story, Held Hostage; died Oct 9, 2000

1947 - Ada Kok
swimmer: Netherlands Olympic silver medalist Tokyo [1964]

1949 - Robert Englund
actor: A Nightmare on Elm Street [1-5], Hustle, A Star is Born, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

1954 - Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award-winning actor: Torch Song Trilogy [1983]; Mrs. Doubtfire, Bullets Over Broadway; and playwright: Torch Song Trilogy [1983]; La Cage aux Folles, Tidy Endings; actor: Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day

1955 - Sandra Bernhard
comedienne, actress: Roseanne, The Richard Pryor Show, Comedy Central: The A-List, The Late Shift, Hudson Hawk, King of Comedy

1956 - Bjorn Borg
tennis champ: French Open [1974-1975, 1978-1981], Wimbledon [1976-1980]

1959 - Amanda Pays
actress: Exposure, Dead on the Money, Leviathan, Off Limits, The Kindred, Oxford Blues, Mad Headroom, The Flash

1960 - Steve Vai
musician: guitar: group: David Lee Roth Band: California Girls.

Chart Toppers
June 6th.

1949 Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams

1957 Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenagers Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
A White Sport Coat (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965 Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973 My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Daniel - Elton John
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
Satin Sheets - Jeanne Pruett

1981 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Being with You - Smokey Robinson
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Friends - Razzy Bailey

1989 Rock On - Michael Damian
Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Where Did I Go Wrong - Steve Wariner


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Saturday, June 7, 2008
$64,000 QUESTION DAY.

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The $64,000 Question, a 1955 summer replacement show, with host Hal March, premiered on this day. The first show became the most watched and talked about program on TV. Contestants had to answer 10 questions correctly beginning at $64 and doubling the amount with each correct answer upward to the $4,000 category. Getting this far got you a return trip to the show the following week. The consolation prize for an incorrect answer, after reaching the $8,000 plateau, was a new Cadillac. At this level, you got a free trip to the Revlon isolation booth where you literally sweated your way from $8,000 to $16,000 to $32,000, and finally, the big one. An expert was permitted to accompany the contestant at the $64,000 mark. If neither of them could answer the question correctly, the contestant received a consolation prize of $4,000. Questions were compiled by Dr. Bergen Evans.

This, the first of the big-money TV shows, attracted guests with unusual interests. Some of the better-remembered were Gino Prato, a Bronx, New York shoemaker who used his knowledge of opera to win $32,000, Jockey Billy Pearson, an art expert and one of the first to win $64,000, and psychologist Joyce Brothers, an expert in boxing, who won big not only in cash, but in her new career as media personality.

The biggest winner was 11-year-old Robert Strom, who won $192,000 (The $64,000 Question had added three new plateaus and several spin-off quiz shows: The $64,000 Challenge and The Big Surprise).

On November 2, 1958 we witnessed the demise of The $64,000 Question as the quiz-show-rigging scandal ended this type of show. The real $64,000 question will always be: was the show rigged or not?
More reading here. (http://kfcplainfield.com/tv/64000q.html)
Events
June 7th.

1860 - The book, Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Mrs. Ann Stevens, was offered for sale for a dime on this day. The 128 page book became the first ‘dime novel’.

1892 - J.F. Palmer of Chicago, IL patented the cord bicycle tire. Not quite a steel-belted radial for bikes, but a lot better than what had been called a tire, to be sure.

1892 - The first pinch-hitter in baseball was used in a game. “Now pinch hitting: Dirty Jack Doyle.” John Joseph ‘Jack’ Doyle played in a game between the Cleveland Spiders and Ward’s Wonders of Brooklyn, NY.

1909 - Actress Mary Pickford made her motion picture debut in The Violin Maker of Cremona.

1937 - The cover of LIFE magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times which included saddle shoes.

1939 - Larry Clinton and his orchestra recorded In a Persian Market on Victor Records.

1945 - The NBC radio program The Adventures of Topper was heard for the first time. Later, the popular program would move to TV and continue with rave reviews.

1953 - Kukla, Fran (Allison) and Ollie, along with the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, were featured on the first network telecast in ‘compatible color’. The program was broadcast from Boston, MA.

1955 - NBC radio presented The Lux Radio Theatre for the final time. The program had aired for 21 years.

1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its first consumer 1/2-inch format helical scan VTR (video tape recorder). It was priced under $3000 (and only in black & white, yet). 1969 - The rock group Blind Faith made its British debut at a free concert at London’s Hyde Park. Over 100,000 fans attended what was called “the most remarkable gathering of young people ever seen in England.” The group was composed of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood and Rick Grech.

1974 - The Entertainer, the original music from the motion picture The Sting, earned a gold record for pianist and conductor, Marvin Hamlisch.

1976 - NBC Nightly News, with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time. The partnership lasted until Brinkley moved to ABC News. Chancellor then held the lone, anchor spot until retiring.

1985 - Sylvester Stallone was “The modern John Wayne,” according to the movie wizards at USA Today. They referred to Sly as “The macho male.” The comment came on the release of the Stallone flick, Rambo: First Blood, Part II.

1985 - Kevin Koch quit as the Pirate Parrot, the mascot of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He felt his feathers had been ruffled enough, since 1970.

1996 - The Rock, starring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, was released in the U.S. Harris plays Brigadier General Francis Xavier Hummel, whose commandos seize control of Alcatraz Island and hold a group of tourists hostage. Cage plays FBI nerve-gas weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed, who is called in to disarm Hummel's rockets before they can be fired at San Francisco. Connery is federal prisoner John Patrick Mason, who knows his way around Alcatraz, having been the only prisoner to have successfully escaped the joint. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced flick got favorable reviews (especially among action-movie buffs) and brought in a solid $25.07 million at the box office its opening weekend.

Birthdays
June 7th.

1778 - Beau (George Bryan) Brummel
English men’s fashion leader; died Mar 29, 1840

1848 - (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin
artist: The Yellow Christ, Where Do We Come From? Where Are We? Where Are We Going?; died May 8, 1903

1909 - Virginia Apgar
physician: the Apgar Score System: method of evaluation of newborns’ need for medical care; died Aug 7, 1974

1909 - Jessica Tandy
Academy Award-winning actress: Driving Miss Daisy [1989]; Cocoon, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Birds, Forever Amber, Used People, Camilla; performed on Broadway with husband, Hume Cronyn; died Sep 11, 1994

1917 - Gwendolyn Brooks
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Annie Allen [1950]; We Real Cool, The Bean Eaters, Winnie, Coming Home; died Dec 3, 2000

1917 - Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti)
straight man of comedy-team: Martin and Lewis; singer: Memories are Made of This, Return to Me, Everybody Loves Somebody, The Door is Still Open to My Heart, Houston; actor: My Friend Irma, Hollywood or Bust, Airport, Bells are Ringing, The Caddy, Cannonball Run, Ocean’s 11, Rio Bravo; died Dec 25, 1995

1919 - Ray Scherer
newsman: NBC: White House correspondent; author w/Robert Donovan]: Unsilent Revolution: Television News and AmericanPublic Life; died July 7, 2000

1924 - Dolores Gray
actress: The Buick Circus Hour, The Opposite Sex, Kismet, Designing Woman; died June 26, 2002

1928 - James Ivory
director: Jefferson in Paris, The Remains of the Day, Howard’s End, A Room with a View, The Bostonians, Roseland, Wild Party, The Householder

1928 - Randolph Turpin
boxer: Middleweight Champ [1951]; killed May 16, 1966 [shot to death]

1928 - Charles Strouse
musician: composer: Golden Boy; TV/films: The Mating Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Bonnie and Clyde, All in the Family, Annie, A Child’s Garden of Verses

1929 - John Turner
17th Prime Minister of Canada [1984]

1931 - Virginia McKenna
actress: Duel of Hearts, Born Free, The Chosen, Simba

1934 - Wynn Stewart
singer: It’s Such a Pretty World Today, Wishful Thinking, After the Storm; died July 17, 1985

1940 - Tom Jones (Thomas Jones Woodward)
The Prince of Wales: Grammy Award-winning singer : It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady, What’s New Pussycat?, I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, Without Love, Delilah, Love Me Tonight, Green Green Grass of Home, Sex Bomb

1943 - Nikki Giovanni (Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.)
poet: The Women and the Men, My House

1943 - Ken Osmond
actor: Leave It to Beaver, High School U.S.A.

1944 - Cazzie Russell
basketball: forward & guard: NY Knicks, Golden State Warriors, LA Lakers, Chicago Bulls

1947 - Don (Donald Wayne ‘Brooks’) Money
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978/World Series: 1982]

1947 - Thurman (Lee) Munson
baseball: catcher: NY Yankees [Rookie of the Year: 1970/all-star: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978/World Series: 1976, 1977, 1978], Baseball Writer’s Award [1976]; killed in plane crash at Akron-Canton [Ohio] Airport Aug 2, 1979

1952 - Liam Neeson
actor: Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Ethan Frome, Schindler’s List, Rob Roy, Les Misérables, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1958 - Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson)
The Artist Previously Known as Prince: musician, singer: I Wanna be Your Lover, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy, Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret, Kiss; actor: Purple Rain, Under the Cherry Moon, Graffiti Bridge

1964 - Gia Carides
actress: Primary Colors, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, A Secret Affair

1965 - Mick (Michael Francis) Foley
pro wresler, actor: WCW Saturday Night, WWF Monday Night RAW, Wrestlemania series, WWF Armageddon

1967 - David M. Navarro
musician: guitar: Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers: LP: One Hot Minute

1970 - Mike Modano
hockey: Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars

1972 - Chris Martin
actor: Madison, Amazon, The Girls’ Room

1975 - Allen Iverson
basketball: Georgetown Univ, Philadelphia 76ers [rookie of the year: 1996-1997]

1976 - Cassidy Rae
actress: Melrose Place, Just Shoot Me, Days of Our Lives, Favorite Deadly Sins, Journey of the Heart

1981 - Anna Kournikova
tennis: champ: US Open [doubles: 1999]

1981 - Larisa Oleynik
actress: 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Secret World of Alex Mack, Ten Things I Hate About You.

Chart Toppers
June 7th.

1950 My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Third Man Theme - The Guy Lombardo Orchestra
Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley

1958 The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

1966 When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge
A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders
Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974 The Streak - Ray Stevens
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Pure Love - Ronnie Milsap

1982 Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
Finally - T.G. Sheppard

1990 Vogue - Madonna
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You - Heart
Hold On - Wilson Phillips
I’ve Cried My Last Tear for You - Ricky Van Shelton


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily
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[B]All I ask of you, is to not to post in this thread, so that others
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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160th day of 2008 - 206 remaining.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
MR. TELEVISION DAY.
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It was a long trip from silent films and vaudeville, from Broadway and radio to this day in 1948 when Mr. Television was born.

It was the beginning of the television era, and an actor, comedian, and vaudevillian named Milton Berle was the first host of Texaco Star Theater. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was destined to become TV’s first and biggest star. Others hosted the show during the summer, but Berle made the cut, becoming the permanent emcee, staying in the spotlight for another eighteen years.

Milton Berle quickly became a national institution known as Mr. Television. He was undoubtedly responsible for selling millions of TV sets, ultimately making TV the most popular form of entertainment in America. People bought the new contraption just to see the zany comedian on Tuesday night on the NBC network. Shops, restaurants and streets emptied out throughout America as folks rushed home to see the Texaco Star Theater.

The show’s format included the four Texaco Service Men singing the Texaco jingle which then worked into a musical introduction of Milton Berle. He would come on stage at this point, dressed in some outlandish costume. And the show went on... Berle would end each variety show (similar to an old-fashioned vaudeville variety hour) by singing his theme song, Near You.

The format evolved over the years, but Milton Berle, known fondly as Uncle Miltie, stayed the consummate entertainer. Berle has written songs and books, won many awards including one of the first Emmys awarded to a performer [1950]. The entertainer has given more charity performances than any other in show biz.

Mr. Television ... Uncle Miltie ... Milton Berle made us laugh till tears ran down our faces. Those were simpler times. Those were the days... ;)
More here, (http://www.lucyfan.com/miltonberle.html) here, (http://www.timvp.com/miltonb.html) here, (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/berlemilton/berlemilton.htm) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texaco_Star_Theater) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Berle) and here. (http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9807/12/milton.berle.turns.90/index.html)

Events
June 8th.

1783 - Iceland’s Laki volcano blew its top and continued to spew lava for eight more months. This, one of the most violent of volcanic eruptions, killed 9,350 people and caused a famine which lasted until 1790.

1786 - Commercial ice cream was manufactured for the first time -- in New York City.

1808 - The Phoenix, the largest ocean-going steamboat in the world, left New York Harbor for Philadelphia, PA. It was the first ocean voyage ever taken by a steamboat. John Stevens built the mammoth boat.

1869 - Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago, IL received a U.S. patent for the suction vacuum cleaner. “You can be sure, if it’s McGaffey!”

1872 - A little-remembered piece of history happened on this day: The U.S. Congress authorized the penny postal card.

1927 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded When Day is Done on Victor Records. Listen to a CD version of the hits of the great bandleader and you’ll hear Henry Busse featured on the trumpet.

1928 - WGY-TV in Schenectady, NY revamped its regular program schedule. While continuing to broadcast three days a week, there were two times each day that viewers could watch TV: 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. and 11:30 to Midnight. In between those hours we used to sit around and stare at the snow on the screen -- hoping against hope that something would come on.

1942 - The comic soap opera Clara, Lu ’n Em was revived on CBS radio (the original show began in 1931 on NBC). Clara, Lu and Em were together again for just a short while before vanishing into radio oblivion.

1947 - Lassie debuted on ABC radio. It was a 15-minute show about an extraordinary collie. Animal imitator, Earl Keen provided the whines and other dog noises. The announcer was Charles Lyon; Marvin Miller and Betty Arnold played Lassie’s owners. The sponsor was Red Heart dog food.

1950 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Browns, 19-4, as Sox fans witnessed a one-game baseball scoring record. Al Zarilla of Boston got four doubles in the game.

1961 - A major-league baseball record was set. Four Milwaukee Braves batters hit consecutive home runs in the seventh inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds.

1968 - LA Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale’s major-league streak of scoreless innings pitched, was stopped at 58-2/3 as Howie Bedell, of the Philadelphia Phillies, hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning. The Dodgers did go on to beat the Phillies 5-3 that day. The Drysdale record stood until 1987, when it was broken by Orel Hersheiser, also of the Dodgers (at that time).

1969 - Yankee Stadium in New York City was sold out as Number 7, Mickey Mantle, formally retired from baseball.

1969 - NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced that a single-league schedule would replace the separate NFL and AFL schedules in 1970.

1973 - Johnny Unitas signed a two-year contract to play out his football career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas had quarterbacked the Baltimore Colts for 16 NFL seasons in some of the most exciting pro football ever seen.

1985 - Jockey Eddie Maple rode Creme Fraiche to victory in the Belmont Stakes, marking the fourth consecutive winner for trainer Woody Stephens. The win marked the highest number of successive Belmont wins since R.W. Walden captured his fifth Belmont Stakes win in 1882.

1998 - Actor Charlton Heston formally assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association. He vowed to use his star power to communicate the message that NRA members are regular, all-American folk. “At least that's a skill I have, and my public face is useful, too,” Heston said.

Birthdays
June 8th.


1810 - Robert Schumann
composer: Symphonic Etudes, Fantasia in C Major, Concerto in A Minor; died July 29, 1856

1847 - Ida McKinley (Saxton)
First Lady: wife of 25th U.S. President, William McKinley; died May 26, 1907

1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright
architect: Pennsylvania’s Falling Water, NYC’s Guggenheim Museum; “No house should be on any hill or on anything, it should be of the hill, belonging to it ...”; died Apr 9, 1959

1917 - Byron (Whizzer) White
football: Univ. of Colorado All-American [1937], NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers; associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1962-1993]; died Apr 15, 2002

1918 - Robert Preston (Meservey)
actor: Victor Victoria, The Music Man, How the West was Won, Mame, Semi-Tough; died Mar 21, 1987

1921 - Alexis (Gladys) Smith
actress: The Age of Innocence, The Young Philadelphians, Rhapsody in Blue; died June 9, 1993

1923 - George Kirby
comedian, impressionist: The George Kirby Show, ABC Comedy Hour; died Sep 30, 1995

1925 - Barbara Bush (Pierce)
First Lady: wife of 41st President of the U.S., George Bush

1927 - Jerry Stiller
comedian: Stiller and (Anne) Meara; actor: Seinfeld, The King of Queens, Hairspray, Tattingers, The Paul Lynde Show; father of actor Ben Stiller

1931 - Dana Wynter (Dagmar Winter)
actress: Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Sink the Bismarck

1933 - Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky)
comedienne; author: Bouncing Back: I’ve Survived Everything... and I Mean Everything ...and You Can Too!; TV host: The Tonight Show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers; “Can we talk?”

1936 - James Darren (Ercolani)
singer: Goodbye Cruel World, Her Royal Majesty; actor: The Guns of Navarone, Because They’re Young, Gidget; host: Time Tunnel

1939 - Bernie Casey
actor: Roots: The Next Generation, The Bay City Blues, In the Mouth of Madness, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Rent-A- Cop, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Backfire, Revenge of the Nerds, Never Say Never Again, Sharky’s Machine, The Martian Chronicles series; football player

1940 - Nancy Sinatra
singer: These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, Sugar Town, Somethin’ Stupid [w/pop, Frank], Jackson [w/Lee Hazelwood]; actress: The Wild Angels, Speedway

1942 - Chuck Negron
singer: group: Three Dog Night: Joy to the World, Black and White, One, Easy to Be Hard, Eli’s Coming, Mama Told Me Not to Come, An Old Fashioned Love Song, Shambala

1943 - Willie Davenport
Olympic Gold Medalist: 110 meter hurdles [1968], bronze medalist [1976]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer: 60-yard hurdles champion [1966, 67, 69, 70, 71]

1944 - Mark (Henry) Belanger
baseball: shortstop: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1979/all-star:1976], LA Dodgers

1944 - Don Grady (Agrati)
actor: My Three Sons, Mickey Mouse Club

1944 - Boz (William) Scaggs
musician, singer: Lowdown, Lido Shuffle, Miss Sun, Look What You’ve Done to Me; songwriter: Silk Degrees, Middle Man

1947 - Mick Box
musician: guitar, songwriter: group: Uriah Heep: Gypsy, Salisbury, July Morning, Easy Livin’

1947 - Sara Paretsky
writer: Burn Marks, Killing Orders

1950 - Kathy Baker
Emmy Award-winning actress: Picket Fences [1992-1993, 1994-1995, 1995-1996]; Edward Scissorhands, Mad Dog and Glory, The Right Stuff, The Cider House Rules, Boston Public

1951 - Bonnie Tyler
singer: Total Eclipse of the Heart, It’s a Heartache

1955 - Griffin Dunne
actor: The Android Affair, Quiz Show, Love Matters, Straight Talk, Big Blue, Amazon Women on the Moon, Johnny Dangerously, An American Werewolf in London, The Other Side of the Mountain; producer: Head Over Heels, Running on Empty, White Palace, Joe’s Apartment

1956 - Russell Christian
sax, keyboards, vocals: group: The Christians: LPs: The Christians, Colour, Happy in Hell

1958 - Keenan Ivory Wayans
Emmy Award-winning producer: In Living Color [1990]; actor, writer, director: In Living Color, A Low Down Dirty Shame, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Hollywood Shuffle; actor: For Love and Honor

1960 - Mick ‘Red’ Hucknall
singer: group: Simply Red: Money’s Too Tight to Mention, Holding Back the Years, The Right Thing

1962 - Nick Rhodes (Bates)
musician: keyboards: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys

1965 - Neil Mitchell
musician: keyboards: group: Wet Wet Wet: Love Is All Around, Angel Eyes, Goodnight Girl, With a Little Help From My Friends, Sweet Surrender

1965 - Robert Pilatus
performer, lip-syncer: group: Milli Vanilli: Girl You Know It’s True, Blame It on the Rain; died Apr 2, 1998

1966 - Julianna Margulies
actress: ER, The Newton Boys, What's Cooking?, The Mists of Avalon

1966 - Doris Pearson
singer: group: Five Star: The Love You Bring to Me, Some Kind of Magic, Surely, I Give You Give

1967 - Dan Futterman
actor: Judging Amy, The Fisher King, Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even, Another World, Shooting Fish, Urbania

1970 - Kelli Williams
actress: The Practice, Zapped Again!, Switched at Birth

1976 - Lindsay Davenport
tennis: champ: fourth player since computer rankings began [1977] to simultaneously hold world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles [joining Martina Navratilova, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Martina Hingis]

Chart Toppers
June 8th.

1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967 Respect - Aretha Franklin
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again) - Engelbert Humperdinck
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & The Papas
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

1975 Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
Sister Golden Hair - America
Bad Time - Grand Funk
Window Up Above - Mickey Gilley

1983 Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Overkill - Men At Work
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Lucille (You Won’t Do Your Daddy’s Will) - Waylon Jennings

1991 More Than Words - Extreme
I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd
Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Meet in the Middle - Diamond Rio


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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161st day of 2008 - 205 remaining.

Monday, June 9, 2008
DONALD DUCK DAY.
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Walt Disney’s famous ducky made his first appearance (as a bit player) on film this day in 1934 in The Wise Little Hen. Donald Duck went on to quack his way into mischief and stardom in 127 cartoons and features before his final appearance in 1961. The irascible duck is known the world over and is the best-recognized Disney creation after Mickey Mouse.

His girlfriend, Daisy, was seen for the first time in 1937. Kids came later, in the form of nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie; along with Donald’s miserly uncle, Scrooge McDuck. All have appeared not only in films, but also in comic books and TV cartoons.

Donald’s distinctive quack was voiced originally by Clarence Nash. Quack, quack, quack...
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Events
June 9th.


1790 - The first copyright for a book was given to The Philadelphia Spelling Book. We checked and found that spelling in the City of Brotherly Love is pretty much the same as it is in most other places -- only the accent is a bit different...

1890 - Oh Promise Me was sung by Jessie Bartlett Davis in the premiere of the operetta, Robin Hood, which opened at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, IL.

1899 - James J. Jeffries punched Bob ‘Ruby Robert’ Fitzsimmons into the next county via an 11th-round knockout at Coney Island, NY. Jeffries became heavyweight boxing champ as a result.

1924 - Jelly-Roll Blues was recorded by blues great Jelly Roll Morton and his band for Gennett Records.

1943 - The U.S. Congress authorized legislation giving the green light to a withholding tax on payrolls -- the pay-it-as-you-make-it income tax.

1946 - Mel Ott of the NY Giants became the first manager to receive this dubious honor: Ott was ejected from both games of a doubleheader!

1959 - The first Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarine was launched at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, New Hampshire. The USS George Washington (SSBN 598) was christened this day and served proudly until January 24, 1985. In November 1960, the George Washington became the first FBM sub to deploy on an operational patrol (with Polaris missiles on board and ready to fire).

1962 - A decade after making his first hit song, Because of You, singer Tony Bennett debuted in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

1965 - Frenchman Michel Jazy ran the mile in 3 minutes, 53.6 seconds to break the 1964 record set by Peter Snell.

1970 - Bob Dylan received an honorary Doctorate in Music from Princeton University. Corretta Scott King (Doctor of Humanities) and Walter Lippman (Doctor of Laws) also received honorary degrees. Dylan wrote the song "Day of the Locust" about the event (it was the year the locusts invaded).

1973 - The first Triple Crown winner in 25 years of horse racing won the Belmont Stakes in New York. The thoroughbred that clinched horse racing’s most prestigious honor was Secretariat.

1975 - Tony Orlando and Dawn received a gold record for their hit song, He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You). The million-seller was number one for three weeks (May 3-17, 1975) and one of five million-sellers for the trio. (He Don’t Love You was originally a hit for Jerry Butler in 1960.)

1978 - Larry Holmes beat up Ken Norton to claim the heavyweight boxing title in a 15-round decision in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1980 - Comedian Richard Pryor was rushed to the hospital after suffering third-degree burns over most of his upper body. Pryor was nearly killed in an explosion while he was freebasing cocaine. Pryor was seen, ablaze, running down the street from his house before he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. He was hospitalized for more than two months following the debacle.

1985 - The Los Angeles Lakers edged the Boston Celtics, 111-100, to win their first National Basketball Association title in nine tries over the Celtics. The Lakers had been shut out of a championship series since 1959 when they were based in Minneapolis. The MVP of the winning Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

1992 - Entertainer Ben Vereen was critically injured when he was struck by a van while walking along the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu, California. The driver, producer/composer David Foster, was not charged. Some hours earlier, Vereen had run into a tree while driving his own car. He blames that mishap for the later accident. He said, "I had hit my head on the steering wheel but felt fine. Later that evening as I was walking in Malibu, I had [a] stroke as a result of that accident." Vereen says he then stumbled into the roadway and was hit by the van. Talk about having a lousy day...

1996 - Linux v2.0 was released. 2.0 was a significant improvement over the earlier versions of the operating system that some experts say will become a competitor for MS Windows. Several ‘flavors’ of Linux have been developed as many in the computing world look for ways to wriggle free from the clutches of “Micro$oft” and its wealthy creator, Bill Gates.

Birthdays
June 9th.

1672 - Peter the Great (Peter Alekseyevich)
Piotr Alekseevich Romanov) (Peter I: Russian Czar [1682-1721], Emperor of Russia [1721-1725]; died Feb 8, 1725; note: these dates are based on the Gregorian calendar -- see May 30 for Julian calendar dates

1781 - George Stephenson
inventor: developer of steam locomotive; died Aug 12, 1848

1791 - John Howard Payne
composer, lyricist: The Maid of Milan, Home Sweet Home; died Apr 9, 1852

1865 - Carl Nielsen
composer: Maskarade; conductor: Danish Royal Opera [1908-1914]; director: Royal Conservatory [Copenhagen, 1915]; died Oct 3, 1931

1891 - Cole (Albert) Porter
composer & lyricist: Broadway shows: Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate, Can Can, Silk Stockings; songwriter: I’m in Love Again, Let’s Do It, You Do Something to Me, It’s De-Lovely, Night and Day, Don’t Fence Me In, What is This Thing Called Love, Love for Sale, I Get a Kick Out of You, Just One of Those Things, Begin the Beguine, I Love Paris, In the Still of the Night, True Love

1900 - Fred Waring
choirmaster & bandleader: group: The Pennsylvanians: The Whiffenpoof Song; invented Waring blender; died July 29, 1984

1908 - Luis Kutner
attorney: responsible for release of unjustly-held prisoners; wrote the living will concept; died Mar 12, 1993

1915 - Les Paul (Polfus)
Grammy Award-winning guitarist: Chester & Lester [w/Chet Atkins - 1976], Trustees Award [1982]; w/Mary Ford: Vaya Con Dios, How High the Moon, Hummingbird, Sittin’ on Top of the World; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1988]

1916 - Robert McNamara
U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy & Johnson administrations; president of World Bank

1922 - George Axelrod
playwright: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, The Manchurian Candidate; died June 21, 2003

1926 - Mona Freeman
actress: National Velvet, Black Beauty, Dear Ruth, Battle Cry

1926 - Roy Smalley
baseball: shortstop: Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies

1930 - Marvin Kalb
journalist: NBC News, Meet the Press; Executive Director: Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

1931 - Jackie Mason (Jacob Moshe Maza)
comedian: Chicken Soup, The World According to Me, The Jerk, Caddyshack 2, History of the World: Part 1; ordained rabbi

1931 - Joe Santos (Minieri)
actor: The Rockford Files, The Panic in Needle Park, Shamus, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Blue Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, Sinatra, Trial by Jury

1931 - Bill (William Charles) Virdon
baseball: SL Cardinals [Rookie of the Year: 1955], Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1960]

1934 - Jackie Wilson
singer: Lonely Teardrops, Night, Alone at Last, [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher, Baby Workout, For Your Precious Love, Chain Gang; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1987]; died Jan 21, 1984

1935 - Diana Van der Vlis
actress: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Incident, The Girl in Black Stockings, Ryan’s Hope; died Oct 22, 2001

1939 - David Hobbs
auto racer, broadcaster, actor: Stroker Ace, Emerald City, Emmerdale Farm

1939 - Dick Vitale
sportscaster: basketball analyst: ABC, ESPN; author: Time Out, Baby!, Campus Chaos - Why the Game I Love is Breaking My Heart; columnist: USA TODAY

1941 - Billy Hatton
musician: bass: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, I’m in Love, A Little Loving

1941 - Jon Lord
musician: keyboards: groups: Artwoods, Flowerpot Men, Deep Purple: Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water

1950 - Trevor Bolder
musician: bass: groups: Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep: LP: Equator

1951 - Dave (David Gene) Parker
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates , Cincinnati Reds [all-star: 1985, 1986/World Series: 1988, 1989], Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers [all-star: 1990], California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays

1961 - Michael J. Fox
actor: Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success, Bright Lights Big City, Doc Hollywood, Greedy, For Love or Money, Family Ties; voice of bulldog puppy in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

1963 - Johnny Depp (John Christopher Depp III)
actor: : Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Arizona Dreams, Nick of Time, Dead Man, Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco, Don Juan DeMarco, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Edward Scissorhands, Platoon, A Nightmare on Elm Street, 21 Jump Street, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

1964 - Gloria Reuben
actress: ER, Timecop, Shaft [2000]

1964 - Wayman Tisdale
basketball: Olympic Gold medalist [1984], Univ of Oklahoma [all-American], Phoenix Suns; jazz musician: bass guitar: group: LPs: Power Forward, In the Zone, Decisions

1981 - Natalie Portman
actress: Mars Attacks!, The Prince of Egypt, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

Chart Toppers
June 9th.

1944 Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
I’ll Be Seing You - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952 Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Blue Tango - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960 Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Paper Roses - Anita Bryant
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin

1968 Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976 Love Hangover - Diana Ross
Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash

1984 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Someday When Things are Good - Merle Haggard


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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162nd day of 2008 - 204 remaining.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
OFF TO THE RACES DAY.

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The sport of harness racing was first covered in a newspaper in the U.S. in the June 10, 1806 edition of New York’s Commercial Advertiser. A pacer named Yankee won the mile at Harlem Race Track in New York. Yankee had the pace down correctly: simultaneously thrusting out the fore and hind legs on one side. We don’t know how many more races Yankee won, but the all-time high for pacer victories goes to Single G, a horse that won 262 races from 1918 through 1926. And Yankee wasn’t around to run in the Triple Crown of Pacers (which began in 1959): the Cane Pace (Yonkers Raceway, NY), the Little Brown Jug (Delaware County Fair, Delaware, OH) and the Messenger Stakes held at various locations.

For most, however, harness racing is synonymous with trotting races. The difference between pacers and trotters is in their gait. Trotters use the diagonally opposite legs. The all-time high for trotter victories goes to Goldsmith Maid, who won 350 races from 1864 through 1877. The triple crown for trotters includes the most famous and richest race in North American harness racing, the Hambletonian. The Kentucky Futurity and Yonkers Trot complete the trio.

Trotting races go back in history to 1554 when they were first held in Valkenburg, the Netherlands. There are also traces of trotters in England in the 1590s. In the U.S., 1870 marks the date that the National Trotting Association was founded. It was first titled: National Association for the Promotion of the Interests of the Trotting Turf.

Great drivers, like Stanley Dancer (he won the Triple Crown of trotting twice, and of pacers once), have made harness racing a major spectator sport, complete with pari-mutuel wagering in many states. See the horses line up across the track. They start behind a moving gate that takes a full lap to get the horses up to speed. The electric gate then folds away and the horses pulling sulkies (the 2-wheeled wagon the jockey sits in) and jockey are, literally, off to the races! There they goooo!
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Events
June 10th.

1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD graduated its first class on this day. Midshipmen still attend classes and graduate from the same locale, not far from Chesapeake Bay.

1902 - A kindly gent named Americus F. Callahan patented what he called the outlook or see-through envelope. The rest, of course, is accounts payable history...

1924 - The first political convention on radio was presented by NBC. Graham McNamee provided coverage of the Republican National Convention from Cleveland, OH. McNamee was one of the great sports broadcasters of radio’s Golden Age.

1935 - After completing one full day without imbibing liquor, Dr. Robert Smith, better known as Doctor Bob, and his friend William G. Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous. This was the beginning of a lifetime without booze for the two ... and for thousands more throughout the years.

1938 - Hollywood Park race track opened for thoroughbreds and, later, harness racing. The track is still in operation in Inglewood, CA.

1944 - Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major-league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

1954 - General Motors announced that the first successful gas-turbine bus had been produced. A proud moment, indeed.

1966 - The first use of reversed tape (in a popular tune) was heard in the song Rain (or niaR) by The Beatles. The tune was the ‘B’ side of Paperback Writer. The technique, which had been used by John Cage, Edgar Varese and others, was refined by John Lennon.

1972 - Sammy Davis Jr. earned his place at the top of the popular music charts for the first time, after years in the entertainment business. His number one song, The Candy Man, stayed at the top for three consecutive weeks. The Candy Man was truly a song of fate for Sammy. He openly did not want to record the song, but did so as a favor to MGM Records head Mike Curb, since it was to be used in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Davis said he would give the tune one take, "and that’s it!" Sure enough, in that one-time recording, Sammy nailed it. The Candy Man stayed on the pop charts for 16 weeks. The best the legendary performer had done before was 12 weeks for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and 11 weeks for I’ve Gotta Be Me (from Golden Rainbow) in 1969. After The Candy Man became a hit, Davis included it in his stage shows and concerts -- and collected huge royalties from it.

1976 - Paul McCartney and Wings set a record for an indoor concert crowd as 67,100 fans gathered in Seattle, WA to hear the former Beatle and his new group.

1981 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies singled off of Houston pitcher Nolan Ryan to tie Stan Musial’s baseball career-hit total at 3,630. A looming baseball strike of 50 days thwarted ‘Charlie Hustle’s’ efforts to break the National League record.

1983 - Johnny Bench, all-star catcher of the Cincinnati Reds (elected in 1989 to baseball Hall of Fame), announced his plans to retire from the game. Bench called his 16 years in the big leagues “a boy’s dream.” Bench went on to several endeavors, including restaurant ownership, commercial endorsements (“Rust-Oleum -- no runs, no drips, no errors...”) and as a baseball sportscaster for CBS radio.

1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals broke the 2,000-yard mark in rushing during the season as the Generals won over Jacksonville, 31-24. The effort set a United States Football League (USFL) record. This feat had only been reached twice in the National Football League (NFL) -- once by O.J. Simpson in 1973 for 2,003 yards and by Eric Dickerson in 1984 for 2,105 yards.

1987 - A moderate earthquake rattled 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina. “It was not an aftershock,” geologists reported...

Birthdays
June 10th.

1895 - Hattie McDaniel
Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939]: 1st African-American to win Oscar; Judge Priest, The Little Colonel, Showboat, Saratoga, Since You Went Away; died Oct 2, 1952

1903 - Clyde Beatty
circus performer, lion tamer, circus owner, actor: The Big Cage, Darkest Africa, Perils of the Jungle, Ring of Fear, Bat Men of Africa; died July 19, 1965)

1904 - Frederick Loewe
Oscar-winning composer: Gigi [1958], My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon [w/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner]; died Feb 14, 1988

1908 - Robert Cummings
Emmy Award-winning actor: Twelve Angry Men [1954]; Love That Bob, The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, Dial "M" for Murder, The Carpetbaggers; died Dec 2, 1990

1910 - Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett)
blues musician: rhythm guitar, singer: How Many More Years, Smoke Stack Lightning, Evil; died Jan 10, 1976

1911 - Terence Rattigan
playwright: The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy, The Day Will Dawn; died Nov 30, 1977

1915 - Saul Bellow
writer: The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Dangling Man, The Victim, Henderson the Rain King; died Apr 5, 2005

1918 - Barry Morse
actor: The Fugitive, A Tale of Two Cities, Asylum, Glory! Glory!, Master of the Game, Space: 1999

1921 - Prince Philip (Mountbatten)
Duke of Edinburgh; married to Queen Elizabeth II

1922 - Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
singer: Over the Rainbow, The Trolley Song, You Made Me Love You, The Man that Got Away; actress: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star is Born, Easter Parade, The Harvey Girls, Judgment at Nuremberg; mother of Liza Minnelli and Lorna & Joey Luft; died June 22, 1969

1925 - Nat Hentoff
journalist/columnist: Village Voice, Wall Street Journal; music critic/Jazz authority: associate editor: Down Beat magazine

1926 - June Haver (Stovenour)
actress: The Dolly Sisters, Look for the Silver Lining, Love Nest; died July 4, 2005

1926 - Lionel Jeffries
director: Water Babies, Wombling Free, Amazing Mr. Blunden, The Railway Children; actor: Jekyll and Hyde, Prisoner of Zenda, Lola, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Those Fantastic Flying Fools, Oh Dad Poor Dad [Momma’s Hung You in the Closet & I’m Feeling So Sad], Camelot, Fanny, The Revenge of Frankestein, Bhowani Junction

1928 - Maurice Sendak
author, illustrator: Chicken Soup with Rice, Where the Wild Things Are

1929 - James A. McDivitt
NASA astronaut: commander: Gemini 4 [first space-walk mission], Apollo 9 [Lunar Module tested for first time in earth orbit]; first American Astronaut to reach rank of general

1930 - Grace Mirabella
fashion publishing executive: Vogue magazine, Mirabella magazine; writer: Tiffany & Co. ; In and Out of Vogue : A Memoir [w/Judith Warner]

1933 - F. (Francis) Lee Bailey
defense attorney: O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst, The Boston Strangler, Dr. Sam Sheppard; writer: Criminal Trial Techniques [w/Kenneth J. Fishman], Cleared for the Approach : F. Lee Bailey in Defense of Flying, The Defense Never Rests [w/Harvey Aronson]

1941 - Shirley Owens Alston
singer: group: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy, Tonight’s the Night, Dedicated to the One I Love, Baby It’s You, Foolish Little Girl

1943 - Jeff Greenfield
TV commentator: ABC, CNN news analyst

1944 - Rick Price
musician: bass: groups: The Move, Wizzard: LPs: Wizzard Brew, Introducing Eddy and the Falcons, See my Baby Jive

1947 - Ken (Kenneth Wayne) Singleton
baseball: NY Mets, Montreal Expos, Baltimore Orioles [all-star: 1977, 1979, 1981/World Series: 1979, 1983]

1949 - Kevin Corcoran
actor: A Tiger Walks, Johnny Shiloh, Old Yeller, Savage Sam, The Shaggy Dog

1951 - Dan Fouts
Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Diego Chargers quarter back: AFC Player of the Year [1979]; NFL Player of the Year [1982]; NBC sportscaster

1953 - Rick (Lamar) Camp
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves

1955 - Andrew Stevens
actor: Code Red, Dallas, Emerald Point N.A.S., Illicit Dreams, Scorned, The Terror Within, The Bastard, The Rebel; producer: Crash Dive, The Boy Who Saved Christmas, A Murder of Crows, Submerged; son of actress, Stella Stevens

1965 - Linda Evangelista
model

1965 - Elizabeth Hurley
actress: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Christabel, Orchid House, Passenger 57

1966 - Doug McKeon
actor: On Golden Pond, Turnaround, Breaking Home Ties, Mischief, Desperate Lives, Night Crossing, From the Earth to the Moon, Critical Mass

1967 - Darren Robinson (Human Beatbox: rap artist: group: Fat Boys: LPs: Fat Boys, Fat Boys are Back, Big and Beautiful, Krush on You, All Meat No Filler; died Dec 10, 1995

1982 - Tara (Kristen) Lipinski
figure skater: Olympic gold medalist [Nagano, Japan: 1998], U.S. and World champ [1997], youngest [14] to win Ladies’ U.S. National Figure Skating Championship [4' 8", 75 pounds]; actress: From This Moment, Ice Angel

1982 - Leelee Sobieski (Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski)
actress: Charlie Grace, Deep Impact, Joan of Arc [TV: 1999], Eyes Wide Shut, Squelch)

Chart Toppers
June 10th.

1945 Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953 Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Pretend - Nat King Cole
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961 Running Scared - Roy Orbison
Moody River - Pat Boone
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969 Get Back - The Beatles
Love (Can Make You Happy) - Mercy
Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction
Singing My Song - Tammy Wynette

1977 Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Suddenly - Billy Ocean
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Natural High - Merle Haggard


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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163rd day of 2008 - 203 remaining.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
TRIPLE CROWN DAY.
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Racing back to 1919 ... Sir Barton won the Belmont Stakes in New York to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown. It was on this day that the Belmont Stakes was first run as part of thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious trio of events. Sir Barton had already won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown -- the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky and the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Triple Crown is for three-year-olds only and has only been achieved by ten horses other than Sir Barton: Gallant Fox in 1930; Omaha, five years later; War Admiral in 1937; Whirlaway in ’41; Count Fleet in ’43; Assault in 1946; Citation ridden by Eddie Arcaro in 1948; the famous Secretariat in 1973; Seattle Slew in ’77 and Affirmed, the following year.

Jim Fitzsimmons, the trainer of Gallant Fox and Omaha; and Ben Jones, who trained Whirlaway and Citation are the only trainers to have two winners in the Triple Crown circle.

Eddy Arcaro is the jockey who holds the most wins at the Kentucky Derby [5], Preakness Stakes [6], and Belmont Stakes [6]. Although he shares these records with other jockeys, he is the only one to have won the Triple Crown twice -- with Whirlaway and Citation.
More reading here, (http://www.ntraracing.com/) here, (http://www.nyra.com/index_belmont.html) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Thoroughbred_Racing) here, (http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2008/) here. (http://www.preakness.com/)

Events
June 11th.


1793 - The first patent for a stove was issued -- to Robert Haeterick.

1912 - From the Hey! Let’s Have a Bit of Fun File: Silas Christoferson thought and thought of how to use his 15 minutes of fame and darn-near came close to using it all and then some with this stunt. Mr. Christoferson became the first airplane pilot to take off from the roof of a hotel! He did the deed from atop the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, OR.

1927 - Charles A. Lindbergh was presented the first Distinguished Flying Cross. No, he never took off from the roof of a hotel.

1928 - King Oliver and his band recorded Tin Roof Blues for Vocalion Records.

1936 - The Presbyterian Church of America was formed in Philadelphia, PA.

1939 - The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon; later known as the Queen Mother) of Great Britain were in America to visit with President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. As is befitting of such a grand event, the King and Queen were fed some of the gourmet foods of the United States. In fact, it was the first time that both the King and Queen had tasted hot dogs. Must have been a pretty low-key state dinner... “Pass the mustard, old chum!” “Grey Poupon?”

1940 - The Ink Spots recorded Maybe on Decca Records. By September, 1940, the song had climbed to the number two position on the nation’s pop music charts.

1949 - Hank Williams sang a show-stopper on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. He sang the classic Lovesick Blues, one of his most beloved songs.

1950 - Golfing legend Ben Hogan, returning to tournament play after a near-fatal auto mishap, won the U.S. Open golf tourney in a three-way playoff with Lloyd Mangrum and George Fazio.

1961 - Roy Orbison was wrapping up a week at number one on the Billboard record chart with Running Scared, his first number one hit. Orbison recorded 23 hits for the pop charts, but only one other song made it to number one: Oh Pretty Woman in 1964. He came close with a number two effort, Crying, number four with Dream Baby and number five with Mean Woman Blues. Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987; but suffered a fatal heart attack just one year later.

1966 - Janis Joplin made her first onstage appearance at the age of 23. She performed at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The band was a sensation at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Piece of My Heart was the only hit to chart for the group (1968). At the end of 1968, Janis Joplin left Big Brother and the Holding Company (they disbanded in 1972). Her solo career that followed included hits such as Down on Me and Me and Bobby McGee. Janis ‘Pearl’ Joplin died of a heroin overdose in Hollywood in October 1970. The movie The Rose, starring Bette Midler, was inspired by the life of the rock star.

1972 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied (with Gil Hodges of the Dodgers) the National League record for the most grand-slam home runs in a career, with 14. The Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 15-3 to make the celebration even better.

1979 - One of America’s greatest legends, both as a movie star and as a symbol of patriotism, died this day. Marion Michael Morrison, known as John Wayne, died following a courageous fight with cancer. ‘The Duke’ was 72. He had been a Hollywood hero for almost 50 years and with some 200 movies to his credit, including The Alamo, Island in the Sky, The Longest Day, Rio Bravo, The Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit (his only Oscar-winning performance). Wayne was born in 1907 and went to school at North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.

1981 - The first baseball player’s strike in major-league history began during mid-season after Seattle defeated Baltimore 8-2 at the Kingdome in Seattle. For two months, the nation’s favorite pastime was watching negotiations between the players’ union and team owners.

1982 - The movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial opened. Steven Spielberg directed this classic. It dazzled audiences with state-of-the-art special effects and a touching, humorous, story line, grossing over $100 million in its first 31 days of theatrical release.

1985 - Von Hayes of the Philadelphia Phillies became the 21st player in major-league baseball history to hit a pair of home runs in one inning as he led the Phillies to a 26-7 cakewalk over the New York Mets.

1993 - U.S. audiences rumbled to theatres for a first look at Jurassic Park. The Steven Spielberg-directed dinosaur blockbuster billed a gigantic $47.06 million -- just for openers.

1996 - Republican Senator Bob Dole ended his Senate career (to make a run for the U.S. Presidency) with an emotional farewell speech before a packed Senate chamber. He had spent some 27 years as a U.S. Senator.

1999 - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me premiered at theatres across the U.S. Dr. Evil (played by Mike Myers) travels back to 1969 to steal Austin Powers’ (also played by Mike Myers) mojo. Powers (now “shagless”) must travel to ’69 to get his mojo back (can you dig it?). Big stars in the movie include the not-so-big Mini-Me (Verne Troyer), CIA agent Felicity Shagwell (Heather Graham), Basil Exposition (Michael York), Number Two (Robert Wagner), Young Number Two (Rob Lowe) and Fat Bastard (that Myers guy again). All this silliness was taken very seriously by fans at the box office. Austin Powers II, as the flick is also known, opened to the tune of $54.92 mil the first weekend. As of May 2001 it had grossed $205.4 million. Yeah, baby! (One other film opened in the U.S. this day: The Red Violin, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli and Don Mckellar.)

Birthdays
June 11th.

1572 - Ben Johnson
actor: The Poetaster, Satiromastix; poet: Song: To Celia; playwright: Every Man in His Humour, Every Man Out of His Humour, Cynthia’s Revels, War of the Theatres, Sejanus, His Fall, The Masque of Owles, The Alchemist, The Devil is an ***; died Aug 6, 1637

1776 - John Constable
landscape artist: The White Horse, The Hay-Wain, The Cornfield, Stoke-by-Nayland, Arundel Mill and Castle; died Mar 31, 1837

1864 - Richard Strauss
composer: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel; died Sep 8, 1949

1880 - Jeannette Rankin
U.S. Congresswoman: 1st woman to be elected to this position; only dissenting vote as Congress passed a Declaration of War against Japan [1941]; died May 18, 1973

1900 - Lawrence (Edmund) Spivak
producer: Washington Exclusive, TV host: Meet the Press, The Big Issue; magazine publisher: F&SF (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction); died Mar 9, 1994

1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
marine explorer: PBS-TV producer; co-inventor of Aqua-Lung; died June 25, 1997

1913 - Vince Lombardi
Pro Football Hall of Famer: coach: Green Bay Packers: Super Bowl I, II; “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”; died Sep 3, 1970

1913 - Risë Stevens (Risë Steenberg)
mezzo-soprano: New York Metropolitan Opera: Orpheus; Mozart’s Cherubino and Dorabella; Delilah of Biblical fame; La Giocanda’s Laura; Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus; Carmen [her role described as “voluptuous, earthy, and white-hot in her alternating moods of passion and anger.”]; resident: of Mannes College of Music, New York; radio: frequent guest appearances; actress: The Chocolate Soldier, We Must Have Music, Going My Way, Journey Back to Oz

1919 - Richard Todd (Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd)
actor: The Hasty Heart, The Longest Day, The Big Sleep, House of the Long Shadows, Never Let Go

1920 - Shelly Manne
composer, musician: drummer: Peter Gunn score; actor: Man with the Golden Arm; died Sep 26, 1984

1925 - William Styron
author: Sophie’s Choice, The Confessions of Nat Turner

1935 - Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman)
actor: Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, The Woman in Red, Silver Streak, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Murder in a Small Town, The Lady in Question

1936 - Chad Everett (Raymon Cramton)
actor: Medical Center, The Dakotas, The Singing Nun, Jigsaw Murders, Airplane 2: The Sequel, McKenna

1939 - Wilma Burgess
country singer: Baby, Misty Blue, Don’t Touch Me, Tear Time

1939 - Jackie Stewart (John Young Stewart)
auto racer: 3-time World Grand Prix champion, sportscaster

1940 - Joey Dee (Joseph DiNicola)
singer: group: Joey Dee and The Starliters: Peppermint Twist, Shout, Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes; films: Hey, Let’s Twist, Two Tickets to Paris

1945 - Adrienne Barbeau
actress: Swamp Thing, Maude, Cannonball Run, Silk Degrees, Double-Crossed, Two Evil Eyes

1946 - John Lawton
singer: solo: LP: Take No Prisoners; groups: Rough Diamond, Uriah Heep, Lucifer’s Friend

1948 - Dave (David) Cash
baseball: second baseman: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1974, 1975, 1976], Montreal Expos, SD Padres

1949 - George Willig
stunt man: climbed World Trade Center

1950 - Serge Lajeunesse
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers

1951 - Doug Kotar
football: Univ. of Kentucky, NY Giants

1952 - Donnie Van Zandt
musician: guitar, singer: group: .38 Special: Hold on Loosely, Fantasy Girl, Caught Up in You, You Keep Runnin’ Away, LPs: Tour De Force, Strength in Numbers

1954 - Gary Fencik
football: Chicago Bears safety: Super Bowl XX

1956 - Joe Montana
football: San Francisco 49ers quarterback: Super Bowl XVI, XIX, XXIII, XXIV: Super Bowl career records for yards gained, passes completed, touchdowns thrown and highest completion percentage; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback

1965 - Pamela Gidley
actress: C.S.I., The Pretender, Angel Street, Freefall, Jane Austen’s Mafia!

1978 - Joshua Jackson
actor: Dawson’s Creek, The Mighty Ducks series, On the Edge of Innocence.

Chart Toppers
June 11th.

1946 The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954 Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
If You Love Me (Really Love Me) - Kay Starr
(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely - Johnnie & Jack

1962 I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
Lovers Who Wander - Dion
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970 Everything is Beautiful - Ray Stevens
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater
Revival
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty

1978 You’re the One that I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
Georgia on My Mind - Willie Nelson

1986 Live to Tell - Madonna
On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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Thursday, June 12, 2008
PERFECT GAME DAY.

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Baseball’s first El Perfecto, a perfect game, was recorded on this day in 1880 ... a perfect game being when no batter reaches a base during a complete game of at least nine innings.

A southpaw, left-handed Lee Richmond of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Ruby Legs, pitched himself to perfection with a 1-0 shutout of the Cleveland Spiders in a National League game. Five days later, on June 17, the second, official perfect game was pitched by John Ward in another National League game between Providence and Buffalo.

It was two and a half decades later before this feat was accomplished again. This time, the now famous Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox, stopped the Philadelphia Athletics in an American League game.

Perfect game days are very rare! So if you get a chance to see one, either in person or on TV, you’ll be watching history in the making.
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Events
June 12th.

1839 - According to legend, Abner Doubleday, who later became a major name in book publishing, created the game we know as baseball. It happened in Cooperstown, NY which, coincidentally, is the present home of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1912 - Lillian Russell, famed theatrical actress, married for the fourth time on this day and said that she was retiring from the stage. Marriage will sometimes do that to people.

1923 - Harry Houdini, while in a straitjacket, suspended 40 feet in the air, amazed a large and quite disbelieving audience as he freed himself of the constraints.

1935 - Ella Fitzgerald recorded her first sides for Brunswick Records. The tunes were Love and Kisses and I’ll Chase the Blues Away. She was featured with Chick Webb and his band. Ella was 17 at the time and conducted the Webb band for three years following his death in 1939.

1939 - The Baseball Hall of Fame was formally dedicated at Cooperstown, NY. The shrine to major league baseball still stands in honor of baseball greats of the past.

1942 - Paul Whiteman and his orchestra recorded Travelin’ Light on Capitol Records of Hollywood, California. On the track with Whiteman’s orchestra was the vocal talent of ‘Lady Day’, Billie Holiday.

1947 - People gathered around the radio to listen to Sergeant Preston of The Yukon for the first time. The show, with the Canadian Mountie and his trusty dog, King, continued on the radio until 1955 (and on TV from 1955-1958). Sgt. Preston was created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who also created The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet.

1948 - Ben Hogan won his first U.S. Open golf classic on this day.

1955 - The first network radio show to be produced with no script, The University of Chicago Round Table, was heard for the final time after 24 years on NBC radio. The program was the first network radio program to win the coveted George Foster Peabody Award.

1956 - “This is Monitor, a weekend program service of NBC Radio,” was heard for the first time. Notables such as Bill Cullen, Ed McMahon, Hugh Downs, and Dave Garroway recited this line. It was a network cue to NBC radio stations across the nation who carried the long form news, entertainment and variety broadcast from New York City. Stations and listeners who were “on the Monitor beacon” were entertained for six hours or more each Saturday and Sunday night for nearly two decades. NBC’s Monitor was one of the last live network radio programs on the air.

1957 - Stan ‘The Man’ Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set a National-League baseball record by appearing in his 823rd consecutive game. The old record (822) had been held by Gus Suhr of the Pirates (& Phillies). Musial went on to extend his consecutive game streak to 895 in late August 1957.

1963 - Elizabeth Taylor starred in the $40,000,000 film epic, Cleopatra. The movie certainly gave ticket buyers their money’s worth. It lasted for four hours, three minutes. Cleopatra opened at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on this day. Richard Burton starred as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison played Julius Caesar, Hume Cronyn played Sosigines, Carroll O’Connor was Casa and Roddy McDowell appeared as Octavian. We were at a loss, however, to find the name of the asp that bit Cleopatra. We do know where she was bitten -- just not what happened to the little snake. Sorry.

1965 - The Queen of England announced that The Beatles would receive the coveted MBE Award. The Order of the British Empire recognition had previously been bestowed only upon British military heroes, many of whom were so infuriated by the news, they returned their medals to the Queen. In fact, John Lennon wasn’t terribly impressed with receiving the honor. He returned it (for other reasons) four years later.

1981 - Larry Holmes, 31, defended his heavyweight boxing title by earning a third-round TKO (technical knockout) over Leon Spinks in Detroit, MI. Spinks, who had lost his two front teeth in previous bouts, was understandably discouraged at being beaten so early and was quoted as having said, “Thith ith weely, weely a thame, youth know? Like, I wuth weddy, weely weddy, but, I got whupped up pwetty badth, I gueth.”

1982 - A major political rally attracted the largest crowd ever to such an event in New York City’s Central Park. Entertainers Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt gathered before 750,000 to rally for the cause of nuclear disarmament.

1985 - The National Hockey League Celebration of Excellence recognized ‘The Great One’, hockey star Wayne Gretsky, by awarding him his sixth Hart Trophy. The honor is earned by the Most Valuable Player in the NHL each year.

1987 - President Ronald Reagan delivered a now-famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Destruction began November 9, 1989 on the Berlin Wall that had divided the city for some 28 years.

1994 - The gruesomely-murdered bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered outside Nicole’s Brentwood, California condominium. Within days, actor/football legend O.J. Simpson was charged by police. He was acquitted in criminal court [1995], but found liable for the deaths in a civil suit [1997].

Birthdays
June 12th.

1897 - Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden
British Prime Minister [1955-1957]; died Jan 11, 1977

1914 - William Lundigan
actor: I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, The Fighting 69th, Pinky, Love Nest, The White Orchid; died Dec 20, 1975

1915 - Priscilla Lane (Mullican)
actress: Varsity Show, Million Dollar Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace; died Apr 4, 1995

1915 - David Rockefeller
banker: chairman: Chase Manhattan Bank; modern-art lover: trustee/chairman: Museum of Modern Art; chairman: Rockefeller University

1916 - Irwin Allen
producer, director: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Towering Inferno, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure; died Nov 2, 1991

1916 - Ivan Tors
producer, director: Flipper, Zebra in the Kitchen, Namu, the Killer Whale, Gentle Ben, Salty; died June 4, 1983

1919 - Uta (Thyra) Hagen
Tony Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1950], Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1963]; films: The Boys from Brazil, Reversal of Fortune; died Jan 14, 2004

1921 - James A. Houston
author: Ghost Fox, The White Dawn, The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic

1924 - George (Herbert Walker) Bush
41st U.S. President [1989-1993]; married to Barbara Pierce [four sons, two daughters]; nickname: Poppy; VicePresident under President Reagan, U.S. Congressman from Texas, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.; father of 43rd U.S. President George W. (Walker) Bush

1927 - Al Fairweather
jazz musician: groups: Al Fairweather-Ralph Laing All Stars, Fairweather-Brown all Stars

1928 - Vic Damone (Vito Rocco Farinola)
singer: On the Street Where You Live, An Affair to Remember, You Were Only Fooling

1930 - Innes Ireland
auto racer: champ: American Grand Prix [1961]; died Oct 22, 1993

1930 - Jim Nabors
actor: Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show, The Jim Nabors Hour; singer: Back Home Again in Indiana

1932 - Rona Jaffe
author: The Last Chance, Class Reunion; films: The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters

1941 - Marv Albert (Marv Philip Aufrichtig)
sportscaster: NBC-TV

1941 - Chick (Armando) Corea
Grammy Award-winning jazz composer/musician: No Mystery [1975], The Leprechaun: Leprechaun's Dream [1976], Friends [1978], In Concert, Zurich, Oct 28, 1979 [1981], GRP Super Live In Concert: Light Years [1988], Akoustic Band [1989], Native Sense: Rhumbata [1999], Like Minds [2000], Corea.Concerto: Spain [2001]

1942 - Len Barry (Leonard Borisoff)
singer: 1-2-3, Like a Baby; group: The Dovells: The Bristol Stomp, You Can’t Sit Down

1944 - Cornelius Johnson
football: Baltimore Colts guard: Super Bowl III, V

1945 - Reg Presley
singer: group: Troggs: Wild Thing, Give It to Me, Love is All Around

1947 - John Clifford
choreographer: New York City Ballet, Artistic Director of LA Ballet, ballet master/repetiteur for George Balanchine Trust

1947 - Steve Kiner
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl V

1951 - Bun Carlos (Brad Carlson)
musician: drums: group: Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me, Ain’t That a Shame, Dream Police, Voices

1951 - Brad Delp
musician: guitar, singer: group: Boston: More Than a Feeling, Long Time, Piece of Mind, Don’t Look Back, Man I’ll Never Be, Amanda

1957 - Timothy Busfield
actor: Thirtysomething, Byrds of Paradise, Little Big League, Field of Dreams, Revenge of the Nerds, Sneakers, The West Wing

1958 - Rory Sparrow
basketball: Villanova Univ., New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls [SI Sportsman of the Year: 1987 co-recipient], Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings; NBA Player Programs Director

1959 - Jenilee Harrison
actress: Three’s Company, Dallas, Fists of Iron, Prime Target, Curse 3: Blood Sacrifice, Tank

1963 - Jerry Lynn
pro wrestler/actor: ECW Hardcore TV, Extreme Championship Wrestling, Raw Is War, Sunday Night Heat

1964 - Paula Marshall
actress: The Wonder Years, Snoops, Cupid, Spin City, Chicago Sons, The Single Guy, Seinfeld

1971 - Mark Henry
pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Wrestlemania XIV, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Judgement Day, WWF Smackdown!, Armageddon.

Chart Toppers
June 12th.

1947 Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
My Adobe Hacienda - Eddy Howard
Sugar Moon - Bob Wills

1955 Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce

1963 It’s My Party - Lesley Gore
Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
Lonesome 7-7203 - Hawkshaw Hawkins

1971 Want Ads - The Honey Cone
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
You’re My Man - Lynn Anderson

1979 Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy Vanwarmer
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers

1987 You Keep Me Hangin’ On - Kim Wilde
Always - Atlantic Starr
Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Will Be There - Dan Seals


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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that view this thread will not have to scroll down to view the
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Thanks for your understanding. :)

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165th day of 2008 - 201 remaining.

Friday, June 13, 2008
MIRANDA DAY.

When reading this description of this day in history, you have the right to remain silent...

On this day in 1966, the Miranda Decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision regarded the rights of individuals to remain silent because “...anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law.” It held that the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States “required warnings before valid statements could be taken by police.”

If you are held for questioning, you will hear police read you your rights or read you the Miranda, the more common reference to the Miranda Decision. The card imprinted with the Miranda Decision, and carried by the police, put some money in the pockets of then, 23-year-old Ernesto Miranda. The subject of Miranda vs. Arizona, he signed the cards, selling his autograph. Some ten years later, a man, suspected of stabbing Miranda to death during a card game, was released after being read his Miranda rights. A warrant was later issued for his arrest; but he was never seen again.

Without notifying suspects of their Miranda Rights, law enforcement in the U.S. has little basis for prosecution. What a criminal defendant says if not informed, before being questioned, that he/she has the right to remain silent and speak with an attorney or other legal counsel present, will not be admitted in court.

Book ’em, Danno ... and read ’em their rights.
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Events
June 13th.

1789 - Mrs. Alexander Hamilton served a new dessert treat for General George Washington. The highlight of the dinner party was ice cream! And you thought all this time that Dolley Madison was responsible. Not so.

1893 - The first Ladies’ British Amateur golf championship was sponsored by the Ladies Golf Union. The match took place at St. Anne’s, a new course in Lancashire.

1921 - Babe Ruth connected for a 460-foot home run deep into the center-field bleachers at the Polo Grounds in New York City. It was the longest homer in the career of ‘The Sultan of Swat’.

1935 - Jim Braddock defeated Max Baer in a 15-round decision. Braddock captured the world heavyweight boxing title for the win in New York City.

1939 - Lionel Hampton and his band recorded Memories of You for Victor Records.

1940 - The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were the first two major-league baseball teams to play at Doubleday Field at Cooperstown, NY in the Hall of Fame Game.

1944 - The wire recorder was patented by Marvin Camras. Wire recorders were the precursor of much easier to use magnetic tape recorders.

1948 - Uniform #3, belonging to Babe Ruth, was retired at farewell ceremonies for the Babe. The touching ceremony at Yankee Stadium came just two months before the baseball legend passed away.

1970 - The song Make It with You, by David Gates and Bread, was released. It turned out to be a number-one hit (8/22/70). Though Bread had a dozen hits, including one other million-seller (Baby I’m-A Want You, 1971); Make It with You was the soft-pop group’s only number-one tune.

1971 - Singer Francis Albert Sinatra made an attempt to retire from show business following a performance this night at the Music Center in Los Angeles, CA. ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ got a bit restless in retirement, however, and was back in Sinatra - The Main Event at Madison Square Garden in November 1973.

1984 - Rick Sutcliffe was traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Chicago Cubs. Sutcliffe had been 4-5 for the Indians, but ended the season 16-1 with the Cubs. He led the Cubbies to the National League East Division title.

1985 - Andy North won his first tournament in seven years by capturing the U.S. Open with a winning scorecard of 279. North won a paycheck of $103,000. Tze-Chung Chen of Taiwan, who had been the tourney leader until final day of competition, finished second in his U.S. Open debut.

1987 - Garrison Keilor, host and storyteller on the award-winning public radio series, A Prairie Home Companion, left the program and its delightful shores of Lake Wobegon for Denmark where he intended to spend his time writing (he returned to the U.S. two years later). He had been with the program for 13 years.

Birthdays
June 13th.

1865 - William Butler Yeats
Nobel Prize-winning poet & dramatist [1923]; passed Jan 28, 1939

1892 - (Philip St. John) Basil Rathbone
actor: The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, The Last Hurrah, The Hound of the Baskervilles, House of Fear, David Copperfield, Last Days of Pompeii, Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Terrors; died July 21, 1967

1903 - Red (Harold) Grange
Pro and College Football Hall of Famer: ‘The Galloping Ghost’: Chicago Bears, University of Illinois: running back; died Jan 28, 1991

1908 - (Maria Helena) Vieira da Silva
artist: style: Parisian School and abstract expressionism; died Mar 6, 1992

1910 - Mary (Isabelle) Wickes (Wickenhauser)
actress: Little Women, Sister Act, Postcards from the Edge, How to Murder Your Wife; died Oct 22, 1995

1912 - Samuel A. (Albert) Taylor
playwright: Sabrina [1954], Vertigo, Three on a Couch, Topaz, Sabrina [1995]; died May 26, 2000

1913 - Ralph Edwards
actor/host: Radio Stars on Parade, Beat the Band, The Devil’s Bedroom; TV and radio host: Truth or Consequences, This is Your Life; died Nov 16, 2005

1915 - Don Budge
tennis champion: Australian Open [1938], French Open [1938], Wimbledon [1937, 1938, 1939], U.S. Open [1937, 1938]; died Jan 26, 2000

1917 - Si (Simon) Zentner
bandleader, trombonist: Boyd Raeburn Orchestra; died Jan 31, 2000

1918 - Ben Johnson
actor: Angels in the Outfield, The Getaway, The Last Picture Show, One-Eyed Jacks, Red Dawn, Shane; died Apr 8, 1996

1922 - Mel (Melvin Lloyd) ‘Dusty’ Parnell
baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1949, 1951]

1926 - Paul Lynde
comedian, actor: The Paul Lynde Show, Hollywood Squares, Love American Style, Temperatures Rising, Bewitched, The Red Buttons Show; cartoon voice: Claude Pertwee; passed away Jan 10, 1982

1935 - Christo (Javacheff)
artist: Valley Curtain, Running Fence, The Umbrellas

1936 - Michel Jazy
track: world-record holder in the mile [1965-3 minutes, 53.6 seconds]

1940 - Bobby Freeman
singer: Do You Wanna Dance, C’mon and Swim

1940 - Dallas Long
Olympic Gold Medal-winning shot-putter: [Tokyo: 1964], world record [67' 10": 1964]

1943 - Malcolm McDowell
actor: A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man, Blue Thunder, Caligula, Gulag, Look Back in Anger, Fantasy Island [1998]

1949 - Dennis Locorriere
musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia’s Mother, Sexy Eyes, The Cover of "Rolling Stone", When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman

1950 - J.P. Bordeleau
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks

1951 - Howard Leese
musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On

1951 - Richard Thomas
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Waltons [1973]; Roots: The Next Generation, All Quiet on the Western Front, Johnny Belinda

1952 - Ernie (Leo Ernest) Whitt
baseball: catcher: Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays [all-star: 1985], Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles

1953 - Tim Allen (Timothy Allen Dick)
comedian, actor: Home Improvement, Showtime Comedy Club All-Stars II, The Santa Clause, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Galaxy Quest

1968 - Deniece (Lisa Marie) Pearson
singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Can’t Wait Another Minute, Find the Time, Rain or Shine, Stay Out of My Life, The Slighest Touch.

Chart Toppers
June 13th.

1948 Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Baby Face - The Art Mooney Orchestra
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956 The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I’m in Love Again - Fats Domino
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You - Elvis Presley
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964 Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
Love Me with All Your Heart - The Ray Charles Singers
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972 The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

1980 Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
My Heart - Ronnie Milsap

1988 One More Try - George Michael
Together Forever - Rick Astley
Everything Your Heart Desires - Daryl Hall John Oates
I Told You So - Randy Travis


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Saturday, June 14, 2008
FLAG DAY. ;) :)
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“Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation,” said John Adams on this day in 1777 at a meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, PA. And so, the first Flag Day was celebrated in the United States of America.

Proclamation 1335, May 30, 1916, made it possible for every President to issue a proclamation that June 14 would be celebrated as Flag Day. Pennsylvania is the only state to celebrate June 14 as a legal holiday, proclamation or not, although the proclamation has been issued annually since 1949.

At 7 p.m. E.D.T., across the United States, the President leads the country in a pause to pledge allegiance, a time to honor America. The national ceremony is held at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, and was conceived as a way for all citizens to share a patriotic moment.

We salute the star-bangled banner (now with 50 white stars on a blue field) on this Flag Day.
The Stars and Stripes. (http://www.homeofheros.com/hallofheroes/1st_floor/flag/1bfa_hist2.html) star-bangled banner. (http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html)

Events
June 14th.


1775 - The first U.S. military service, the U.S. Army, was established by a Congressional Resolution.

1834 - While thoughts of summer sun and sand are upon us, we pause to take a short lesson about one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Springfield, Vermont decided that it was time to patent sandpaper. Mr. Fischer’s sandpaper changed the coarse of history didn’t it? Now, back to work!

1881 - The player piano was patented by John McTammany, Jr. of Cambridge, MA. It was patent number 242,786.

1901 - The first professional open championship to utilize rules of the U.S. Golf Association was held at Hamilton, MA.

1919 - Lindbergh did it all by himself; but the true, first, nonstop transatlantic flight took place on this day. Actually, it took two days for Captain John Al**** and Lt. Arthur Brown to fly their Vickers Vimy bomber to Ireland from St. Johns, Newfoundland. The 1,900-mile flight ended in a crash landing in a peat bog in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

1922 - A U.S. President was heard on the radio for the first time. President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Francis Scott Key Memorial and was heard on radio station WEAR in Baltimore.

1923 - It was the beginning of the country music recording industry. Ralph Peer of Okeh Records recorded Fiddlin’ John Carson doing The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane -- and the first country music recording was in the can.

1937 - Pennsylvania became the first state in the United States to observe Flag Day as a legal holiday. PA is still the only state doing so (see Flag Day [above]).

1942 - From the Do Not Try This at Home File: The first bazooka-rocket gun was produced -- in Bridgeport, CT.

1950 - After 13 years on the radio, Harold Peary played the leading role of The Great Gildersleeve one final time. Willard Waterman took Peary’s place in the role for the next eight years on radio and for several years on TV as well.

1951 - Univac 1 was unveiled in Washington, DC. Billed as the world’s first commercial computer, Univac was designed for the U.S. Census Bureau. The massive computer was 8 feet high, 7-1/2 feet wide and 14-1/2 feet long. It had lots and lots of tubes that dimmed lights all over Washington when it cranked out information. Compared to today’s computers, Univac was painfully slow ... a lot like the government in which it served, in fact.

1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN. Within three years, the truck driver-turned-singer had his first number-one record with Heartbreak Hotel.

1953 - Seven former Southern Conference university sports teams established a new alliance: The Atlantic Coast Conference.

1963 - Duke Snider got his 400th home run in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. Snider became the ninth player in major-league history to reach this career milestone.

1975 - America reached the top spot on the Billboard pop music chart with Sister Golden Hair. The group had previously (March, 1972) taken A Horse With No Name to the number one spot. The trio of Dan Peek, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell had received the Best New Artist Grammy in 1972. America recorded a dozen hits that made it to the popular music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Though number one, Sister Golden Hair did not qualify for gold record (million-seller) status.

1976 - The Beatles were awarded a gold record for the compilation album of past hits titled, Rock ’n’ Roll Music.

1982 - The large Argentine garrison in Port Stanley (capital and only town in the Falkland Islands) was overrun by British troops, effectively ending the Falklands War. Argentina had invaded the British dependent territory(ies) in April 1982. During the brief war, Argentina suffered 655 killed, while Britain lost 236.

1985 - Earl Weaver returned to manage the American League Baltimore Orioles, after a 2-1/2-year retirement. Weaver is said to have turned down 11 managing offers, but said “Yes” to Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, the owner of the Orioles, when asked to return to take over the reins of the team.

1991 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves opened, collecting $25.63 million from audiences at 2,369 U.S. theaters. Kevin Costner is Robin of Locksley, Morgan Freeman plays Azeem, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is Marian, and Christian Slater stars as Will Scarlett. The mean old Sheriff of Nottingham is played by the spooky Alan Rickman. It takes awhile (143 minutes), but the good guys/gals do live happily ever after.

1995 - Michael Jackson and wife, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, were interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV’s PrimeTime Live. Sawyer questioned the couple about how they got to know each other, how Michael proposed, etc. The hourlong interview, at the old MGM set at Sony Pictures, Hollywood, was seen by 60 million U.S. viewers and millions more around the world. Selected snippets from the interview: Do they have sex? “Yes, yes, yes.” Prenuptial agreement? “Yes.” Regarding accusations of child molestation? “Never ever! I could never harm a child, or anyone. It’s not in my heart. It’s not how I am. I am not even interested in that!” Would Michael like to be as black as he once was? “I love black.”

Birthdays
June 14th.

1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe
author: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; died July 1, 1896

1820 - John Bartlett
compiler, editor: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; died in 1905

1864 - Dr. Alois Alzheimer
psychiatrist, pathologist: first to describe the disease named after him: Alzheimer’s Disease; died [of a severe cold complicated by endocarditis] Dec 19, 1915

1901 - Hap (Clarence) Day
Hockey Hall-of-Famer: Univ. of Toronto, Toronto St. Patricks, Toronto Maple Leafs [Stanley Cup: 1931-32], NY Americans; referee; coach: Toronto Maple Leafs [won five Stanley Cups, including three in a row]; manager: Toronto Maple Leafs; died Feb 17, 1990

1906 - Margaret Bourke-White
photojournalist: LIFE magazine; 1st woman photojournalist attached to US Armed Forces in WWII: covered Italy, siege of Moscow, U.S. Forces crossing into Germany, concentration camps; division of India, Mahatma Gandhi; Korean War correspondent; book [w/husband Erskine Caldwell]: You Have Seen Their Faces; died Aug 27, 1971

1909 - Burl (Icle Ivanhoe) Ives
singer: A Holly Jolly Christmas, A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin’, Call Me Mr. In- Between; Academy Award winning actor: The Big Country [1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; radio series: The Wayfaring Stranger [1944]; died Apr 14, 1995

1910 - Nappy (Hilton Napoleon) Lamare
musician: guitar: group: Bob Cats; solo: Nickel in the Slot; died May 8, 1988

1913 - Henry Banks
auto racer: PPG Indy Car World Series champ [1950]; first president of American Racing Drivers Club [ARDC] [1939]

1916 - Dorothy McGuire
actress: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gentlemen’s Agreement, The Young and the Restless, Rich Man, Poor Man, Little Women [TV: 1979], The Last Best Year; died Sep 13, 2001

1919 - Sam Wanamaker
actor: Superman 4, Private Benjamin, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Taras Bulba; director: The Executioner, Killing of Randy Webster, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; died Dec 18, 1993

1921 - Gene Barry (Eugene Klass)
actor: Bat Masterson, Burke’s Law, The Name of the Game, War of the Worlds, A Cry for Love, Our Miss Brooks, La Cage aux Folles

1922 - Kevin Roche
architect: Kevin Roche & Associates: Columbus Circle Redevelopment, New York NY; NationsBank Plaza, Atlanta GA; Oakland Museum, Oakland CA

1925 - Pierre Salinger
White House press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, journalist, author: P.S. a Memoir, John F. Kennedy, Commander in Chief : A Profile in Leadership

1926 - Don (Donald) ‘Newk’ Newcombe
baseball: pitcher: Brooklyn Dodgers [Rookie of the Year: 1949/Cy Young Award: 1956/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1956/World Series: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955/all-star: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1955], Cincinnati Redlegs, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians

1929 - Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman)
pianist, composer: Try to Change Me Now, Witchcraft, Firefly, Young at Heart, Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now, Hey Look Me Over, Real Live Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, When in Rome, Pass Me By, Sweet Talk

1931 - Marla Gibbs
actress: Up Against the Wall, 227, The Jeffersons, The Meteor Man

1939 - Tom Matte
football: Baltimore Colts running back: Super Bowl III

1940 - Ben Davidson
football: Oakland Raiders defensive end: Super Bowl II

1945 - Rod Argent
keyboard: group: Argent: Hold Your Head Up; group: The Zombies: She’s Not There, Tell Her No, Time of the Season

1946 - Donald Trump
tycoon; real estate mogul

1948 - Pete Donnelly
hockey: WHA: NY Raiders, Vancouver Blazers, Quebec Nordiques

1949 - Alan White
musician: drummer: group: Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; group: Plastic Ono Band

1950 - Bill (William Roger) Fahey
baseball: catcher: Washington Senators, Texas Rangers, SD Padres, Detroit Tigers

1952 - Jim Lea
musician: bass, violin, keyboards, vocals, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get With It, Coz I Love You, We’ll Bring Home the Dawn, My Oh My, Run Run Away

1952 - Eddie Mekka (Edward Mekjian)
actor: Laverne and Shirley, Guiding Light

1954 - Will Patton
actor: Fled, Copycat, Natural Causes, The Client, Midnight Edition, Dillinger, No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, Silkwood; Obie Award-winner: Tourists and Refugees #2

1958 - Eric Heiden
Olympic gold [5] medalist: speed skater [1980]

1961 - Boy George (George Alan O’Dowd)
singer: group: Culture Club: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, Karma Chameleon

1961 - Sam Perkins
‘The Big Smooth’: basketball: Univ. of North Carolina [all-American], Olympic gold medalalist [1984], Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers, Seattle SuperSonics, Indiana Pacers

1968 - Yasmine Bleeth
actress: Nash Bridges, Baywatch, Titans

1969 - Steffi (Stephanie) Graf
tennis: champ: Australian Open [1988, 1989, 1990, 1994], French Open [1987, 1988, 1993], Wimbledon [1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993], U.S. Open [1988, 1989, 1993]

Chart Toppers
June 14th.

1949 Riders in the Sky - Vaughn Monroe
Again - Doris Day
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957 Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
A Teenagers Romance/I’m Walkin’ - Ricky Nelson
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965 Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley
I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
What’s He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold

1973 My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Pillow Talk - Sylvia
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez

1981 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
What are We Doin’ in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers

1989 Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Better Man - Clint Black


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Sunday, June 15, 2008
GO FLY A KITE DAY.

It was a dark and stormy night back in 1752. Since there was nothing on TV worth a darn and, since he had been wondering if there really was electricity up in those dark clouds, Benjamin Franklin tied an iron wire to his kite and let it sail. He flew the kite from a long piece of twine tied to a silk ribbon on the end. Franklin attached a metal key where the twine and silk met.

Ben, not being a total dummy, flew the kite high in the wind, but stood in a doorway so the silk ribbon (and he) would not get wet. His idea was that any electricity overhead would be attracted to the wire on top of the kite. It was lucky for Franklin that no actual lightning bolt struck the wire or Ben would have been toast! However, as lightning began to flash, he put his hand near the key and sparks flew. The test was a success!

Franklin used his discovery to start a new business. He made and sold lightning rods. These metal rods were attached to the tops of buildings. A wire ran down the side of the structure to the ground. When lightning struck the top of the rod, it ran down the wire and safely to ground without doing damage to the building. Benjamin Franklin’s kite flying and, subsequently, lightning rods have prevented many buildings from going up in smoke.
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Events
June 15th.

1215 - In a meadow called Ronimed, between Windsor and Staines, England, King John of England sealed the Magna Carta, the first charter of English liberties. The Magna Carta is considered one of the most important historical documents defining political and human freedoms.

1775 - George Washington became Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on this day.

1836 - First acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase, Arkansas officially became the 25th of the United States of America. The Land of Opportunity as Arkansas is called, was founded in the late 17th century by Frenchman Henri de Tonti. His intrepretation of Quapaw, the Indian tribe that lived in the area, was Arkansas. Little Rock, the state’s largest city is also its capital. The state bird and the state flower are the mockingbird and apple blossom, respectively.

1844 - Vulcanized rubber was patented by Charles Goodyear of New York City. Vulcanized rubber later was made into tires with Goodyear’s name on them. Charles never benefited from his invention and was poverty-stricken.

1869 - England’s Tom Allen was defeated by Mike McCoole of the United States in St. Louis, MO in the first international bare-knuckle fight for an American. Ouch!

1909 - Benjamin Shibe patented the cork-center baseball. A baseball stadium (Shibe Park in Philadelphia) was named for him.

1936 - Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler starred in Burlesque on the Lux Radio Theatre.

1938 - John Vander Meer of Cincinnati became the first pitcher in the major leagues to toss two, consecutive, no-hit, no-run games. He led the Reds to a 6-0 shutout win over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Vandermeer had no-hit Boston just four days earlier. The win over Brooklyn was also the first night game played at Ebbets Field. (FYI: These two games were the only no-hitters Vander Meer threw.)

1951 - Joe Louis knocked out Lee Savold in a closed-circuit TV fight seen by fight fans in movie theatres in six cities.

1956 - Sixteen-year-old John Lennon of the music group The Quarrymen met 14-year-old Paul McCartney and invited him to join the group. In a few years, the group became The Beatles.

1963 - Kyu Sakamoto from Kawasaki, Japan, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts with Sukiyaki. The popular song captivated American music buyers and was at the top of the Billboard pop chart for three weeks. In Japan, where Sakamoto was enormously popular, Sukiyaki was known as Ue O Muite Aruko (I Look Up When I Walk). The entertainer met an untimely fate in 1985. Kyu (cue) Sakamoto was one of 520 people who perished in the crash of a Japan Air Lines flight near Tokyo. He was 43 years old.

1976 - A 10-inch, mid-June rainfall in Houston, TX made it impossible for the Astros and the Pittsburgh Pirates to play ball in the Astrodome this night. With the parking lot under water and boats the only way to get to the stadium gates, the game was canceled.

1987 - Boxer Michael Spinks beat heavyweight Gerry Cooney in round five in their heavyweight boxing match in Atlantic City, NJ. Spinks was shorter and lighter than Cooney -- but a lot better. So was most everyone else who fought Cooney...

1991 - Long-dormant Mount Pinatubo erupted with a vengeance in the Philippines. The volcano covered the surrounding area with ash which turned into mud following severe rainstorms. Villages and U.S. military bases (Clark Air Force Base and Subic Bay Naval Base) were evacuated. The bases were damaged and many people lost their homes.

Birthdays
June 15th.

1767 - Rachel Jackson (Donelson Robards)
U.S. First Lady, wife of 7th President Andrew Jackson; died Dec 22, 1828

1843 - Edvard Grieg
composer: Peer Gynt Suite; died Sep 4, 1907

1894 - Robert Russell Bennett
musician: orchestration: Victory at Sea series; died Aug 18, 1981

1910 - David Rose
Grammy Award-winning [22] composer: The Stripper; scores: Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol; David Rose and His Orchestra: The Red Skelton Show, The Tony Martin Show; died Aug 23, 1990

1912 - Babe (Ellsworth Tenney) Dahlgren
baseball: Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1939], Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Browns, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1943], Pittsburgh Pirates; died Sep 04, 1996

1914 - Saul Steinberg
cartoonist: New Yorker magazine [50+ years]: View of the World from 9th Avenue, Luna Park, Prosperity, Taxi; doctorate in architecture; died May 12, 1999

1917 - Leon Payne
country artist, songwriter: I Love You Because, Lost Highway, They’ll Never Take Her Love, I Heard My Heart Break Last Night, The Blue Side of Lonesome; died Sep 11, 1969

1922 - Morris (King) Udall
politician: U.S. Congressman from Arizona; died Dec 12, 1998

1923 - Erroll Garner
ASCAP Award-winning jazz pianist: Misty [1984]; Dreamy, That’s My Kick, Moment’s Delight, Solitaire; died Jan 2, 1977

1930 - Marcel Pronovost
Hockey Hall-of-Famer: Detroit Red Wings [4 Stanley Cup winners], Toronto Maple Leafs [Stanley Cup: 1967]

1932 - Mario Cuomo
politician: governor: state of New York

1937 - Waylon Jennings
Country Music Association [1974] Award-winning singer: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Good Hearted Woman, Luckenbach, Texas, Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard"; bass: group: The Crickets [w/Buddy Holly]; actor: Nashville Rebel, Stagecoach, Urban Cowboy; died Feb 13, 2002

1938 - Billy (Leo) Williams
baseball: Chicago Cubs [Rookie of the Year: 1961/all-star: 1962, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1973], Oakland Athletics

1939 - Ty (Tyrone Alexander) Cline
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, SF Giants, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970]

1941 - Harry (Edward) Nilsson III
singer: Everybody’s Talkin, Without You, Me and My Arrow, Coconut; songwriter: One; scores: Skidoo, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; died Jan 15, 1994

1942 - (John) Bruce Dal Canton
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox

1945 - Danny O’Shea
hockey: Canadian Olympic Hockey team [1968]; NHL: Minnesota North Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, St. Louis Blues

1945 - Nicola Pagett
actress: An Awfully Big Adventure, Privates on Parade, Oliver’s Story, There’s a Girl in My Soup, Upstairs Downstairs

1946 - Ken (Kenneth Joseph) Henderson
baseball: SF Giants, Chicago White Sox, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, NY Mets, Chicago Cubs

1946 - Janet Lennon
singer: group: Lennon Sisters: Lawrence Welk Show, The Andy Williams Show

1949 - Dusty (Johnnie B) Baker
baseball: Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1977, 1978, 1981/all-star: 1981, 1982], SF Giants, Oakland Athletics

1949 - Russ Hitch****
singer: group: Air Supply: The One that You Love, Love and other Bruises

1949 - Jim Varney
actor: The Beverly Hillbillies, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Saves Christmas; died Feb 10, 2000

1950 - Noddy (Neville) Holder
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: Slade: Get Down and Get with It, Coz I Love You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Cum On Feel the Noize, Skweeze Me Pleeze Me, Merry Xmas Everybody, We’ll Bring the House Down, My Oh My, Run Run Away

1954 - Jim Belushi
actor: Saturday Night Live, Trading Places, The Man with One Red Shoe, Little Shop of Horrors, The Principal, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Diary of a Hit Man, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Mighty Ducks the Movie: The Face-Off, Retroactive, Wag the Dog, K-911; John Belushi’s brother

1954 - Terri Gibbs
singer: Somebody’s Knockin’

1955 - Julie Hagerty
actress: Airplane!, Airplane II: The Sequel, Women of the House, Noises Off, What About Bob?, Reversal of Fortune, Lost in America, The House of Blue Leaves

1958 - Wade (Anthony) Boggs
baseball: Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992/World Series: 1986], NY Yankees [all-star: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996/World Series: 1996]

1963 - Helen (Elizabeth) Hunt
Academy Award-winning actress: As Good As It Gets [1997]; Emmy Award-winning actress: Mad About You [1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999]; Swiss Family Robinson, It Takes Two, The Fitzpatricks, Amy Prentiss, Twister, Kiss of Death, Next of Kin, Peggy Sue Got Married, Quarterback Princess, Desperate Lives, The Spell, My Life and Times

1964 - Courteney Cox
actress: Friends, Family Ties, Ace Ventura Pet Detective

1970 - Leah Remini
actress: The King of Queens, Living Dolls, Glory Daze, Follow Your Heart

1971 - Jake Busey
actor: Starship Troopers, Shimmer, Twister, Contact, Enemy of the State, Shasta McNasty; son of actor Gary Busey

1972 - Justin Leonard
golf: champ: 1996 Buick Open [1996[, Kemper Open [1997], British Open [1997], The Players [1998], Westin Texas Open [2000]

1973 - Neil Patrick Harris
actor: Doogie Howser, M.D., Clara’s Heart, Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story, My Antonia, Starship Troopers, The Next Best Thing.

Chart Toppers
June 15th.

1950 My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
The Third Man Theme - Alton Karas
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams

1958 The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Do You Want to Dance - Bobby Freeman
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

1966 Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
I Am a Rock - Simon & Garfunkel
Distant Drums - Jim Reeves

1974 Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore - Charlie Rich

1982 Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t Talk to Strangers - Rick Springfield
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
For All the Wrong Reasons - The Bellamy Brothers

1990 Hold On - Wilson Phillips
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily
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Monday, June 16, 2008
MY LITTLE MARGIE DAY.

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Gale Storm (Margie Albright) and Charles Farrell (Vernon Albright) starred in My Little Margie which debuted on CBS-TV on this day in 1952.

Fans of the popular comedy will remember that My Little Margie was based at the Carlton Arms Hotel, Apartment 10-A. Vern Albright was a very eligible widower who worked for the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd. Margie Albright, his 21-year-old daughter, was continually scheming to help dad and continually causing big trouble while helping.

The show made the unusual move from television to radio in December, 1952, airing original, not simulcast, versions on the radio. Gale Storm and Charles Farrell starred in the radio series as well. My Little Margie skipped around the TV networks, going from CBS after four months to NBC-TV, back to CBS-TV in January of 1953 and then back to NBC in September of that year.

The sitcom met its demise in August 1955, just in time for Margie AKA Gale Storm to move into a singing career. I Hear You Knocking, Ivory Tower, Teenage Prayer, Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Dark Moon made it to the pop charts after My Little Margie made it into our memory banks.
Click, (http://timstvshowcase.com/margie.html) click, (http://users.adelphia.net/~gijoeva/Gale_Storm/) click, (http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/galestorm.html) and click. (http://www.galestorm.tv/)

Events
June 16th.

1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies free to the ballpark on this, the first Ladies Day.

1890 - A glittering program of music and ballet, featuring composer Edward Strause, opened the second Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1909 - Glenn Hammond Curtiss sold his first airplane. Curtiss delivered the Gold Bug to the New York Aeronautical Society. While doing so, he picked up a check for $5,000.

1922 - Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight -- at College Park, MD.

1946 - Lloyd Mangrum won the U.S. Open golf title after a strange twist of events. Tourney leader Byron Nelson was assessed a penalty stroke when his caddie accidentally kicked his ball ... costing the golfing legend the Open title.

1953 - The Ford Motor Company presented one of TV’s biggest events. Ethel Merman and Mary Martin headlined a gala 50th anniversary show for the automaker.

1956 - Be-Bop-A-Lula, by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, was released on Capitol Records. Vincent was called Capitol’s answer to Elvis Presley. The tune became Vincent Eugene Craddock’s biggest hit of three (Lotta Lovin’, Dance to the Bop) to make the pop music charts. Vincent died in 1971.

1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova broke the gender barrier as she blasted off in the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days in orbit.

1967 - The Monterey International Pop Festival got underway at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Northern California. Fifty thousand spectators flocked to the first major rock festival in U.S. history. Ticket prices ranged from $3.50 to $6.50 to see more than two dozen rock acts, including Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas and the Papas, The Who and The Grateful Dead. The festival was immortalized in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1969 documentary Monterrey Pop.

1968 - Lee Trevino became the first golfer in 68 years to play all four rounds of the U.S. Open golf tournament with sub-par totals of 69, 68, 69 and 67, respectively.

1970 - Football player Brian Piccolo of the Chicago Bears died of embryonal cell carcinoma, a rare disease that develops as the human embryo is developing. At the time, it was almost incurable. By 2004, it had a cure rate of more than 50 percent.

1972 - The only museum devoted exclusively to jazz music opened. The New York Jazz Museum welcomed visitors for the first time.

1978 - The film adaptation of Grease, a success on the Broadway stage, premiered in New York City. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John starred. Several hit songs came out of the motion picture: Grease, by Frankie Valli, You’re the One That I Want and Summer Nights (both sung by Travolta and Newton-John). The first two songs were platinum 2,000,000+ sellers, while the third was a million-seller.

1980 - The movie The Blues Brothers opened in Chicago, IL. John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd, formerly of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, starred. The pair played Jake and Elwood Blues. James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin performed. Cab Calloway also appeared with a rendition of his classic Minnie the Moocher.

1981 - The Chicago Tribune purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from the P.K. Wrigley Chewing Gum Company for $20.5 million. The Wrigley family had controlled the team for over 60 years. The sale ended the longest continuous ownership of a team that stayed put in its original city.

1985 - Willie Banks broke the world record for the triple jump with a leap of 58 feet, 11-1/2 inches in the U.S.A. championships in Indianapolis, IN. Banks broke the record that had been set by Brazil’s Joao Oliveria in 1975.

1987 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar signed a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for $5,000,000. The 18-year veteran of the NBA became the highest paid player in any sport.

1995 - Batman Forever, the third film in the Batman series premiered. Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) faces Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) and the Riddler (Jim Carrey). Add a sexy psychologist (Nicole Kidman), with a thing for Batman and sidekick Robin (Chris O’Donnell), and you wind up with a smash: $52.78 million in the U.S. for opening weekend. Holy box-office, Batman!

1999 - World-class sprinters all dream the impossible dream, to break the 100-meter world record. Maurice Greene’s dream came true this day at an invitational track meet in Athens, Greece, the birthplace of track and field events. Running in the stadium (home of the 2004 Olympics) with no wind at his back, his friend and training partner in another lane, 24-year-old Maurice Greene finished the 100 meters in 9.79 seconds. The previous record (9.84 seconds), set at the 1996 Olympics, belongs to Canada’s Donovan Bailey. Greene from Kansas City, Kansas is the first American to hold this sprint record since 1994. His training partner, Ato Boldon, placed second with a time of 9.86.

Birthdays
June 16th.

1890 - Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson)
actor, comedian: Laurel & Hardy: made over 200 films together; died Feb 23, 1965

1899 - Helen Traubel
opera singer: St. Louis Symphony, New York Metropolitan Opera [“The Met’s premier Wagnerian soprano.”]; actress: Deep in My Heart, The Ladies’ Man, Gunn; died July 28, 1972

1907 - Jack Albertson
Academy Award-winning actor [1968]; Tony Award-winner [1965]: The Subject was Roses; Emmy Awards: Cher [1974-75], Chico & The Man [1975-76], Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; died Nov 25, 1981

1916 - Angelo ‘Hank’ Luisetti
basketball: Stanford Univ. 3-time All-American [scored a school record 50 points: Jan 1, 1938], revolutionized game with his one-handed shot

1917 - Katharine Graham
publisher: The Washington Post; won Pulitzer Prize for her memoir, Personal History [1998]; died July 17, 2001

1920 - John (Howard) Griffin
author: Black like Me [his journal posing as African American], Nuni, The Devil Rides Outside, The John Howard Griffin Reader; died Sep 9, 1980

1937 - Erich Segal
writer: Love Story, Acts of Faith, Man, Woman and Child, Oliver’s Story

1938 - Joyce Carol Oates
novelist: The Time Traveler, Triumph of the Spider Monkey

1939 - Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock
country singer: Don’t Destroy Me, Ruby, Baby, Rub It In, Sea Cruise

1941 - Lamont Dozier
songwriter: team: Holland-Dozier Holland: Baby Love, I Can’t Help Myself; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1990]; solo: Why Can’t We Be Lovers, Trying to Hold on to My Woman

1942 - Eddie Levert
singer: group: The O’Jays: Love Train, Back Stabbers

1943 - Joan Van Ark
actress: Knots Landing, Tainted Blood, Frogs

1945 - Ian Matthews (McDonald)
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Fairport Convention: Book Song; Matthew’s Southern Comfort: Woodstock; solo: I Survived the ’70s, LPs: If You Saw Through My Eyes, Tigers Will Survive, Stealin’ Home, Spot of Interference, Discreet Repeat

1946 - Derek Sanderson
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins: shares season record for shorthanded goals scored [3 in 1969], NY Rangers, SL Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Pittsburgh Penguins

1948 - Ron LeFlore
baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1976], Montreal Expos [stole 97 bases: 1980], Chicago White Sox

1951 - Roberto Duran
boxing: champion: WBA Lightweight, WBC Lightweight, WBC Welterweight, WBA Light Middleweight, WBC Middleweight, WBA Junior Middleweight; record: 101-13 [69 KOs]

1951 - Stan (Stanley Arthur) Wall
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers

1952 - Gino Vannelli
singer, songwriter: Living Inside Myself

1955 - Laurie Metcalf
Emmy Award-winning actress: Roseanne [1991-1992, 1992-1993, 1993-1994]; A Dangerous Woman, JFK, Pacific Heights, Uncle Buck, Desperately Seeking Susan

1962 - Wally Joyner
baseball: California Angels, KC Royals, SD Padres, Atlanta Braves

1962 - Arnold Vosloo
actor: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Morenga, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

1962 - Warrior (James Brian Hellwig)
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania IV/V/VI/VII,VIII,XII, Royal Rumble, WCW Monday Nitro

1970 - Phil (Alfred) Mickelson
golf: champ: Masters [2004, 2006]; dozens of PGA Tour victories

1975 - Frederick Koehler
actor: Mr. Mom, Kate and Allie, A Kiss Before Dying, Pearl Harbor

1977 - Kerry Wood
baseball [pitcher]: Chicago Cubs.

Chart Toppers
June 16th.

1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
Syncopated Clock - The Leroy Anderson Orchestra
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Personality - Lloyd Price
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967 Respect - Aretha Franklin
Him or Me - What’s It Gonna Be? - Paul Revere & The Raiders
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
It’s Such a Pretty World Today - Wynn Stewart

1975 Sister Golden Hair - America
Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
I’m Not Lisa - Jessi Colter
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt

1983 Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
My Love - Lionel Richie
Our Love is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle

1991 Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Love is a Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets) - Joe Diffie


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
COMMERCIAL TV DAY.

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On this day in 1941, WNBT-TV, channel 4 in New York City, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the United States. (WNBT signed on the air on July 1, 1941 at 1:29 p.m.)

Owned by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the station later changed its call letters to WRCA. As RCA developed the NBC Television Network and, especially, TV in ‘living’ color in the early 1950s, WRCA, as well as its TV counterpart in Los Angeles, KRCA-TV 4 (channel 4), changed call letters once again. To reflect the impact of network television, the station became WNBC-TV. On the west coast, KRCA was changed to KNBC-TV.

Both stations remain the flagships of NBC television and are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the television network.

And both are truly commercial TV stations, as are all network TV stations these days (along with cable TV stations that, as we remember it, were originally supposed to be non-commercial).
More here, (http://www.wnbc.com/index.html) here, (http://www.nrcdxas.org/articles/1stfacts.txt) and here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC)


Events
June 17th.

1775 - Question of the day: On what hill was the Battle of Bunker Hill fought? You could answer this one in your sleep, right? Wrong, historical head! A little background: Anger and hatred between British and American colonists exploded into brutal fury at the top of Breed’s Hill (near Boston) on this day. The British charged the Americans three times before finally overrunning and chasing them to -- you guessed it -- Bunker Hill (and it was all over but the whimpering by the time they got to Bunker Hill). The redcoats did win this battle, but it fired up the colonists and they continued to fight, eventually driving the British back to Britain. Class dismissed.

1837 - Charles Goodyear got a patent for rubber, the squishy, bouncy stuff.

1856 - The first national convention of the Republican Party was held in Philadelphia, PA.

1871 - Mr. and Mrs. Martin Bates were married. It turned out to be a tall order for the couple. They both stood over seven feet tall. Imagine the size of the wedding cake!

1880 - John Monte Ward tossed the second perfect game in major-league history as he and Providence blanked Buffalo 5-0.

1912 - Talk about long shots: Wishing Ring won at Latonia race track in Kentucky. Most people didn’t even notice because the horse had been a non-performer until then. A $2 wager to win paid an incredible $1,885.50 for a few, very lucky ticket holders.

1913 - A Chicago Cubs pitcher set a baseball record for the longest appearance by a reliever in a game. George ‘Zip’ Zabel came in from the bull pen with two outs in the first inning of a game at Ebbets Field in New York. George kept pitching until the 19th inning when the Cubs finally beat the Dodgers 4-3.

1928 - The first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean did so this day. She was celebrated as the greatest aviatrix of the time. Her name was Amelia Earhart.

1942 - Suspense, known as radio’s outstanding theatre of thrills, debuted on CBS radio. The program kept millions of loyal listeners in suspense for the next 20 years.

1942 - The Army weekly newspaper, Yank, coined the term “G.I. Joe” in a comic strip drawn by Dave Breger.

1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.

1954 - Rocky Marciano successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title by defeating former champion Ezzard Charles.

1969 - Boris Spassky became chess champion of the world after checkmating former champion Tigran Petrosian in Moscow.

1969 - Jazz musician Charles Mingus came out of a two-year, self-imposed retirement to make a concert appearance at the Village Vanguard in New York City.

1972 - Newspapers around the country, including The Washington Post, reported a burglary. The story took up nothing more than a couple of inches of copy, buried inside the paper and out of sight of the day’s top news stories. The burglary, on the 6th floor of a plush Washington, D.C. apartment and office complex called the Watergate, would later drive President Richard M. Nixon from the White House. The growing story became a Pulitzer Prize-winner for journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

1973 - Johnny Miller won his first major golf title by defeating the field at the prestigious United States Open.

1978 - Shadow Dancing, by Andy Gibb, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts for the first of seven weeks. Gibb had two other number one hits: I Just Want to Be Your Everything and (Love is) Thicker than Water. Gibb, the youngest of the Gibb brothers who made up the Bee Gees, hosted TV’s Solid Gold in 1981-82. Andy scored nine hits on the pop music charts in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of an inflammatory heart virus in Oxford, England in 1988.

1985 - Judy Norton-Taylor, who played the role of Mary Ellen on The Waltons, saw her good-girl image tarnished as she was photographed nude for Playboy magazine.

1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The law, the basis of all apartheid laws in South Africa, required all South Africans to be classified at birth. It was first implemented in 1950, and placed South Africans in separate categories of race: Caucasian, mixed, Asian and black. Other apartheid laws were enforced according to those categories. The Population Registration Act was the final apartheid law to be repealed, except for the one that prevented blacks from voting.

1994 - O.J. Simpson, charged with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, could not be located and became a fugitive from justice. At about 6:45 p.m., police spotted a white Ford Bronco belonging to Simpson’s friend Al Cowlings on a Los Angeles freeway. Simpson was a passenger in the Bronco and had a gun (according to Cowlings who talked to police by phone from the Bronco). Cowlings and Simpson led the highway patrol on a 60-mile, low-speed pursuit through L.A. It was around 8:00 p.m. when the Bronco finally pulled into the driveway at Simpson’s Brentwood mansion, followed by a phalanx of patrol cars. Negotiations with police lasted less than an hour and Simpson surrendered, was arrested and taken to jail. All of the above was covered by TV cameras from helicopters and seen by a world-wide television audience. It was a gripping, if not excruciatingly slow, show.

Birthdays
June 17th.

1882 - Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky
composer: The Firebird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, The Soldier’s Tale; died Apr 6, 1971

1902 - Sammy Fain (Samuel Feinberg)
Oscar-winning musician, composer: Secret Love [1953], Love is a Many-Splendored Thing [1955]; April Love, A Certain Smile, A Very Precious Love, Tender is the Night, I’ll Be Seeing You, I Can Dream Can’t I, Let a Smile be Your Umbrella [most w/Irving Kahal]; died Dec 6, 1989

1904 - Ralph (Rexford) Bellamy
actor: The Awful Truth, Trading Places, War & Remembrance, The Winds of War, Oh, God!, Rosemary’s Baby, Man Against Crime, The Eleventh Hour; panelist: To Tell the Truth; founder: Screen Actors’ Guild; president: Actors’ Equity; recipient of honorary Academy Award [1987]; died Nov 29, 1991

1910 - Red (Clyde Julian) Foley
songwriter, singer: Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Birmingham Bounce, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Blues in My Heart, Tennessee Saturday Night, Tennessee Polka, Peace in the Valley, Mississippi, Tennessee Border, Goodnight Irene; TV host: Ozark Jubilee; elected to Country Music Hall of Fame [1967]; actor: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; died Sep 19, 1968

1914 - John (Richard) Hersey
author: A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima; died Mar 24, 1993

1915 - Stringbean (David Akeman)
country comedian: Grand Old Opry, Ozark Jubilee, Hee-Haw; Akeman and wife, Estelle, were murdered in their home by burglars Nov 11, 1973

1923 - Elroy Hirsch
‘Crazy Legs’: Pro Football Hall of Famer: Chicago Rockets [AAFC], LA Rams [NFL] pass receiver: named all-time NFL flanker [1969]; career record: 387 catches for 7,029 yards, 60 TDs, 405 points scored; University of Wisconsin, player, athletic director; died Jan 28, 2004

1929 - Bud Collins
International Tennis Hall of Famer: champ: U.S. Indoor Mixed Doubles Championship [w/partner Janet Hopps: 1961]; sports writer: Boston Herald, Boston Globe; sportscaster: NBC; author: Bud Collins’ Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis

1932 - Peter Lupus
actor: Mission: Impossible [TV], Think Big, Pulsebeat, Escapist, More! Police Squad, Muscle Beach Party

1939 - Dickie Doo (Gerry Granahan)
singer: group: Dickie Doo and The Don’ts: Click Clack, No Chemise Please

1940 - Bobby Bell
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Univ. of Minnesota [All-America tackle], Kansas City Chiefs linebacker/defensive end [25 interceptions for 479 yards, six TDs]

1942 - Norman Kuhlke
musician: drums: group: The Swinging Blue Jeans: Hippy Hippy Shake

1943 - Steve Clark
swimmer: Olympic Gold medalist [1964]; broke nine world swimming records from 1960-65 in short-course times

1943 - Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus)
Grammy Award-winning singer: I Write the Songs [1975]; Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, Can’t Smile Without You, Copacabana

1944 - Randy Johnson
football: Atlanta Falcons QB

1948 - Dave (David Ismael Benitez) Concepcion
baseball: shortstop [2nd base: ’87, ’88]: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976/all-star: 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982]

1951 - Dave Fortier
hockey: NHL: Toronto Maple Leafs, NY Islanders, Vancouver Canucks

1951 - Joe Piscopo
comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live, Sidekicks, Wise Guys, Johnny Dangerously

1954 - Mark Linn-Baker
actor: Noises Off, Bare Essentials, Ghostwriter, My Favorite Year, Manhattan, Comedy Zone, Perfect Strangers

1957 - Stephen Shellen
actor: Casual Sex?, Murder One, Counterstrike, A River Runs Through It, The Bodyguard, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Gone in Sixty Seconds, La Femme Nikita

1961 - Thomas Haden Church
actor: Wings, Tombstone, George of the Jungle, One Night Stand, Goosed, Sideways

1963 - Greg Kinnear
actor: What Planet Are You From?, Talk Soup, Blankman, Sabrina, As Good As It Gets, You've Got Mail, Mystery Men, Nurse Betty

1966 - Jason Patric (Miller)
actor: The Journey of August King, Geronimo: An American Legend, Rush, Frankenstein Unbound, The Beast, The Lost Boys, Solarbabies, Toughlove, Speed 2: Cruise Control

1975 - Joshua Leonard
actor: The Blair Witch Project, Men of Honor, Deuces Wild

1980 - Venus Williams
tennis: champ: doubles title: U.S./French Opens w/sister Serena [1999]; Grand Slam singles: Wimbledon [2000], U.S. Open [2000, 2001]; doubles: w/sister Serena: Wimbledon [2000]; fastest serve in WTA history [127 mph]

Chart Toppers
June 17th.

1944 Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Be Seing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952 Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960 Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Burning Bridges - Jack Scott
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin

1968 Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
Mony Mony - Tommy James & The Shondells
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976 Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
I’ll Get Over You - Crystal Gayle

1984 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Self Control - Laura Branigan
I Got Mexico - Eddy Raven


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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170th day of 2008 - 196 remaining.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I SHOULD CARE DAY.

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If you care about anything at all, there’s a song written by Sammy Cahn for you to relate to. Sammy Cahn, the Tin Pan Alley legend, was born Samuel Cohen on this day in 1913 in New York City.

As a youngster, little Sammy wanted to grow up to be a famous vaudeville fiddler. How lucky we are that he stopped thinking about this in his teenage years. That’s when he met pianist, Saul Chaplin. Sammy wrote the words and Saul wrote the music to their first hit, Rhythm is Our Business for bandleader, Jimmie Lunceford. Then Until the Real Thing Comes Along for Andy Kirk and the jazz classic, Shoe Shine Boy, performed by Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, the Mills Brothers, even Bing Crosby. The Andrews Sisters were lucky to know Sammy, too. It was his adaptation of the Yiddish song, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön that became their signature.

Frank Sinatra’s many signature titles were Sammy Cahn’s words, too (with Jimmy Van Heusen’s music): All the Way (won an Oscar in 1957), My Kind of Town, and Grammy Award-winning September of My Years. As part of the personal song-writing team for Mr. Sinatra, Sammy also wrote Love and Marriage, The Second Time Around, High Hopes (another Oscar winner in 1959) and The Tender Trap.

If you still haven’t found a song that makes you care, try these additional Oscar winners by Sammy Cahn: Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Call Me Irresponsible (1963). We could cover the entire page with the 22 other songs that were nominated but didn’t win the gold statue!

Want to know more? Pick up the autobiography of the talented Sammy Cahn, written in 1974, I Should Care.
More here, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005991/mediaindex) here, (http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/C5) clicky, (http://www.nndb.com/people/925/000115580/) click. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005991/)


Events
June 18th.


1621 - The first duel in America reportedly took place in the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Sorry, we have no line score.

1812 - The United States issued a declaration of war on Great Britain. And so began the War of 1812, prompted by Britain’s violations of America’s rights on the high seas and the involvement of the British in Indian uprisings on the frontiers.

1861 - The first American fly-casting tournament was held in Utica, NY. Lots of anglers cast for fishing prizes and were hooked on the idea.

1898 - Atlantic City, NJ opened its Steel Pier to a large summertime seashore crowd. The world-famous Steel Pier over the Atlantic Ocean offered 9-1/2 miles of amusements, concerts, food, beverages, concessions and more. The Steel Pier once featured a horse that would dive into a pool at the end of the pier, in fact. The summer resort gave many a youngster their start in show biz, like Ed McMahon, who used to be a barker on the ocean pier.

1925 - The first degree in landscape architecture was granted by Harvard University.

1927 - The U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp honored Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. It was the first postage stamp to feature the name of a living American.

1939 - The CBS radio network aired The Adventures of Ellery Queen for the first time. An interesting twist came near the end of the program when the show was stopped to allow a panel of experts to guess the solution of the night’s mystery.

1944 - Golfing legend Byron Nelson finished in the money in his 52nd consecutive tournament. He won the Red Cross Open golf competition held at New Rochelle, NY.

1956 - Nanette Fabray bid audiences farewell in her final appearance on Caesars Hour after two years as a regular on the popular TV program.

1961 - Gunsmoke was broadcast for the last time on CBS radio. The show had been on for nine years. It was called the first adult Western. The star of Gunsmoke was William Conrad, who would become a major TV star (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman), as well. When Gunsmoke moved to TV, James Arness filled Conrad’s boots.

1975 - Fred Lynn of the Boston Red Sox had one of the greatest days in major-league baseball history. Lynn contributed 10 runs, 16 total bases on three home runs, a triple and a single in a game against the Detroit Tigers. The Red Sox won the game 15-1.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac worked Dreams to the number one spot on the pop music charts this day. It would be the group’s only single to reach number one. Fleetwood Mac placed 18 hits on the charts in the 1970s and 1980s. Nine were top-ten tunes.

1983 - Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, beginning her ride aboard the space shuttle Challenger for a six-day Odyssey.

1985 - The Wimbledon tennis seeding-committee, unable to decide on a favorite, made Chris Evert Lloyd and Martina Navratilova co-number one seeds. It was the first time in the 63-year history of the Wimbledon Open that a first co-seeding was utilized.

1985 - Patrick Ewing became one of 11 basketball centers to be chosen in the first-round draft of college players for the National Basketball Association. Ewing was picked by, and became a major star for, the New York Knicks.

1986 - Don Sutton of the California Angels pitched his 300th career win to lead Gene Autry’s ball club to a 3-1 win over the Texas Rangers. Sutton went on to win a total of 324 games in his illustrious career.

1996 - Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in (following Knesset approval) as Israel’s 9th Prime Minister. Netanyahu, the first prime minister born after the establishment of Israel, was elected May 29. His Likud-Party government lasted just under three years. He was defeated by the Labor Party’s leader, Ehud Barak, May 17, 1999.

1999 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: An Ideal Husband, starring Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, and Jeremy Northam; The General’s Daughter, with John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III and James Woods; and Tarzan, featuring Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Chris Phillips and Rosie O’Donnell.

Birthdays
June 18th.

1886 - George Mallory
explorer, mountain climber: last seen in 1924 climbing Mt. Everest “Because it is there.”; Mallory’s body found on Everest at 27,000' May 1, 1999

1897 - Kay (James King Kern) Kyser
bandleader: Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge: Three Little Fishes, Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition; died July 23, 1985

1903 - Jeanette (Anna) MacDonald
singer with Nelson Eddy, actress: Love Me Tonight, The Firefly, Cairo, The Cat and the Fiddle, One Hour with You, The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie; died Jan 14, 1965

1904 - Keye Luke
actor: Alice, Kung Fu; Charlie Chan’s #1 son; died Jan 12, 1991

1908 - Bud (Clayton Johnson Heermance, Jr.) Collyer
radio: Superman; TV host: To Tell the Truth, Beat the Clock, Masquerade Party, Winner Take All; died Sep 8, 1969

1910 - Ray McKinley
musician: drummer: Big Boy, Hard-Hearted Hannah, Red Silk Stockings and Green Perfume, You Came Along Way [from St. Louis]; led Glenn Miller Band for estate [1956-66]; died May 7, 1995

1913 - Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen)
composer; died Jan 15, 1993; see I Should Care Day [above]

1913 - (S.F.) Sylvia (Feldman) Porter
financial columnist: New York Post, New York Daily News; author: Sylvia Porter’s A Home of Your Own, Money Book; died Jun 6,1991

1914 - E.G. (Edda/Everett Gunnar) Marshall
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Defenders [1961-62, 1962-63}; Chicago Hope, The New Doctors, Twelve Angry Men, The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre; died Aug 24, 1998

1917 - Richard (Allen) Boone
actor: Have Gun Will Travel, Winter Kills, The Robe, Rio Conchos, Ten Wanted Men, The War Lord, Big Jake; died Jan 10, 1981

1920 - Ian Carmichael
actor: Dark Obsession, Heavens Above

1924 - George Mikan
Basketball Hall of Famer: NBA Silver Anniversary Team; Minneapolis Lakers MVP [1947], World Basketball Tournament MVP: Chicago American Gears [1946]; ABA Commissioner; ABA’s red/white/blue ball is his concept; died June 2, 2005

1925 - Robert Arthur (Arthaud)
actor: Naked Youth, Hellcats of the Navy, The Ring, September Affair

1926 - Tom Wicker
journalist, author: One of Us, Richard Nixon & the American Dream

1928 - Maggie McNamara
actress: The Cardinal, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Moon is Blue; died Feb 18, 1978

1939 - Lou (Louis Clark) Brock
Baseball Hall of Famer: outfielder: Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/all-star: 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1979]; career record: 938 stolen bases; 3,000 career hits; 149 career home runs [500-footer hit into Polo Grounds’ center field bleachers: June 17, 1962]

1942 - Roger Ebert
film critic: of Siskel and Ebert fame

1942 - (James) Paul McCartney
Grammy Award-winning [1990] musician, songwriter, singer: group: The Beatles: 49 hits: She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band; group: Wings: 35 hits: Another Day, Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey, My Love, Live and Let Die, Band on the Run, Listen to What the Man Said, Silly Love Songs, Let ’Em In, Ebony & Ivory [w/Stevie Wonder], The Girl is Mine [w/Michael Jackson]; actor: Yellow Submarine, A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Let It Be, Magical Mystery Tour, Give My Regards to Broad Street; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [3-15-1999]

1952 - Carol Kane
Emmy Award-winning actress: Taxi [1981-82, 1982-83}; The Princess Bride, Hester Street, Addams Family Values, Carnal Knowledge, Dog Day Afternoon, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Ted & Venus, My Blue Heaven, When a Stranger Calls

1952 - Isabella Rossellini
model: over 500 covers; actress: Twin Peaks, Fearless, Blue Velvet, Crime of the Century, The Impostors

1953 - Jerome Smith
musician: guitar: group: KC & The Sunshine Band: Get Down Tonight, That’s the Way [I like It], [Shake, Shake, Shake] Your Booty, I’m Your Boogie Man, Keep It Comin’ Love, I like to Do It, Boogie Shoes, It’s the Same Old Song, Please Don’t Go; killed in bulldozer accident July 28, 2000

1956 - Brian Benben
actor: The Brian Benben Show, Family Business, Radioland Murders

1960 - Barbara Broccoli
film producer: GoldenEye, Crime of the Century, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough; daughter of James Bond film creator Albert R. Broccoli

1961 - (Genevieve) Alison ‘Alf’ Moyet
singer: solo: Love Resurrection, All Cried Out, Invisible, That Old Devil Called Love, Is This Love?, Weak in the Presence of Beauty; duo: Yazoo: Only You, Don’t Go, Nobody’s Diary

1966 - Sandy (Santos, Jr.) Alomar
baseball: catcher: SD Padres, Cleveland Indians [all-star: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996/World Series: 1995]

1969 - Vito Lograsso
pro wrestler/actor: ECW Hardcore TV, Extreme Championship Wrestling, WCW Thunder

1973 - Eddie Cibrian
actor: Sunset Beach, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Beverly Hills: 90210, Saved By the Bell: the College Years, Third Watch.

Chart Toppers
June 18th.


1945 Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953 Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961 Moody River - Pat Boone
Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969 Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley
Running Bear - Sonny James

1977 Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Country Boy - Ricky Skaggs


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Thursday, June 19, 2008
GARFIELD DAY.

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Whether you’re a cat lover or not has nothing to do with whether you chuckle at the antics of the famous, fat, lazy, lasagna-eating, snide cat named Garfield.

Garfield came into the world on this day in 1978 by way of the talented pen of cartoonist Jim Davis. Readers of 41 newspapers throughout the United States were the lucky first-time readers of the Garfield strip. There are now over 220 million folks who read Garfield every day in over 2500 newspapers worldwide.

Garfield and his pal Odie (the long-tongued, floppy-eared silly dog) spend most of their time making us laugh just by showing us their eating and sleeping habits. Since Garfield was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, his favorite food is lasagna. He can devour a plate of lasagna (and most other foods) in one huge gulp!

Thousands of products, a multitude of books and several Emmy Award-winning TV shows have featured Garfield. Maybe you know someone who has a suction-cup-footed Garfield stuck on their car window ... or maybe you have a Garfield T-shirt, or a Garfield stuffed toy, or a Garfield whatever.

He may be a cartoon character, but Garfield, the cat, has endeared himself to cat-lovers throughout the world ... and many dog-lovers, too. Thank you, Jim Davis.
More here, (http://www.garfield.com/index.html) click, (http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/garfield.htm) click, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)) and click. (http://pressroom.garfield.com/jim_bio/index.html)


Events
June 19th.

1846 - The first organized baseball game was played on this day. The location was Hoboken, New Jersey. The New York Baseball Club defeated the Knickerbocker Club, 23 to 1. This first game was only four innings long. The New York Nine, as the winners were known, must have really studied the rules to have twenty-three runs batted in. The rules had been formulated just one year earlier by a Mr. Alexander Cartwright, Jr.

1865 - It took more than two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect for Union troops to land in Galveston, Texas. They carried the message of freedom, the resolution of the Civil War between the States, to the many slaves throughout Texas. Union Major General Gordon Granger read General Order #3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” The slaves rejoiced with cheers and tears as they learned of their liberation, calling their “day of deliverance,” Juneteenth, a day still celebrated by black families and communities throughout the world.

1911 - The first motion-picture censorship board was established -- in Pennsylvania.

1912 - The United States government adopted a new rule for all working folks. It established an 8-hour work day. Watch that lunch break, though. You never know if someone from the government might be clocking you...

1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The task of the commission was to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.

1936 - Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match. The German boxer earned his victory at Yankee Stadium in New York.

1943 - The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers (the Steagles), a team that lasted one 5-4-1 season; but turned down approval of a similar merger of the Chicago Cardinals and the Bears. The following year the Steelers merged with the Cardinals, another one season combo. The reason teams were merging in the 1940s: so many men were in the armed forces due to WWII, football players were at a premium.

1946 - The first championship prizefight to be televised was seen by boxing fans. Joe Louis tangled with Billy Conn in New York City. To see the fight in person, incidentally, would have cost you $100.

1952 - CBS-TV debuted one of television’s most popular hits, I’ve Got a Secret. Garry Moore was the first host, from 1952 to 1964. Steve Allen was next (1964 to 1967) and moderated a syndicated version in the 1972-1973 season. Bill Cullen hosted the attempted comeback of the show in 1976. Panelists included Allen’s wife, Jayne Meadows; Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan, Betsy Palmer, Faye Emerson, Melville Cooper and Orson Bean.

1965 - I Can’t Help Myself, by The Four Tops, topped the pop and R&B charts. The Motown group got their second and only other number one hit with Reach Out I’ll Be There in 1966. Their other hits include: It’s the Same Old Song, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Bernadette and Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) (their only million seller). The group called Motown (Detroit, MI) home and got their start in 1953 as the Four Aims. Levi Stubbs, Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, Lawrence Payton and Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir placed 24 hits on the charts from 1964 to 1988. They first recorded as The Four Tops for Leonard Chess and Chess Records in 1956; then went to Red Top and Columbia before signing with Berry Gordy’s Motown label in 1963. The Tops, who had no personnel changes in their more than 35 years together were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

1973 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds reached the 2,000-career-hit plateau. The milestone came a decade after his first professional baseball appearance in Cincinnati.

1973 - National Hockey League record-holder Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings jumped leagues to join his sons, Mark and Marty, on the Houston Aeros (of the rival World Hockey Association). In doing so, Howe accepted a $1,000,000, four-year contract.

1981 - Superman II set the all-time, one-day record for theatre box-office receipts. Moviegoers forked over $5.5 million to see Christopher Reeve as the caped crusader. The three-day record was also shattered on June 21st, 1981, when a total gross of $14 million was collected.

1985 - Take heart, duffers! Angelo Spagnolo shot an incredible 257 -- that’s two-hundred, fifty-seven strokes -- to win the Worst Avid Golfer’s Tournament held at Ponte Vedra, FL. He earned the title of America’s Worst Recreational Hacker for the effort. He lost 60 golf balls, got a 66 on the 17th hold, and hit 27 balls into the water!

1992 - Batman returned in Batman Returns. He was welcomed by Americans with their wallets open ($45.69 million) that first weekend.

1998 - The X Files: Fight the Future opened in the U.S. David Duchovny (FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Agent Dana Scully) starred. And they fought despicable demons who were employed by the government, just as they have had to do so often in the TV series. The X Files: Fight the Future opened in 2,629 theaters nationwide, grossing a not-so-despicable $30.14 million the first weekend.

1998 - 28-year-old Rick Schroder signed on with ABC’s NYPD Blue as Detective Danny Sorenson. Young Schroder/Sorenson stepped into the opening created by the painful death of Detective Bobby Simone/Jimmy Smits.

1999 - Horror king/author Stephen King was was run down from behind by a van while walking on the shoulder of a road near his house in Maine. Motorist Brian Smith apparently lost control of his Dodge Caravan (he said his dog distracted him). King suffered a collapsed lung, 2 fractures of his right leg below the knee, a broken right hip, a fractured pelvis, 2 broken ribs and a scalp laceration. Now, that’s a horror story!

Birthdays
June 19th.


1623 - Blaise Pascal
scientist, philosopher: Provincial Letters; died August 19, 1662

1856 - Elbert Hubbard
author: A Message to Garcia, Little Journeys; founder: Roycroft Press; lost life aboard the ill-fated Lusitania [May 7, 1915]

1881 - (James J.) Jimmy Walker
politician: New York City mayor [1926-1932]; died Nov 18, 1946

1897 - Moe Howard (Moses Horowitz)
actor: one of the original Three Stooges; Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; died May 4, 1975

1902 - Guy (Gaetano) Lombardo
bandleader: The Royal Canadians: “The most beautiful music this side of heaven.”: Auld Lang Syne, The Third Man Theme; died Nov 5, 1977

1903 - Lou (Henry Louis) Gehrig
‘The Iron Horse’: Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman: NY Yankees [World Series: 1926, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939]; played 2,130 consecutive games; drove in 100 runs 13 seasons in a row; topped 150 RBI’s on seven occasions; first 20th century player to hit 4 consecutive homers in one game; his uniform [No. 4] was the first to be retired; died June 02, 1941

1905 - Mildred Natwick
actress: Dangerous Liaisons, Barefoot in the Park, The Snoop Sisters, Tammy and the Bachelor; died Oct 25, 1994

1906 - Earl W. Bascom
rodeo showman and inventor: first side-delivery rodeo chute, first hornless bronc saddle, first one-handed bareback rigging; died Aug 28, 1995

1910 - Abe Fortas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1965-69]: resigned in 1969 after published reports that he had accepted lecture fees and a legal retainer while serving on the Court; died Apr 5, 1982

1912 - Martin Gabel
actor: Smile Jenny You’re Dead, Lady in Cement; TV game show panelist: What’s My Line?; died May 22, 1986

1919 - Louis Jourdan (Gendre)
actor: Gigi, Three Coins in the Fountain, The VIPs, Columbo: Murder Under Glass, Octopussy

1928 - Nancy Marchand
actress: The Sopranos, Lou Grant, Brain Donors, The Naked Gun, North and South Book 2; died June 18, 2000

1930 - Gena Rowlands
actress: Peyton Place, A Woman under the Influence, Night on Earth; daughter of Wisconsin State Senator

1932 - Pier Angeli (Anna Pierangeli)
actress: Battle of the Bulge, One Step to Hell, The Silver Chalice, S.O.S. Pacific; died Sep 10, 1971

1932 - Marisa Pavan
actress: Diary of Anne Frank, The Rose Tattoo, What Price Glory?, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1936 - Tommy DeVito
singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll

1938 - Bob (Robert Thomas) Aspromonte
baseball: Brooklyn Dodgers, LA Dodgers, Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, NY Mets

1939 - Al Wilson
musician: drummer, singer: Show and Tell

1942 - Spanky (Elaine) McFarlane
singer: group: Spanky and Our Gang: Sunday Will Never Be the Same, Lazy Day, Like to Get to Know You, Give a Damn

1947 - Walt McKechnie
hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars, California Golden Seals, Boston Bruins, Detroit Redwings, Washington Capitals, Cleveland Barons, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Red Wings

1947 - Salman Rushdie
author: The Jaguar Smile, Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses

1948 - Phylicia (Allen) Rashad
Tony Award-winning actress: A Raisin in the Sun; TV: The Cosby Show, One Life to Live, Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man; dancer Debbie Allen’s sister; married to football announcer Ahmad Rashad

1949 - Jerry Reuss
baseball: pitcher: SL Cardinals, Houston Astros, Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1975], LA Dodgers [all-star:1980/World Series: 1981], California Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers

1951 - Ann Wilson
singer: group: Heart: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On

1953 - Larry Dunn
musician: keyboards: group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Boogie Wonderland, Let’s Groove

1954 - Kathleen Turner
actress: Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Serial Mom, Naked in New York, House of Cards, Accidental Tourist, The War of the Roses, The Doctors The Virgin Suicides; voice of Jessica Rabbit in Roger Rabbit

1957 - Tom Bailey
musician, singer, keyboardist: The Thompson Twins: Hold Me Now

1959 - Mark DeBarge
musician: trumpet, sax: group: DeBarge: Rhythm of the Night

1961 - Alison Moyet
singer: group: Yazoo: Only You, Don’t Go; solo: LPs: Alf, Raindancing, Hoodoo, Essex

1962 - Paula Abdul
singer: Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract, Promises of a New Day; actress: The Waiting Game, Mr. Rock ’n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story; dancer: Laker Girl; TV talent judge: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar

1967 - Mia Sara
actress: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Timecop, Caroline at Midnight, Bullet to Beijing

1972 - Poppy Montgomery
actress: Blonde, Devil in a Blue Dress, Dead Man on Campus, The Beat

1972 - Robin Tunney
actress: The Craft, Encino Man, Empire Records, Niagara, Niagara, Vertical Limit.

Chart Toppers
June 19th.

1946 The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954 Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962 I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin’ - Johnny Tillotson
(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970 The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue - The Beatles
Which Way You Goin’ Billy? - The Poppy Family
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty

1978 Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
Two More Bottles of Wine - Emmylou Harris

1986 On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
I Can’t Wait - Nu Shooz
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Life’s Highway - Steve Wariner


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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172nd day of 2008 - 194 remaining.

Friday, June 20, 2008
FUNNY GIRL DAY.

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Fanny Brice, born Fannie Borach, debuted in the New York production of the Ziegfeld Follies on this day in 1910. It wasn’t long before Brice became known as America’s funny girl.

Brice was originally noticed by composer Irving Berlin; but was truly discovered by Florenz Ziegfeld, appearing as a Ziegfeld show girl, and then as the star of the Follies over the next 26 years. The comedienne, who sang novelty and dialect songs, also wowed the audience with her torch numbers such as, I’d Rather Be Blue, When a Woman Loves a Man, My Man and Second Hand Rose.

A regular on Rudee Vallee’s radio show, The Fleischmann Hour, in the 1920s, Fanny Brice joined The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air at age 45. The show on CBS radio was the introduction of her funny-voiced character, Baby Snooks. In 1937 she joined NBC radio and continued as the Snooks kid, a seven-year old spoiled brat. Brice’s most famous line was, “Whyyyyyy, daddy, whyyyyy?” From 1936 through 1951, Brice was one of radio’s biggest draws.

Fanny Brice died on May 29, 1951 at the age of 59 but she is still with us in the Broadway show [1964] and film [1968], Funny Girl, based on her life. Barbra Streisand gained recognition and acclaim for her role in both, as Fanny Brice, Funny Girl.

More here, (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/brice_f.html) here, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108511/) here, (http://www.musicals101.com/ziegspeaks.htm) and here. (http://www.beneathlosangeles.com/bla/Detailed/18.html)

[ShadowThomas]

Events
June 20th.

1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was adopted by Congress. William Barton designed the seal which consists of an eagle, an olive branch and 13 arrows -- one for each of the original 13 colonies.

1837 - Princess Victoria became Queen Victoria of England on this day, following the death of her uncle, King William IV. The Princess was only 18 when she was called to rule Britannia. Her first duty, "Hey, let’s call this the Victorian Age! Party on, subjects!" said she. And so it was for over 63 years until her death in 1901.

1863 - The National Bank of Philadelphia, PA received a charter from the U.S. Congress. It was the first bank to receive one.

1863 - Virginia’s cessation from the Union gave reason for the birth of West Virginia. 40 western counties of Virginia did not secede, and instead, formed their own government, officially entering the United States of America this day as the 35th state. Charleston is the capital of the Mountain State which boasts of having the most rugged terrain of any state east of the Mississippi. Throughout the forested hills of West Virginia, you’ll also find many cardinals (the state bird) and multitudes of the state flower, the big rhododendron.

1898 - It’s difficult to have a war when you don’t know there’s one going on and you don’t have any ammunition. So goes the story as to why, during the Spanish-American War, the Spanish commander of Guam surrendered to Captain Glass, the captain of the USS Charleston.

1921 - Alice M. Robertson of Oklahoma presided over the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to accept the task, even though it was only for a few minutes.

1939 - W2XBS (later WCBS-TV) in New York City televised the first TV operetta. Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert and Sullivan, was presented to a very small viewing audience. Television was a new, experimental medium at the time.

1948 - Toast of the Town premiered on CBS-TV. New York entertainment columnist and critic Ed Sullivan was the host. It started his TV career that would span 23 years on a weekly basis. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made their television debut on the show. Also on the guest list: Rodgers & Hammerstein and pianist Eugene List. The first show of Toast of the Town cost $1375 to produce, including just $375 for the talent.

1950 - Willie Mays graduated from high school and immediately signed with the New York Giants for a $6,000 bonus. The ‘Say Hey Kid’ would play most of his career for the Giants -- in both New York and San Francisco -- becoming a baseball legend. As his career came to a close, Mays was traded to the New York Mets. Mays, an all-star center fielder, is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1960 - Floyd Patterson took back the world heavyweight title by knocking out Ingemar Johansson of Sweden in round five of a title bout at the Polo Grounds in New York City. (Patterson was knocked out in one round by Sonny Liston in a title bout in Chicago, Sep 25, 1962.)

1963 - The United States and the Soviet Union made a hot-line agreement. It was a way to establish emergency communications between the two superpowers during the Cold War. The system was tested, but never used.

1966 - The U.S. Open golf tournament was broadcast from San Francisco, with something extra for the nation’s golf fans. It was the first time TV had beamed a golf event in color.

1969 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix earned the biggest paycheck ever paid (to that time) for a single concert appearance. Hendrix was paid $125,000 to appear for a single set at the Newport Jazz Festival.

1970 - The Long and Winding Road, by The Beatles, started a second week in the number one spot on the pop music charts. The tune was the last one to be released by The Beatles.

1985 - Coach Rollie Massimino told reporters, “I just can’t leave Villanova.” He turned down a basketball coaching offer of $2.1 million over 10 years to coach the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association.

1987 - Whitney Houston’s album, Whitney, debuted on Billboard magazine’s album chart at number one. Houston became the first female to have an LP debut at the top. The singer, daughter of Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick, began her singing career at age 11 with the New Hope Baptist Junior Choir in New Jersey. Houston first worked as a backup vocalist for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls; entered modeling in 1981, appearing in Glamour magazine and on the cover of Seventeen. Whitney married soul singer, Bobby Brown, in the late 1980s.

1991 - “I’m very pleased to welcome to the White House the newly-elected President of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin,” said (41st) U.S. President George Bush (George I), greeting Yeltsin in the Rose Garden. “We will be interested in his views on the critical issues confronting the U.S.S.R. and its place in the world.”

1993 - The Chicago Bulls won their third consecutive title with a 99-98 victory over the Phoenix Suns in game 6 of the NBA finals. Michael Jordan was named MVP -- the first player to be named most valuable player of the National Basketball Association finals three years in a row.

1996 - Westinghouse Electric agreed to buy Infinity Broadcasting for $3.9 billion, a move that would combine the two biggest players in radio. That was just the beginning, as they say, of the gobbling up of American radio by corporate America. Congress had passed the Telecommunications Act in February 1996 permitting expansion of TV and radio station holdings, and removing restrictions on how many stations could be owned by one entity (huge corporation) in one market (your town/city).

1999 - Payne Stewart made a 15-foot par putt on the 18th hole at famous Pinehurst Resort & Country Club's No. 2 course in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The putt was just enough to win the U.S. Open by one stroke over Phil Mickelson. Stewart, one stroke behind with three holes to play -- and apparently heading for a play-off round the next day -- made a 25-foot putt for par to catch Mickelson, a 3-foot birdie putt on No. 17 to take the lead, and then his 24th putt of the day to win the championship.

1999 - (42nd) U.S. President Bill Clinton was pleased that Yugoslav troops were withdrawing from Kosovo. As NATO declared a formal end to its 11-week bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, Clinton said, “It’s a very happy day.”

Birthdays
June 20th.

1858 - Charles Chesnutt
novelist: The Conjure Woman, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, The Colonel’s Dream; died in 1932

1909 - Errol (Leslie Thomson) Flynn
actor: Captain Blood, In the Wake of the Bounty, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Too Much Too Soon; autobiography: My Wicked, Wicked Ways; died Oct 14, 1959

1921 - (Francisco Olegario) Pancho Segura
International Tennis Hall of Famer: Univ of Miami: U.S. Intercollegiate [1943, 1944 and 1945]; Grand Slam record: U.S. Doubles finalist [1944], mixed finalist [1943, 1947; writer: Pancho Segura’s Championship Strategy: How To Play Winning Tennis

1924 - Chet (Chester Burton) Atkins
Grammy Award-winning guitarist: made over 100 albums; elected to Country Music Hall of Fame [1973]; died June 30, 2001

1924 - Audie Murphy
American hero: most decorated GI of WWII [27 US decorations including Medal of Honor plus 5 decorations from France and Belgium]; actor: The Red Badge of Courage, The Unforgiven, Arizona Raiders, To Hell and Back; killed in plane crash May 28, 1971

1931 - Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award-winning actress: Moonstruck [1987]; Steel Magnolias, Working Girl, The Cemetery Club, Death Wish, Look Who’s Talking; cousin of U.S. presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis

1931 - Martin Landau
Academy Award-winning supporting actor: Ed Wood [1994]; Mission Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams, By Dawn’s Early Light, Mistress, North by Northwest, Pork Chop Hill

1931 - James Tolkan
actor: Dick Tracy, Back to the Future, Serpico, Mary, The Hat Squad, Cobra

1933 - Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis Aiello, Jr.)
actor: Lady Blue, Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing, Ruby, Mistress, Me and the Kid, The Cemetery Club, The Pickle, The Godfather Part 2, Fort Apache, The Bronx, Harlem Nights, Dellaventura

1933 - Brett Halsey
actor: Black Cat, Dangerous Obsession, Twice-Told Tales, Return to Peyton Place, The Crash of Flight 401

1934 - Rossana Podesta
actress: The Sensual Man, Sodom and Gomorrah

1935 - Len Dawson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback; sportscaster

1936 - Billy Guy
singer: group: The Coasters: Down in Mexico, Searchin’, Young Blood, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown, Along Came Jones, Poison Ivy, Little Egypt; died Nov 5, 2002

1937 - Jerry Keller
singer: Here Comes Summer

1940 - John Mahoney
actor: Frasier, Cheers, The Human Factor, Primal Fear, In the Line of Fire, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ten Million Dollar Getaway, Love Hurts, The Russia House, Tin Men, Moonstruck, The Manhattan Project

1942 - Brian Wilson
bass player, singer: group: The Beach Boys: 35 hits: I Get Around, Good Vibrations, Help Me, Rhonda, Surfin’ USA; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1988]

1943 - Andy (Andrew Auguste) Etchebarren
baseball: catcher: Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971/all-star: 1966, 1967], California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers

1944 - Dave (David Earl) Nelson
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Texas Rangers [all-star: 1973], KC Royals

1945 - (Morna) Anne Murray
Grammy Award-winning singer: Love Song [1974], You Needed Me [1978], Could I Have This Dance [1980], A Little Good News [1983]; Danny’s Song, Snowbird, You Won’t See Me, He Thinks I Still Care, Shadows In the Moonlight; TV: Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

1945 - Dave Rowe
football: Oakland Raiders defensive tackle: Super Bowl XI

1946 - Bob Vila
TV host/fixer-upper: This Old House, Home Again with Bob Vila; Sears super salesman

1946 - Andre Watts
1946 - Andre Watts (musician: classical pianist: Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

1947 - Candy Clark
actress: American Graffiti, Handle with Care, The Big Sleep, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, Johnny Belinda, Blue Thunder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Radioland Murders, Niagara, Niagara

1949 - Dave Elmendorf
football: LA Rams safety: Super Bowl XIV

1949 - Lionel Richie
musician: tenor sax, songwriter, singer: group: Commodores: ASCAP Nashville Country Songwriter Award: Three Times a Lady [1978]; solo: Truly, All Night Long [All Night], Hello, Say You Say Me

1949 - Dave Thomas
comedian, actor: Coneheads, Cold Sweat, Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird, Stripes, Second City TV, The New Show, Grace Under Fire; TV host: The Dave Thomas Comedy Show

1952 - John Goodman
actor: Roseanne, The Flintstones, The Babe, King Ralph, Born Yesterday, Matinee, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Blues Brothers 2000, What Planet Are You From?, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

1953 - Alan Longmuir
musician: bass: group: Bay City Rollers: Keep on Dancing, Bye Bye Baby, Give Me a Little Love, Saturday Night

1953 - Raul Ramirez
tennis: champ: Italian Open [1975]

1954 - Michael Anthony
musician: bass: group: Van Halen: Dance the Night Away, [Oh] Pretty Woman, Runnin’ with the Devil, Jump, I’ll Wait, Panama

1958 - Dickie (Richard William) Thon
baseball: California Angels, Houston Astros [all-star: 1983], SD Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers

1960 - Doug (Douglas Wayne) Gwosdz
‘Eye Chart’: baseball: catcher: SD Padres

1960 - John Taylor
musician: guitar, bass: group: Duran Duran: Planet Earth, Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, Rio, Is There Something I Should Know, Union of the Snake, Wild Boys

1961 - Gary Varsho
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates [NL champs [1991, 1992], Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies

1964 - Michael Landon Jr.
actor: Bonanza: The Return, Bonanza: The Ghosts

1967 - Nicole (Mary) Kidman
Academy Award-winning actress [The Hours (2003)];: Days of Thunder, Far and Away, Malice, Batman Forever, Billy Bathgate, The Portrait of a Lady, Eyes Wide Shut, Practical Magic, Moulin Rouge

1969 - MaliVai Washington
tennis: champ: Federal Express international [1992]; grand slam final: Wimbledon [1996]; created Mal Washington Kids Foundation

1972 - Jozef Stumpel
hockey: NHL: center: Boston Bruins, LA Kings.

Chart Toppers
June 20th.

1947 Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
Linda - Buddy Clark with the Ray Noble Orchestra
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold

1955 Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie - Somethin’ Smith & The Redheads
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

1963 Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
You Can’t Sit Down - The Dovells
Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton
Act Naturally - Buck Owens

1971 It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Rainy Days and Mondays - Carpenters
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed

1979 Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
We are Family - Sister Sledge
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
She Believes in Me - Kenny Rogers

1987 Head to Toe - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis


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Saturday, June 21, 2008
BANJO LESSON DAY.

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His subject matter pictured life of blacks in the U.S. South during the 1880s. He, too, was black, and probably one of the first black artists to be exhibited in galleries throughout the U.S. This, however, is not what made Henry Ossawa Tanner famous. Rather, it was just his sheer talent.

Tanner was born on this day in 1859 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied painting under the noted artist Thomas Eakins while attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. It was Eakins who encouraged the young Tanner to paint professionally.

Several years later, in 1891, Henry Tanner moved to Europe to escape racial prejudice. He settled in Paris where he continued his studies and turned to painting pictures with religious themes. His art with its glowing, warm colors and dramatic light and dark contrasts was influenced greatly by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. Still, it was his early work like The Banjo Lesson that is best known.

Tanner died in the city he came to love and call his own, Paris. His work lives on in the United States, having been displayed in galleries in Louisville to New Orleans, from Chicago to New York City.

The Banjo Lesson, an oil painting on canvas, hangs in the Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.
More here, (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/tanner.html) here, (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tanner_henry_ossawa.html) and here. (http://museum.hamptonu.edu/collections.cfm)

Events
June 21st.

1788 - The colony of New Hampshire became the ninth state to enter the United States of America. It had been a long time coming. For 38 years, the fishing colony, first settled in 1623, and named in 1630 by Captain John Mason after his Hampshire, England home, was a part of the Massachusetts colony. Then, in 1679 it became a separate royal colony. Concord, the capital of the Granite State, was also central to much of the Revolutionary War. The official state bird is the purple finch, and has a matching state flower, the purple lilac.

1834 - Cyrus McCormick patented the first practical reaper for farming.

1859 - Andrew Lanergan of Boston, MA received the first rocket patent. Did the receipt of this patent make Mr. Lanergan of Boston the first rocket scientist?

1880 - Paddy Ryan won the world heavyweight boxing title by beating up Joe Goss in -- are you ready? -- the 87th round, near Colliers Station, West Virginia.

1913 - Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to jump from an airplane -- over Los Angeles, CA. Fortunately for her, Georgia made the leap with a parachute securely fastened to her person...

1940 - Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan this day.

1941 - Wayne King and his orchestra recorded Time Was, with Buddy Clark providing the vocal accompaniment, for Victor Records.

1942 - Ben Hogan recorded the lowest score (to that time) in a major golf tournament. Hogan shot a 271 for 72 holes in Chicago, IL.

1948 - For those of us who have a garage full of those 12-inch round, black disks protected by flimsy cardboard covers, this note: Columbia Records announced that it was offering a new Vinylite long-playing record that could hold 23 minutes of music on each side. One of the first LPs produced was of the original cast of the Broadway show, South Pacific. Critics quickly scoffed at the notion of LPs, since those heavy, breakable, 78 RPM, 10-inch disks with one song on each side, were selling at an all-time high. It didn’t take very long though, for the 33-1/3 RPM album -- and its 7-inch, 45 RPM cousin to revolutionize the music industry and the record buying habits of millions.

1954 - NBC radio presented the final broadcast of The Railroad Hour, hosted by Gordon MacRae. The program had been on the air for almost six years.

1958 - Splish Splash, Bobby Darin’s first million-seller, was released by Atco Records. The song, written by Darin and Jean Murray, was Atco single #6117, recorded Apr 10, 1958.

1964 - Jim Bunning (later to become a U.S. Senator from Kentucky), a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, threw the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years, leading the Phils to a 6-0 win over the New York Mets. Bunning worked his magic in the first game of a Father’s Day doubleheader. Byrum Saam called the play-by-play on radio. In the second game of the twin-bill, 18-year-old Rick Wise won his first major-league game, 8-2, as the Phillies swept the Mets that summer day. (Bunning was also the first hurler in 61 years to get a no-hitter in both leagues.)

1965 - Gary Player won the U.S. Open golf tournament to become only the fourth winner to earn all four top pro golf titles. Player from South Africa was the first non-American to achieve the feat. The Grand Slam of golf, incidentally, includes the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the PGA Championship. The other professional golfers who have won all four events are Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, and Gene Sarazen.

1970 - Tony Jacklin was the second British golfer in 50 years to win the U.S. Open golf tournament.

1972 - Billy Preston received a gold record for the instrumental hit, Outa-Space. Preston, who played for gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, back in 1956, was also in the film St. Louis Blues as a piano player. He was a regular on the Shindig TV show in the 1960s; and recorded with The Beatles on the hits Get Back and Let It Be. Preston also performed at The Concert for Bangladesh in 1969. Many well-known artists utilized his keyboard talents, including Sly & The Family Stone and the Rolling Stones.

1985 - Ray Miller replaced Billy Gardner as manager of the Minnesota Twins. Miller became the fourth new manager to unpack his suitcase in the American League since the season started, two months previous.

1985 - Ron Howard directed his first music video. The TV star of The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days also directed the film Cocoon, which included Gravity, the song used in the video. Michael Sembello, a guitarist who played on Stevie Wonder’s hits between 1974 and 1979 was responsible for Gravity.

1989 - The U.S. Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson ruled that burning the American flag as a political protest is protected by the First Amendment. In 1984, on Dallas City Hall property, Gregory Lee Johnson burned an American flag to protest Reagan administration policies. He was tried and convicted (one year in jail and $2,000 fine) under a Texas law outlawing flag desecration. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals had reversed the conviction and the state then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-to-4 against the Texas law.

1992 - Tom Kite fought fellow golfers and the elements as he won the U.S. Open. Scoring records had given way to survival at Pebble Beach, California. Howling winds made the greens as hard as concrete. Kite's final-round even-par score of 72 was enough to give him a two-stroke victory over Jeff Sluman.

1995 - Microsoft and Netscape officials met at Netscape headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Notes taken by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen indicate that Microsoft offered to buy a share of its rival if Netscape would stop making Navigator for the Windows market. The Andreessen notes would be used later in the U.S. government’s massive antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft founder Bill Gates was painted as the master string-puller in a no-holds-barred plan to destroy Netscape Communications Corp. when it refused to collaborate on a plot to divide the market for Internet browser software.)

1997 - The New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks, 67-57, in the innaugural WNBA game before a sold-out crowd of 14,284 fans at the Great Western Forum. In other opening-day action: The Houston Comets beat Cleveland, 76-56, and the Sacramento Monarchs beat the Utah Starzz, 70-60. We’ll be right back with the weather...

1999 - America Online announced its investment of $1.5 billion in DirecTV creator Hughes Electronics Corp. The agreement gave AOL new high-speed options and expanded ties between the world’s largest Internet provider and the leading U.S. satellite TV service. A combination of AOL’s Internet services and Hughes ’ digital TV system would help increase DirecTV’s subscriber base while boosting the market for AOL’s interactive TV and high-speed Internet services.

1999 - Prince William, the ‘people’s prince’, turned 17. Princess Diana’s handsome eldest son was given a VW Golf by his dad, Prince Charles. This was the second birthday William had spent without his mother, who was killed in a car crash in August 1997.

Birthdays
June 21st.

1731 - Martha Washington (Dandridge Custis)
first First Lady of the U.S., wife of 1st U.S. President George Washington; made a mean cherry pie, we hear; died May 22, 1802

1853 - The envelope folding machine was patented by Dr. Russell L. Hawes of Worcester, MA.

1859 - Henry Tanner
artist; died May 25, 1937; see Banjo Lesson Day [above]

1903 - Al Hirschfeld
caricaturist: hid name of his daughter, Nina, in each of his drawings; died Jan 20, 2003

1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre
philosopher, writer: Being and Nothingness; playwright: No Exit, The Flies, The Age of Reason; rejected Nobel Prize for literature [1964]; died Apr 15, 1980

1906 - Randy (Randolph Edward) Moore
baseball: Chicago White Sox, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, SL Cardinals; died June 12, 1992

1918 - Ed (Edmund Walter) Lopat (Lopatynski)
baseball: pitcher: Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees [World Series: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953/all-star: 1951], Baltimore Orioles; died June 15, 1992

1921 - Judy Holliday (Tuvim)
actress: Adam’s Rib, Bells are Ringing, Born Yesterday, It Should Happen to You; died June 7, 1965

1921 - Jane (Ernestine) Russell
actress: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Outlaw, Paleface, The Road to Bali; activist for homeless children

1925 - Maureen Stapleton
Academy Award-winning actress: Reds [1981]; A View from the Bridge, Bye, Bye Birdie, Cocoon: The Return; theatre at Hudson Valley Community College named for her; died Mar 13, 2006

1927 - Carl Stokes
politician: first black elected mayor of a major city: Cleveland [1967, 1969]; Cleveland Municipal Court Judge; died Apr 3, 1996

1929 - Helen Merrill (Jelena Ana Milcetic)
jazz singer: LPs: Helen Merrill, Brownie, Clear Out of This World, Dream of You; Swing Journal readers’ poll: Best American Jazz Singer [1989]

1932 - O.C. (Ocie Lee) Smith
singer: Little Green Apples, Daddy’s Little Man, Lighthouse, Slow Walk, The Son of Hickory Holler’s Tramp; vocalist for Count Basie Orchestra

1933 - Bernie Kopell
actor: Get Smart, The Love Boat, Love American Style, When Things were Rotten, Combat High, Sunset Beach, Bug Buster

1935 - Monte Markham
actor: The Second Hundred Years, Baywatch, Rituals, Dallas, Perry Mason, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, At First Sight, Judgment Day, Hotline, Guns of the Magnificent Seven

1935 - Françoise Sagan (Quoirez)
author: Aimez-Vous Brahms, Bonjour Tristesse, Evasion, A Certain Smile; died Sep 24, 2004

1938 - Ron Ely (Ronald Pierce)
actor: Tarzan, Slavers, Doc Savage; host: Miss America Pageant

1940 - Mariette Hartley
actress: Encino Man, Silence of the Heart, Improper Channels; TV hostess; commercials: Polaroid

1941 - Joe Flaherty
Emmy Award-winning writer: SCTV Network 90 [1983]; actor: Second City TV, Maniac Mansion. Happy Gilmore, A Pig’s Tale, Who’s Harry Crumb, Back to the Future, Part 2, Speed Zone, Stripes, Used Cars, Tunnelvision

1943 - Brian Sternberg
pole-vaulter: Univ. of Washington: world pole vault record [16’-7": 1963]

1944 - Ray Davies
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: group: The Kinks: You Really Got Me, All Day & All of the Night, Tired of Waiting, A Well Respected Man, Sunny Afternoon, Lola

1945 - Chris Britton
musician: guitar: group: The Troggs: Wild Thing, Any Way that You Want Me, Give It to Me, Night of the Long Grass, Little Girl

1947 - Meredith Baxter
actress: Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie, Til Murder Do Us Part

1947 - Michael Gross
actor: Family Ties, Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland, In the Heat of Passion 2: Unfaithful

1947 - Duane Thomas
football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl V, VI

1947 - Wade Phillips
football: coach: Denver Broncos

1948 - Joey Molland
musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: groups: Natural Gas, Badfinger: Day After Day, No Matter What, Baby Blue

1950 - Joey Kramer
musician: drums: group: Aerosmith: LPs: Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Draw the Line, Night in the Ruts

1951 - Nils Lofgren
musician: guitar, keyboards, singer, songwriter: Back It Up, Keith Don’t Go [Ode to the Glimmer Twin], Beggars Day, No Mercy, Secrets in the Street, Delivery Night; groups: Grin, E Street Band

1954 - Robert Pastorelli
actor: I Married a Centerfold, Beverly Hills Cop II, Murphy Brown, Dances with Wolves, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Striking Distance, Eraser, South Pacific [2001]

1956 - Rick (Richard Lee) Sutcliffe
baseball: pitcher: LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs [Cy Young Award-winner: 1984], Baltimore Orioles, SL Cardinals

1957 - Berkeley Breathed
cartoonist: Bloom County, Outland

1957 - Mark Brzezicki
musician: drums: group: Big Country: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose is Sown

1958 - Eric Douglas
actor: The Flamingo Kid, Delta Force 3: The Killing Game; died July 6, 2004

1959 - Tom Chambers
basketball: University of Utah, San Diego Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz; 20th player in NBA history to score 20,000 career points

1964 - Sammi Davis-Voss
actress: The Lair of the White Worm, Hope and Glory, Homefront

1964 - Doug Savant
actor: Melrose Place, Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence, Shaking the Tree, Red Surf, Masquerade, Godzilla [1998]

1967 - Derrick Coleman
basketball: Syracuse Univ, Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets

1973 - Juliette Lewis
actress: Cape Fear, Husbands and Wives, Natural Born Killers, Romeo is Bleeding, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, My Stepmother is an Alien, Too Young to Die, I Married Dora

1982 - Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor)
Prince William of Wales: first future king of England born in a hospital, first to wear disposable diapers, first to attend nursery school; son of England’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

[ShadowThomas]

Chart Toppers
June 21st.

1948Nature Boy - Nat King Cole
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold

1956 The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964 Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups
A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972 The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Nice to Be with You - Gallery
The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. - Donna Fargo

1980 Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
One Day at a Time - Cristy Lane

1988 Together Forever - Rick Astley
Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
I Told You So - Randy Travis


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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174th day of 2008 - 192 remaining.

Sunday, June 22, 2008
BROWN BOMBER DAY.
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On this night in 1937 Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, knocked out James J. Braddock in a boxing match in Chicago, Illinois. The bout lasted eight rounds and Louis was announced as the world heavyweight boxing champion. Exactly one year later, on this day in 1938, Joe Louis knocked out Germany’s Max Schmeling in the first round, in a bout at Yankee Stadium.

Joe Louis retained the world heavyweight boxing crown until he announced his retirement on March 1, 1949. That’s a total of 11 years, 8 months and 7 days ... and 30 matches to retain the title.

The International Boxing Hall of Famer’s first fight was at a boxing club where he fought for $7 worth of food. The Brown Bomber was knocked down seven times in two rounds and, even though he won, he swore he would never fight again. That was just five years before he became the champ!
More reading on this here, (http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016109.html) here, (http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/louis/index.php) here, (http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=52&CFID=20742509&CFTOKEN=38575420) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Louis) and here. (http://www.ibhof.com/jlouis.htm)


Events
June 22nd.


1807 - The crew of the British man-of-war Leopard fired upon and boarded the U.S. frigate Chesapeake. James Barron, the commander of the Chesapeake was convicted following a court-martial. The reason for the court-martial: Barron was not prepared for action. This incident, along with a few others, led to the War of 1812. A little side fact: Stephen Decatur, a judge in the court-martial, was killed in a duel some eight years after the war. The winner of the duel was James Barron.

1832 - J.I. Howe patented the pin-making machine, better known as a pinmaker.

1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.

1939 - The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.

1939 - Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell joined in song to perform An Apple for the Teacher, on Decca Records.

1942 - V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time. V-Mail used a special paper for letter writing during WWII. It was designed to reduce cargo space taken up by mail sent to and from members of the armed services. The letters written on this special paper were opened at the post office, censored and reduced in size by photography. One roll of film contained 1,500 letters.

1952 - The U.S. Olympic Fund increased by $1,000,000, thanks to a nationwide, 14-1/2 hour telethon that starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

1959 - Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes -- two back-to-back perfect games -- in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.

1959 - The Battle of New Orleans, by Johnny Horton, started week number four at the top of the nation’s music Tunedex. The song was number one for a total of six weeks. It was Horton’s only number one record and million-seller. He had big hits, however, with movie music: Sink the Bismarck and North to Alaska (from the film by the same title, starring John Wayne) -- both in 1960. Horton, from Tyler, TX, married Billie Jean Jones, Hank Williams’ widow. Tragically, Johnny Horton was killed in a car crash on November 5, 1960.

1963 - Fingertips - Pt 2, by Little Stevie Wonder, was released. It became Wonder’s first number one single on August 10th. Wonder had 46 hits on the pop and R&B music charts between 1963 and 1987. Eight of those hits made it to number one.

1964 - The United States Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s controversial book, Tropic of Cancer, could not be banned.

1964 - Barbra Joan Streisand signed a 10-year contract with CBS-TV worth about $200,000 a year. Both CBS and NBC had been bidding for Streisand’s talents.

1968 - Herb Alpert used his voice and his trumpet to run to the top of the pop music charts. This Guy’s in Love with You became the most popular song in the nation this day. It would rule the top of the pop music world for four weeks. It was the only vocal by Alpert to make the charts, though his solo instrumentals with The Tijuana Brass scored lots of hits. Alpert performed on 19 charted hits through 1987.

1970 - Mike Dann resigned as senior vice-president of CBS to join the Children’s Television Workshop, the Sesame Street people. Dann became the first major commercial TV industry leader to join forces with a non-commercial operation such as the CTW. As part of his deal, Dann was able to remove the letters A, B, C, N and S from the alphabet, doing what he couldn’t do at CBS: eliminate ABC and NBC.

1985 - People magazine had an interesting story in the week’s issue. It took a death count in Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo flick, finding that there were 44 people killed directly. The wizards at People figured out that this was an average of one body biting the Rambo dust every 2.1 minutes. There were also 70 explosions that killed an undetermined number of people, according to the magazine.

1989 - Batman, the movie, opened in U.S. theatres. Michael Keaton plays the big guy (Batman) and Batman’s real-life self, Bruce Wayne. Jack Nicholson is at his evil best as the Joker aka former crime enforcer Jack Napier. And Kim Basinger is Vicky Vale, photo journalist on a quest to unmask the batman person. Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance and an all-star cast made this first Batman flick a hit. It did $42.71 million at the box office the first weekend.

1990 - The last-place Atlanta Braves fired manager Russ Nixon and replaced him with GM Bobby Cox, who last managed Toronto in 1985. Good move. Cox led the Braves to a dramatic worst-to-first turnaround, the first of its kind in the National League. In the World Series his team lost to the (also) resurgent Minnesota Twins. Cox was name AP Manager of the Year (the first manager to be so named in both leagues). The Braves followed 1991 with NL East championships in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, and 1997, becoming the first team to win division titles in six straight completed seasons. Those division titles also let to NL pennants, except for 1993 and 1997.

1992 - CBS This Morning co-host Paula Zahn announced, “Making headlines this morning: Bill Clinton comes up with a plan for the economy. Tax the rich, cut the deficit, and help just about everyone else.” Very similar to the Robin Hood system, wasn’t it?

1998 - CompUSA announced that it was buying Computer City from Tandy for $275 million. Tandy was selling the sickly chain as part of a turnaround it had started the previous year. Tandy president Leonard Roberts said, “Computer City was a losing operation for the company. The sale will allow us to completely focus on Radio Shack at a time when profits are at an all-time high.”

Birthdays
June 22nd.


1903 - ‘King’ Carl (Owen) Hubbell
‘The Meal Ticket’: baseball: pitcher: NY Giants [World Series: 1933, 1936, 1937/all-star: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1933/won 24 games in a row over two seasons: 1936-37]; died Nov 21, 1988

1906 - Billy (Samuel) Wilder
Academy Award-winning director: The Apartment [1960], The Lost Weekend [1945]; Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot, Sabrina, Irma La Douce, The Front Page, Buddy, Buddy; died Mar 27, 2002

1907 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
aviator, author: Gift from the Sea; married to Charles; mother of kidnapped Charles Jr.; died Feb 7, 2001

1909 - Michael Todd (Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen)
producer: Oklahoma!, Around the World in 80 Days; developed [w/American Optical Company] Todd-AO system using 65mm cine cameras at 30 fps and wide angle photgraphy [approx 150 degrees]; husband of Elizabeth Taylor; killed in plane crash Mar 22, 1958

1921 - Gower Champion
Tony Award-winning choreographer: 42nd Street [1981], The Happy Time [1968], Hello Dolly! [1964], Bye-Bye Birdie [1961], Lend an Ear [1949]; actor, dancer: Lovely to Look At, Show Boat, Mr. Music; died Aug 25, 1980

1921 - Joseph Papp (Papirofsky)
Pulitzer Prize-winning [3] producer; also winner of 28 Tony awards and 6 New York Critics Circle Awards; over 400 productions including: Hair, A Chorus Line, Two Gentlemen of Verona, That Championship Season; died Oct 31, 1991

1922 - Bill Blass
fashion designer

1928 - Ralph Waite
actor: The Waltons, Roots, Cliffhanger, The Bodyguard, Cool Hand Luke, Five Easy Pieces

1930 - Roy Drusky
DJ, songwriter: Alone with You, Country Girl, Anymore; singer: Three Hearts in a Tangle, Peel Me a Nanner, Another, Yes Mr. Peters [w/Priscilla Mitchell]; films: The Golden Guitar, Forty-Acre Feud

1933 - Diane Feinstein (Goldman)
politician: U.S. Senator from California

1934 - Russ (Russell Henry) Snyder
baseball: KC Athletics, Baltimore Orioles [World Series: 1966], Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Milwaukee Brewers

1936 - Kris Kristofferson
songwriter: Me & Bobby McGee, For the Good Times, Help Me Make It Through the Night; singer: Loving Her was Easier, Why Me; actor: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, A Star is Born, Semi-Tough, Fire Down Below, Dance with Me, Limbo, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

1941 - Ed Bradley
news correspondent: 60 Minutes; host: Street Stories; died Nov 9, 2006

1941 - Michael Lerner
actor: Radioland Murders, Omen 4: The Awakening, Barton Fink, Eight Men Out, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Candidate

1941 - Barry Serafin
news reporter: ABC News

1944 - Peter Asher
singer: group: Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love, I Go To Pieces, True Love Ways, Lady Godiva, Sunday for Tea; record producer

1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer
actor: The Russia House, Quo Vadis, Out of Africa, Kindergarten, Never Say Never Again, The Salzburg Connection

1947 - Bobby Douglass
football: Chicago Bears QB: record: most yards rushing by a quarterback in a season [968 yards in 1972]

1947 - Howard Kaylan (Kaplan)
singer: group: The Turtles: Happy Together, She’d Rather Be with Me, Elenore, You Showed Me; duo: Flo & Eddie: back-up for: Bruce Springsteen, The Knack, etc.

1948 - ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich
basketball: New Orleans Jazz; NCAA Div. I Individual Record: total points scored [1,381], field goal points [522] in a season [1970]: Louisiana State; died Jan 5, 1988 [heart attack]

1948 - Todd Rundgren
singer: We Gotta Get You a Woman, I Saw the Light, Hello It’s Me, Can We Still Be Friends; groups: Nazz, Utopia; producer: Meat Loaf, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad

1949 - Alan Osmond
singer: group: The Osmonds/The Osmond Brothers: One Bad Apple, Any Time, Merrill and Jessica, You’re Here to Remember, I’m Here to Forget

1949 - Meryl (Mary Louise) Streep
Academy Award-winning actress: Sophie’s Choice [1982], [supporting actress] Kramer vs. Kramer [1979]; Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, Death Becomes Her, Bridges of Madison County, The River Wild, Music of the Heart

1949 - Lindsay Wagner
actress: The Bionic Woman, The Paper Chase, Fire in the Dark, Nurses on the Line, The Second Wind

1953 - Cyndi Lauper (Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper)
Grammy Award-winning singer [1984]: Girls Just Want to Have Fun; Time After Time, True Colors; actress: Mad About You, Life with Mikey

1954 - Freddie Prinze (Preutzel)
comedian, actor: Chico and the Man; died Jan 29, 1977

1956 - Green Gartside
singer: group: Scritti Politti: LPs: Anomie & Bonhomie, Cupid & Psyche 85, Provision, Songs To Remember

1957 - Gary Beers
musician: bass, singer: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Melting in the Sun, This Time

1958 - Bruce Campbell
actor: The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., Tornado!, The Hudsucker Proxy, Army of Darkness, Sundown, Maniac Cop series, Evil Dead series

1960 - Tracy (Jo) Pollan
actress: Family Ties, A Stranger Among Us; married to actor Michael J. Fox

1961 - Jimmy Somerville
musician: keyboards, singer: groups: The Committee, Communards: You are My World, Don’t Leave Me This Way; Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy, Why, It Ain’t Necessarily So, I Feel Love

1962 - Clyde Drexler
‘The Glide’: basketball: Univ of Houston [1980s Phi Slamma Jamma team], Portland Trailblazers, Houston Rockets

1964 - Amy Brenneman
actress: Judging Amy, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Middle Ages, Fear, Heat, Casper, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

1964 - Tommy Cunningham
musician: drums: group: Wet Wet Wet: Angel Eyes [Home And Away], Somewhere Somehow, Wishing I Was Lucky

1968 - Darrell Armstrong
basketball [guard]: Fayetteville State Univ; NBA: Orlando Magic, NO Hornets, Mavericks.

Chart Toppers
June 22nd.

1949 Again - Gordon Jenkins
Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957 Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
I Like Your Kind of Love - Andy Williams
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965 I Can’t Help Myself - The Four Tops
Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
For Your Love - The Yardbirds
Ribbon of Darkness - Marty Robbins

1973 My Love - Paul McCartney & Wings
Playground in My Mind - Clint Holmes
I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
Kids Say the Darndest Things - Tammy Wynette

1981 Stars on 45 medley - Stars on 45
Sukiyaki - A Taste of Honey
A Woman Needs Love (Just like You Do) - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
But You Know I Love You - Dolly Parton

1989 I’ll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Satisfied - Richard Marx
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Love Out Loud - Earl Thomas Conley


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Monday, June 23, 2008
TIKI TIKI TIKI TIKI TIKI DAY.

How lucky we all are that Walt Disney changed his mind, and instead of opening the Bird Cafe, a Chinese restaurant with an animated, talking Chinese elder spouting Confucius-type bits of wisdom, he created the Enchanted Tiki Room. On this day in 1963, the sounds of Polynesian drums heraldedthe opening of Disneyland’s first Audio-Animatronic attraction.

If you’ve never been inside the Enchanted Tiki Room, where all the birds sing words and the flowers croon, you are in for a refreshingly innocent 15 (used to be 18) minutes of entertainment. If you’ve experienced this Disney delight, you’ll most likely agree that, after all the thrills and chills of other attractions, the Enchanted Tiki Room is the perfect place to chill out (literally, it’s air-conditioned) and let the Tiki gods take over.

In the tropical garden outside the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Tiki gods and goddesses, Maui, Koro, Tangaroa-Ru, Hina Kuluna, Pele, Negendei, Rongo and Tongoroa set the mood, telling you of their South Sea legends.

The Enchanted Tiki Room entertainment troupe consists of 225 singing, talking birds, flowers, tiki gods and drummers. Emceeing the sit-down show (230+ guests) is the multi-colored Macaw parrot, José. José, speaking with a Spanish accent, brings the show to life, introducing his parrot comedic partners, Michael from Ireland, Pierre from France and Fritz from Germany. The South Seas show is appropriately sponsored by Dole Pineapple and is complete with tropical rain storm ... don’t worry ... you won’t get wet in the Enchanted Tiki Room (although some redesigning has been done and the Tiki gods in the garden now occasionally squirt water at unsuspecting guests).

Other new additions are Iago and Zazu, Disney’s feathered friends from Aladdin and The Lion King, respectively.

José doesn’t mind changes in the script and partnering with the new Audio-Animatronic additions. He loves to entertain, and says he’ll stay forever, as long as the Enchanted Tiki Room isn’t turned into a taco stand.

Our show is delightful. We hope you’ll agree.
We hope that it fills you with pleasure and glee.
Because if we don’t make you feel like that,
We’re gonna wind up on the lady’s hat.

In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room,
In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room,
All the birds sing words and the flowers croon,
In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room.
Click, (http://www.wdwinfo.com/wdwinfo/guides/magickingdom/adv-tiki.htm) click, (http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/attractions/detail?name=EnchantedTikiRoomAttractionPage&bhcp=1) click, (http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/disneyland/Secrets/Adventure/Tiki.html) click, (http://www.startedbyamouse.com/features/Details02.shtml) and here. (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1877/friendsoftiki.html)

Events
June 23rd.


1868 - Christopher L. Sholes of Wisconsin patented his type-writer. A Mr. Remington later turned it into a more practical typewriter. Christopher’s version was a little cumbersome. It was about as big as a desk. And it didn’t have any correcting ribbon. The writer didn’t need any since the huge type-writer hid the paper inside itself so one couldn’t see any typos until after the fact ... a lot like when you forget to use the spell-checker on your computer.

1904 - The first American motorboat race got underway on the Hudson River in New York.

1917 - The ‘Sultan of Swat’ did just that on this day ... he swatted an umpire! Babe Ruth punched an umpire with his fist after he was given the “Yer outta here, Bub!” in a baseball game between Boston and Washington. Ruth, pitching at the time, threw four pitches, all called balls by the home plate umpire. Ruth stomped off the pitcher’s mound to the plate and tongue-lashed Brick Owens with a volley of unmentionable cuss words. Ruth was ejected and fined $100. Here’s the rub. Ernie Shore came into the game and pitched what would have been the fourth perfect game in major-league baseball history as the Red Sox defeated Washington 4-0. In truth it was the only perfect game ever thrown by a relief pitcher. However, Shore came into the game with Ruth’s walk on first so the entire game was not perfect. The base runner was cut down stealing second. “How about that!”

1931 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off on a ’round-the-world airplane flight aboard the Winnie Mae.

1931 - A young couple, who unknowingly would become the royal family of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, married today. Anne Bledsoe and William ‘Bill’ Henry Getty France tied the knot. Together, they built NASCAR into the largest sactioning organization of auto racing in the world.

1933 - The Pepper Pot radio program welcomed a new host. Don McNeill took over the show and renamed it The Breakfast Club. The show, a huge success for the NBC Blue network and later, ABC radio, became one of the longest-running radio programs in history. The show aired with McNeill as host until December 27, 1968. The Breakfast Club was a morning show that had its share of corny jokes, visiting celebrities and lots of audience participation.

1938 - Marineland opened near St. Augustine, Florida.

1941 - Front Page Farrell was heard for the first time on Mutual radio. In 1942, the program moved to NBC radio and stayed on the air until 1954. Sally and David Farrell were the central characters. A young actor, who would become a major motion picture star, played the role of David Farrell. He was Richard Widmark.

1941 - Lena Horne recorded St. Louis Blues for Victor Records and launched an illustrious singing career in the process. She was 23 years old at the time. Horne continued performing well into her 60s.

1947 - Wendy Warren and the News debuted on CBS radio. The broadcasts continued until 1958. No, the program was not a newscast, in the traditional sense. It was a serial -- one of many of the time. The unique thing about this particular show, however, was that Wendy Warren and the News did utilize a real three-minute newscast to open the show. The newscaster, delivering the news as part of the show, chose not to stay in the entertainment side of radio, but continued to be a true journalist and a legend at CBS. That newsman was Douglas Edwards.

1956 - The thoroughbred Swaps ran the 1-1/16 mile track at Hollywood Park, Inglewood, CA, in a blistering 1 minute, 39 seconds, setting a world record for thoroughbred race horses.

1960 - Cleon Turner finally found an entrance to what would become known as Crystal Onyx Cave. Turner had been searching for the place for 30 years. He and a friend found a promising location on the side of Pruitt’s Knob (Kentucky) on this day. They had been digging and digging and digging. Finally, with the help of a little dynamite, they created the new entrance.

1961 - The Antarctic Treaty, signed by twelve nations in 1959, finally took effect on this day. The treaty guaranteed that the continent of Antarctica would be used for peaceful, scientific purposes only. The twelve original signers of the treaty were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since that time, 28 other nations have signed on to the pact.

1967 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. He was the first black to sit on that high court.

1985 - Golfer Arnold Palmer won his first victory of the year by setting a senior record. Palmer won the Senior Tournament Players Championship by 11 strokes.

1987 - The first celebrity cover girl to grace Cosmopolitan magazine since Elizabeth Taylor in 1969 was Madonna and she did it on this day.

1993 - Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband’s, uh, you know, with a butcher knife -- while he was sleeping. Police recovered the, uh, thingy, from the roadside where Lorena tossed it. It was surgically reattached to hubby John Wayne Bobbitt, who, by then, was wide awake. Lorena said that she chopped off John’s, uh, gizmo, because he had forced himself on her. We are certain there are lessons to be learned here, but where to start...

1995 - Los Angeles Raiders media release: “The Raiders organization has chosen to relocate to Oakland.” In a deju-vu-all-over-again kind of situation, Raiders owner Al Davis made the decision to take his team back to where it had come from. And the Raiders sued the NFL, claiming it forced the team to move by insisting that a second team be allowed to play at a new stadium Davis wanted to build at Hollywood Park in suburban Inglewood. Davis said the other team would have crippled his team financially when it came to selling luxury suites and building fan loyalty. He demanded more than $1 billion for the ‘right’ to the LA market and for compensation to his team for revenue to be lost because of the failed deal. Davis and the Raiders lost the suit on May 21, 2001. Kimberly Hamilton, forewoman of the 7-man, 5-woman jury said, “I think the key for me was that the Raiders did not have enough evidence to meet the burden of proof.” An NFL spokesman said, “The notion that the Raiders ‘own’ the Los Angeles market also was entirely unsupported by the evidence in this case. The Raiders abandoned Los Angeles when they returned to Oakland in 1995, just as they deserted Oakland in 1982 when they moved to the Los Angeles Coliseum.”

1996 - Michael Johnson beat the oldest world record in the books (Italy’s Pietro Mennea’s 19.72 had stood for 17 years). Johnson ran 200 meters in 19.66 seconds to rap up the Olympic Trials in Atlanta, Georgia.

1996 - Rusty Wallace ran out of gas while racing in the Miller 400 at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. Fortunately for Wallace, his tank ran dry after he had crossed the finish line to win the race.

1999 - Wayne Gretzky became the 10th and final player to have the 3-year waiting period waived by the Hockey Hall of Fame “by reason of outstanding pre-eminence and skill.” ‘The Great One’ had joined nine others by being inducted immediately after retiring (he retired April 18, 1999). Gretzky was the NHL’s all-time scoring leader with 2,857 points, 894 goals, and 1,963 assists with four teams (Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings, SL Blues, NY Rangers) in 20 seasons. Gretzky holds or shares 61 National Hockey League records: 40 for regular season, 15 for playoffs and six for all-star competition.

[ShadowThomas]

Birthdays
June 23rd.


1876 - Irvin S. (Shrewsbury) Cobb
humorist: Old Judge Priest, Those Times and These, A Laugh a Day; autobiography: Exit Laughing; died in 1944

1894 - Dr. Alfred Kinsey
sexual behavior researcher: The Kinsey Report, The Sexual Behavior in the Human Male; died Aug 25, 1956

1894 - Edward Patrick David
England’s Duke of Windsor/Edward VIII: only British monarch to voluntarily abdicate the throne; died May 28, 1972

1910 - Jean (-Marie-Lucien-Pierre) Anouilh
playwright: Becket, Antigone; died Oct 3, 1987

1910 - Lawson Little Jr.
golf: champ: US Amateur, British Amateur tourneys [1934, 1935], U.S. Open [1940]; died Feb 1, 1968

1910 - Edward P. Morgan
radio/TV reporter: ABC: Edward P. Morgan and the News; commentator: Ford Foundation-funded Public Broadcasting Laboratory: “Let’s face it, we in this trade use this power more frequently to fix a traffic ticket or get a ticket to a ballgame than to keep the doors of an open society open and swinging ... The freest and most profitable press in the world, every major facet of it, not only ducks but pulls its punches to save a supermarket of commercialism or shield an ugly prejudice and is putting the life of the republic in jeopardy thereby.”; died Jan 27, 1993

1916 - Irene Worth
Tony Award-winning actress: Sweet Bird of Youth [1976], Tiny Alice [1965]; Lost in Yonkers; died Mar 10, 2002

1918 - Gilbert Dodds
track: Sullivan Award-winner [1943]; AAU indoor mile champion [1942, 1944, 1947]; 1948 world record at Wanamaker Indoor Mile [4:05.3]; died Feb 3, 1977

1925 - Larry Blyden (Ivan Lawrence Blieden)
actor: Harry’s Girls; TV moderator: What’s My Line [1972-75]; died June 6, 1975

1927 - Bob (Robert Louis) Fosse
Oscar Award-winning director: Cabaret [1972]; Tony Award-winning choreographer: Big Deal [1986], Dancin’ [1978], Sweet Charity [1966], Little Me [1963], Bob Fosse [1959], Damn Yankees [1956], The Pajama Game [1955]; director/choreographer: Pippin [1973]; Emmy Award-winning director: Singer Presents Liza with a ‘Z’ [1972-73]; autobiographical film: All That Jazz; died Sep 23, 1987

1929 -
Grammy Award-winning country singer [w/husband, Johnny Cash]: Jackson, If I were a Carpenter; songwriter: Ring of Fire; died May 15, 2003

1930 - Walter Dukes
basketball: NCAA Div. I Individual Record Holder: season rebounds [734]: Seton Hall [1953]

1940 - Adam Faith (Terence Nelhams)
singer: Somebody Else’s Baby, How about That, Lonely Pup in a Christmas Shop, The Time Has Come; actor: Minder, Down an Alley Full of Cats, Stardust, Budgie, Mix Me a Person, Beat Girl; died Mar 8, 2003

1940 - Wilma Rudolph
Olympic Hall of Famer: Gold Medalist [3]: track & field sprints [1960]; died Nov 12, 1994

1943 - James Levine
conductor: Cleveland Orchestra, New York Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

1944 - Rosetta Hightower
singer: group: The Orlons: The Wah Watusi, Don’t Hang Up, South Street

1946 - Ted Shackelford
actor: Knots Landing, Dallas

1947 - Bryan Brown
actor: Breaker Morant, Full Body Massage, Blame It on the Bellboy, F/X series, Dead in the Water, Gorillas in the Mist, ****tail, A Town like Alice, The Thorn Birds, The Winter of Our Dreams, Palm Beach, The Irishman

1948 - Clarence Thomas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1952 - Marv Kellum
football: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker: Super Bowl IX, X

1957 - Frances McDormand
actress: Fargo, Blood Simple, Mississippi Burning, The Wonder Boys, Almost Famous

1959 - Duane Whitaker
actor: Pulp Fiction, Hobgoblins, Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter, Tales from the Hood, Within the Rock, Spoiler, Tempest Eye

1962 - Billy Wirth
actor: The Lost Boys, Body Snatchers, Venus Rising, Space Marines, Relax... It's Just Sex; producer: MacArthur Park

1972 - Selma Blair
actress: In & Out, Cruel Intentions, Kill Me Later, The Sweetest Thing.

Chart Toppers
June 23rd.


1950 My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
The Old Piano Roll Blues - Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley
I’ll Sail My Ship Alone - Moon Mullican

1958 All I Have to Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash

1966 Paint It, Black - The Rolling Stones
Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? - The Lovin’ Spoonful
Barefootin’ - Robert Parker
Take Good Care of Her - Sonny James

1974 Billy, Don’t Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
This Time - Waylon Jennings

1982 Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Slow Hand - Conway Twitty

1990 It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
Do You Remember? - Phil Collins
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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176th day of 2008 - 190 remaining.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
MILLION-DOLLAR DEAL DAY.

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On this day in 1916, the most lucrative movie contract to the time (and for a long time to come) was signed by actress Mary Pickford. She inked the first seven-figure Hollywood deal. Pickford would get $250,000 per film with a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 a week against half of the profits, including bonuses and the right of approval of all creative aspects of her films. It cost $1,040,000 and two years of movie making for Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures.

Mary Pickford was the subject of many Hollywood firsts other than this million-dollar deal. She was Hollywood’s first bankable name, commanding a star-status salary of $275 a week as early as 1911, and $500 a week in 1913 when producer B.P. Schulberg named her America’s sweetheart.

Her signature curls were the first film fashion fad. (After the million-dollar deal, she had more curls added by makeup artist George Westmore, who used hair from Big Suzy’s French Whorehouse’s ladies of the evening.)

Pickford starred in the first screen play (The New York Hat) written by now-famous playwright Anita Loos. And, along with Norma and Constance Talmadge and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary was the first to leave footprints in the cement fronting Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. She was also one of the first women in Hollywood to gain control over her own movies, forming her own production company, United Artists, with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. Mary Pickford sold her stock in United Artists in 1956.

America’s sweetheart won her first Oscar for Coquette [1928-29]. In 1975 she received a special Academy Award recognizing her legacy to the world of film.

Not a bad deal for the former vaudeville and stage actress, who once appeared on Broadway with Cecil B. DeMille in The Warrens of Virginia for a measly $25 a week.
More reading here, (http://www.marypickford.com/) and here. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681933/)

Events
June 24th.

1922 - The American Professional Football Association took on a new name. They decided to name themselves the National Football League.

1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.

1947 - Looking skyward this night, Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.

1948 - Berlin, Germany was completely isolated from the outside world. Joseph Stalin, premier of Soviet Russia, who had already cut rail and road access to the city three months earlier, now blocked all ground and water access and cut electricity to the Western sector. Within a few days, the great Berlin Airlift began. U.S. planes dropped up to 13,000 tons of goods per day - for the next 10 months -- until Stalin lifted the blockade on May 23, 1949.

1949 - The movie features of Hopalong Cassidy premiered on TV. The films were edited to thirty and sixty-minute versions starring William Boyd as Hopalong and Edgar Buchanan as his sidekick, Red Connors. Eventually, all 66 original films were shown on TV, so Boyd produced more Hopalong Cassidy episodes just for TV.

1952 - Eddie Arcaro set a thoroughbred racing record for American jockeys by winning his 3,000th horse race.

1953 - Al Kaline signed with the Detroit Tigers this day (following his graduation from high school). The future all-star of the Tigers was 18 years old.

1960 - The Romance of Helen Trent was heard for the last time on radio. Helen and her boy-toy, Gil Whitney, were about to be married, but the loving couple never made it to the altar -- just in case the show would ever be renewed. Helen Trent and her romance aired for 27 years -- a total of 7,222 episodes -- on the CBS radio network.

1962 - The New York Yankee’s longest extra-inning game (to that time) was played. The 22-inning contest went on and on and on and on. The NY Yankees finally edged the Detroit Tigers, 9-7.

1970 - Raquel Welch starred in the movie Myra Breckinridge, which premiered in New York City. Movie reviewers headed for the exits and gave the movie not only “thumbs down,” but “fists down.” Audiences, however, thought the movie was pretty nifty and made it a box office smash, despite the fact that critic Rex Reed was also featured in the film.

1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.

1972 - Baseball’s first woman umpire, Mrs. Bernice Gera, called the balls and strikes in her first game and resigned just a few hours after it was over.

1972 - I Am Woman, by Helen Reddy, was released by Capitol Records. The number one tune (December 9, 1972) became an anthem for the feminist movement. Reddy, from Australia, made her stage debut when she was only four years old. She had her own TV program in the early 1960s. Reddy came to New York in 1966 and has appeared in the films Airport 1975, Pete’s Dragon and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Reddy also had four million-sellers: I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) and Angie Baby. She had a total of 14 hits on the pop music charts.

1985 - The 1983 Heisman Trophy winner, Mike Rozier, jumped from the United States Football League to the Houston Oilers of the NFL. Rosier signed for more than two million dollars over a four-year period. That’s about the same as Mary Pickford’s deal in 1916.

1985 - The motion picture Cocoon, directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. Cocoon, which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out Rambo: First Blood, Part II starring Sylvester Stallone, in first-weekend receipts. Howard first became famous as a child star (Opie) on the Andy Griffith Show; and then later, as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days.

1985 - The wife of exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen. Natalia Solzhenitsyn celebrated in her new home in Rutland, Vermont.

1987 - ‘The Great One’, Jackie Gleason, died on this day, at the age of 71. Gleason was one of TV’s biggest stars in the 1950s and 1960s. He started on the DuMont Television Network, became a celebrated fixture on CBS-TV, and later, a movie star. He starred in honored films such as, Gigot and The Hustler. He also starred in Smokey and the Bandit. Jackie Gleason is best remembered from TV, however, as bus driver Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners, which still ranks as one of TV’s greatest sitcoms.

1992 - Portland, Oregon became the first city outside of New York to host the NBA (National Basketball Association) draft. At the Portland Memorial Coliseum, the first overall pick went to the Orlando Magic who picked 7'1" center Shaquille O’Neal of LSU.

1998 - AT&T announced that it was buying cable TV giant TCI for $31.7 billion. The deal let AT&T move closer to its goal of providing local phone and high speed Internet service to millions of U.S. homes. (The FCC approved the merger on Feb 18, 1999).

Birthdays
June 24th.

1895 - Jack (William Harrison) Dempsey
boxer: ‘The Manassa Mauler’: world heavyweight boxing champion [1919-1926]; NY restaurateur; died May 31, 1983

1901 - Chuck Taylor
basketball; Converse sneaker spokesperson [his name was/is on their high-top canvas basketball sneakers [“Chucks”: over 500 million pairs sold since 1917]; died June 23, 1969

1910 - Irving Kaufman
judge: First Amendment, civil rights, antitrust cases: U.S. vs. N.Y. Times, Taylor vs. Board of Education; sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage; died Feb 1, 1992

1912 - Norman Cousins
journalist: Anatomy of an Illness; died Nov 30, 1990

1916 - John Ciardi
poet: Homeward to America, Other Skies, Live Another Day, I Marry You, Lives of X; died Mar 30, 1986

1919 - Al Molinaro
actor: Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Odd Couple, The Family Man

1922 - Manny Albam
composer: Drum Suite, La Vie en Rose, Afro-Dizzyac, Country Man; music educator: Eastman School of Music

1923 - Jack Carter (Chakrin)
comedian, host: The Jack Carter Show, Cavalcade of Stars, American Minstrels of 1949

1930 - Claude Chabrol
director: La Femme Infidele, The Cousins, Madame Bovary

1931 - Billy Casper
golf champion: Masters [1970], U.S. Open [1959, 1966]; PGA Player of the Year [1966, 1968, 1970]

1933 - Sam Jones
Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: 10 championship teams; NBA Silver Anniversary Team [1971]; coach: Federal City College, North Carolina A&T U

1935 - Pete Hamill
journalist, syndicated columnist: New York Post; editor in chief: New York Daily News; writer: Piecework: Writings on Men and Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Friends, Small Pleasures, Large Calamities, and How the Weather Was, A Drinking Life

1935 - Ron Kramer
football: Green Bay Packers tight end: Associated Press All-Pro [1962]; College Football Hall of Famer

1942 - Mick Fleetwood
musician: drums: group: Fleetwood Mac: Dreams, Don’t Stop

1942 - Michele Lee (Dusick)
actress: Knots Landing, The Love Bug, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

1943 - Georg Stanford Brown
actor: Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Rookies; director: Alone in the Neon Jungle

1944 - Jeff Beck
musician: guitar: groups: The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers; car collector: classic Fords

1944 - Arthur Brown (Wilton)
singer: group: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: Fire; actor: Tommy

1944 - John ‘Charlie’ Whitney
musician: guitar: group: Family: Hung Up Down, The Weaver’s Answer, No Mule’s Fool, In My Own Time, Burlesque

1945 - Colin Blunstone aka Neil MacArthur
singer: solo: She’s Not There, I Don’t Believe in Miracles; group: The Zombies: Time of the Season

1946 - Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka
astronaut: mission specialist aboard ill-fated space shuttle Challenger [he was killed when shuttle exploded 1 minute 13 seconds after launch Jan 28, 1986]

1947 - Peter Weller
actor: Screamers, Mighty Aphrodite, Decoy, Sunset Grill, Naked Lunch, RoboCop series, A Killing Affair, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension

1949 - John Illsley
musician: bass: group: Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing, Romeo & Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Skateaway, Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Man’s Too Strong, Goin’ Home, Smooching

1950 - Nancy Allen
actress: Carrie, Robocop, Blow Out, Dressed to Kill, I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1952 - Dave Lapham
football: Cincinnati Bengals guard: Super Bowl XVI

1956 - Joe Penny
actor: Jake and the Fatman, The Gangster Chronicles, Riptide, Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife, The Prophet's Game

1959 - Andy McCluskey
singer: group: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Electricity, Red Frame, White Light, Messages, Enola Gay, The More I See You, Souvenir, Joan of Arc, Genetic Engineering, Talking Loud & Clear, Telsa Girls, Forever [Love & Die]

1961 - Iain Glen
actor: Silent Scream, The Young Americans, Tomb Raider

1961 - Curt Smith
musician: bass, singer: group: Tears For Fears: Suffer the Children, Mad World, Change, Pale Shelter

1967 - Jeff Cease
musician: guitar: group: The Black Crowes

1967 - Sherry Stringfield
actress: N.Y.P.D. Blue, ER

1970 - Glenn Medeiros
singer: [w/Bobby Brown]: She Ain’t Worth It.

Chart Toppers
June 24th.

1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
How High the Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Personality - Lloyd Price
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
Along Came Jones - The Coasters
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967 Groovin’ - The Young Rascals
She’d Rather Be with Me - The Turtles
Windy - The Association
All the Time - Jack Greene

1975 Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
You’re My Best Friend - Don Williams

1983 Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
You Can’t Run from Love - Eddie Rabbitt

1991 Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Unbelievable - EMF
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
KEWPIE DAY.

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How many of you remember ... or ever heard of ... the Kewpie Doll? Are we dating you? The Kewpie Doll was created by Rose O’Neill, who was born on this day in 1874. Rose was raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and had a rather successful career as an illustrator and author. She then began to design dolls, specifically, the Kewpie Doll.

A 1909 issue of Ladies Home Journal printed a full page of Ms. O’Neill’s doll designs catapulting the Kewpie Doll into a marketing success in the toy industry for over three decades.

The Kewpie Doll was a small, cupid-like, plump figure with a top-knot and was made of plaster or celluloid.
Click, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewpie) click, (http://www.ortakales.com/illustrators/Oneill.html) click. (http://members.aol.com/roseoneillkewpie/)

Events
June 25th.


1788 - The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state. The state, also known as Old Dominion, was named after the "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I of England. The Commonwealth of Virginia and its capital, Richmond, have played major roles in American history. Like West Virginia, it names the cardinal as the state bird. The official state flower of Virginia is the flowering dogwood.

1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.

1876 - Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the two-hour Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.

1886 - Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini moved from the cello section to the conductor’s stand of the Rio de Janeiro Orchestra. The maestro conducted Aida this day.

1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.

1937 - Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis was a little angry. He denounced the idea of lady wrestlers in the ring. Lewis said that women ’rasslers threatened to turn the sport of professional wrestling into a burlesque show.

1942 - The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System.

1948 - Joe Louis KO’d Jersey Joe Walcott to keep the world heavyweight boxing crown.

1951 - The first commercial color TV program was seen. It was a four-hour-long show presented on CBS and carried in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson and Ed Sullivan starred in the TV milestone. An interesting side note to this event is that the public didn’t own any color TVs at the time and CBS, itself, owned only about three dozen sets.

1961 - Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with Moody River. Boone, a teen heart-throb in the 1950s, had previously walked his way up the music charts, wearing white buck shoes, of course, with these other hits: Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me, Love Letters in the Sand and April Love.

1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.

1968 - Bobby Bonds of the San Francisco Giants started on the road to superstardom. Bonds connected for a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He became the first baseball player in the majors to debut in such an exciting way.

1969 - The Guess Who from Canada received a gold record for their hit single, These Eyes.

1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down legislative ruling 35 FR 7732, making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.

1980 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese announced his retirement from professional football after 14 years in South Florida. Griese had some impressive statistics: 193 touchdown passes, 25,200 yards passing and the winner of two (out of three) Super Bowls.

1985 - ABC-TV’s Monday Night Football announcer lineup: Frank Gifford and O.J. Simpson were joined by Joe Namath. The trio was out to regain some of the show’s sagging ratings after Howard Cosell and Don Meredith exited the broadcast.

1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The 5-4 ruling upholding the right to die was made in the Cruzan vs. Missouri case.

1993 - Kim Campbell became Canada’s 19th prime minister -- and its first woman prime minister. Campbell governed until October 25, 1993 when the Progressive-Conservative party was royally defeated. (Her term actually expired November 4, 1993.)

1998 - Windows 98 was released. Microsoft used the slogan, “Works better. Plays better.” The company said the new operating system would bring an “increased computer experience by providing a rich feature set for a wider variety of users than ever before.” Interest in the new release was also increased by the publicity generated by the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft.

1999 - Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy debuted at theatres across the U.S. Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, who tries to get custody of his best friend’s son. Sappy? You betcha! Successful? You betcha: $41.54 million the first weekend.

1999 - The San Antonio Spurs earned their first NBA (National Basketball Association) title in their 26-year history by beating the New York Knicks 78-to-77. That gave the Spurs the series 4 games to 1.

Birthdays
June 25th.

1874 - Rose O’Neill
illustrator, author, doll designer; died Apr 6, 1944; see Kewpie Day [above]

1886 - Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold
military: U.S. General and commander of the Army Air Force: WWII; 1st five-star general of the U.S. Army Air Force; died Jan 15,1950

1887 - George Abbott
director: Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, Too Many Girls; died Jan 31, 1995

1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
author: Animal Farm, 1984; died Jan 21, 1950

1903 - Anne Revere
Tony Award-winning actress: Toys in the Attic [1960]; Academy Award winner [1944]: National Velvet; A Place in the Sun, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Forever Amber, The Song of Bernadette, The Howards of Virginia; died Dec 18, 1990

1906 - Roger Livesey
actor: Of Human Bondage, The Entertainer; died Feb 4, 1976

1912 - Milton Shapp
governor of Pennsylvania; died November 24, 1988

1915 - Peter Lind Hayes (Joseph Conrad Lind)
actor: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Zis Boom Bah!, Peter Loves Mary [w/wife, Mary Healy]; died Apr 21, 1998

1922 - Johnny Smith
jazz musician: guitar: Moonlight in Vermont

1923 - Dorothy Gilman
author: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Incident at Madamya

1924 - Sidney Lumet
director: Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, Deathtrap, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Pawnbroker, Family Business, Playhouse 90, Gloria

1925 - June Lockhart
actress: Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, Deadly Games, The Big Picture, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis

1935 - Eddie Floyd
singer: group: Falcons: You’re So Fine; solo: Bring It on Home to Me, Knock on Wood, I’ve Never Found a Girl [To Love Me like You Do]

1940 - Clint Warwick (Eccles)
musician: bass: The Moody Blues: Go Now, LP: The Magnificent Moodies

1942 - Willis Reed
basketball: New York Knicks center and captain; NBA MVP: [1970]

1944 - Al Beauchamp
football: Cincinnati Bengals

1945 - Carly Simon
Grammy Award-winning singer: Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird [w/husband James Taylor], Nobody Does It Better, You Belong to Me, Coming Around Again; Academy Award-winning song: Let the River Run [1988]; author of children’s books

1946 - Allen Lanier
musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper, LPs: Revolution by Night, Fire of Unknown Origin, Cultosaurus Erectus, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, ETI, Some Enchanted Evening, On Your Feet or on Your Knees

1946 - Ian McDonald
musician: instrumentalist: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day

1947 - Jimmie Walker
actor, comedian: Good Times, B.A.D. Cats, Airplane!, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

1948 - Clay (Clayton Laws) Kirby
baseball: pitcher: SD Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos; died Oct 11, 1991

1949 - Phyllis George (Brown)
Miss America [1971]; TV host: The NFL Today, The CBS Morning News

1952 - Tim Finn (Te Awamutu)
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Split Enz

1954 - David Paich
musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, Make Believe, Roseanna, Africa

1963 - Doug Gilmour
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, NJ Devils, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres

1963 - George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou)
singer: duo: Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year Award [1985]; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex

1966 - Dikembe Mutombo
basketball [center]: Georgetown Univ; Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets, NY Knicks, Houston Rockets; Dikembe Mutombo Foundation [helping people in the Congo]

1975 - Linda Cardellini
actress: Good Burger, Scooby-Doo, La La Wood, Legally Blonde, Dying to Live, Dead Man on Campus .

Chart Toppers
June 25th.

1944 I ’ll Be Seing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Swinging on a Star/Going My Way - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952 Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson

1960 Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Swingin’ School - Bobby Rydell
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin

1968 This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

1976 Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
El Paso City - Marty Robbins

1984 The Reflex - Duran Duran
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Self Control - Laura Branigan
When We Make Love - Alabama


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Thursday, June 26, 2008
TOP OF THE WORLD DAY.

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Early into the 1970s, the folks in Toronto, Canada were having problems with their TV and radio reception. Interference from the many skyscrapers being built in the city were causing TV shows to be superimposed on top of each other. To remedy the situation, the Canadian National Railway Company was commissioned to build an antenna that would tower over every building ever built. The antenna design turned into a tourist attraction design by John Andrews Architects and Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden Architects; and after 40 months, the completed CN Tower opened ... on this day in 1976.

63 million dollars and 1,537 people were needed to complete the tallest free standing structure and building in the world. The CN (Canadian National) Tower, including the 335 foot (102 meters), steel, broadcasting antenna, is 1,815 feet, 5 inches tall (553.33 meters). At 1,465 feet, you’ll be standing on the world’s highest public observation deck, the Space Deck. You can take one of six elevators to the Sky Pod level at a speed of 15 miles per hour. After your 58-second-long trip, you can take another elevator inside the tower to the Space Deck. Or, you could climb the 1769 steps up the tower. You’ll have the distinction of dining in the world’s highest and largest revolving restaurant, aptly named "360", the home of the world’s highest wine cellar. Wine cellars are usually under the building, this one’s on top of the world!

Sixteen Toronto TV and FM radio stations broadcast their signals from the antenna ... and all over Southern Ontario, Canada, TV viewers and radio listeners can see and hear clearly, all because of the CN Tower ... Toronto’s favorite tourist attraction.
Click, (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=112537) click, (http://www.cntower.ca/portal/) click, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_wo rld#World.27s_tallest_freestanding_structure_on_la nd) click. (http://www.cntower.ca/portal/SmartDefault.aspx?at=897)

Events
June 26th.

1284 - The Pied Piper exacted his revenge upon the German town of Hamelin this day. The townspeople had promised to pay the piper a large fee if he could rid their town the nasty rats running all over the place. He had played his trusty pipe and the rats had followed him out of town and into the River Weser. But once the rodents were eliminated, the local folks decided not to pay after all. The piper was not pleased and repaid the townspeople by playing his pipe for the children of Hamelin, just like he had done for the rats. And just like the rats, the children followed him out of town. The Pied Piper of Hamelin led the kiddies into a hole in a hillside. They were never seen again.

1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City.

1897 - Thomas Lynch and John Heydler were umpires in a baseball doubleheader in Washington, D.C. “Yeah, so?” you ask. Well, smarties, each of these umpires went on to become a president of the National League. So there.

1933 - The Kraft Music Hall debuted. It turned out to be one of radio’s longest-running hits. The first program presented Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. Singer Al Jolson became the host of the show shortly thereafter. Several years later, crooner Bing Crosby was named the host. The Kraft Music Hall continued on NBC radio until 1949 and then on TV for many more years; the first year as Milton Berle Starring in the Kraft Music Hall, then Kraft Music Hall Presents: The Dave King Show followed by Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall for four seasons. From 1967 on, The Kraft Music Hall featured a different host. Bring on the Velveeta and the Philadelphia brand cream cheese!

1945 - Fifty nations came together in San Francisco for the signing of the United Nations Charter.

1949 - Entertainer Fred Allen closed out his amazing radio career. Allen was making the transition to TV. His final radio guest was his old pal, Jack Benny. Allen’s caustic wit didn’t play well on TV and he found himself out of the medium in short order. Benny went on to become a television legend.

1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed his 500th -- and final -- guest on Person to Person: actress Lee Remick. Just hours before this final broadcast, Murrow had presented his last news broadcast on the CBS radio network. CBS-TV had reportedly made $20 million from Murrow’s Person to Person series.

1964 - A Hard Day’s Night was released by United Artists Records. The album featured all original material by The Beatles and became the top album in the country by July 25, 1964.

1965 - Mr. Tambourine Man, by The Byrds, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts. The song was considered by many to be the first folk-rock hit. The tune was written by Bob Dylan, as were two other hits for the group: All I Really Want to Do and My Back Pages. The group of James Roger McGinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke charted seven hits. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

1979 - Muhammad Ali announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion. The 37-year-old fighter said, “Everything gets old, and you can’t go on like years ago.” The “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” act was no more.

1985 - You’ve heard of players, managers and owners being ejected from baseball games, right? But have you ever heard of an organist being given the heave-ho? It happened at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida (the home of the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training; a Class A League team uses the stadium the rest of the season). Wilbur Snapp played Three Blind Mice following a call by umpire Keith O’Connor. The umpire was not amused and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was sent to the showers.

1985 - Big River, later to be a Tony Award-winning cast album, became the first cast soundtrack LP to be recorded in Nashville, TN. The celebrated album was released on MCA Records and tapes.

1987 - “Just the facts, ma’am. Thank you.” Dragnet, starring Dan Aykroyd in the Jack Webb role of Sgt. Joe Friday; and Tom Hanks in the Harry Morgan role of detective Stribeck, opened around the U.S. The movie became the first Hollywood film to feature a "condom-conscious" bedroom scene ... just right for the social mores of the 1980s. Dragnet was a smash theatrical hit, as it had been on radio and TV in the 1940s and 1950s. “This is the city...”

1990 - The Arizona Republic reported it was 122 degrees in Phoenix, hot enough to cancel some flights at the airport.

1996 - The North Manchester, Indiana News Journal ran a commentary by Worth Weller on this day, called Publisher Discovers Meaning of Life Driving Across Kansas. His observations: 1) Kansas is quite pretty -- like the ocean. 2) The pioneers must have been driven insane by the boredom while travelling across Kansas. 3) A billboard just outside of Russell KS proudly proclaims this little smudge in the prairie is the home of Bob Dole. And, as the heat and grain elevators began to get to him: 4) Politics is no longer about leadership, just as the press is no longer about information. Both are now about entertainment. 5) It’s amusing how we either ignore history or rewrite it to suit our own view of the world.

1998 - Doctor Dolittle opened in the U.S. Eddie Murphy stars as Dr. John Dolittle, who can converse with, and heal, animals. Audiences loved it: $29.01 million the opening weekend.

1998 - We found this Viagra report at the Poison News Headlines Web site, which said it had grabbed it from The New Straits Times: A 50-year-old Dutch tourist in the Spanish resort of Benidorm was admitted to the hospital when the Viagra he took left him with a 36-hour erection. The man, who had no history of impotency, told doctors he had taken the drug merely to enhance his sexual performance. In Beirut, a Lebanese woman filed assault charges against her husband who took three Viagra pills at once, lost control over himself and savagely attacked her in a state of excitement she said she had never seen in him before. And in Taipeh, a prostitute confessed to killing a 70-year-old client, saying she could not bear his excessive sexual demands after he took two Viagra tablets.

2000 - Principal photography for Star Wars: Episode II started in Australia, where shooting would last for two months before moving on to Italy, Tunisia and Spain. George Lucas directs Hayden Christiansen who plays the young Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker). Natalie Portman is Padmé Amidala and Ewan McGregor plays Obi-Wan Kenobi. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Mace Windu, Christopher Lee plays Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Jimmy Smits is Bail Organa.

Birthdays
June 26th.

1819 - Abner Doubleday
baseball: founded the game in 1839; died Jan 26, 1893

1891 - Sidney (Coe) Howard
playwright: screen play: Gone with the Wind; died Aug 23, 1939

1892 - Pearl S. Buck
Nobel Prize-winning author: The Good Earth [1938]; died Mar 6, 1973

1900 - Hack (Lewis Robert) Wilson
Baseball Hall of Famer: NY Giants [World Series: 1924], Chicago Cubs [World Series: 1929/record: rbi in a season: 190 in 1930], Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies; died Nov 23, 1948

1904 - Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein)
actor: The Maltese Falcon, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Casablanca, The Raven; died Mar 23, 1964

1909 - Col. Tom Parker
carnival barker, show business promoter: manager of Elvis Presley; died Jan 21, 1997

1909 - Colonel Tom Parker (Andreas van Kuijk)
carnival barker, show business promoter: manager of Elvis Presley; died Jan 21, 1997

1910 - Roy Plunkett
scientist: discovered polytetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon [Apr 6, 1938]; died May 12, 1994

1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias
“The outstanding female athlete of the first half-century.” [AP 1950]; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer, Olympic Hall of Famer, World Golf Hall of Famer, LPGA Hall of Famer, National Track and Field Hall of Famer; died Sep 27, 1956

1914 - Richard Maltby
bandleader: Theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, St. Louis Mambo; died Aug 19, 1991

1915 - Charlotte Zolotow
author: Peter and the Pigeons, The Moon was the Best

1916 - Alex Dreier
‘Man on the Go’: radio reporter, newscaster: United Press, BBC, NBC, ABC; actor: The Boston Strangler, What’s It All About, World?, Murdock’s Gang, Invisible Strangler, It Takes a Thief, Mannix; died Mar 12, 2000

1922 - Eleanor Parker
actress: The Sound of Music, Of Human Bondage, Caged, The Man with the Golden Arm, Dead on the Money

1934 - Dave Grusin
composer: film scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie

1936 - Hal Greer
Basketball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia 76ers

1940 - Billy Davis Jr.
singer: group: The 5th Dimension: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Up Up and Away; w/Marilyn McCoo: You Don’t Have to be a Star, Your Love

1943 - Bill (William Henry) Robinson
baseball: Atlanta Braves, NY Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1979]

1943 - Georgie Fame (Clive Powell)
singer: The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde

1950 - Dave (Rodriguez) Rosello
baseball: Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians

1951 - Pamela Bellwood
actress: Airport ’77, Dynasty, Double Standard, Cellar Dweller, Deadman’s Curve, Choices of the Heart

1952 - Steve (Stephen Shaddon) Bowling
baseball: Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays

1952 - Danny Gruen
hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Rockies

1955 - Mick Jones
musician: guitar, singer: groups: Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash: 1977, Capitol Radio, Career Opportunities, I’m So Bored with the USA, Police and Thieves, Complete Control, Remote Control, [White Man] In Hammersmith Palais, English Civil War, Stay Free, I Fought the Law, Brand New Cadillac, Death or Glory, Jimmy Jazz, Rock the Casbah

1956 - Chris Isaak
actor: Little Buddha, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Twin Peaks; singer, songwriter: Wicked Game, Blue Hotel, LP: Silvertone

1961 - Terri Nunn
singer: group: Berlin: Take My Breath Away

1970 - Chris O’Donnell
actor: The Three Musketeers, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Fried Green Tomatoes, Circle of Friends, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, The Bachelor, Vertical Limit

1970 - Sean Hayes
Emmy Award-winning actor: Will & Grace [2000]

1970 - Matthew Letscher
actor: The Mask of Zorro

1974 - Derek Jeter
baseball: NY Yankees

1980 - Jason Schwartzman
actor: Rushmore, Slackers; musician: group: Phantom Planet.

Chart Toppers
June 26th.

1945 Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry

1953 Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Ruby - Richard Hayman
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961 Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Raindrops - Dee Clark
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969 Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Running Bear - Sonny James

1977 Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Undercover Angel - Alan O’Day
Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) - Waylon Jennings

1985 Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Raspberry Beret - Prince & The Revolution
Little Things - The Oak Ridge Boys


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily
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Friday, June 27, 2008
CLARABELL KANGAROO DAY.

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“Hey kids ... what time is it? It’s Howdy Doody time!” The year was 1947 and the peanut gallery surrounded Buffalo Bob Smith, Phineus T. Bluster, Indian Princess Summer-Fall-Winter-Spring, Judy, Flubadub and a clown who didn’t talk named, Clarabell. The clown could make noise with a horn, like Harpo Marx, and could spray seltzer water. But that was it. Clarabell was Bob Keeshan in disguise, a man who was born on this day in 1927.

Two years later, Clarabell got restless. He wanted to talk. So, despite what Buffalo Bob and an NBC players contract said, Clarabell was determined to talk -- even silently. As relations between the clown and the star of the show (Buffalo Bob, not Howdy) got even more tense, Clarabell mouthed the words “Bye Kids” at the close of a Howdy Doody show and was fired on the spot.

Clarabell was out of a job until getting the big payback in 1955. Clarabell -- now back to being Bob Keeshan -- signed on with CBS for the only network children’s show to be broadcast on a daily basis. That show, Captain Kangaroo, became an integral part of American culture for two decades. Keeshan introduced us to Grandfather Clock, Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and many other characters who taught kids a lesson. The phrase, “And be sure to say ‘please’ ... and ‘thank you’!” was just one of many. Captain Kangaroo became the model for truly excellent children’s television which led the way to Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, Sesame Street and others.

Bob Keeshan died on January 23, 2004. :(
More reading here, (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/captain-kangaroo.htm) click, (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/K/htmlK/keeshanbob/keeshanbob.htm) clicky. (http://timstvshowcase.com/kangaroo.html)

Events
June 27th.

1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1884 - Lawrence Corcoran pitched his third no-hit baseball game, leading Chicago to a 6-0 win over Providence. Corcoran set a baseball record for no-hitters for the feat.

1885 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter applied for a patent for the gramophone. The patent was granted on May 4, 1886.

1949 - Captain Video and His Video Rangers premiered on the Dumont Television Network. Captain Video was initially played by Richard Coogan. The voice of radio’s Green Hornet, Al Hodge, replaced Coogan in 1951. Don Hastings played the roll of the ranger until the series ended in 1955. Maybe, if you check the basement or the attic, you’ll find your Captain Video decoder ring. Now’s the time to use it, kids!

1955 - The first Wide Wide World was broadcast on NBC-TV. Dave Garroway, of the Today show, was the program host.

1958 - After nearly three years on NBC-TV, Matinee Theatre was seen for the final time. And a good thing, too. Critics called the show one of the most successful failures in theatrical history.

1959 - West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein, closed after 732 performances on Broadway. The show remains one of the brightest highlights in the history of the Great White Way.

1962 - Two albums of melancholy music by Jackie Gleason received gold record honors. Music, Martinis and Memories and Music for Lovers Only got the gold. Both were issued by Capitol Records in Hollywood.

1963 - Brenda Lee inked a new recording contract with Decca Records. She was guaranteed one million dollars over the following 20 years.

1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It did not turn out to be one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages. The couple broke up 38 days later.

1969 - New York City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change. Many feel that the Gay Liberation Movement had its beginnings with the Stonewall Inn Riots. (See 1999 below.)

1970 - The Jackson 5: Marlon, Tito, Jackie, Randy and Michael, jumped to number one on the music charts with The Love You Save. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks. It was the third of four number one hits in a row for the group. The other three were I Want You Back, ABC and I’ll Be There. In 15 years (from 1969 to 1984), The Jackson 5/Jacksons had 23 hits, scored two platinum singles (Enjoy Yourself and Shake Your Body [Down to the Ground]) and one gold record (State of Shock).

1971 - Promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East in New York City. It was a spin-off of San Francisco’s legendary rock ’n’ roll palace, Fillmore West (closed several days later). The Allman Brothers and J. Geils Band were among those performing on the final night. The New York City landmark and its San Francisco sister hosted just about every major rock group of the 1960s.

1972 - Bobby Hull signed a 10-year hockey contract for $2,500,000, as he became a player and coach of the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association.

1975 - Sonny and Cher (Bono) called it quits as husband and wife. They were divorced soon after their CBS-TV variety show was canceled. Sonny went on to become mayor of Palm Springs and then a U.S. Congressman from California. (He was killed Jan. 5, 1998 in a skiing accident.) Cher married rocker Gregg Alman just days after saying “bye-bye” to Sonny. She continued her recording career and became an Academy Award-winning actress.

1980 - The the National Anthem Act, making O Canada Canada's national anthem, was unanimously accepted by the House of Commons and the Senate. Royal assent was also given this day. O Canada, written by Calixa Lavallee and Adolphe-Basile Routhier, was officially proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980.

1981 - Hi Infidelity, by REO Speedwagon, was replaced at number one by the LP, Mistaken Identity, by singer Kim Carnes. Hi Infidelity had been number one on the album charts for 14 weeks.

1984 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) contracts with ABC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting were said to violate federal anti-trust laws.

1984 - The Federal Communications Commission moved to deregulate U.S. commercial TV by lifting most programming requirements and ending day-part restrictions on advertising.

1987 - After spending a decade with NBC News, Linda Ellerbee gave her last, “And so it goes.” NBC had tried to encourage Ellerbee to take a 40 percent cut in pay. And so she went. She wrote a most interesting book on her broadcasting career titled And So It Goes.

1988 - Mike Tyson quickly retained his undisputed world heavyweight title by knocking out Michael Spinks in the first round. Fight fans at Atlantic City Convention Hall had paid big bucks (up to $1,500) to see this one. The match, touted in advance as “Once and for All” was all over in 91 seconds. No report on how many people blinked at the wrong time.

1992 - Michael Jackson kicked off the Dangerous Tour in Munich, Germany. 70,000 fans saw Jackson, with a helmet on and a fake rocket pack on his back, appear to fly off stage (or, maybe he really did). The tour would continue through November 11 stopping in some 42 cities.

1999 - Juli Inkster won the LPGA Championship in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the second woman to win the modern Grand Slam in the LPGA. Of the eight players who have won the four major championships of their era, no one took as long as Inkster: 16 seasons from the time she won the Dinah Shore as a rookie [1984] to her victory in the LPGA Championship as a 39-year-old mother.

1999 - Sporting leather thongs, feather boas and political banners, gays and lesbians took to streets around the world in festive pride parades. The 29th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Parade and Celebration took place in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, Manila and many other cities. Among the organizations taking part were the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a gay veterans group, an antique auto club for gays and Roman Catholics in favor of gay rights. The pride marches commemorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, when patrons of a gay bar in Greenwich Village (New York) fought back against a police raid. The bar, the Stonewall Inn, is now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. (See 1969 above.)

Birthdays
June 27th.

1859 - Mildred J. Hill
teacher, musician, composer [lyrics by her younger sister Patty Smith Hill]: Happy Birthday to You, originally: Good Morning to All; died Jun 5, 1916

1880 - Helen Keller
author, educator; advocated new policies to help the blind live in normal surroundings; died Jun 1, 1968

1907 - John (Herrick) McIntire
actor: Wagon Train, Honkytonk Man, Rooster Cogburn, Summer and Smoke, Psycho, Elmer Gantry; died Jan 30, 1991

1912 - Audrey Christie
actress: Splendor in the Grass, Harper Valley P.T.A., Frankie and Johnny; died Dec 19, 1989

1913 - Willie Mosconi
billiard player: World American Straight Pool champion: 6 times between 1941-1956; died Sep 12, 1993

1917 - Ben Homer
composer/songwriter: Sentimental Journey [w/Bud Green, Les Brown]

1920 - I.A.L. Diamond
screen writer: Some Like It Hot, Irma La Douce, The Apartment; died Apr 21, 1988

1923 - Elmo Hope
musician: piano: group: The Elmo Hope Trio; died May 19, 1967

1924 - Rosalie Allen (Julie Bedra)
country singer/yodeler: Guitar Polka, Yodel Boogie, He Taught Me How to Yodel; Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Famer; died Sep 24, 2003

1925 - (Jerome) Doc Pomus
songwriter: Boogie Woogie Country Girl, Lonely Avenue; w/Mort Shuman: A Teenager in Love, Turn Me Loose, Can’t Get Used to Losing You, Save the Last Dance for Me, This Magic Moment; Jerry Wexler [Atlantic Records co-owner]: “If the music industry had a heart, it would be Doc Pomus.”; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [1992]; died Mar 14, 1991

1926 - Don (Bones) Raleigh
hockey: NHL: New York Rangers

1927 - Bob Keeshan
children’s TV host: Captain Kangaroo Clown Hall of Famer; died Jan 23, 2004; see Clarabell Kangaroo Day [above]

1930 - H. Ross Perot
billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, U.S. presidential hopeful [1992, 1996]

1931 - Charles Bronfman
billionaire industrialist: Seagrams, Montreal Expos

1932 - Eddie (Edward Michael) Kasko
baseball: SL Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961/all-star: 1961], Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Boston Red Sox

1932 - Anna Moffo
opera singer: Metropolitan Opera [1959-1969]; died Mar 10, 2006

1938 - Shirley Anne Field
actress: The EntertainerHear My Song, Shag: The Movie, Getting It Right, Two by Forsyth, My Beautiful Laundrette, House of the Living Dead, Alfie

1940 - Sandra Smith
actress: The Interns

1941 - Errol Mann
football: Oakland Raiders kicker: Super Bowl XI

1942 - Frank Mills
musician: piano: Music Box Dancer

1943 - Rico (Americo Peter) Petrocelli
baseball: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1967, 1975/all-star: 1967, 1969]

1944 - Doug Buffone
football: Chicago Bears

1944 - Bruce Johnston
Grammy Award-winning song writer: I Write the Songs [1976]; musician: group: The Beach Boys

1945 - Norma Kamali
fashion designer

1948 - Vernon Holland
football: Tennessee State Univ., Cincinnati Bengals; died Apr 21, 1998

1951 - Julia Duffy
actress: Designing Women, Newhart, Children in the Crossfire, Night Warning

1955 - Isabelle Adjani
actress: Queen Margot, Ishtar, Subway, The Tenant, The Story of Adele H, The Slap

1959 - Lorrie (Loretta Lynn) Morgan
singer, songwriter; daughter of country singer George Morgan

1960 - Craig Hodges
basketball: Chicago Bulls

1964 - Chuck Connors Person
basketball: Auburn Univ, Indiana Pacers [NBA Rookie of the Year: 1986-1987], Minnesota Timberwolves, San Antonio Spurs, Charlotte Hornets; given nickname ‘the Rifleman’ because his mom liked the TV Western of that title, whose star [Chuck Connors] once played for the Boston Celtics

1975 - Tobey Maguire
actor: Great Scott, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man.

Chart Toppers
June 27th.

1946 The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
All Through the Day - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954 Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
I Don’t Hurt Anymore - Hank Snow

1962 I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
The Stripper - David Rose
Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
She Thinks I Still Care - George Jones

1970 The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
Hello Darlin’ - Conway Twitty

1978 Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
I’ll Be True to You - The Oak Ridge Boys

1986 On My Own - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Crush on You - The Jets
Mama’s Never Seen Those Eyes - The Forester Sisters


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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180th day of 2008 - 186 remaining.

Saturday, June 28, 2008
ROUTE 66 DAY.

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“Get your kicks...on Route...Six...Six” The words to the classic song made famous by Nat "King" Cole, The Manhattan Transfer, Rosemary Clooney and many others is remembered today, along with the TV show of the same name.

The 59-year-old highway of 2,200 miles of blacktop was decertified as a U.S. highway on this day in 1985. The highway that was a legendary part of Americana saw highway crews removing the classic roadway shield-markers that designated it as the highway west.

Route 66 started in Chicago, Illinois and continued into Santa Monica, California. Martin Milner and George Maharis took us for many spins on the famous highway through the TV series which aired in the early sixties. To travel from one end of Route 66 to the other, one would go through eight states and three time zones. Today, a very small portion of the highway is still open. In some places, grass and vegetation, as seen from the interstate highway or railroad tracks nearby, have all but obscured the once well-traveled Route 66. Some one-stop, out-of-the-way places such as gas stations and greasy-spoon diners are now nothing more than decaying shells of their once glorious past.

If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that’s the best. Get your kicks on route 66.

It winds from Chicago to L.A., More then two thousand miles all the way. Get your kicks on route 66.

Now you go through St. Louis, Joplin, Missouri and Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty. Now you’ll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, don’t forget Winona ... Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Now won’t you get hip to this timely tip. When you make that California trip get your kicks on route 66.
More here, (http://www.national66.org/66hstry.html) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66) here, (http://www.route66usa.com/) here, (http://www.route-66.com/history/index.htm) and here. (http://www.historic66.com/)

Events
June 28th.

1894 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed an act of Congress, making Labor Day a federal holiday in the U.S. The first Monday of September is when Labor Day is celebrated as a salute to working men and women across the country.

1907 - The Washington Nationals stole 13 bases in a single baseball game against the New York Highlanders. The New York catcher, incidentally, fared far better as a baseball executive in later years. That catcher became baseball commissioner Branch Rickey.

1914 - World War I began. Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated while at (what is now known as) Sarajevo, Bosnia.

1919 - With the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, World War I ended - exactly five years after it began.

1919 - Elizabeth ‘Bess’ Wallace became Bess Truman when she married the future U.S. President, Harry S Truman.

1937 - In a poll conducted by a New York City newspaper, players for the Giants, Yankees and Dodgers said they opposed the proposed baseball players’ union.

1940 - As a summer replacement for blind, piano virtuoso Alec Templeton, The Quiz Kids was first heard on radio. The show continued on NBC until 1953.

1943 - The Dreft Star Playhouse debuted on NBC radio. Jane Wyman (the former Mrs. Ronald Reagan) starred in the first broadcast, titled Bachelor Mother.

1944 - The Alan Young Show debuted on NBC radio. It was a summer replacement for the popular Eddie Cantor. The show became a regular in the fall NBC lineup. Young, incidentally, made the switch to TV in 1961. He became a CBS star with a talking horse, of course, of course, named Mister Ed.

1948 - Football star Tom Harmon announced his retirement from professional football. Harmon later became one of the big names in sportscasting for ABC radio and TV.

1951 - An old favorite of radio audiences made the switch to TV. Amos ’n’ Andy moved to CBS-TV. Two years later, a protest by the NAACP forced the network to drop the show.

1976 - Detroit Tiger pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych was called “...the most interesting player since Dizzy Dean” on ABC’s nationally televised coverage of a Tigers-Yankees match-up. The 21-year-old rookie sensation led the Tigers past the Yankees and made the All-Star team two weeks after the TV appearance.

1976 - Women entered the Air Force Academy for the first time on this day. President Gerald R. Ford had actually opened the door by signed legislation [Oct 7, 1975] allowing women to enter the nation’s military academies. The first Air Force Academy class with women graduated in May 1980.

1979 - Billie Jean King defeated Linda Siegel with a first at the 102-year-old Wimbledon tennis championships. Not only did King defeat Siegel, but in an embarrassing moment, Siegel, wearing a plunging neckline tennis top became partly naked when the neckline plunged too far.

1981 - Jerry Pate won the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic after three years of disappointment on the men’s PGA tour. Pate celebrated with a birdie on the last hole. He was so excited, Pate handed his putter and his sun visor to his caddie and jumped into the lake that bordered the 18th green.

1981 - Variety, the movieland trade paper, reported that the biggest single weekend in box-office history saw American moviegoers spending a blockbusting $56,101,095 at the box office. The popular movies bringing in the bucks were Superman II with Christopher Reeve, Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford and The Great Muppet Caper with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

1985 - A survey by the U.S. Transportation Department indicated that 42 percent of drivers polled said that they drove faster than the legal 55 MPH speed limit. Three motorists out of four confessed to driving faster on the nation’s interstate highways. Slow down and buckle up, please. I’m Chief Matthews. Now back to the show...

1987 - American League baseball hitters put their batting faces on as the league combined to hit a record 28 home runs in a seven-game day.

1988 - Founder Berry Gordy Jr. sold Motown Records to MCA Records and Boston Ventures, an investment firm, for $61 million.

1992 - A very strong earthquake shook the high desert of Southern California at 4:57 a.m. The M7.3 earthquake was centered on the eastern side of the San Bernardino Mountains near the town of Landers. The quake was the largest to strike California since the Kern County M7.7 earthquake in 1952. Vigorous rocking and rolling was felt 100 miles away in L.A. and the quake was felt as far away as Central California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Property damage: $56 million, including collapsed buildings, ruptured utility lines and widespread nonstructural damage. Human toll: One killed, 25 seriously injured, 372 treated for some sort of earthquake-related injuries, millions awakened with nightmares for weeks.

1994 - The U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) announced it would begin experimenting with a UV (ultraviolet) Index, “To enhance public awareness of the effects of overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, and to provide the public with actions they can take to reduce harmful effects of overexposure, which may include skin cancer, cataracts and immune suppression.”

1996 - The Citadel, which had fought to keep one woman from enrolling as a cadet in its all-male military academy in 1993, abruptly ended its opposition to enrolling qualified female cadets. The change of policy happened after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar all-male policy at the Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The court said the school could not refuse to accept women while receiving federal or state tax dollars. Had the Citadel decided to retain its 153-year-old men-only policy, it would have lost public tax dollars. As usual, money talked.

1997 - The headlines screamed: “Fight Bites into MGM Earnings,” “Bit Part for Tyson,” “Pay-Per-Chew Bout,” and the one that said it all, “Tyson Disqualified After Ripping Piece of Holyfield’s Ear.” Needless to say (but we will anyway), Evander Holyfield retained his World Boxing Association heavyweight championship after Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Holyfield, not once, but twice. The Nevada Athletic Commission revoked Mike Tyson’s boxing license for a year and fined him $3 million.

Birthdays
June 28th.

1491 - Henry VIII
King of England [1509-1547]; Henry’s six wives: Catherine of Aragon [divorced], Anne Boleyn , Jane Seymour [died], Anne of Cleaves [divorced], Catherine Howard [beheaded], Catherine Parr [survived]; plagued by illness brought on by overeating, Henry died Jan 28, 1547

1577 - Sir Peter Rubens
artist: Elevation of the Cross, Coronation of Marie de Medicis; died May 30 1640

1703 - John Wesley
religious leader: founder of ‘Methodism’ [forerunner of Methodist church]; writer: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection; died Mar 2, 1791

1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher; died July 2, 1778

1876 - Clara Maass
nurse: victim of yellow fever medical experiments; died Aug 24, 1901

1902 - Richard Rodgers
Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring [1945]; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening; died Dec 30, 1979

1905 - Ashley Montague
author, anthropologist: “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”; died in 1999

1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer
Nobel Prize-winning physicist [w/J. Hans Jensen & Eugene Wigner - 1963]: nuclear shell theory; 1st American woman to win Nobel Prize; died Feb 20, 1972

1909 - Eric Ambler
writer: The Dark Frontier, Journey into Fear; died Oct 22, 1998

1914 - Lester Flatt
country music entertainer: guitar: group: Flatt and Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Old Salty Dog Blues; died May 11, 1979

1923 - Pete (Walter) Candoli
musician: trumpet: Superman with a Horn

1924 - George Morgan
singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, I’m in Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville; died in 1975; died July 7, 1975

1926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky)
director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Your Show of Shows, Get Smart; Broadway producer: The Producers

1932 - Pat (Noriyuki) Morita
actor: Happy Days, Karate Kid, Babes in Toyland, Thoroughly Modern Millie; died Nov 24, 2005

1936 - Cathy Carr
singer: Ivory Tower

1937 - George Knudson
golf: champ: 5 CPGA titles, 12 PGA victories [1961-1972]; died Jan 25, 1989

1941 - Al (Alphonso Erwin) Downing
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees [World Series: 1963, 1964/all-star:1967], Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, LA Dodgers [World Series: 1974]

1943 - Gary Veneruzzo
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues

1945 - David Knights
musician: bass player: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale

1946 - Bruce Davison
actor: Widow’s Kiss, It’s My Party, Six Degrees of Separation, Longtime Companion, The Ladies Club, The Gathering, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Mame, Ulzana’s Raid, Last Summer, Hunter, Harry and the Hendersons

1946 - Gilda Radner
Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [1977-78]; Haunted Honeymoon [w/husband Gene Wilder]; died May 20, 1989

1948 - Kathy Bates
Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss

1949 - Don Baylor
baseball: manager: Colorado Rockies; California Angels MVP [1979]

1949 - Don Nottingham
football: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VIII

1949 - Clarence Davis
football: Oakland Raiders running back: Super Bowl XI

1950 - Chris (Edward) Speier
baseball: SF Giants [all-star: 1972, 1973, 1974], Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs

1954 - Alice Krige
actress: Star Trek: First Contact, Joseph, Sharpe’s Honour, Sleepwalkers, Barfly, Chariots of Fire, A Tale of Two Cities, In the Company of Spies

1960 - John Elway
football: Denver Broncos quarterback: Super Bowl XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII: MVP; car dealership tycoon

1964 - Mark (Eugene) Grace
baseball: San Diego State Univ, Chicago Cugs, Arizona Diamondbacks

1966 - John Cusack
actor: Money for Nothing, The Player, True Colors, Bullets over Broadway, The Grifters, Say Anything

1966 - Mary Stuart Masterson
actress: Kate Brasher, Heaven’s Prisoners, Radioland Murders, Funny About Love, Benny & Joon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Heaven Help Us

1967 - Gil Bellows
actor: The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal

1969 - Danielle Brisebois
actress: All in the Family, Knots Landing, Annie, Mom, the Wolfman and Me

1971 - Tichina Arnold
actress: Little Shop of Horrors, Martin, Big Momma’s House

1972 - Alessandro Nivola
actor: Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, Timecode.

Chart Toppers
June 28th.

1947 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
Mam’selle - Art Lund
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold

1955 Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Unchained Melody - Al Hibler
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

1963 Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Blue on Blue - The Dovells
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer - Nat King Cole
Act Naturally - Buck Owens

1971 It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Indian Reservation - Raiders
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed

1979 Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Nobody Likes Sad Songs - Ronnie Milsap

1987 I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
In Too Deep - Genesis
Alone - Heart
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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181st day of 2008 - 185 remaining.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
GOETHALS DAY.

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No one had a clue that the baby boy named George Washington Goethals, born on this day in 1858 in Brooklyn, NY, would someday change the way the world did business.

As an adult, Mr. Goethals became army officer and chief engineer over thousands of workers who completed the passage we know as the Panama Canal. The engineering marvel took eleven years to complete at a cost of $337 million. The U.S. President at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, said it was “the greatest task of its own kind that has ever been performed in the world.”

The United States government maintained control and payed rent to the Panamanian government until December 31, 1999, when it relinquished control of the canal to Panama.

We wonder if even Col. George W. Goethals knew how important the Panama Canal would be, both strategically and in commercial trade throughout the century.
Click, (http://www.pancanal.com/) click. (http://www.pancanal.com/eng/history/biographies/goethals.html)


Events
June 29th.

1860 - The last stone was laid at Minot’s Ledge (Massachusetts) Lighthouse. The stone tower replaced an iron-pile lighthouse that had been destroyed by a storm in April 1851. The new lighthouse was built of 1,079 blocks (3,514 tons) of Quincy granite dovetailed together and reinforced with iron shafts. Minot’s Light has lasted through countless storms and hurricanes, a testament to its designer and builders. The first 40 feet is solid granite, topped by a storeroom, living quarters and work space.

1897 - The Chicago Cubs scored 36 runs in a ball game against Louisville, setting a record for runs scored by a team in a single game.

1901 - The first edition of Editor & Publisher was issued. It was a newspaper for the newspaper industry.

1925 - A patent for the frosted electric light bulb was filed by Marvin Pipkin. What a bright idea. The frosting inside the light bulb created less glare because it diffused the light emitted, spreading it over a wider area, providing a much softer glow. Thank you Marvin.

1932 - The second daytime serial to be heard on network radio was Vic and Sade which debuted on the NBC Blue radio network this day. Radio’s first daytime drama was Clara Lu and Em, which premiered on NBC in 1931.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio got a base hit in his 41st consecutive game. DiMaggio passed George Sisler’s record for consecutive games with base hits (set in 1922).

1947 - Radio’s show with a heart made its debut. Strike It Rich became a favorite on CBS radio. Todd Russell was the original host. Warren Hull took over a few years later.

1951 - Bill Stern did his last 15-minute program of sports features for NBC radio. Stern had been with NBC for 14 years. He later moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System to finish out an illustrious sportscasting career.

1955 - Billy Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with Rock Around the Clock. The smash hit stayed there for eight straight weeks. The song was featured in the film Blackboard Jungle. Most consider the hit song the first rock ’n’ roll single.

1956 - Charles Dumas cleared the high jump, which was set at 7’ 1/2", at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Dumas became the first athlete to break the seven-foot barrier.

1957 - Betsy Rawls won the U.S. Golf Association women’s tourney after Jacqueline Pung was disqualified for turning in an incorrect scorecard. Oooops!

1969 - Jim Northrup of the Detroit Tigers wound up a most exciting week. Northrup connected for his third grand-slam home run in seven days, setting a major-league baseball record.

1970 - NBC presented an evening of exciting and entertaining TV with the award-winning Liza Minnelli Special.

1983 - Pitcher Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych of the Detroit Tigers retired from baseball, after several unsuccessful attempts to return to the major leagues. Fidrych had his greatest year as a rookie in 1976, when he had a record of 19-9, with a 2.34 earned-run average. Fidrych, a crowd pleaser throughout the American League, was the All-Star Game starter in Philadelphia in 1976. He also earned Rookie of the Year honors that year.

1984 - Singer Bruce Springsteen kicked off his first U.S. tour in three years, before 17,700 fans at the Civic Center in St. Paul, MN. Music critics called the Boss “...the most exciting performer in rock.”

1987 - Vincent Van Gogh’s Le Pont de Trinquetaille brought in $20.6 million at an auction in London, England. No one knows who the anonymous European collector was who paid that staggering price for the piece of art. No one, that is, except the buyer.

1995 - For the first time, a U.S. space shuttle ("Atlantis") linked up with a Russian space station ("Mir"). They remained docked until July 4. The joined craft were visible from earth as a fast-moving, shiny, star and carried a record 10 people (6 Americans and 4 Russians).

1996 - A really big shew this day at London's Hyde Park. Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Alanis Morrissette, Ron Woods and The Who performed at the charity event for Prince Charles’ Prince’s Trust charity. 150,000 people showed up and brought about a million bucks with them for the good cause.

Birthdays
June 29th.

1858 - George Washington Goethals
Chief Engineer of Panama Canal; died Jan 21, 1928; see Goethals Day [above]

1861 - Dr. William Mayo
physician, surgeon; founder [w/sons William and Charles] of the Mayo Clinic [Rochester MN]; died in 1939

1901 - Nelson Eddy
actor, singer [w/Jeannette MacDonald]: Rose Marie, Naughty Marietta, Girl of the Golden West; died Mar 6, 1967

1910 - Frank Loesser
songwriter: Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Baby It’s Cold Outside, On a Slow Boat to China, Once in Love with Amy, Luck Be a Lady, Thumbelina; died July 28, 1969

1912 - John Toland
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Rising Sun [1970]; died Jan 4, 2004

1915 - Ruth Warrick
actress: Citizen Kane, All My Children; died Jan 15, 2005

1919 - Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley Jr.)
actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Howling, The Apple Dumpling Gang, In Harm’s Way, One-Eyed Jacks, The Outlaws, Hee Haw; Cowboy Hall of Famer; died Dec 8, 1983

1922 - Elmer J. ‘Mousey’ Alexander
musician: drums: group: Alexanders the Great; died Oct 9, 1988

1922 - Ralph Burns
musician: piano; composer, arranger: Apple Honey; died Nov 21, 2001

1925 - Cara Williams (Bernice Kamiat)
actress: The Defiant Ones, The Girl Next Door, Pete and Gladys

1930 - Robert Evans
actor: The Man of a Thousand Faces, The Best of EverythingRobert Evans (Robert J. Shapera)

1936 - Harmon (Clayton) ‘Killer’ Killebrew
baseball: Washington Nationals, Washington Senators [all-star: 1959], Minnesota Twins [all-star: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971/World Series: 1965/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1969], Kansas City Royals

1941 - Kwame Ture (Stokeley Carmichael)
U.S. civil rights activist: SNCC [Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee], Black Panthers, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party [founder/chairman]; credited w/creating phrase ‘Black Power’; emigrated to Africa; married to South African singer Miriam Makeba; even as he was dying of prostate cancer [died Nov 15, 1998], he continued working to bring the African-American community into coalition ... answering the telephone, “ready for the revolution.”

1943 - Roger Ruskin Spear
musician: saxophone, kazoo: group: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: I’m the Urban Spaceman, LPs: Gorilla, The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse, Tadpoles, Keynsham

1944 - Gary Busey
actor: The Buddy Holly Story, Breaking Point, The Texas Wheelers, Warriors, Lethal Weapon, The Firm, Predator 2

1945 - ‘Little’ Eva Boyd
singer: The Loco-motion

1947 - Larry Pleau
hockey: coach: Hartford Whalers; general mgr.: NY Rangers

1947 - Richard Lewis
comedian, actor: Anything But Love, Daddy Dearest, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Wagon’s East

1948 - Fred Grandy
actor: The Love Boat; politician: U.S. congressman

1948 - Ian Paice
musician: drums: groups: Paice Ashton Lord, Whitesnake, Deep Purple: Hush, Kentucky Woman, Hey Joe, We Can Work It Out, Help, Black Night, Strange Kind of Woman, Fireball, Smoke on the Water

1948 - Rick Smith
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Washington Capitals

1949 - Dan Dierdorf
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Univ. of Michigan All-American; St. Louis Cardinals; sportscaster: ABC Monday Night Football, CBS NFL Analyst

1953 - Colin Hay
singer: group: Men at Work: Who Can It Be Now, Down Under; solo: LP: Looking for Jack

1956 - Pedro Guerrero
baseball: LA Dodgers, SL Cardinals

1957 - Maria Conchita Alonso
actress: Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson, One of the Boys

1961 - Sharon Lawrence
actress: Ladies Man, The Heidi Chronicles, NYPD Blue

1962 - Amanda Donohoe
actress: The Substitute, Double Cross, L.A. Law

1964 - Stedman Pearson
singer: group: Five Star: System Addict, Can't Wait Another Minute, Rain or Shine, The Slightest Touch

1967 - Melora Hardin
actress: The North Avenue Irregulars, Iron Eagle, Big Man on Campus, Absolute Power.

Chart Toppers
June 29th.

1948 Nature Boy - Nat King
Toolie Oolie Doolie - The Andrews Sisters
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kaiser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood
& The Campus Kids)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956 The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Picnic - The McGuire Sisters
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964 A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon
I Get Around - The Beach Boys
My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972 The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Outa-Space - Billy Preston
That’s Why I Love You Like I Do - Sonny James

1980 Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Rose - Bette Midler
It’s Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel
Trying to Love Two Women - The Oak Ridge Boys

1988 Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
Make It Real - The Jets
He’s Back and I’m Blue - The Desert Rose Band


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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182nd day of 2008 - 184 remaining.

Monday, June 30, 2008
TUNGUSKA DAY.
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Possibly the most powerful, natural explosion in recorded history occurred on this day in 1908 at 7:17 a.m. The site was the Tunguska section of Central Siberia.

The spectacular explosion devastated a forested area, some 70 miles in diameter, caused seismic shock, a firestorm followed by black rain and an illumination that, it is said, could be seen for hundreds of miles. Yet, no crater was formed, and only the tops of the trees were burned at the central point of the explosion. It is said that the impact threw down horses that had been standing in a field 400 miles away and moved the tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway, as if in an earthquake. It flash-burned people 40 miles away, melted their silverware and destroyed herds of reindeer.

Even now, no one knows what caused the explosion ... an extraterrestrial visitor? A comet? A meteor? A black hole? An atomic explosion?
More here, (http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html) here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event)click. (http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/)

Events
June 30th.

1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train on this day.

1859 - Frenchman Charles Blondin aka Jean Francois Gravelet crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope! It took him five minutes. 25,000 spectators stood and stared as he made his way across the falls in a most dangerous Odyssey ... one he had made several times before on stilts; carrying another man on his back; pushing a wheelbarrow; and even once, blindfolded. What some people do with nothing but spare time on their hands! Next, they’ll be going over the falls in wooden barrels!

1921 - Documents were signed forming the Radio Corporation of America, better known as RCA. RCA soon rivaled its main competitor, General Electric (GE).

1936 - Margaret Mitchell’s book, Gone with the Wind, was published in New York City.

1939 - Frank Sinatra made his first appearance with Harry James’ band. Sinatra was center stage at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD, where he sang My Love for You.

1952 - CBS-TV debuted The Guiding Light. It was a daytime serial that continues on the air as Guiding Light.

1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. That early ’Vette sold for $3,250.

1962 - Los Angeles Dodger’s star Sandy Koufax pitched his first no-hitter in a game with the New York Mets. Koufax would toss three more no-hit games before retiring in 1966.

1970 - The Cincinnati Reds moved to their new $45,000,000 home at Riverfront Stadium. The Reds had played 48 seasons at Crosley Field.

1974 - The famous July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie, Jaws, was filmed. A crowd of 400 screaming, scared, panic-stricken extras in bathing suits ran from the water, over and over and over again, until the scene was perfect. No man-eating killer white sharks were harmed during the production of this paragraph...

1975 - Cher married rock star Greg Allman. Cher announced her divorce from Allman just days after the couple tied the knot.

1981 - Grant Tinker, head of MTM Enterprises, was named to succeed Fred Silverman as president of NBC-TV. Silverman was known as a programming wonder-boy in previous successes with CBS and ABC but would find it rough-going at the Pea**** Network.

1984 - The Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League (USFL) played the longest game in professional history by beating the Michigan Panthers 27-21. The game went on for 93 minutes, 33 seconds. The old mark had been 82 minutes, 40 seconds, set by the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs. Commercial time was not counted.

1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in The King and I at the Broadway Theatre in New York City. The show had run -- on and off -- for over 34 years.

1985 - For the 13th time since 1972, the world’s official timekeeper atomic clock ticked off one extra second at 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time (also called UCT, Universal Coordinated Time) or 7:59:59 p.m. in New York. The leap second was added to compensate for the gradual slowing of the Earth’s rotation.

1985 - The creator of the Twinkie, James A. Dewar, died on this day. Mr. Dewar created the treat in 1930. Many say that Twinkies will stay fresh almost forever. In fact, many bomb shelters in the 1960s were furnished with stockpiles of Hostess Twinkies just for that reason. More than 45 billion of the soft, cream-filled, sponge cakes have been sold.

1990 - German troops’ harassment of East German citizens stopped -- as did all border control activities between East and West Germany. A few weeks later (Sep 21, 1990), all of the border units were dissolved.

1990 - New Kids on the Block (Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, Jon Knight, Danny Wood, Joe McIntyre) stepped to number one in the U.S. with their Step by Step single, just as their Step by Step LP was stepping to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K.

1991 - Frank Zappa performed with Hungarian musicians as Hungary celebrated the withdrawal of Soviet troops after some 46 years of occupation. Zappa headlined the Taban Jazzfestival this day in Budapest.

1993 - The Firm, the flick, debuted. Tom Cruise stars as a young man fresh out of law shool who joins a sinister law firm and proceeds to dig up/out the dirt. Tom gets ample help from Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter and other superstars combined to attract receipts totalling $25.40 million the first weekend.

1994 - The temperature at Death Valley, California reached 128 degrees (Fahrenheit). The only other time it has been that hot (since 1961 when weather data was first recorded) was on July 14, 1972. In case you are wondering, the coldest day was at Death Valley was January 30, 1988, when it reached zero.

1995 - “Houston...we've got a problem.” Famous words from Apollo 13, the real-life mission -- and the movie, which opened on U.S. theatre screens. It brought in $25.35 million for the weekend, which was no problem at all for the film’s producers.

1995 - Garth Brooks buried the glass master of his LP The Hits beneath his star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was the first time something like this had been done and, as far as we know, the last.

1997 - As the clock struck midnight, Red China reclaimed Hong Kong from Great Britain and the British Crown’s 156-year colonial rule came to an end. Many had predicted the worst, but Hong Kong seamlessly made the transition to a Special Administrative Region of China. As British Prime Minister Tony Blair remarked, “The vision of one country, two systems has become a reality ... I have been impressed by the Chinese leadership’s hands-off approach.”

1999 - Vodafone Group Plc of the U.K. and AirTouch Communications Inc. of the U.S. announced their plan to merge. Individually, the two companies were already leaders in mobile communications services in their respective home markets. The merger, valued at $69 billion, created a company with agreements in 102 countries across 217 networks giving over 150 million customers access to its network.

1999 - The Chicago Bulls, picking first in the NBA draft (for the first time ever), selected Duke’s power forward Elton Brand as their first overall selection. Brand had led Duke to the NCAA national title game (played March 29, 1999: UConn 77, Duke 74) and averaged 17.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game while shooting 62 percent from the field.

2000 - The Perfect Storm premiered in the U.S. to a nearly perfect $41.33 million opening-weekend box office. George Clooney plays Billy Tyne, captain of the Andrea Gail, in a true-life drama about -- you guessed it -- a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Tyne’s crew is Bobby Shatford (played by Mark Wahlberg), Murph, (John C. Reilly), Sully (William Fichtner), Bugsy (John Hawkes) and Alfred Pierre (Allen Payne). On Halloween 1991, they are confronted by three raging weather fronts which unexpectedly collide to produce the greatest, fiercest storm in modern history -- the perfect storm (get it?).

Birthdays
June 30th.

1768 - Elizabeth Monroe (Kortright)
First Lady: wife of 5th U.S. President James Monroe; died Sep 23, 1830

1917 - Susan Hayward (Edythe Marrender)
Academy Award-winning actress: I Want to Live [1958], I’ll Cry Tomorrow, Valley of the Dolls; died Mar 14, 1975

1917 - Lena Horne
singer: Love Me or Leave Me, Stormy Weather; actress: The Wiz

1927 - Shirley Fry
tennis champion: Australian Open [1957], French Open [1951], Wimbledon [1956], U.S. Open [1956]

1928 - June Valli
singer: Crying in the Chapel, Your Hit Parade, Stop the Music, Unchained Melody, Apple Green; died Mar 12, 1993

1936 - Nancy Dussault
actress: Too Close for Comfort, The Ted Knight Show; co-host: Good Morning America

1936 - Tony Musante
actor: Judgment, Toma, Fatal Choice, The Grissom Gang, Breaking Up is Hard To Do

1943 - Florence Ballard
singer: group: The Supremes: Baby Love, Stop! In the Name of Love, Come See About Me, You Can’t Hurry Love, My World is Empty Without You, The Happening; died Feb 22, 1976

1944 - Glenn Shorrock
singer: group: The Little River Band: It’s a Long Way There, Help is on Its Way, Reminiscing, Lady, Lonesome Loser, Cool Change, The Night Owls, Take It Easy on Me

1944 - Ron (Alan) ‘Rocky’ Swoboda
baseball: NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Montreal Expos, NY Yankees

1946 - William Brown
singer: group: The Moments: Love on a Two-Way Street, Look at Me [I’m in Love]

1946 - Bill Lenkaitis
football: Penn State Unive., San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots

1949 - (Andrew) Andy Scott
musician: guitar: group: The Sweet: Funny Funny, Co-Co, Little Willy, Wig Wam Bam, Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz, Teenage Rampage, Fox on the Run

1951 - Roger Maltbie
golf: champ: World Series of Golf [1985]

1952 - Brian Ogilvie
hockey: NHL: Chicago Blackhawks, SL Blues

1953 - Hal Lindes
musician: guitar: group: Dire Straits: Telegraph Road, Private Investigation, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, The Man’s Too Strong

1955 - David Alan Grier
actor: Tales from the Hood, Jumanji, Loose Cannons, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, A Soldier’s Story, In Living Color, All is Forgiven

1956 - Philip Adrian Wright
musician: synthesizer: group: Human League: Don’t You Want Me, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise

1959 - Vincent D’Onofrio
actor: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Mystic Pizza, Ed Wood, The Newton Boys, The Thirteenth Floor, The Cell

1963 - Rupert Graves
actor: The Madness of King George, Damage, Maurice, A Room with a View, Doomsday Gun, Mrs. Dalloway

1966 - Mike Tyson
boxer: youngest heavyweight champion [20 years + 144 days]

1970 - Brian Bloom
actor: Once Upon a Time in America, As the World Turns, At Home with the Webbers, Bandit

1971 - Monica Potter
actress: The Young and the Restless, Without Limits, Patch Adams, Along Came a Spider.

Chart Toppers
June 30th.

1949 Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957 Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
It’s Not for Me to Say - Johnny Mathis
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965 Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Wonderful World - Herman’s Hermits
Before You Go - Buck Owens

1973 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) - George Harrison
Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Don’t Fight the Feelings of Love - Charley Pride

1981 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
A Woman Needs Love (Just like You Do) - Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
The One that You Love - Air Supply
Blessed are the Believers - Anne Murray

1989 Satisfied - Richard Marx
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Baby Don’t Forget My Number - Milli Vanilli
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party - Roseanne Cash


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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183rd day of 2008 - 183 remaining.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
IRS DAY. :eek:

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It all started with the big bills the U.S. was running up fighting the Civil War. To help pay for the war, Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue on this day in 1862. President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill into law, making it possible for the feds to collect a three percent tax on incomes ranging from $600 to $10,000, and five percent on incomes over $10,000. Several precursors to the law were never officially enacted or enforced, and this law was just a temporary one...

The Bureau became the Internal Revenue Service in 1913. It was then that a 16th amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution permitting the Federal Government to once again collect a tax on income. Through a complicated system of rules, the Internal Revenue Service became the official collection agency and the reason why U.S. citizens all shudder and shake annually on April 15.


More on this subject can be found here, (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005921.html) and here. (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/)

Events
July 1st.

1847 - The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale. Ben Franklin graced the nickel stamp while George Washington was pictured on the ten-cent stamp. The cost of mailing a one-ounce letter was 5 cents. That’s more than it cost one hundred years later.

1859 - The first intercollegiate baseball game was played -- in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The fans in the stands certainly got their money’s worth. Amherst defeated Williams College by the score of 73-32! Neither pitcher, incidentally, was awarded Player of the Game honors.

1863 - One of the most crucial battles of the Civil War (between the States) began. Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops on an invasion of the North. Union General George Meade defeated the Southern forces at the Battle of Gettysburg.

1867 - This is the day the Confederation of Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritime Provinces became the Dominion of Canada. This Canadian national holiday is known as Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day.

1874 - The first zoo in the United States opened in Philadelphia, PA. Over 3,000 visitors paid 25 cents (adults) or 10 cents (children) to see the 1,000 animals housed in the Philadelphia Zoological Society zoo.

1897 - Three years after the first issue of Billboard Advertising was published, the publication was renamed, The Billboard. The monthly magazine became a weekly many years later.

1916 - Dwight David Eisenhower married Mamie Geneva Doud. It was the same day that Ike was promoted to first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Quite a day for the future U.S. President and his new bride.

1934 - The Federal Communications Commission, as mandated in the Communications Act of 1934, replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the regulator of broadcasting in the United States.

1935 - Benny Goodman and his band recorded the King Porter Stomp for Victor Records on this day. Many people considered this Goodman classic the beginning of the swing era.

1941 - Bulova Watch company sponsored the first TV commercial. Remember “It’s Bulova Watch Time?” It was broadcast over WNBT-TV in New York City, and was a familiar advertising message on TV, radio and in print for many years. That first TV ad, incidentally, cost the watchmaker $9.

1948 - The 5-cent subway ride came to an end in New York City. The price doubled to a dime this day.

1951 - Bob Feller set a baseball record as he pitched his third no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians.

1956 - Elvis Presley got an invitation from Steve Allen to appear on The Tonight Show. Although Elvis showed up in formal wear, the penguin suit didn’t hamper his ability to sing Hound Dog to a sad-eyed basset hound. It looked a little strange, however...

1963 - Birthday greetings go out to Mr. Zip of the United States Post Office. He’s the familiar character seen on the sides of mailboxes and on posters. Mr. Zip was introduced to help educate people to use the 5-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Program) code. Mr. Zip now has new members of the family. There are four digits after the original five, to get that mail to you even faster. No matter what you call it it’s still snail mail to us.

1967 - Scott McKenzie scored his first hit with the single, San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair). The song became an anthem for the Love Generation and the young people of flower power. McKenzie also co-wrote a hit for the Beach Boys in 1988, called Kokomo. Just so that you know, he was born, Philip Blondheim, in Jacksonville, FL. Phil thought the name Scott McKenzie was better for a music biz career. His songs, San Francisco and Like an Old Time Movie, were written and produced by John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas.

1973 - Golfer Bruce Crampton tied for fourth place in the Western Open golf tournament, bringing his career earnings to over a million dollars. Crampton became the first non-American golfer to reach that mark. He became the fifth golfer to make over a million dollars in career earnings. The others were Arnie Palmer, Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino.

1973 - Jesus Christ Superstar closed in New York City after 720 performances on Broadway. The cast album quickly became a million-seller.

1979 - Susan B. Anthony, an activist for the cause of women’s suffrage, was commemorated on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony Dollar. The coin, roughly the size of a quarter, was confused by many with the quarter and the U.S. Treasury Department eventually stopped producing the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that candidates for federal office had an “affirmative right” to go on national television. The ruling limited a TV network’s right to determine when political campaigns begin and who may buy time.

1985 - Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers got hit #1,800 of his career, leading the "Brew Crew" past the Boston Red Sox 5-1.

1991 - Court TV was born. The cable TV network broadcasts entire trials, both famous and low profile. It was a unique addition to the already changing climate of TV information/entertainment.

1994 - For 33 years, Yasir Arafat was regarded by Israelis as a terrorist and sworn enemy of the State of Israel, never to be permitted on Israeli soil. The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization visited the Gaza Strip this day, the result of a signed agreement between Israel and the PLO. The treaty gave the PLO ruling power over the territory and the city of Jericho.

1995 - Wolfman Jack collapsed and died of a heart attack at his home in Belvidere, in northeastern North Carolina. He had just returned from a whirlwind tour promoting his autobiography Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock ’n’ Roll Animal. Fans first learned to love the Wolfman in 1963 on 250,000-watt XERF (Del Rio TX - Ciudad Acuna, Mexico), heard all over North America. You may also remember him as, that's right, Wolfman Jack, in the 1973 movie American Graffiti. And he's the same Wolfman The Guess Who sings about in their 1974 hit Clap for the Wolfman.

1998 - Singer/actress/diva Barbra Streisand and actor/director James Brolin were married at her Malibu, California home. It was her second marriage (she was previously married to actor Elliot Gould) and his third (he was married to casting agent Jane Agee and actress Jan Smithers). The couple honeymooned on a boat in the nearby Channel Islands off the Santa Barbara coast.

1998 - Armageddon opened in U.S. theatres. The plot: Asteroid on collision course with Earth; must knock it off course; have to drill into surface and detonate nuclear weapon; will use expert oil drillers for the job; Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis) is leader of team including: Rockhound (Steve Buscemi), Charles ‘Chick’ Chapple (Will Patton), Jayotis ‘Bear’ Kurleenbear (Michael Duncan), A.J. Frost (Ben Affleck), Oscar Choi (Owen Wilson). Running time: 2 hours and 24 minutes; seems a lot longer. Gross: $36.09 million opening weekend.

Birthdays
July 1st.

1804 - George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant)
author; one of the first liberated women; died June 8, 1876

1872 - Louis Bleriot
aviator: 1st man to fly an airplane across the English Channel [1909]; died Aug 2, 1936

1899 - Thomas A. (Andrew) Dorsey
‘Father of Gospel Music’: musician: pianist; blues composer; gospel music composer: composed over 1,000 gospel songs; died Jan 23, 1993

1899 - Charles Laughton
Academy Award-winning actor: The Private Life of Henry VIII [1933]; Mutiny on the Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, Advise and Consent, Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Kidd, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Spartacus; husband of actress Elsa Lanchester; died Dec 15, 1962

1902 - Myron Cohen
comedian, entertainer, actor: When Nature Calls; died Mar 10, 1986

1902 - William Wyler
director: Funny Girl, Ben Hur, The Big Country, Friendly Persuasion, Roman Holiday, Carrie, Wuthering Heights; died July 27, 1981

1908 - Estee Lauder
cosmetics mogul

1915 - Willie Dixon
blues musician: bass: Big Three Trio; songwriter, producer: 1950s Chicago sound; died Jan 29, 1992

1916 - Olivia de Havilland
Academy Award-winning actress: To Each His Own [1946], The Heiress [1949]; Gone with the Wind; sister of actress, Joan Fontaine

1925 - Farley Granger (Farley Earle II)
actor: Very Close Quarters, Night Flight from Moscow, The Purple Heart, The Robe, Arnold

1928 - Bobby Day (Byrd)
singer: Rockin’ Robin; groups: Hollywood Flames, Bob & Earl; died July 27, 1990

1931 - Leslie Caron
actress: Lili, The L-Shaped Room, Gigi, An American in Paris, Father Goose, Daddy Long Legs

1934 - Claude Berri (Langmann)
actor, director: Le Sex Shop, Marry Me, Marry Me, director: Germinal, Uranus, Manon of the Spring, Jean de Florette, Tchao Pantin, I Love All of You, One Wild Moment, The Two of Us

1934 - Jamie Farr (Jameel Joseph Farah)
actor: M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball Run, With Six You Get Egg Roll

1934 - Jean Marsh
actress: Upstairs, Downstairs, The Jewel in the Crown, Fatherland, Frenzy, The Changeling

1934 - Sydney Pollack
director: The Firm, Out of Africa, Tootsie, Absence of Malice, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were

1936 - Wally Amos Jr.
entrepreneur: originated Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies, [sold name], now runs Chip & Cookie, Kailua, Hawaii [w/wife Christine Harris-Amos]

1939 - Delaney Bramlett
musician: guitar, singer: duo: Delaney & Bonnie: Never Ending Song of Love, Only You Know and I Know, LP: Delaney and Friends: Class Reunion, To Delaney from Bonnie, Accept No Substitute: The Original Delaney and Bonnie; TV performer: Shindig

1939 - Frank Parker (Ciccio)
singer [with Marion Marlowe]: An Old Fashioned Picture, Kiss Me Once [And Then Again], Make Believe, Romance, The Melba Waltz; one of the ‘Little Godfreys’ on the Arthur Godfrey Show; quiz show panelist: Masquerade Party; actor: The Concorde: Airport ’79, General Hospital [soap], Days of Our Lives [soap]

1941 - Rod Gilbert
NHL Hall-of-Famer: NY Rangers all-time scoring leader; eight-time NHL All-Star; Patrick Trophy [1991]; Masterton Trophy [1975-76]

1942 - Geneviève Bujold
actress: Anne of a Thousand Days, Coma, Dead Ringers

1945 - Karen Black (Ziegler)
actress: Five Easy Pieces, Portnoy’s Complaint, The Great Gatsby, Nashville, Airport ’75

1945 - Debbie (Deborah Ann) Harry
singer: group: Blondie: The Tide is High, Rapture, Heart of Glass, Call Me

1947 - Harold McLinton
football: Washington Redskins linebacker: Super Bowl VII

1951 - Fred Schneider
musician: keyboards, singer: groups: Shake Society, The B-52’s: Rock Lobster, Quiche Lorraine, 606 0842, Dance This Mess Around

1952 - Dan Aykroyd
comedian, actor: Driving Miss Daisy, Sneakers, Coneheads, Saturday Night Live, Dragnet, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Pearl Harbor

1953 - Pat Donovan
football: Dallas Cowboys tackle: Super Bowl X, XII, XIII

1956 - Lorna Patterson
actress: Goodtime Girls, Airplane!, Private Benjamin [TV]

1961 - Princess Diana (Spencer)
Princess of Wales; killed in car crash in Paris, France, August 31, 1997

1961 - Carl (Frederick Carlton) Lewis
Olympic Gold Medalist: long jump [1996], long jump and 4x100 relay [1992], 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, a world record, long jump, 4x100 meter relay [1988], 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4x100 meter relay [1984]; Olympic Hall of Famer; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1983, 1984]

1963 - Roddy Bottum
musician: keyboards: group: Faith No More

1967 - Pamela Anderson
actress: Baywatch, Raw Justice, Playboy’s Babes of Baywatch, Pam & Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon, Cribs

1970 - Henry Simmons
actor: NYPD Blue, Another World, One Life to Live, A Gentleman’s Game

1972 - Claire Forlani
actress: J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, The Rock, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Meet Joe Black, AntiTrust

1977 - Liv Tyler
model, actress: Silent Fall, Heavy, That Thing You Do!, Armageddon, Cookie’s Fortune, Lord of the Rings series.

Chart Toppers
July 1st.

1950 Bewitched - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Mary Lou Williams)
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams

1958 Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Yakety Yak - The Coasters
Patricia - Perez Prado
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash

1966 Paperback Writer - The Beatles
Strangers in the Night - Frank Sinatra
Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle
Take Good Care of Her - Sonny James

1974 Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Be Thankful for What You Got - William DeVaughn
If You Love Me (Let Me Know) - Olivia Newton-John
Room Full of Roses - Mickey Gilley

1982 Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Slow Hand - Conway Twitty

1990 Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
Do You Remember? - Phil Collins
I’ll Be Your Shelter - Taylor Dayne
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
CIVIL RIGHTS DAY.

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The 2nd of July, 1964 signifies the date it was no longer legal in the United States to discriminate against others because of their race. It was on this day that U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The law included the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of race, not only where the registration of voters was involved, but also in public accommodations, in publicly owned or operated facilities, in employment and union membership.

Title VI of the bill provided for more than a slap on the hand to persistent lawbreakers who received federal funding. It allowed for the cancellation of such monies.

The law is still in effect ... with discrimination because of gender, age and religion also prohibited. Too bad it has to be made into a law before all are ensured of their civil rights.

More on the subject can be read here. (http://civilrightsmovement.com/)

Events
July 2nd.


1850 - The gas mask was patented on this day. It was an invention of B.J. Lane of Cambridge, MA.

1867 - New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business. Commuters soon called the mode of transportation the El.

1921 - The first prize fight offering a million-dollar gate was broadcast on radio. Jack Dempsey knocked out George Carpentier in the fourth round of the bout in Jersey City, NJ.

1929 - Ruby Keeler starred in Flo Ziegfeld’s production of Show Girl which opened in New York City. Critics liked the show.

1933 - Baseball great Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants hurled 18 innings of shutout ball to lead the Giants to a 1-0 win over St. Louis in the first half of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants took the nightcap, as well, by an identical 1-0 score.

1939 - The Aldrich Family debuted on NBC radio. Mother Aldrich was heard to call, “Hen-ree! Henry Aldrich!” Mrs. Aldrich was named Alice; Mr. Aldrich was Sam; Henry’s sister was Mary; Henry’s mischief-making friend was Homer Brown; and Henry’s girlfriend was Kathleen. Henry, of course was, well, Henry.

1942 - Jo Stafford joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra for Manhattan Serenade, which was recorded for Victor Records. The recording session, you may have guessed, took place in Manhattan.

1946 - CBS signed the Old Redhead, Arthur Godfrey to do a weekly nighttime radio show. Godfrey was soon hosting one of radio’s top shows, Talent Scouts.

1951 - NBC radio presented Bob and Ray (Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding) on a network radio show. The comedians had previously been heard on WHDH Radio in Boston, MA.

1955 - “Ah one anna two...” ABC Television premiered The Lawrence Welk Show. In Welk’s 24-piece band was the ’Champagne Lady’, Alice Lon.

1956 - Elvis Presley recorded Hound Dog and Don’t Be Cruel for his new record label home, RCA Victor. In addition, Elvis recorded Any Way You Want Me for later release.

1963 - The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Mia Farrow, opened (off-Broadway). Farrow got good reviews from the critics and a new show biz career was underway.

1966 - MAD magazine, featuring that lovable madcap dweeb, Alfred E. “What Me Worry?” Neuman, was promoting rental cars and shaving cream on postal stamps! Fifteen years later, the U.S. Congress, which didn’t find the stunt very funny, introduced ad stamp legislation of its own to relieve the post office deficit.

1984 - Epic Records set a record as two million copies of the Jacksons’ new album, Victory, were shipped to stores. It was the first time that such a large shipment had been initially sent to retailers. The LP arrived just days before Michael and his brothers started their hugely successful Victory Tour.

1985 - Joe Niekro earned win #200 in his career by leading the Houston Astros to a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres in the Astrodome. Joe, famous for the knuckle ball, has a brother, Phil, who also threw the wacky pitch.

1988 - Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from one album when Dirty Diana went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The other four chart-toppers from Bad were I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel and Man in the Mirror.

1997 - Men in Black opened in the U.S. It’s a fun-filled sci-fi tale about a secret organization that’s been keeping track of extra-terrestrial aliens on Earth for over 40 years. This organization so secret that when you retire, your memory of it is erased! Agents Kay (Tommy Lee Jones) and Jay (Will Smith) expose a plot by intergalactic terrorist Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) who has beamed (or whatever) to Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies. Complex, but hilarious, but action packed. Audiences beamed (or whatever) to theatres the first weekend, spending $51.07 million on the movie.

Birthdays
July 2nd.

1905 - Jean Rene Lacoste
tennis; founder of Lacoste tennis clothing [the company with the alligator logo]; died Oct 12, 1996

1908 - Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: first black to hold this office [1967-1991]; died Jan 24, 1993

1916 - Ken Curtis
actor: Mister Roberts, The Alamo, Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won [TV]; singer: w/Tommy Dorsey Band, w/Roy Rogers and Sons of the Pioneers; died Apr 29, 1991

1922 - Dan Rowan
comedian: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, The Dean Martin Summer Show; died Sep 22, 1987

1925 - Marvin (Karlton) Rainwater
singer: Gonna Find Me a Bluebird

1927 - Brock Peters (Fisher)
actor: The Secret, The Pawnbroker, Soylent Green, To Kill a Mockingbird; died Aug 23, 2005

1929 - Imelda Marcos
widow of exiled Philippines leader, Ferdinand Marcos; famous for her collection of hundreds of pairs of shoes

1930 - Ahmad Jamal
jazz musician: But Not for Me

1931 - Larry Costello
basketball: Philadelphia 76ers; coach: Milwaukee Bucks, Utica College; died Dec 13, 2001

1932 - Dave Thomas
fast-food founder: Wendy’s [appears in Wendy’s TV commercials]; founder: Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption; died Jan 8, 2002

1934 - Tom Springfield
folk singer: group: Springfields: Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Island of Dreams

1937 - Polly Holliday
actress: Alice, Flo, Private Benjamin, Gremlins

1937 - Richard Petty
auto racer: 7-time winner of Daytona 500 [1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1981]; 1st to win a million $$ stock car race

1939 - Paul Williams
singer: groups: The Primes, The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do, My Girl, It’s Growing, Get Ready, Beauty is Only Skin Deep, [I Know] I’m Losing You, You’re My Everything, All I Need, I Wish It Would Rain, Cloud Nine, Runaway Child, Running Wild, I Can’t Get Next to You, Just My Imagination; died Aug 17, 1973

1942 - Michael Abene
composer: score: Goodbye, New York

1946 - Ron Silver
actor: Wiseguy, The Stockard Channing Show, Rhoda, The Mac Davis Show, Kissinger and Nixon, Timecop, Romancing the Stone, Oh, God! You Devil, Silkwood, The Goodbye People, Semi-Tough, Enemies, a Love Story; Speed-the-Plow; director: Lifepod

1947 - Lucy Baines Johnson
daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson

1949 - Curtis Rowe
basketball: UCLA, Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics

1951 - Jim (James Michael) Hughes
baseball: pitcher: Minnesota Twins

1951 - Joe Puerta
musician: bass, singer: group: Bruce Hornsby & The Range, Ambrosia: Hold on to Yesterday, How Much I Feel, You’re the Only Woman, Biggest Part of Me

1952 - Johnny Colla
musician: saxophone, guitar: groups: Soundhole, Huey Lewis & The News: Do You Believe in Love, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Walking on a Thin Line, Bad is Bad, If This is It, Power of Love, Trouble in Paradise, Stuck with You

1954 - Pete Briquette
musician: bass, singer: group: The Boomtown Rats: Looking After No. 1, She’s So Modern, Rat Trap, I Don’t Like Mondays, Banana Republic

1957 - Bret Hart
pro wrestler/actor: WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, King of the Ring, WCW Monday Nitro, WCW Thunder

1961 - Jimmy McNichol
actor: The Fitzpatricks, California Fever, Escape from El Diablo; actress Kristy McNichol’s brother

1964 - Jose (Capas) Canseco
baseball: Oakland Athletics [Rookie of the Year: 1986/all-star: 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992/World Series: 1988, 1989, 1990/Baseball Writer’s Award: 1988/1st player to hit 40 or more home runs and steal 40 or more bases in same season], Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox

1966 - Kathryn Erbe
actress: Oz, Chicken Soup, Dragonfly, Law & Order: Criminal Intent

1970 - Yancy Butler
actress: Hard Target, Law & Order, South Beach, Brooklyn South, The Witness Files

1973 - Scott Taylor
pro wrestler/actor: Raw is War, Sunday Night Heat, WWF Smackdown!, WWF No Mercy, Royal Rumble.

Chart Toppers
July 2nd.

1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mister and Mississippi - Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Personality - Lloyd Price
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
Lipstick on Your Collar - Connie Francis
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967 Windy - The Association
Little Bit o’ Soul - The Music Explosion
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
All the Time - Jack Greene

1975 Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
Tryin’ to Beat the Morning Home - T.G. Sheppard

1983 Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Love is on a Roll - Don Williams

1991 Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Unbelievable - EMF
Power of Love/Love Power - Luther Vandross
The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
keep this updated daily. I use to do a, Today in history article daily
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
WHO’S ON FIRST DAY. :D
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The legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello debuted this day in 1940 with their network radio show on NBC. The duo replaced Fred Allen for the summer months.

Twelve years later, Abbott and Costello went on to produce 52 episodes of one of the most successful and repeated programs in TV history, The Abbott and Costello Show. A cartoon version of the human cartoons followed in 1966.

The most famous of all Abbott and Costello routines was Who’s on First. The names of the players and their positions in the hilarious skit were: First base: "Who"; Second base: "What"; Third base: "I Don’t Know"; Shortstop: "I Don’t Care" (or, "I Don’t Give a Darn"); Pitcher: "Tomorrow"; Catcher: "Today"; Left field: "Why" and Center field: "Because". So, now you know.
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More here. (http://fisher.osu.edu/~tomassini_1/whofirst.html) here, (http://www.abbottandcostello.net/) here, (http://www.lousonfirst.com/ac_bio.htm) here, (http://www.bobbysotr.com/DETAIL_ABBOTT%20AND%20COSTELLO.htm) here, (http://www.abbottandcostello.net/funfacts.asp) click. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrm6luPmME)

Events
July 3rd.

1819 - This was a great day for those folks who liked to save for a rainy day. The first bank in the U.S. opened in New York City. Business was brisk with $2,807 deposited in the Bank for Savings.

1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the Montezuma.

1878 - John Wise of Lancaster, PA was the pilot for the maiden flight of a dirigible.

1890 - The Spud State, the Potato State, the Gem State are all synonymous with Idaho, which entered the United States of America on this day. The capital of the 43rd state is Boise. The official state bird is the mountain bluebird; the state flower is the syringa ... or lilac, to the non-botanists among us.

1912 - Rube Marquard set a baseball pitching record. The hurler and his New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1, earning Marquard his 19th consecutive win.

1922 - Readers were introduced to Fruit Garden and Home magazine. In two years, the publication would be renamed Better Homes and Gardens.

1934 - The first payment by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was made to Lydia Losiger of East Peoria, IL.

1937 - Del Mar race track opened in sunny Del Mar, California.

1939 - Chic Young’s comic strip character, Blondie was first heard on CBS radio. Later, the popular comic strip would become a TV favorite, as well.

1941 - Cab Calloway and his orchestra recorded the standard, St. James Infirmary, for Okeh Records.

1945 - Victor Borge was first heard on NBC radio. The network gave the comedian/pianist the summer replacement slot for Fibber McGee and Molly.

1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Automotive production had been diverted to military production for the war (WWII) effort.

1953 - Harry Belafonte was shown with actress Janet Leigh and film star Tony Curtis on the cover of Ebony magazine. It was the first time a black person and two Caucasians were seen together on a U.S. magazine cover.

1971 - The Newport Jazz Festival’s reputation was tarnished as gate crashers stormed the stage. The unruly mob forced the show to leave Newport, Rhode Island and move to New York City. Oh, and the artist the crowd got unruly over? Not Bob Dylan, not Miles Davis, but Dionne Warwick! She was singing What the World Needs Now is Love at the time of the incident.

1973 - Clint Holmes received a gold record for his hit single, Playground in My Mind.

1976 - Brian Wilson rejoined The Beach Boys, who were appearing at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, CA (before 74,000 fans). Wilson had been out of the group’s road tour schedule for 12 years.

1976 - 103 hostages were rescued by an Israeli commando unit in a raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda. 106 hostages had been taken from a hijacked Air France airliner on its way to Paris from Tel Aviv. Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, 20 Ugandan soldiers and 3 hostages were killed in the raid.

1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies connected for hit #3,786. It moved Rose into second place in the career-hits column of the record books. Rose was second only to Ty Cobb whose major-league record was 4,191 hits. Rose was 41 years old at the time. Three years later he surpassed Cobb’s mark.

1985 - Kevin Curren whipped #1-seeded John McEnroe at the Wimbledon tennis championships. McEnroe had been attempting to become the first American to earn three consecutive men’s titles at Wimbledon.

1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, considered by many to be the world’s greatest ballet dancer, became a U.S. citizen in ceremonies at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.

1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan issued a statement to the world, and an apology to the Iranian people, “I am saddened to report that it appears that in a proper defensive action by the USS Vincennes this morning in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian airliner was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz ... We greatly regret any loss of life ...” (290 died when the Vincennes fired upon Iran Air Flight 655, mistaking the plane for a hostile F-14 fighter plane.)

1996 - “Earth, take a good look. It could be your last.” Independence Day was shown for the first time to U.S. audiences. Gigantic alien spacecraft are parked in orbit around the Earth, getting set to attack major points around the globe. The weirdos from outer space wipe out New York, Los Angeles, and Washington just for practice. Survivors come up with a plan to fight back ... and just do manage to save the planet. The movie was a blockbuster, doing $50.23 million in its debut weekend. How could it miss with a star-studded cast including Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, James Rebhorn and Harvey Fierstein!

Birthdays
July 3rd.

1878 - George M. (Michael) Cohan
actor, singer, composer: Over There, The Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards to Broadway, Mary’s a Grand Old Name, You’re a Grand Old Flag, Harrigan; subject of movie: Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Broadway show: George M!; died Nov 5, 1942

1906 - George Sanders
Academy Award-winning actor: All About Eve [1950]; The Quiller Memorandum, Picture of Dorian Gray, Village of the Damned, A Shot in the Dark, Samson and Delilah; died Apr 25, 1972

1915 - Jerry Gray
arranger, bandleader: The Glenn Miller Orchestra; died Aug 10, 1976

1921 - Susan Peters (Carnahan)
actress: Andy Hardy’s Double Life, Random Harvest; died Oct 23, 1952

1927 - Ken Russell
director: Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Altered States, Tommy, The Boy Friend, Prisoner of Honor

1930 - Pete Fountain
clarinetist: New Orleans jazz great; Lawrence Welk Show, For the First Time

1937 - Tom Stoppard (Straussler)
playwright: The Real Thing, On the Razzle, Travesties, Empire of the Sun

1940 - Fontella Bass
singer: Rescue Me

1940 - Cesar (Leonardo) ‘Pepito’ Tovar
baseball: Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees; died July 14, 1994

1942 - Michael Cole
actor: Mod Squad, Chuka, Nickel Mountain

1943 - Kurtwood Smith
actor: To Die For, The Crush, Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, Dead Poets Society, Rambo 3, RoboCop, The New Adventures of Bean Baxter, Big Wave Dave’s

1944 - Walt Garrison
football: Dallas Cowboys running back: Super Bowl V, VI

1944 - Jethro Pugh
football: Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII

1945 - Paul Naumoff
football: Detroit Lions [Lions record: tackles in a game: 21 vs. Cleveland Nov. 9, 1975]

1945 - Johnny Lee
country singer: Lookin’ for Love, One in a Million, Bet Your Heart on Me

1947 - Betty Buckley
actress: Cats, Eight is Enough, Carrie, Wyatt Earp; singer: Memories

1948 - Paul Barrere
musician: guitar: group: Little Feat: On Your Way Down, Day at the Dog Races; solo: LP: On My Own Two Feet

1949 - Jan Smithers
actress: WKRP in Cincinnati, Mr. Nice Guy, Where the Lilies Bloom

1953 - Frank (Daryl) Tanana
baseball: pitcher: California Angels [all-star: 1976, 1977, 1978], Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Detroit Tigers, NY Mets, NY Yankees

1953 - Dave Lewis
hockey: NY Islanders, LA Kings, NJ Devils, Detroit Red Wings [player, coach]

1953 - John Verhoeven
baseball: pitcher: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins

1955 - Neil Clark
musician: guitar: group: Lloyd Cole & The Commotions

1955 - Matt (Lon) Keough
baseball: Oakland Athletics [all-star: 1978] , NY Yankees, SL Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros

1956 - Montel Williams
TV talk show host: The Montel Williams Show

1957 - Laura Branigan
singer: Gloria, Solitaire, How am I Supposed to Live Without You, Self Control, Theme Song from Octopussy, Hot Night; died Aug 26, 2004

1960 - Vince Clarke
songwriter: group: DePeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough, See You; musician: keyboards: groups: Yaz: Only You, Don’t Go, Nobody’s Diary; The Assembly: Never Never; Erasure: Sometimes

1962 - Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV)
actor: Mission: Impossible series, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Days of Thunder, Born on the Fourth of July, ****tail, Top Gun, Rain Man, The Color of Money, Taps, Interview with a Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut, Mission: Impossible II, Collateral, War of the Worlds

1962 - Thomas Gibson
actor: Far and Away, The Age of Innocence, Barcelona, Dharma & Greg, Eyes Wide Shut

1962 - Hunter Tylo
actress: All My Children, Final Cut, Days of Our Lives, Longshot

1966 - Moises Alou
baseball: Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins, Houston Astros

1970 - Teemu Selanne
‘The Finnish Flash’: hockey: Winnipeg Jets, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, San-Jose Sharks

1970 - Shawnee Smith
actress: Becker, Iron Eagle, Who's Harry Crumb?, Desperate Hours, Leaving Las Vegas, Arsenio, Armageddon, Karen Black: Actress at Work.

Chart Toppers
July 3rd.

1944 I’ll Be Seing You - Bing Crosby
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Amor - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952 Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
A Guy is a Guy - Doris Day
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
That Heart Belongs to Me - Webb Pierce

1960 Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles
Because They’re Young - Duane Eddy
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin

1968 This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
The Horse - Cliff Nobles & Co.
Angel of the Morning - Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Tammy Wynette

1976 Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
All These Things - Joe Stampley

1984 The Reflex - Duran Duran
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
When Doves Cry - Prince
I Can Tell by the Way You Dance (You’re Gonna Love Me Tonight) -
Vern Gosdin


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


For those who are reading this, be sure and stop in daily as I will
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Friday, July 4, 2008
INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Americans celebrate their independence from the British on this day. July 4th commemorates the approval of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. No it wasn’t signed on this day - just approved. The actual signing didn’t take place until a month later. Most of the delegates signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776, the first signature being that of John Han****. Several signatures were obtained later ... George Wythe (Virginia) on August 27; Richard Henry Lee (Virginia), Elbridge Gerry (Massachusetts), Oliver Wolcott (Connecticut) signed in September; Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire) in November. Thomas McKean, representing Delaware, was serving in the army and was unavailable to add his ‘John Han****’ until 1781.

Thomas Jefferson was the major author of the Declaration of Independence, but he had help from John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Following the natural rights theory of John Locke, the document proclaimed the equality of ‘all men’ and their ‘unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. The authors wrote that governments were established to secure these rights; when they failed to do so, the people could abolish them. This one statement alone was considered as treason to the British crown.

And so, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Han**** said, “Now we must all hang together.”

Always the sharp wit, Benjamin Franklin smilingly stated, “Or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”
July 4th. (http://homepages.tesco.net/~derek.berger/holidays/july4th.html) Declaration of Independence (http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration.html) and click. (http://www.usacitylink.com/usa/)

Events
July 4th.

1832 - It was on this day that America was sung in public for the first time -- at the Park Street Church in Boston, MA. Dr. Samuel Francis Smith wrote the words, borrowing the tune from a German songbook. Ironically, and unknown to Dr. Smith at the time, the melody is the same as the British national anthem.

1855 - The first edition of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, was published in Brooklyn, NY.

1881 - Tuskegee Institute opened its doors to the students who built it with bricks made in their own kiln. An abandoned plantation in Tuskegee, Alabama was the site chosen for Booker T. Washington’s institution for academic and vocational training.

1884 - Bullfighting was introduced in America. No, not in Texas or Arizona, but in Dodge City, Kansas.

1886 - The first rodeo in America was held at Prescott, Arizona.

1895 - America the Beautiful, the famous song often touted as the true U.S. national anthem, was originally a poem written by Katherine Lee Bates. The Wellesley College professor’s poem was first published this day in the Congregationalist, a church newspaper.

1923 - Jack Dempsey defeated Tommy Gibbons in a fight held in that boxing mecca of Shelby, Montana. The fight had been called the strangest fight in boxing history (until the 1997 match between Evander Holyfield and the ‘ear-biting’ Mike Tyson).

1939 - Lou Gehrig retired from baseball in a touching ceremony at Yankee Stadium in New York City. Some 62,000 fans of the ‘Iron Horse’ came out to bid him goodbye. To feel the emotion of the moment, see the movie Pride of the Yankees.

1942 - The Irving Berlin musical, This is the Army, opened at New York’s Broadway Theatre. Net profits of the show were $780,000.

1943 - The Rhythm Boys, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris, were reunited for the first time since the 1930s on Paul Whiteman Presents on NBC radio.

1951 - Jack Webb did a summer switch -- from his Dragnet role of Sgt. Joe Friday to that of Pete Kelly. Pete Kelly’s Blues, a crime drama, was the summer replacement on NBC radio for Halls of Ivy (with Ronald Colman and Benita Hume). Webb also played Pete Kelly in the 1955 movie of the same name; then produced and directed a 1959 TV series, also titled Pete Kelly’s Blues, starring William Reynolds as Pete.

1955 - The first king cobra snakes born in captivity in the United States were hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. A total of nine eggs hatched between July 4th and 12th of 1955.

1962 - Gene Autry’s baseball team, the California Angels, surprised fans everywhere by stunning the Washington Senators in a doubleheader sweep that propelled them into first place at the season’s midway point. The first place stay didn’t last. The Angels finished out of the running (by 10-1/2 games) at the end of the season.

1970 - Casey Kasem hosted radio’s American Top 40 for the first time this day.

1973 - Riva Ridge won the Brooklyn Handicap in a world-record time of 1:52.3/5 in the 1-3/16-mile event. Riva Ridge became thoroughbred racing’s 12th, million-dollar race horse.

1985 - A crowd, estimated at one million, gathered in Philadelphia to celebrate the 209th anniversary of America’s independence. The Beach Boys were joined by Mr. T. on drums to really add some fireworks to the festivities. The Oak Ridge Boys, Joan Jett and Jimmy Page joined in the celebration (but wouldn’t let Mr. T. play ...)

1987 - Martina Navratilova captured her sixth consecutive Wimbledon singles title.

1997 - The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, launched by NASA from the Earth in December 1996, entered the atmosphere of Mars. A heat shield, parachutes, and airbags helped it land safely. The Sojourner rover searched the surface of Mars for rocks while millions of earthlings watch it on TV and the Internet.

1999 - Jose Canseco of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays smacked his 30th home run of the season, although Tampa Bay lost to the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3. Canseco became the first player in major-league history to hit 30 home runs with four different teams. He had previously reached that mark with the Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays and the Oakland Athletics. Note: Canseco hit 30 or more homers with Oakland five times.

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Birthdays
July 4th.

1826 - Stephen Foster
song writer of about 200 songs including: Oh! Susannah, Camptown Races, Old Folks at Home [Swanee River], Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Beautiful Dreamer; died Jan 13, 1864

1872 - Calvin Coolidge
30th U.S. President [1923-1929]; married to Grace Goodhue [two sons]; nickname: Silent Cal; died Jan 5, 1933

1883 - Rube (Reuben Lucius) Goldberg
inventor of elaborate, involved contraptions that accomplish simple tasks; cartoonist; died Dec 7, 1970

1902 - George (Lloyd) Murphy
actor: This is the Army, Little Miss Broadway, For Me and My Gal; politician: U.S. Senator; died May 3, 1992

1911 - Mitch Miller
record company executive, producer, arranger: Columbia, Mercury; musician & instrumentalist: Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, The Yellow Rose of Texas, March from The River Kwai; Sing Along with Mitch LPs and TV show

1913 - Virginia Graham (Komiss)
TV hostess: The Strawhatters; panelist: Where Was I?; died Dec 22, 1998

1918 - Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman)
advice columnist; twin sister of Abigail Van Buren; died June 22, 2002

1918 - Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman)
advice columnist: Dear Abby; twin sister of Ann Landers

1920 - Leona Helmsley
hotel mogul: Helmsley Hotels

1924 - Eva Marie Saint
Academy Award-winning actress: On the Waterfront [1954]; North by Northwest, Exodus, Raintree County

1927 - Gina Lollobrigida
actress: Trapeze, Belles de Nuit, Solomon and Sheba, Strange Bedfellows, Come September

1927 - Neil (Marvin) Simon
Tony Award-winning playwright: The Odd Couple [1965], Lost in Yonkers [and Pulitzer Prize: 1991]; The Sunshine Boys, Barefoot in the Park, The Goodbye Girl, California Suite, Plaza Suite, Seems like Old Times, Prisoner of Second Avenue

1929 - Al Davis
football general manager: Oakland Raiders; only one in pro football to be scout, asst. coach, head coach, general manager, league commissioner and owner

1929 - Chuck (Charles William) Tanner
baseball: Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, LA Angels; manager: Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Braves

1930 - George Steinbrenner
shipping magnate, baseball team owner: New York Yankees

1937 - Rosey (Roosevelt) Taylor
football: Grambling College, Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins: Super Bowl VII

1937 - Ray Pillow
singer: Take Your Hands Off My Heart, Thank You Ma’am, I’ll Take the Dog, Volkswagon, Gone with the Wine

1938 - Bill Withers
Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer: Ain’t No Sunshine [1971], Lean on Me, Use Me

1940 - Pat Stapleton
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks

1942 - Floyd Little
College Football Hall of Famer: Syracuse: 3-time All-American running back; Denver Broncos: rushed for 6,323 yards on 1,641 carries & 43 touchdowns

1943 - Emerson Boozer
football: NY Jets running back: Super Bowl III

1943 - Geraldo Rivera
investigative reporter, talk show host: Geraldo

1943 - Al ‘Blind Owl’ Wilson
musician: guitar, harmonica, singer: group: Canned Heat: On the Road Again, Going Up the Country, Let’s Work Together; died Sep 3, 1970

1948 - Jeremy Spencer
musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Black Magic Woman, Need Your Love So Bad, Albatross, Man of the World, The Green Manalishi [With the Two-Pronged Crown]

1955 - John Waite
singer: Missing You, Tears; group: The Babys: Isn’t It Time, Everytime I Think of You, Back on My Feet Again

1958 - Kirk Pengilly
musician: guitar, saxophone: group: INXS: Just Keep Walking, The One Thing, Original Sin, Melting in the Sun, This Time

1960 - Signy Coleman
actress: The Young and the Restless

1962 - Pam Shriver
tennis: grand slam doubles winner [1984]; w/ Martina Navratilova won 7 Australian, 4 French, 5 Wimbledon, 4 U.S. Opens [1981-1989]

1965 -Harvey Grant
basketball: Washington Bullets, Portland Trailblazers, Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Wizards; twin brother of Horace

1965 - Horace Grant
basketball: Chicago Bulls, Orlando Magic, Seattle Supersonics, LA Lakers; twin brother of Harvey.

Chart Toppers
July 4th.

1945 Laura - The Woody Herman Orchestra
Dream - The Pied Pipers
Sentimental Journey - The Les Brown Orchestra (vocal: Doris Day)
Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima - Bob Wills

1953 Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
April in Portugal - The Les Baxter Orchestra
Ruby - Richard Hayman
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams

1961 Quarter to Three - U.S. Bonds
Raindrops - Dee Clark
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
Hello Walls - Faron Young

1969 Get Back - The Beatles
Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Statue of a Fool - Jack Greene

1977 Got to Give It Up (Pt. I) - Marvin Gaye
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky") - Bill Conti
Undercover Angel - Alan O’Day
That was Yesterday - Donna Fargo

1985 Heaven - Bryan Adams
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Raspberry Beret - Prince & The Revolution
She Keeps the Home Fires Burning - Ronnie Milsap


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187th day of 2008 - 179 remaining.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH DAY.

Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey’s circus, the Greatest Show on Earth, was the brainchild of a man who said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” P.T. Barnum was born on this day in 1810 in Bethel, Connecticut.

His first ‘pull the wool over their eyes’ act happened in 1830, when he had people believing that an elderly black woman, Joice Heth, was George Washington’s childhood nurse. The gullible public supported him successfully for over three decades as owner of the P.T. Barnum’s Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome.

The museum housed several improbable attractions including the Fiji Mermaid (a fishtailed doll with a dried monkey head & torso). P.T. did have some legitimacy. He displayed Jumbo, the world’s largest elephant, and General Tom Thumb, the world’s smallest man, the first set of Siamese twins, and the famous soprano Jenny Lind. He even arranged a successful tour for her.

Most of what Barnum had to offer would be considered the side show of today’s circus. But it was he who created the circus as we know it. Merging with Mr. Bailey and later, the Ringling Brothers in 1907, P.T. Barnum left us the lasting legacy of the circus extravaganza, housing true attractions along with the fake.

The most successful and outrageous showman of the times, Phineas Taylor Barnum was still a man of his word. After all, was there ever a greater show than the Greatest Show on Earth?

Bring on the cotton candy, the clowns, the daring young man on the flying trapeze, and the parade of elephants. We’re ready to be suckered.
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Events
July 5th.

1865 - William Booth formed the internationally acclaimed Salvation Army in London, England. The Salvation Army’s officers are ordained ministers who have vowed to serve the Army for life. The Army has units in over 80 countries.

1865 - Make no sudden moves. Those guys with the dark glasses and the earphone in one ear could be watching ... even here on the web! Ever wonder why U.S. Secret Service agents pictured in movies talk into their hands? Is it to stifle a cough? Is it because Mr. Microphone is hidden in the palm of their hand? Is it because they just like talking into their hand? We’ll go with Mr. Microphone. Anyway, it was on this day that the United States Secret Service was created. At first, the agency was only responsible for protecting against the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. In 1901, following the assassination of President William McKinley, the Secret Service began protecting the President of the U.S. The scope of responsibility for the Secret Service has grown enormously over the years. This arm of the U.S. Treasury is now also responsible for guarding the White House, the Executive Office Building, the Treasury building and annex along with all the billions of $$$ stored in its vaults.

1916 - Adeline and Augusta Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour attempted by two women. The bikers left New York City this day and arrived in San Diego, CA on September 12th.

1934 - Love in Bloom, sung by Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s orchestra, was recorded for Brunswick Records in Los Angeles. The song was fairly popular, but became a much bigger success when comedian Jack Benny made it a popular standard.

1942 - Edsel Ford of Detroit was disappointed to discover that because of strict wartime auto rationing, he was unable to get a car until his application had been approved by the government. Mr. Ford’s family had, incidentally, produced over 30 million automobiles to that day. And, yes, he later had the Edsel named after him.

1943 - The Adventures of Nero Wolfe debuted on the NBC Blue radio network. Nero Wolfe was “the detective genius who rates the knife and fork the greatest tools ever invented by man.” The ‘gargantuan gourmet’ continued on the air until 1951.

1946 - The first two-piece brief swimsuit was shown in public. The bikini was worn by a model at a press party. According to our Bikini Encyclopedia, it wasn’t long before the creation of Louis Reard went from making the rounds of media events to the beaches of the world. Mr. Reard, incidentally, called his bikini creation, “four triangles of nothing.”

1947 - The first black baseball player in the American League joined the lineup of the Cleveland Indians. Larry Doby played his first game against the Chicago White Sox. He played for both the Indians and the White Sox during his 13-year, major-league career.

1948 - My Favorite Husband, with Lucille Ball, became the gifted redhead’s first regular radio program on CBS. Lee Bowman, and later, Richard Denning, co-starred with Lucy as “two people who live together and like it.”

1951 - The Silver Eagle debuted on ABC radio as a late entry into radio’s action-adventure lineup. Jim Ameche starred as Jim West. The program continued for four years and marked the last of radio’s long list of adventure shows.

1951 - Dr. William Shockley announced that he had invented a working and efficient junction transistor at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ.

1954 - Elvis Presley recorded That’s All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky. It was his first session for Sam Phillips and Sun Records in Memphis, TN.

1962 - Bob Garibaldi got a bonus of $150,000 as he signed with the San Francisco Giants.

1969 - Rod Laver became the first man to win four Wimbledon tennis titles.

1982 - For the first time since 1974, Jimmy Connors won the men’s singles tennis title at Wimbledon. Connors beat John McEnroe 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4.

1985 - Baseball history was made when the New York Mets finally beat the Atlanta Braves (by a 16-13 score) in Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium. A five-run rally for the Mets in the 19th inning sealed the win at 3:55 a.m. The line score of the game: 46 hits, 29 runs, 19 innings, two rain delays and the game length was 6 hours and 10 minutes. A Fourth of July fireworks show followed the game (at 4 a.m.).

1986 - Janet Jackson finally took Control and got all the way to the top of U.S. LP charts. She was the youngest (19 years old) to hit number one with an LP since Little Steve Wonder (The 12 Year Old Genius) in 1963. Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Control was her third album, but her first to hit number one. Tracks from the LP, What Have You Done for Me Lately became Jackson’s first top-five single and Nasty made it to number three.

1987 - Pat Cash, the 22-year-old, #11 seed, captured the Wimbledon singles tennis championship by defeating Ivan Lendl.

1991 - Regulators in seven countries, including the U.S., shut down BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International). The institution and four of its units were indicted for fraud, theft, and money laundering from corrupt activities. In July 1990 five former officials of BCCI were convicted in Tampa, Florida for laundering $32 million in cocaine profits for Colombia’s Medellín drug cartel.

1994 - Hootie and the Blowfish released their first LP, Cracked Rear View But it didn’t zoom to the top of the charts. The group had to get lots of help from a guy named David Letterman before their album made it big. Letterman heard one of the tracks, Hold My Hand, on the radio and invited the band to appear on The Late Show. Cracked Rear View finally hit number one on May 27, 1995. By mid-1996, the album had sold more than 13 million copies in the U.S.

Birthdays
July 5th.

1801 - David Farragut
Civil War Union Navy Admiral: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”; died Aug 14, 1870

1810 - P. T. (Phineus Taylor) Barnum
circus showman; died Apr 7, 1891; see Greatest Show on Earth Day [above]

1853 - Cecil John Rhodes
diamond tycoon; founded Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University; the African country of Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] was named after him; died Mar 26, 1902

1879 - Dwight (Filley) Davis
Tennis Hall of Famer [inducted in 1956]: founder of Davis Cup [donated first trophy in 1900]; played for winning U.S. team in first two Davis Cup finals [1900, 1902]; champ: U.S./Wimbledon doubles [1901]; politician: St. Louis, MO Parks Commissioner [1911]; U.S. Secretary of War [1925-1929] under President Calvin Coolidge; died Nov 28, 1945

1902 - Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
American diplomat: U.S. Ambassador: U.N., Viet Nam; died in 1985

1904 - Milburn Stone
actor: Gunsmoke, Arrowhead, The Sun Shines Bright, Atomic City, Branded, Heading for Heaven; died June 12, 1980

1923 - John McKay
College Football Hall of Famer: head coach: USC: only coach to take a team to the Rose Bowl 4 years in a row [1967-70]; head coach: Tampa Bay Buccaneers; died June 10, 2001

1924 - Janos Starker
Grammy Award-winning cellist [Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra: 1997]: Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1–6; Grand prix du disque [France: 1948]

1928 - Katherine Helmond
actress: Soap, The House of Blue Leaves, Who’s the Boss, Brazil, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1928 - Warren Oates
actor: Dillinger, Wild Bunch, In the Heat of the Night, Stripes, The Blue and the Gray, Prime Time, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Rawhide; stunt tester: Beat the Clock; died Apr 3, 1982

1934 - Gordy (Gordon Calvin) Coleman
baseball: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961]; died Mar 12, 1994

1936 - Shirley Knight
actress: Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Group, 21 Hours at Munich, Sweet Bird of Youth, Color of Night

1943 - Curt (Curtis Le Roy) Blefary
baseball: Baltimore Orioles [Rookie of the Year: 1965/World Series: 1966], Houston Astros, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics, SD Padres; died Jan 28, 2001

1943 - (Jamie) Robbie Robertson
composer, musician: guitar: group: The Band: Up on Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Shape I’m In, River Hymn, Life is a Carnival

1950 - Huey Lewis (Cregg)
musician: harmonica, singer: group: Huey Lewis and the News: Power of Love, Stuck with You, Trouble in Paradise, Heart of Rock and Roll, Heart and Soul, Doin’ It [All for My Baby], Do You Believe in Love, Power of Love, [Too] Hip to Be Square

1950 - Gary (Nathaniel) Matthews
baseball: San Francisco Giants [Rookie of the Year: 1973], Atlanta Braves [all-star: 1979], Philadelphia Phillies [World Series: 1983], Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners

1950 - Michael Monarch
musician: guitar: group: Steppenwolf: Born to Be Wild, The Pusher, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me

1951 - Rich (Richard Michael) ‘Goose’ Gossage
baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1975, 1976], Pittsburgh Pirates [all-star: 1977], NY Yankees {World Series: 1978, 1981/all-star: 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982], SD Padres [World Series: 1984/all-star: 1984, 1985], Chicago Cubs , SF Giants, Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners

1952 -Don (Donald John) DeMola
baseball: pitcher: Montreal Expos

1956 - James Lofton
football: wide receiver: NFL Individual Record for career yards gained 14,004 [1978-1995]: Green Bay Packers, LA Raiders, Buffalo Bills, LA Rams, Philadelphia Eagles

1968 - Jillian Armenante
actress: Judging Amy, The Seven Mysteries of Life, Delivered, Girl, Interrupted

1975 - Chris Gratton
hockey: NHL: Tampa-Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Buffalo Sabres, Phoenix Coyotes, Colorado Avalanche.

Chart Toppers
July 5th.

1946 They Say It’s Wonderful - Frank Sinatra
The Gypsy - The Ink Spots
All Through the Day - Perry Como
New Spanish Two Step - Bob Wills

1954 Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
Hernando’s Hideaway - Archie Bleyer
Three Coins in the Fountain - The Four Aces
Even Tho - Webb Pierce

1962 I Can’t Stop Loving You - Ray Charles
The Stripper - David Rose
Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King

1970 The Love You Save - The Jackson 5
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) - Three Dog Night
Ball of Confusion - The Temptations
He Loves Me All the Way - Tammy Wynette

1978 Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler
It Only Hurts for a Little While - Margo Smith

1986 There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) - Billy Ocean
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red
Who’s Johnny - El DeBarge
Everything that Glitters (Is Not Gold) - Dan Seals


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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188th day of 2008 - 178 remaining.

Sunday, July 6, 2008
CANDID MICROPHONE DAY.
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A hidden microphone eavesdropped on unsuspecting people for the first time this night, as Candid Microphone hit the airwaves. It was 1947 and Allen Funt was the host of the ABC radio show, the forerunner of the long-running TV version, Candid Camera.

Candid Microphone didn’t have as long a run on radio, however, lasting one year on ABC, taking a two year hiatus and returning to CBS radio for another year.

The radio format of Candid Microphone was slightly different than the TV version ... when one of the eavesdropees uttered words considered too colorful by the network, a soft woman’s voice would say, “Censored,” and the program would continue with Don Hollenbeck as the narrator. The program, directed by Joseph Graham, was sponsored by Philip Morris cigarettes.

The radio show’s announcer, Ken Roberts, joined Allen Funt on the early version of the smash TV hit. Funt, who became a big star with Candid Camera, also produced a movie called What Do You Say to a Naked Lady using the Candid idea.
More on, Allen Funt. 1914 to 1999 (http://www.candidcamera.com/cc2/cc2e.html) here, (http://www.candidcamera.com/cc2/cc2g.html) click. (http://www.timvp.com/candid.html)

Events
July 6th.

1699 - Pirate Captain William Kidd was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England.

1858 - The shoe manufacturing machine was patented by Lyman Blake of Abington, MA.

1885 - Louis Pasteur, famous for discovering the pasteurization process, made history by accomplishing the first effective antirabies inoculation (on a boy bitten by an infected dog).

1905 - John Walker’s fingerprints were the first ones to be exchanged by police officials in Europe and America. Law enforcement units in London and St. Louis, MO completed the exchange.

1912 - Jim Thorpe gained fame as the world’s greatest athlete when the Olympic Games opened in Stockholm, Sweden. Thorpe, a full-blooded Indian, was known as Bright Path, his given Indian name. When the King of Sweden called Thorpe “the greatest athlete in the world,” Thorpe replied by saying, “Thanks, King.”

1919 - The British dirigible R-34 landed (or was hauled in, as they say) at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY. It was the first airship to cross the Atlantic. The 600-foot-long airship, piloted by Royal Air Force Cmdr. G.H. Scott with a crew of 30, reached a top speed of 62 mph during the 108-hour trip from Scotland.

1928 - The New York Strand Theatre was the scene of a sneak, midnight preview of the film, The Lights of New York. The Warner Bros. film was the first talkie (a talking motion picture). The film’s transitions were still a little bumpy, so 24 titles were used to explain them. The 6,000 feet of film in Lights of New York told a gangster tale and introduced the phrase, “Take him for a ride.”

1932 - U.S. Postage rates went from two cents to three cents for first-class mail.

1933 - Baseball’s best gathered together at Comiskey Park in Chicago, IL for the first All-Star Game. The American League won by a 4-2 score as Babe Ruth connected for the first home run in All-Star history. Comiskey Park was filled with 47,595 fans who saw the game.

1937 - The big band classic, Sing, Sing, Sing was recorded by Benny Goodman and his band. Sitting in on this famous Victor Records session was Gene Krupa, Ziggy Elman and Harry James.

1943 - Judy Canova, the ‘Queen of the Hillbillies’, began a weekly comedy show on CBS radio.

1948 - Frieda Hennock became the first woman to serve as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission. She was appointed to the post by President Harry S Truman.

1957 - Althea Gibson won the Wimbledon women’s singles tennis title. Gibson was the first black tennis star to win the prestigious event.

1971 - Karen and Richard Carpenter hosted the summer series, Make Your Own Kind of Music, on NBC-TV.

1981 - The Dupont Company of Wilmington, DE announced an agreement to purchase Conoco, Inc. (Continental Oil Co.) for seven billion dollars. The merger was the largest in corporate history (to that time). Bargaining continued until a final figure of $7.7 billion closed the deal for the chemical and oil giants. The merger created the seventh largest industrial company in the U.S.

1984 - Michael Jackson and his brothers started their Victory Tour in Kansas City, Missouri’s Arrowhead Stadium. The tour turned out to be a victory for the Jacksons when the nationwide concert tour concluded months later.

1994 - Fourteen firefighters were killed while battling a several-day-old blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.

2000 - Venus Williams beat her sister, Serena, at Wimbledon. In one of the most eagerly anticipated Wimbledon matches in years, 18-year-old Serena was in tears after the final game. It was her fourth loss in five tennis matches to her 20-year-old sister.

Birthdays
July 6th.

1747 - John Paul Jones
American naval officer of the ship Bonhomme Richard, in battle against British frigate Serapis: “I have not yet begun to fight!”; died July 18, 1792

1781 - Sir Stamford Raffles
founded Singapore; discovered Rafflesia Arnoldi [w/Joseph Arnold], an East Indian fungus; died July 5, 1826

1884 - Harold (Stirling) ‘Mike’ Vanderbilt
capitalist: director of NY Central Railroad; sportsman: first owner to sail his sailboat in America’s Cup competition [winners: Enterprise: 1930, 1934; Ranger: 1937]; invented game of contract bridge [1925]; son of Cornelius Vanderbilt; died in 1970

1909 - Andrei Gromyko
Russian leader: Soviet Foreign Minister; Soviet President; died July 3, 1989

1915 - LaVerne Andrews
singer: contralto, group: The Andrews Sisters: Why Talk About Love, A Simple Melody, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön; died May 8, 1967

1918 - Sebastian Cabot
actor: Family Affair, Family Jewels, Johnny Tremain & the Sons of Liberty, The Time Machine, Twice-Told Tales, Omar Khayyam, Romeo and Juliet, Westward-Ho, the Wagons; died Aug 22, 1977

1921 - Nancy Reagan (Anne Robbins-Davis)
actress: Hellcats of the Navy, East Side, West Side; former First Lady: married to 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan

1922 - William Schallert
actor: Dobie Gillis, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Patty Duke Show, The Grace Kelly Story

1924 - Darrell Royal
College Football Hall of Famer: coach: Univ of Texas, Univ of Washington, Mississippi State Univ, CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos; quarterback: Univ of Oklahoma; inducted into College Football HOF [1983]

1925 - Merv Griffin
singer: I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts [w/Freddy Martin’s Orchestra - 1949]; TV host: The Merv Griffin Show; game show developer: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy; hotel mogul

1925 - Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley Jr.)
musician, singer: group: Bill Haley and His Comets: Rock Around the Clock, Mambo Rock, Dim, Dim the Lights, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Crazy Man Crazy, See You Later Alligator; died Feb 9, 1981

1927 - Janet Leigh (Jeanette Morrison Reames)
actress: Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Houdini, Pete Kelly’s Blues, That Forsyte Woman; actress, Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother; died Oct 3, 2004

1927 - Pat Paulsen
comedian: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; perennial U.S. Presidential candidate; died Apr 24, 1997

1931 - Donal Donnelly
actor: Godfather: Part III, The Dead, The Knack

1931 - Della Reese (Delloreese Patricia Early)
singer: Don’t You Know, And That Reminds Me, Not One Minute More; actress: Della, Chico & the Man, The Royal Family, Touched by an Angel, Let’s Rock, Harlem Nights

1935 - Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup)
14th Dalai Lama: Nobel Peace Prize winner: Tibetan spiritual leader

1937 - Ned Beatty
actor: Deliverance, Homicide, Hear My Song, Friendly Fire, The Guyana Tragedy, Superman, Rudy, The Toy, The Silver Streak, Radioland Murders, Network, Gray Lady Down

1937 - Gene Chandler (Eugene Dixon)
singer: Duke of Earl, Groovy Situation, Just be True; record label owner: Mr. Chand

1945 - Rik Elswit
musician: guitar, singer: group: Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Sylvia’s Mother, [Freakin’ At] The Freaker’s Ball, Queen of the Silver Dollar, Ballad of Lucy Jordan, The Cover of Rolling Stone, When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman, Sharing the Night Together, Sexy Eyes, Better Love Next Time

1945 - Bill Plager
hockey: NHL: Minnesota North Stars, St. Louis Blues, Atlanta Flames

1945 - Burt Ward (Gervais)
actor: Batman, Beach Babes from Beyond Infinity, Robo-chic, Smooth Talker, Virgin High, Killcrazy

1946 - George W. (Walker) Bush
43rd President of the United States [2000- ]; married to Laura Welch Bush [twin daughters: Barbara and Jenna]; governor of Texas [1995-2000]; managing partner of Texas Rangers baseball club; son of 41st U.S. President [1989-1993] George [Herbert Walker] Bush

1946 - Fred Dryer
actor: Hunter, Death Before Dishonor, The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins; football: NY Giants, LA Rams defensive end: Super Bowl XIV

1946 - Sylvester Stallone
actor: Rocky series, Rambo series, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Demolition Man, Nighthawks, Oscar, Tango and Cash, The Specialist, Judge Dredd, Assassins, Cop Land

1946 - James Browning Wyeth
artist: Lester, Shorty, Halloween, Draft Age, Obelisk, The Red House, The Islander

1952 - Grant Goodeve
actor: Dynasty, Eight is Enough, Northern Exposure; TV host: Solid Gold Hits

1952 - Shelley Hack
actress: Charlie’s Angels, King of Comedy, Annie Hall, A Casualty of War, The Stepfather

1954 - Allyce Beasley (Alice Tannenbaum)
actress: Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, Motorama, Moonlighting, Rumpelstiltskin, Dream with the Fishes, Stuart Little

1954 - Nanci Griffith
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter: LP: Other Voices/Other Rooms [1993]; From a Distance, Love at the Five and Dime, Fly by Night, Daddy Said, Ford Econoline, LP: There’s a Light Beyond These Woods

1954 - Willie Randolph
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates, NY Yankees, LA Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets

1959 - Jon Keeble
musician: drums: group: Spandau Ballet: True, To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1

1961 - Kimberly Foster
actress: Dallas, One Crazy Summer, It Takes Two, Deadline, Love Bites, Broken Trust

1968 - Glenn Scarpelli
actor: One Day at a Time, Jennifer Slept Here

1978 - Tamera Mowry
actress: Sister, Sister, Detention, Seventeen Again, Hollywood Horror; twin sister of Tia Mowry

1978 - Tia Mowry
actress: Sister, Sister, Detention, Seventeen Again, Hollywood Horror; twin sister of Tamera Mowry

1983 - Gregory Smith
actor: Leaping Leprechauns, Spellbreaker, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, The Patriot.

Chart Toppers
July 6th.

1947 Peg o’ My Heart - The Harmonicats
I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder - Eddy Howard
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba - Perry Como
It’s a Sin - Eddy Arnold

1955 Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
Learnin’ the Blues - Frank Sinatra
Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

1963 Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
Blue on Blue - The Dovells
Easier Said Than Done - The Essex
Act Naturally - Buck Owens

1971 It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King
Indian Reservation - Raiders
Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot - Jerry Reed

1979 Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Chuck E.’s in Love - Rickie Lee Jones
Amanda - Waylon Jennings

1987 I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston
Alone - Heart
Shakedown - Bob Seger
That was a Close One - Earl Thomas Conley


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)


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189th day of 2008 - 177 remaining.

Monday, July 7, 2008
DUM-DE-DUM-DUM DAY.
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Jack Webb’s Dragnet was first heard on NBC radio this day in 1949. The program was the first to dramatize cases from actual police files. Each episode on radio and TV began with the announcement, “The story you are about to hear (see) is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”; and ended with the somber sentence handed down to the criminal.

Dragnet went to television in January 1952 after a successful TV preview on Chesterfield Sound-Off Time a few weeks earlier. The show actually ran simultaneously on radio and TV from 1952 - 1956, continuing on television through 1959. After a seven-year hiatus, it returned as Dragnet ’67 to distinguish itself from its own reruns. This first major real-life police drama series was so successful that it remains in syndication some 30 to 40 years later.

The show went to the movies in a 1980s spoof with Dan Aykroyd in the lead role of Sgt. Joe Friday -- the role Webb played on both radio and television.

The original sponsor of the radio series was Fatima Cigarettes and, later, Chesterfield Cigarettes. The composer of the original Dragnet theme was Walter Schumann, which included “dum-de-dum-dum,” possibly the most famous four-note introduction since Beethoven’s 5th.

Sgt. Friday’s sidekick was originally played by Barton Yarborough both on radio and TV. His untimely death shortly after the first TV telecast opened up the role to Barney Philips. Herb Ellis picked up the part in the first fall season, followed by Ben Alexander, who played officer Frank Smith for 7 years. Harry Morgan was Jack Webb’s sidekick in the 1967-1970 series as Officer Bill Gannon.

And those are “just the facts, ma’am.”
CLICK, (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/D/htmlD/dragnet/dragnet.htm) CLICK, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0916131/) CLICK, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000101/) AND CLICK. (http://www.earthstation1.com/themestv.html)

Events
July 7th.

1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. The institution of higher learning admitted eight students and one faculty member, Dr. Samuel Johnson, who also served as school president. These were humble beginnings for a school which would become one of the largest in the United States. Kings was renamed Columbia College in 1784 and, later, became Columbia University. Many prestigious awards come from this university, including the Columbia Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (named after Joseph Pulitzer, a former Columbia professor).

1862 - The first railroad post office was tested on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad in Missouri.

1885 - G. Moore Peters of Xenia, OH patented the cartridge-loading machine.

1920 - A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane near Norfolk, Virginia.

1937 - Lou Gehrig hit a two-run home run to lead the American League over the National League 8-3 in the All-Star Game at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC. Pitcher Dizzy Dean of St. Louis suffered a career-shortening broken toe on his left foot during the game. Ouch!

1943 - For the first time, Flashgun Casey was heard on radio. Not much later, the name of the program was altered to Casey, Crime Reporter, and became much more popular.

1950 - Jack Walsh had a lot of weight on his shoulders. Walsh from Trenton, NJ set a world weightlifting record of 4,235 pounds! (Like lifting two medium-sized cars). He beat the record that was set in 1905 when a weightlifter hoisted 4,140 pounds on his back. Weighty issues, indeed.

1962 - Orchestra leader David Rose reached the top spot on the popular music charts. The Stripper stayed at the pinnacle of musicdom for one week. Rose’s previous musical success on the charts was in 1944 with Holiday for Strings.

1962 - Race jockey Bill Hartack won race number 3,000. He was riding Big Steve at Arlington Park in Chicago, IL.

1985 - Boris Becker won the Wimbledon tennis title by defeating Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4. Becker became the youngest, the first German and the first unseeded player to win the title in the 108-year history of Wimbledon. Becker was only 17 years old at the time -- not even old enough to drive a car in his own country!

1986 - The USA enjoyed great success at the Goodwill Games (in Moscow) as Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the heptathlon world record with 7,148 points. She was the first woman to crack the 7,000-point barrier. Jackie extended the record that same year to 7,158 points in the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival where she won all seven events of the heptathlon.

1994 - Viacom Inc. was having a very good year. The movie, publishing and sports company bought Paramount Communications Inc. this day for $10 billion. The company that became Viacom was spun off from CBS in the 1970s because of government rules (later repealed), that prevented networks from owning their own programming. Since then, Viacom has grown to become a major player in media and cable, forming the pay channel Showtime in 1978 and acquiring MTV in 1986. On Aug 29, 1994 Viacom plunked down another $8 billion for Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.

1999 - It was the first lawsuit brought by a group of individual smokers to get all the way to the trial stage. And a jury in Miami held cigarette makers liable for marketing a dangerous product that causes deadly diseases (emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses). The jury held the tobacco industry liable for damages worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

1999 - “Rome is a magic track for me,” exclaimed the new holder of the world outdoor mile record. Hicham El Guerrouj from Morocco was in track competition at the Golden Gala Track Meet at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy. His time of 3:43.13 was 1.26 seconds faster than the previous record of 3:44.39 set by Noureddine Morceli of Algeria in 1993. Second place Noah Ngeny of Kenya also beat Morceli’s record as he ran neck and neck with El Guerrouj, finishing at 3:43.40. El Guerrouj shattered the world record for 1,500 meters just one year earlier at the same stadium, running the race in a record 3 minutes and 26 seconds. That record was also previously held by Morceli. El Guerrouj says he hopes to run even faster in the future, lowering the 1500 meter record to 3:24 and the mile to 3:42 or even 3:41. Soon he’ll be running at the speed of light!

2000 - Scary Movie opened. Directed by funnyman Keenen Ivory Wayans, Scary Movie is a horror-film spoof (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix). If you can get past the strong crude sexual humor, language, drug use and violence, the flick is great fun for the entire family. Most U.S. audiences did manage to get past those drawbacks and spent $42.35 million on the film its opening weekend.

Birthdays
July 7th.

1860 - Gustav Mahler
musician, composer, music used in 1971 movie: Death in Venice; died May 18, 1911

1887 - Marc Chagall
artist: Red Nude Sitting Up, I and the Village, Bride with a Fan, The Cattle Dealer, Jew at Prayer, Bella with a White Collar; died Mar 29, 1985

1899 - George Cukor
director: My Fair Lady, A Star is Born, Born Yesterday, Love Among the Ruins, The Philadelphia Story; died Jan 24, 1983

1902 - Vittorio De Sica
director: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Marriage Italian Style, Two Women, The Bicycle Thief; actor: The Shoes of the Fisherman, It Started in Naples; died Nov 13, 1974

1906 - Satchel (Leroy Robert) Paige
Baseball Hall of Famer: pitcher: Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1948], St. Louis Browns [all-star: 1953], KC Athletics; legend in Negro leagues, thrilling fans with his famous ‘hesitation pitch’; died June 8, 1982

1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti
Pulitzer prize-winning opera composer: The Consul [1950], The Saint of Bleeker Street [1955]

1915 - Ruth Ford
actress: The Woman Who Came Back, The Lady is Willing, The Eyes of the Amaryllis

1917 - Lawrence O’Brien
former head of U.S. Postal Service; National Basketball Association Commissioner; died Sep 27, 1990

1919 - William Kunstler
defense attorney: Tom Hayden, Chicago Seven, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Abbie Hoffman, Angela Davis, John Gotti, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman; autobiography: My Life As A Radical Lawyer [1994]; died Sep 14, 1995

1921 - Ezzard Charles
International Boxing Hall of Famer: world heavyweight champion [1949-51]; bouts: 122: won 96, lost 25, drew 1, 59 KOs; died May 27, 1975

1922 - Pierre Cardin
fashion designer

1924 - Mary Ford (Iris Colleen Summers)
singer w/Les Paul: How High the Moon, Vaya Con Dios, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; died Sep 30, 1976

1927 - Charlie Louvin (Loudermilk)
country singer: I Don’t Love You Anymore; w/brother, Ira: My Baby’s Gone, Hoping that You’re Hoping, I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby; joined Grand Ole Opry in 1955

1927 - Doc (Carl) Severinsen
trumpeter, bandleader: The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band; played with Charlie Barnet and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras; owner: trumpet factory

1940 - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
drummer: group: The Beatles; singer: It Don’t Come Easy, Photograph, You’re Sixteen; actor: Candy, The Magic Christian, Blindman, Caveman, Give My Regards to Broad Street; married to actress, Barbara Bach

1944 - Warren Entner
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grass Roots

1945 - Bill (William Edwin) Melton
baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1971], California Angels, Cleveland Indians

1946 - Joe Spano
actor: Hill Street Blues, Cast the First Stone, Brotherhood of Justice, American Graffiti, Northern Lights

1949 - Shelley Duvall
actress: Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller

1950 - David Hodo
singer: group: The Village People: YMCA

1955 - Joey Scarbury
singer: The Greatest American Hero

1958 - Matt Suhey
football: Chicago Bears

1959 - Bill Campbell
actor: Dynasty, Moon Over Miami, Gettysburg, The Brylcreem Boys, Once and Again

1959 - Jessica Hahn
model: Playboy; scandal subject [w/PTL’s Jim Bakker]

1960 - Ralph Sampson
basketball: Golden State Warriors; one of the Twin Towers of the Houston Rockets: Rookie of the Year [1983]; College Player of the Year [1981-83]

1968 - Jorja Fox
actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Missing Persons, ER, The West Wing

1969 - Joe Sakic
hockey: NHL: Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche

1970 - Cree Summer
actress/character voice: A Different World, Inspector Gadget, Tiny Toons, Wild Thing, The Return of Billy Jack; songwriter, singer: LP: Street Faërie

1972 - Lisa Leslie
basketball: Olympics women's basketball gold medalist: Atlanta: 1996, Sydney: 2000; WNBA: LA Sparks

1980 - Michelle Kwan
Olympic Figure Skating Champion [silver, 1998]; World Champion [1996, 1998]; U.S. National Champion [1996, 1998]; World Junior Champion [1994]

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Chart Toppers
July 7th.

1948 You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Nature Boy - Nat King
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood
& The Campus Kids)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956 The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
Born to Be with You - The Chordettes
Crazy Arms - Ray Price

1964 I Get Around - The Beach Boys
My Boy Lollipop - Millie Small
Memphis - Johnny Rivers
Together Again - Buck Owens

1972 Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond
Outa-Space - Billy Preston
Lean on Me - Bill Withers
Eleven Roses - Hank Williams, Jr.

1980 Coming Up - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Rose - Bette Midler
It’s Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones

1988 Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Mercedes Boy - Pebbles
If It Don’t Come Easy - Tanya Tucker


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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190th day of 2008 - 176 remaining.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
SUNDAE DAY.

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Whatever flavor is your favorite - chocolate, strawberry, butterscotch - with or without nuts - piled high with whipped cream - or not - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry swirl, chocolate-chip mint or any other variety ice cream underneath - it’s still a sundae.

Without druggist Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin it wouldn’t even exist. It seems that on this day, back in 1881, a patron came into Edward Berner’s drug store and sat down at the soda-fountain counter. Since it was the Sabbath, the customer couldn’t have the desirable, but scandalous, flavored, soda water. Mr. Berner compromised and put ice cream in a dish and poured the syrup on top (chocolate syrup was only used for making flavored and ice-cream sodas, at the time). Voila! An ice cream Sunday (the spelling was later changed to ‘sundae’). The customer was happy; Mr. Berner was happy ... he just invented a dessert that he could serve on Sundays and remain morally correct; and we are happy ’cause we like ice-cream sundaes no matter what day of the week it is.

This is one time we can say, “Always on Sunday ... or is that sundae?”
More here. (http://www.lhinn.com/history.html) and here. (http://www.doj.state.wi.us/kidspage/fun_facts/sundae.htm)

Events
July 8th.

1693 - Uniforms for police in New York City (or what there was of New York City at that time) were authorized on this day.

1795 - Martin Academy in Washington, TN changed its name to Washington College ... the first college to be named after George Washington.

1805 - Bill Richmond, the first noted boxer in America, beat up Tom Tough (Jack Homes) in round 26 of a bout in Kilburn Wells, England.

1865 - C.E. Barnes of Lowell, MA patented the machine gun.

1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. Good thing it was the last one, too, as the bout went on for 75 rounds! It took 2 hours, 16 minutes and 23 seconds to complete.

1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged the first Ziegfeld Follies at the roof garden of the New York Theatre.

1946 - Actress Ava Gardner divorced bandleader Artie Shaw on this day; not quite a year after they were married.

1950 - Joel McCrea appeared in the lead role of Tales of the Texas Rangers. The soon-to-be-popular show debuted on NBC radio.

1953 - Notre Dame announced that the following five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.

1958 - The first gold record album presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was awarded. It went to the soundtrack LP, Oklahoma!. The honor signified that the album had reached one million dollars in sales. The first gold single issued by the RIAA was Catch a Falling Star, by Perry Como, in March of 1958. A gold single also represents sales of one million records.

1960 - Storer Broadcasting Company purchased WINS radio in New York City for $10 million. It was the highest price paid for a radio station (to that time). Many great radio personalities including Murray the K, Bruce Morrow and Alan Freed were stars on WINS Radio. WINS, under Storer ownership, also aired some very clever promotions, including the time they drove the New York media crazy. It was a discovery (thought to be a rare find) in the back seat of a New York taxicab: a clay tablet that looked to be Egyptian and had carvings on it. Upon closer examination, it read, “Everybody’s mummy listens to 10-10 WINS!”

1970 - The San Francisco Giants’ Jim Ray Hart hit for the cycle (a single, double, triple and home run in one game). Hart became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted in (RBI) during a single inning. The Giants walloped the Atlanta Braves 13-0.

1984 - John McEnroe made short work of Jimmy Connors at Wimbledon. Connors managed to win only four games and tied for the second lowest number of games won by a Wimbledon men’s singles finalist since 1922. McEnroe won the event in just 1 hour 20 minutes.

1985 - Pro Football Hall of Famer Jack Lambert of the Pittsburgh Steelers announced his retirement on this, his 33rd birthday. A 1974 second-round draft choice from Kent State University in Ohio, Lambert played 11 seasons with the Steelers. He racked up several awards including the NFL’s Rookie of the Year [1974], Defensive Player of the Year [1976]; and nine consecutive Pro Bowls [1975-1983]. Jack Lambert was a major chunk of the Steel Curtain and owns four Super Bowl rings to prove it.

1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star, pulling in more viewers than many game shows and soap operas. He captured center stage as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the U.S.

Birthdays
July 8th.

1908 - Louis (Thomas) Jordan
musician: alto sax, singer: Is You or is You ain’t My Baby, Open the Door Richard, G.I. Jive, Baby It’s Cold Outside, Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens; actor: Five Guys Named Moe; Fuzzy Wuzzy, Beware, Swing Parade of 1946, Reet, Petite, and Gone, Look-Out Sister; died Feb 4, 1975

1908 - Nelson (Aldrich) Rockefeller
U.S. Vice President under Gerald Ford [1974-77], Governor of New York [1958-73]; died Jan 26, 1979

1910 - Sarah (Newcomb) McClendon
journalist: White House press corps; died Jan 7, 2003

1913 - Walter Kerr
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic: New York Herald Tribune, New York Times; playwright: Sing Out, Sweet Land, Song of Bernadette; director: King of Hearts; Broadway’s Ritz Theater renamed for him; died Oct 9, 1996

1914 - Billy Eckstine (William Clarence Eckstein)
band leader, bass-baritone singer: Fools Rush In, Everything I Have is Yours, I Apologize, My Foolish Heart, Blue Moon, Body and Soul; died Mar 8, 1993

1917 - Pamela Brown
actress: Wuthering Heights, Cleopatra, Victoria Regina, Alice in Wonderland; died Sep 18, 1975

1917 - Faye Emerson
actress: Destination: Tokyo, Uncertain Glory; TV panelist: I’ve Got a Secret, What’s in a Word, Masquerade Party; host: The Faye Emerson Show, Author Meets the Critic; died Mar 9, 1983

1918 - Craig Stevens (Gail Shikles)
actor: Peter Gunn, Drums in the Deep South, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; died May 10, 2000

1923 - Harrison Dillard
Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter [1948], 110 meter hurdles [1952], 4x100 relay [1948, 1952]; Sullivan Trophy winner [1953]; National Track & Field Hall of Famer

1929 - Shirley Ann Grau
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: The Keepers of the House [1965]; The Black Prince and Other Stories

1931 - Roone Arledge
TV executive: president: ABC News; died Dec 5, 2002

1932 - Barbara Loden
actress: Wild River, Splendor in the Grass, The Glass Menagerie; died Sep 5, 1980

1932 - Jerry Vale (Genaro Vitaliano)
singer: Innamorata [Sweetheart], You Don’t Know Me, Have You Looked Into Your Heart

1933 - Marty Feldman
comedian, actor: Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Yellowbeard, Slapstick of Another Kind; died Dec 2, 1982

1935 - John David Crow
College Football Hall of Famer: Heisman Trophy winner: Texas A&M [1957]; Chicago/St. Louis Cardinals, S.F. 49ers; coach/athletic director: Northeast Louisiana U

1935 - Steve Lawrence (Sidney Leibowitz)
singer: Go Away Little Girl, Party Doll, Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love; songwriter: Two on the Aisle; married to singer: Eydie Gorme

1939 - Tommy Mason
football: Tulane Univ., Minnesota Vikings [#1 draft pick: 1961]

1942 - Phil Gramm
U.S. Senator [Texas]; presidential hopeful [1996]

1944 - Jeffrey Tambor
actor: Big Bully, Radioland Murders, City Slickers, A Perfect Little Murder, Brenda Starr, Mr. Mom, A Gun in the House, Pals, The Larry Sanders Show, Hill Street Blues, The Ropers, 9 to 5, Mr. Sunshine, Max Headroom, Muppets From Space

1948 - Raffi Cavoukian
singer, songwriter: children’s songs: Everything Grows

1948 - Kim Darby (Deborah Zerby)
actress: Rich Man, Poor Man, True Grit, The Grissom Gang, The Streets of San Francisco

1949 - Wolfgang Puck
chef: formerly of Spagos in Los Angeles

1951 - Anjelica Huston
Academy Award-winning actress: Prizzi’s Honor [1985]; The Witches, The Grifters, The Addams Family

1952 - Jack Lambert
Pro Football Hall of Famer: see 1985 [above]

1958 - Kevin Bacon
actor: Apollo 13, JFK, A Few Good Men, The River Wild, Footloose, Murder in the First, The Air Up There, The Guiding Light, Wild Things, My Dog Skip

1961 - Andy Fletcher
musician: group: Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Silence, New Life, Shake the Disease

1961 - Graham Jones
musician: guitar: group: Haircut 100

1973 - Kathleen Robertson
actress: Beverly Hills, 90210, Scary Movie 2.

Chart Toppers
July 8th.

1949 Some Enchanted Evening - Perry Como
Again - Gordon Jenkins
Bali Ha’i - Perry Como
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold

1957 Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
Over the Mountain; Across the Sea - Johnnie & Joe
Four Walls - Jim Reeves

1965 I Can’t Help Myself - Four Tops
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
For Your Love - The Yardbirds
Before You Go - Buck Owens

1973 Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston
Kodachrome - Paul Simon
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Why Me - Kris Kristofferson

1981 Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
All Those Years Ago - George Harrison
The One that You Love - Air Supply
I was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool - Barbara Mandrell

1989 Satisfied - Richard Marx
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Baby Don’t Forget My Number - Milli Vanilli
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party - Roseanne Cash


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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191st day of 2008 - 175 remaining.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
LET’S SEW DAY.

OK, class. Who invented the sewing machine? Elias Howe, you say? Well, we were all taught that Elias Howe was the clever inventor; but that’s not exactly correct. Elias Howe only patented the lock stitch sewing machine. The device had already been invented by one Walter Hunt.

Walter was a really nice guy. He didn’t patent his invention because he didn’t want to put the many seamstresses of the time out of work. Elias didn’t care about such social issues. So he went ahead and patented the sewing machine.

Mr. Howe, however, ran into a lot of legal entanglements trying to get his patent rights because of those who tried to infringe on them, such as Isaac Singer. Maybe you know the name. In the long run, Elias Howe won; earning over two million dollars in royalties for his non-invention.

The question is, if Elias Howe hadn’t been born on this day in 1819, what would we be sewing with?
Click, (http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blEliasHowe.htm) click, click. (http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ct_eh.htm)

Events
July 9th.

1792 - S.L. Mitchell of Columbia College in New York City became the first Professor of Agriculture.

1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker of Billerica, MA.

1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the State of New Hampshire. It’s now down to eight hours, minus time for breaks, lunch and general goofing-off...

1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, ME. Take your favorite policeman out for a donut today!

1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe of Washington, MO. You see, Henry was tired of sitting around, puffing on his string bean pipe and decided to go for something more convenient...

1910 - The first airplane to fly a mile in the air did so this day with W.R. Brookins of Atlantic City, NJ at the controls.

1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first to swim the 100-meters freestyle in less than a minute. The future Tarzan set the pace at an event in Alameda, CA.

1935 - American track star Norman Bright ran the two mile event in the record time of 9 minutes, 13.2 seconds at a meet in New York City.

1953 - The first commuter passenger service by helicopter began in America’s largest city. New York Airways provided the lift for busy people who wanted to avoid the traffic below.

1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX. The game produced only eight hits over nine innings and no runs were batted in. Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants scored the only run on a single in the first inning. He moved to second on an errant pick-off play, went to third base on a wild pitch and scored on a double play. The National League beat the American League 1-0.

1969 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets retired the first 25 Chicago Cubs he faced this day. However, with just two outs to go to get a perfect game, Seaver gave up a single to Jimmy Qualls. The Mets blanked the Cubs 4-0 in that one-hitter.

1972 - Paul McCartney appeared on stage for the first time since 1966 as his group, Wings, opened at Chateauvillon in the south of France.

1977 - Undercover Angel, by songwriter (turned pop singer) Alan O’Day, reached the top spot on the Billboard chart. It was not the first visit to the top of the pop music world for O’Day, though the million-seller would be his last as a singer. He wrote Angie Baby, a number one hit for Helen Reddy and the #3 hit, Rock And Roll Heaven, for The Righteous Brothers.

1984 - The Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, IN was packed to the rafters. 67,596 spectators, the largest crowd to watch a basketball game in the United States (to that time), saw the U.S. men’s Olympic team defeat a team of players from the NBA, 97-82. The largest crowd in the world to see a basketball game was in 1951. 75,000 spectators saw the Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium in West Berlin, Germany. (A new U.S. and World record attendance record was set on Dec 13, 2003, when the Michigan State Spartans played the Kentucky Wildcats in a college basketball game played on the football field of the NFL Detroit Lions. The attendance was 78,129.)

1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals was named the Most Valuable Player in the United States Football League (USFL).

1985 - Football great Joe Namath signed a five-year pact with ABC-TV to provide commentary for Monday Night Football. The former New York Jets quarterback reportedly earned one million dollars a year for the job. Namath replaced ’Dandy’ Don Meredith. Broadway Joe had previous experience with Monday Night Football as a player, when he and the Jets were the first team to play on the popular TV series on September 21, 1970.

1986 - A new Broadway showplace opened. It was the first new theatre on Broadway in 13 years. The Marquis Theatre, located at the corner of 46th Street and Broadway, seated 1,600 theatregoers.

Birthdays
July 9th.

1764 - Ann Radcliffe
author: The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Romance of the Forest; died Feb 6, 1823

1819 - Elias Howe
inventor: patented the lock stitch sewing machine; died Oct 3, 1867; see Let’s Sew Day [above]

1879 - Ottorino Respighi
viola-player, pianist, composer: Fontane di Roma [Fountains of Rome], Pini di Roma [Pines of Rome], and Feste romane [Roman Festivals]; died Apr 18, 1936

1901 - Dame Barbara Cartland
romance novelist featuring virginal heroines: Jigsaw, Etiquette Handbook, The Herb for Happiness, Lights, Laughter and a Lady, The Passionate Pilgrim, Search for a Wife, Woman - The Enigma; authored 723 books, sold over 1 billion copies worldwide [in 36 languages]; advocate of feminine virtues and commanding men; died May 21, 2000

1916 - Edward Heath
Prime Minister of Great Britain [1970-1974]

1922 - Jim Pollard
Basketball Hall of Famer: Minneapolis Lakers; coach: La Salle College; died Jan 22, 1993

1924 - Leonard Pennario
concert pianist; composer: Midnight on the Cliffs theme from film Julie

1927 - Ed Ames
singer: group: The Ames Brothers: You You You, The Man with the Banjo, The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Tammy, Melody d’Amour; solo: My Cup Runneth Over, Who Will Answer; actor: Daniel Boone

1927 - Susan Cabot (Harriet Shapiro)
actress: The Wasp Woman, Machine Gun Kelly, Carnival Rock, Son of Ali Baba, Sorority Girl; murdered by her son Dec 10, 1986

1927 - Leonard ‘Red’ Kelly
Hockey Hall of Famer: Detroit Red Wings: Norris Trophy [1954], Lady Byng Trophy [1951, 1953, 1954, 1961], 4 Stanley Cup wins; Toronto Maple Leafs: 4 Stanley Cup wins; coach: LA Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins: Adams Trophy [1969-1970]

1927 - Jim McReynolds
folk singer [w/brother]: group: Jim & Jesse: Cotton Mill Man, Ballad of Thunder Road, Freight Train, Diesel on My Tail

1929 - Lee Hazlewood
songwriter: The Fool, These Boots are Made for Walkin’, Sugar Town; singer: Jackson [w/Nancy Sinatra]

1929 - Wally (Walter Charles) Post
baseball: Cincinnati Redlegs, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians; died Jan 06, 1982

1936 - James Hampton
actor: F Troop, Love American Style, Evening Shade, Doris Day Show, The China Syndrome, Force Five

1938 - Brian Dennehy
actor: Cocoon, 10, Presumed Innocent, First Blood, Semi-Tough, Silverado, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye

1942 - Richard Roundtree
actor: Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Q, Body of Influence, Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score, Shaft (2000)

1946 - Bon (Ronald) Scott
singer: group: AC/DC; died Feb 19, 1980

1947 - O.J. (Orenthal James) Simpson
Pro Football Hall of Famer: running back: Heisman Trophy: USC [1968], Buffalo Bills; actor: Naked Gun series, The Towering Inferno, Roots, Capricorn One; defendant in the ’trial of the century’: acquitted of 1994 murder of ex-wife, Nicole, Ron Goldman [1995]; found responsible for their deaths in a civil suit [1997]

1951 - Dave Parker
‘The Cobra’: baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [NL MVP: 1978; World Series: 1979], Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics [World Series: 1988, 1989], Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays; baseball’s 1st million-dollar player; coach: California Angels, St. Louis Cardinals; restauranteur

1952 - John Tesh
Emmy Award-winning composer: musical score for Tourde France [1987], Pan-American Games [1983]; Concetta, Romantic Christmas [w/wife Connie Selleca]; TV host: Entertainment Tonight, CBS Sports

1954 - Debbie Sledge
singer; group: Sister Sledge: We are Family

1955 - Jimmy Smits
Emmy Award-winning actor: L.A. Law [1989-90]; N.Y.P.D. Blue, Birdland, Glitz, Mi Familia, Gross Misconduct, The Cisco Kid, Price of Glory

1956 - Tom (Thomas Jeffrey) Hanks
Academy Award-winning actor: Forrest Gump [1994], Philadelphia [1993]; Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Joe Versus the Volcano, Splash, The Money Pit, You’ve Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away

1957 - Kelly McGillis
actress: Witness, The Accused, Top Gun

1959 - Marc (Peter) Almond
singer: duo: Soft Cell: Tainted Love; group: Marc & the Mambas: LP: Torment and Toreros; solo: Stories of Johnny, LP: Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters

1959 - Jim Kerr
singer: group: Simple Minds: Changeling, Premonition, The American, Love Song, Don’t You [Forget About Me], LP: Sparkle in the Raintories

1965 - Frank Bello
musician: bass: group: Anthrax

1976 - Fred Savage
actor: The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Little Monsters, The Boy Who Could Fly.

Chart Toppers
July 9th.

1950 Bewitched - The Bill Snyder Orchestra
My Foolish Heart - The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra (vocal: Eileen Wilson)
I Wanna Be Loved - The Andrews Sisters
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams

1958 Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley
Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
Guess Things Happen that Way - Johnny Cash

1966 Paperback Writer - The Beatles
Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle
Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells
Think of Me - Buck Owens

1974 Rock the Boat - The Hues Corporation
Rock Your Baby - George McCrae
Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
He Thinks I Still Care - Anne Murray

1982 Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
Rosanna - Toto
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Any Day Now - Ronnie Milsap

1990 Step By Step - New Kids on the Block
She ain’t Worth It - Glenn Medeiros featuring Bobby Brown
Hold On - En Vogue
Love Without End, Amen - George Strait


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Thursday, July 10, 2008
SATISFACTION DAY.

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It was on this day in 1965 that The Rolling Stones, who took their name from a Muddy Waters song, hit the top spot on the Billboard chart. It was their first time at the top. The hit, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, stayed at number one for 4 weeks.

And as fate would have it, Betty Brenneman, music director at 93/KHJ, Los Angeles in 1965, had assigned the number ‘440’ to the KHJ control room copy of the single, Satisfaction. Just think ... our DJ database site, 440: Satisfaction, could have been named, 216: Satisfaction, had that number been next in line. It just wouldn’t have had the same ring to it, would it?

The Stones recorded a total of 41 hits over the next 13 years, with seven more making the number one spot: Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Angie, Miss You, Paint it, Black, Get Off of My Cloud, and Brown Sugar.

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1986. The group, founded in 1964, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

Considered by many to be the greatest rock band in the world, Satisfaction remains the Stones’ signature.
More here, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones) click. (http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/the-rolling-stones)

Events
July 10th.

1866 - Edison P. Clark of Northampton, MA patented his indelible pencil.

1890 - Wyoming, the state with the smallest population entered the Union this day. The 44th state was named after an Algonquin Indian word meaning ‘large prairie place’. Appropriately, the Indian paintbrush that covers much of the large prairie is the state flower and the meadowlark, frequently seen circling the prairie land, is the state bird. Another Indian term, Cheyenne, is also the name of the state capital. Wyoming is called the Equality State because it is the first state to have granted women the right to vote (1869).

1900 - One of the most famous trademarks in the world, ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Talking Machine Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.

1913 - It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and while you are baking at the beach or lake, keep this factoid in mind: The highest temperature ever recorded in the continental United States was 134 degrees which melted thermometers this day in Death Valley, California.

1920 - One of the greatest horse races in America was run as Man o’ War defeated John P. Grier in the Dwyer Stakes. Man o’ War set a world-record time of 1 minute, 49-1/5 seconds in the 1-1/8 mile event.

1929 - The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size we currently carry.

1934 - Carl Hubbell threw three strikeouts in the first inning of the All-Star baseball game held at New York’s Polo Grounds. Hubbell faced the American League’s best power hitters: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Fox. In the second inning, Hubbell remained strong, fanning Al Simmons, Joe Cronin and Lefty Gomez. From then on, however, it was all up hill for the National League which lost by a score of 9-7. Hubbell’s nicknames, incidentally, were Meal Ticket and King Carl.

1936 - Billie Holiday recorded Billie’s Blues for Okeh Records in New York. Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw and Cozy Cole supported Holiday, instrumentally, on the track.

1938 - Howard Hughes started his flight around the world. It took him 91 hours to complete the odyssey.

1944 - The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall, debuted on CBS radio.

1949 - The first practical rectangular television picture tube was presented. The tube measured 12 by 16 inches and sold for $12.

1951 - Sugar Ray Robinson was defeated for only the second time in 133 fights. 7-2 underdog Randy Turpin took the middleweight crown from Robinson in a 15-round referee’s decision in London, England. (Sugar Ray took the title back September 12th at the Polo Grounds in New York.)

1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. Telstar would usher in a new age of communication via telephone and TV, with voice and picture transmission from Europe to America and back. Signals were picked up by a 38-ton antenna in Andover, Maine. To commemorate the event, an instrumental hit by the Tornadoes, an English surf-rock group, made it to number one for three weeks in November, 1962. It was titled, Telstar, of course.

1969 - The National League was divided into two baseball divisions (wacky as the realignment turned out to be). For example, the Atlanta Braves were placed in the West Division, while the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs were Eastern Division teams. Cincinnati was also placed in the National League West. The Chicago Cubs sued to stay out of the west and remain in the east in the 1990s, when three divisions were formed. They ended up in the new Central division.

1971 - Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox announced his retirement from major-league baseball. Conigliaro had suffered a vision impairment in his left eye after being hit in the head by a thrown fastball during a game. Despite efforts to make a comeback, Tony C. never regained the form he once brought to the game.

1975 - Cher filed for divorce from rocker Greg Allman, just ten days after the couple had married. She said that Allman had been moonlighting with an old flame...

1984 - Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden of the New York Mets became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. Gooden was 19 years, 7 months and 24 days old. He led the National League to a 3-1 win at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.

1985 - The Coca-Cola Company announced that the former (regular) Coke was coming back to share shelf space with the New Coke, after a consumer furor. The original formula was renamed Coca-Cola Classic.

1991 - After 1,000 years, the Russian people were finally permitted to elect a president. Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office this day, after he had resoundingly defeated the Communist Party candidate.

1998 - Lethal Weapon 4 premiered, garnering $34.05 box-office bucks its opening weekend. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are on the hit list of the nasty Chinese Triads. Riggs and Murtaugh are helped(?) by Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) and Lee Butters (Chris Rock). Lorna Cole (played by Rene Russo) is Riggs’ sweetie this time around.

Birthdays
July 10th.

1834 - James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler
artist: Whistler’s Mother [The Artist’s Mother], Arrangement in Gray, Black No. 1; died July 17, 1903

1839 - Adolphus Busch
brewer: founder of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest beer brewery; died Oct 10, 1913

1871 - Marcel Proust
author: The Past Recaptured; died Nov 18, 1922

1875 - E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
journalist, author: Trent’s Last Case; invented humorous voice form of two rhymed couplets of unequal length: the clerihew; died in 1956

1899 - John Gilbert (Pringle)
silent film star: Bullets and Brown Eyes, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade; died Jan 9, 1936

1915 - Milt Buckner
musician: piano, organ, composer: Hamp’s Boogie Woogie, The Lamplighter, Count’s Basement; died July 27, 1977

1915 - Saul Bellow
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist: Humboldt’s Gift [1976]; Nobel Prize for Literature [1976]; The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain King, Herzog, The Bellarosa Connection

1916 - Dick Cary
jazz musician: trumpet, arranger; 1st pianist in Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars [1947-48]; died Apr 6, 1994

1917 - Don Herbert
science teacher, actor: Mr. Wizard; died June 12, 2007

1920 - David Brinkley
TV journalist: The Huntley-Brinkley Report, This Week with David Brinkley; died June 11, 2003

1921 - Jeff (Jean Marie) Donnell
actress: The George Gobel Show, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Gidget Goes to Rome, My Man Godfrey; died Apr 11, 1988

1923 - Earl Hamner Jr.
writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; creator: Falcon Crest; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons

1923 - Jean Kerr (Collins)
author: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, Finishing Touches; died Jan 5, 2003

1926 - Fred Gwynne
actor: The Munsters, Car 54 Where are You?, My Cousin Vinny, Fatal Attraction, Pet Sematary, Ironweed; died July 2, 1993

1931 - Nick Adams
actor: The Rebel, Mister Roberts, Picnic, Our Miss Brooks, No Time for Sergeants, Hell is for Heroes; died Feb 7, 1968

1933 - Jerry Herman
composer, lyricist: Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Dear World, Mack and Mabel

1937 - Sandy Stewart (Galitz)
singer: My Coloring Book; vocalist: The Perry Como Show, Sing Along with Mitch

1939 - Lawrence Pressman
actor: The Late Shift, Fire and Rain, The Hanoi Hilton, On Wings of Eagles, For Love or Money, The Winds of War, The Gathering series, Rich Man, Poor Man, The Man in the Glass Booth, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Mulligan’s Stew, Ladies’ Man, Doogie Howser, M.D.

1941 - Ian Whitcomb
singer: You Turn Me On

1943 - Arthur Ashe
International Tennis Hall of Famer: 33 career titles: Australian Open [1970], Wimbledon [1975], U.S. Open [1968]; author: A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Days of Grace; died Feb 6, 1993

1943 - Jerry Miller
musician: guitar: group: Moby Grape: LPs: Moby Grape, Wow, Grape Jam, Truly Fine Citizen, 20 Granite Creek, Grape Live; The Jerry Miller Band: LP: Life is like That

1945 - Ron Glass
actor: Barney Miller, Deep Space, Houseguest

1945 - Hal (Harold Abraham) McRae
baseball: Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1970, 1972], KC Royals [all-star: 1975, 1976, 1982/World Series: 1980, 1985]

1945 - Virginia Wade
tennis champion: Australian Open [1972], Wimbledon [1977], U.S. Open [1968]

1946 - Sue Lyon
actress: The Invisible Strangler, The Flim Flam Man, The Night of the Iguana, Lolita

1947 - Arlo Guthrie
folk singer: The City of New Orleans, Alice’s Restaurant; son of legendary folk singer, Woody Guthrie

1949 - Ronnie James Dio (Padavona)
singer, songwriter: groups: Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio: Mystery, Stars, LPs: Holy Diver, The Last in Line, Dream Evil

1949 - Winston Rekert
actor: Agnes of God, Droids, Adderly, Glory! Glory!, Neon Rider, Moonlight Becomes You, Murder at the Cannes Film Festival

1954 - Andre (Nolan) Dawson
baseball: Montreal Expos [Rookie of the Year: 1977/all-star: 1981, 1982, 1983], Chicago Cubs [all-star: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991], Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins

1954 - Neil Tennant
singer: group: Pet Shop Boys: LP: What Have I Done to Deserve This

1960 - Roger Craig
football: SF 49ers, LA Raiders, Minnesota Viking

1972 - Sofía Vergara
model, actress: Acapulco, cuerpo y alma, Big Trouble

1980 - Thomas Ian Nicholas
actor: Radio Flyer, A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, American Pie, Party of Five, Halloween: The Homecoming.

Chart Toppers
July 10th.

1951 Too Young - Nat King Cole
Mister and Mississippi - Patti Page
On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers (vocal: Terry Gilkyson)
I Want to Be with You Always - Lefty Frizzell

1959 Lonely Boy - Paul Anka
Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
Bobby Sox to Stockings - Frankie Avalon
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

1967 Windy - The Association
Little Bit o’ Soul - The Music Explosion
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli
All the Time - Jack Greene

1975 Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille
The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
Listen to What the Man Said - Wings
Lizzie and the Rainman - Tanya Tucker

1983 Every Breath You Take - The Police
Never Gonna Let You Go - Sergio Mendez
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Highway 40 Blues - Ricky Skaggs

1991 Rush, Rush - Paula Abdul
Unbelievable - EMF
Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones
Don’t Rock the Jukebox - Alan Jackson


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Friday, July 11, 2008
BOWDLERIZE DAY.

To bowdlerize means to self-righteously remove or modify passages one considers vulgar or objectionable. A medical doctor by the name of Thomas Bowdler, whose birthday was this day in 1754, gave new meaning to expurgation.

Dr. Bowdler gave up his medical practice to practice surgery on the works of William Shakespeare. He removed all those words “...which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family” or which are “...unfit to be read aloud by a gentleman to a company of ladies.” He removed all the words and expressions which he considered to be indecent or impious from his ten volumes of Shakespeare’s writings.

But that wasn’t enough to satisfy Bowdler. He moved on to Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and then he boldly bowdlerized the Old Testament. In doing so, he irritated a lot of people - so many that his name became synonymous with these acts.

We’re glad he isn’t around to censor today’s literature and movie scripts. We think we’d be left with nary a word if Dr. Bowdler had his way.
Click, (http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg107.htm) click. (http://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/bowdler.html)

Events
July 11th.

1804 - Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton to death in their famous duel. Samuel Broadhurst, a relative of Burr’s, had tried to negotiate a settlement between the two, but Burr offered the challenge and the duel ensued. Burr won by drawing first blood with his swift sword, a gun, in this case. (Kids: please don’t try this at home. Thank you...)

1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. Ruth made $2,900 his rookie season. Just six years later, his paycheck was worth $125,000 when he became a member of the New York Yankees.

1916 - One of America’s great race horses died. Dan Patch was the celebrated horse that had never lost a race. He first became known for promoting his owner’s feed company in Savage, Minnesota. Interestingly, Mr. Savage died several days after his beloved trotter died.

1918 - Enrico Caruso bypassed opera for a short time to join the war (WWI) effort. Caruso recorded Over There, the patriotic song written by George M. Cohan.

1934 - The first appointments to the newly created Federal Communications Commission were made. The governing body of the American broadcasting industry was first served by seven men named as commissioners.

1950 - Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams suffered a broken elbow during the All-Star baseball game in Chicago.

1955 - The first class of 306 cadets was sworn in at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado, the temporary home of the U.S. Air Force Academy. A bill establishing the Academy had been signed by President Eisenhower on April 1, 1954. The Cadet Wing moved to the academy’s permanent home north of Colorado Springs, CO in 1958.

1964 - 18-year-old Millie Small was riding high on the pop music charts with My Boy Lollipop (#2, 7/04/64). Listen carefully to the tune and you’ll hear Rod Stewart playing harmonica. Millie Small was known as the ’Blue Beat Girl’ in Jamaica, her homeland.

1967 - Kenny Rogers formed The First Edition just one day after he and members Thelma Camacho, Mike Settle and Terry Williams left The New Christy Minstrels. The First Edition hosted a syndicated TV variety show in 1972. Hits made popular by the group include: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), But You Know I Love You, Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Ruben James, and Something’s Burning.

1970 - Ron Clarke of Australia announced his retirement from track competition. He retired, however, for just a few weeks.

1973 - Tennis stars Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs announced their forthcoming (September, 1973) Battle of the Sexes. The winner would take home $100,000. The event would be staged at the Houston Astrodome in Texas (before 30,472 spectators, as it turned out; the largest crowd ever for a tennis match) and broadcast on national TV. Who would win? Hint: The female sex.

1985 - Zippers for stitches were announced by Dr. H. Harlan Stone. The surgeon had used zippers on 28 patients whom he thought might require additional operations because of internal bleeding following initial operations. The zippers, which lasted between five and 14 days, were then replaced with permanent stitches.

1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major-league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career as he led the Astros to a 4-3 win over the New York Mets. Danny Heep, formerly of the Astros, gave Ryan his milestone by fanning on three straight pitches.

1987 - Bo Jackson signed a $7.4 million contract to play football for the LA Raiders for five years. Jackson became a two-sport player as he continued to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals.

Birthdays
July 11th.

1754 - Thomas Bowdler
medical doctor, bowdlerizer [literary censor]: created Family Shakespeare: censored version of Shakespeare’s works; died Feb 24, 1825; see Bowdlerize Day [above]

1767 - John Quincy Adams
6th U.S. President [1825-1829]; married to Louisa Johnson [three sons, one daughter]; son of 2nd President John Adams; nickname: Old Man Eloquent; died Feb 23, 1848

1899 - E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
author: Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Is Sex Necessary?, The Elements of Style; died Oct 1, 1985

1906 - Harry von Zell
radio/TV actor, announcer: Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen programs; famous blooper: “Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States, Hoobert Heever -- I mean, Herbert Hoover.”; died Nov 21, 1981

1915 - Yul Brynner (Taidje Khan)
Academy & Tony Award-winning actor: The King and I [1956, 1951 resp.]; The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, Anastasia, The Brothers Karamazov, Futureworld, Westworld; died Oct 10, 1985

1922 - Gene Evans
actor: My Friend Flicka, Walking Tall, Support Your Local Sheriff, Operation Petticoat, The Concrete Cowboys; died Apr 1, 1998

1924 - Brett Somers
actress: The Odd Couple, Perry Mason; TV panelist: Match Game P.M.

1928 - Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson

World/Internet Boxing Hall of Famer: middleweight champ: career record: 93-16-2 [44 KOs]; Edward J. Neil Trophy for Fighter of the Year: 1954; died Jan 16, 2002

1929 - Paul Harney
golf: PGA touring pro; owns and operates Paul Harney Golf Club, North Falmouth MA

1930 - Harold Bloom
literary critic; author: The Western Canon, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, & Resurrection

1931 - Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien)
singer: Young Love, Ninety-Nine Ways, Apple Blossom Time; actor: Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Island of Desire, Judge Roy Bean, Ride the Wild Surf

1934 - Bob Allison
baseball: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins; died Apr 9, 1995

1934 - Giorgio Armani
fashion designer: Outstanding International Designer Award [1981]

1939 - Larry Laoretti
golf: champ: U.S. Senior Open [1992]

1944 - Lou Hudson
basketball: Univ. of Minnesota, Atlanta Hawks

1944 - Bobby Rice
singer: Sugar Shack, You Lay So Easy on My Mind

1946 - Beverly Todd
actress: Class of ’61, Clara’s Heart, Baby Boom, Brother John, Roots, The Redd Foxx Show, Having Babies

1947 - Jeff Hanna
musician: guitar, singer: group: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Mr. Bojangles, Modern Day Romance, Long Hard Road

1948 - Ernie Holmes
football: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: Super Bowl IX, X

1950 - Bonnie Pointer
Grammy Award-winning singer [w/sister Anita]: Fairy Tale; solo: Fire, Steam Heat; LPs: Bonnie Pointer, If the Price is Right; group: Pointer Sisters: Yes We Can Can, Wang Wang Doodle, How Long , I’m So Excited, Jump [For My Love]; LPs: That’s a Plenty, Live at the Opera House, Steppin, Having a Party

1952 - Stephen Lang
actor: Tombstone, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Death of a Salesman, Crime Story

1953 - Leon Spinks
boxer: world heavyweight champion [1981,83]

1956 - Sela Ward
actress: Sisters, The Fugitive, Child of Darkness, Child of Light

1957 - Peter Murphy
singer: group: Bauhaus

1958 - Mark Lester
actor: Oliver, The Prince and the Pauper, Fahrenheit 451

1963 - Lisa Rinna
model, actress: Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

1966 - Debbe Dunning
actress: Home Improvement.

Chart Toppers
July 11th.

1944 I’ll Be Seing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
Long Ago and Far Away - Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: Dick Haymes)
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio

1952 Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
I’m Yours - Eddie Fisher
Delicado - The Percy Faith Orchestra
That Heart Belongs to Me - Webb Pierce

1960 Alley-Oop - Hollywood Argyles
I’m Sorry - Brenda Lee
Mule Skinner Blues - The Fendermen
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin

1968 This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
The Horse - Cliff Nobles & Co.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
D-I-V-O-R-C-E - Tammy Wynette

1976 Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Kiss and Say Goodbye - Manhattans
I’ll Be Good to You - The Brothers Johnson
The Door is Always Open - Dave & Sugar

1984 When Doves Cry - Prince
Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters
Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol
Somebody’s Needin’ Somebody - Conway Twitty


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Saturday, July 12, 2008
THE COS DAY.

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The span of events that took Bill Cosby from the first African-American to star in a television dramatic series to the contributor of $20 million to Spelman College, are the same events that have endeared him to audiences of all races.

Born William Henry Cosby, Jr. on this day in 1937, he grew up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, Bill entered Temple University in Philadelphia where he was active in football and track. But it was comedy that came naturally to the young Cosby, and he was soon on the road, doing stand-up comedy at nightclubs, concert halls and theaters. Having made a name for himself in this area, Bill Cosby auditioned for the co-starring (with Robert Culp) role of Alexander Scott in "I Spy" in 1965, the same year he married Camille Hanks. "I Spy" was the world’s first dramatic TV series starring an African-American, and Cosby’s first attempt at drama. He won three Best-Actor Emmys for his effort. A sitcom, "The Bill Cosby Show" was next, featuring Cosby as high school basketball coach, Chet Kincaid.

A doctorate in education was in the stars for the TV star. While earning the degree from the University of Massachusetts, Cosby continued to entertain us with TV comedy and variety shows, "The New Bill Cosby Show", and "Cos". His love for children shined in the 1972-1984 animated Saturday morning show, "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids". Cosby’s real life role of husband and parent (four daughters, Erika, Erinn, Ensa, Evin and one son, Ennis, who was tragically killed in 1997 at the age of 27) was played out on his hit TV show, "The Cosby Show"; #1 for three years of its eight-year run (1984-1992). It was in this show that Cosby truly endeared himself to audiences of all ages and races.

Bill Cosby has touched our lives not only on television, but as an actor, producer, director and screenwriter of films; as an author of the bestsellers, "Fatherhood", "Time Flies" and "Congratulations! Now What? : A Book for Graduates", to name a few titles; as a recording artist (five Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album), as a spokesperson (Kodak, JELL-O, Coca-Cola, et al.); as a board member of several organizations, including president of the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame, and as a philanthropist.

The Cos continues his dedication to education as a trustee of Temple University, and with a TV series based on his book series, "Little Bill" encouraging reading among children. He also continues to entertain us with his comedic talents in "Cosby", his latest TV show. An accomplished musician, Cosby has been producing jazz recordings including a dedication to his son, "Hello Friend: To Ennis With Love".

The Cos says, “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” The laughter and applause from his audiences, the pride for his family, and his estimated wealth of $325 million (1995) would spell success to most.

Happy Birthday, Cos.
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Events
July 12th.

1862 - The Medal of Honor was authorized on this day by the U.S. Congress.

1912 - The first foreign-made film to premiere in America, Queen Elizabeth, was shown. The French film starred Sarah Bernhardt and Lon Tellegen.

1931 - A major-league baseball record for doubles was set as the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs combined for a total of 23 twin-sackers in St. Louis.

1946 - The Adventures of Sam Spade was heard on ABC radio for the first time. Howard Duff starred as the San Francisco detective in the summer replacement series. Sam Spade first appeared in the 1930 Dashiel Hammett novel The Maltese Falcon and in the 1931 original film version of The Maltese Falcon, starring Ricardo Cortez. Humprey Bogart played Sam in the 1941 movie.

1949 - Football quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, a student at the University of Oregon, decided against another year of college and signed a professional NFL contract to play with the Los Angeles Rams.

1954 - The Major League Baseball Players Association was organized in Cleveland, OH. Its purpose was to represent ball players in policy decisions with baseball club owners.

1957 - Prince Karim left Harvard University in Cambridge, MA to become the leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems. He became the Aga Khan for the religious sect. Prince Karim was 20 years old at the time of his calling.

1958 - Yakety Yak, by The Coasters, became the number one song in the U.S.A., according to Billboard magazine. It was the first stereo record to reach the top of the chart.

1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale. Over 50 million units were sold during the next 25 years. It was the favorite toy of many moms because it was self-contained and so-o-o quiet.

1979 - This was Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois. Two Chicago radio DJs came up with the idea of having people bring unwanted disco records to the stadium. The spurned records would be burned between doubleheader games with the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Lead by the chant, “Disco Sucks!”, most of the records weren’t burned, but sailed through the stands during the game -- nearly inciting a riot. Some fans started their own fires and mini-riots. There was so much commotion that the ballplayers couldn’t even finish the last game of the doubleheader; the White Sox forfeited.

1982 - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of its opening.

1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI. The company had produced those cabs since 1922.

1984 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies earned his 100th strikeout of the season and led the Phils to a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Carlton tied a record set by Walter Jonson by getting 100 or more strikeouts in 18 straight seasons. Carlton became baseball’s all-time strikeout leader with 3,813. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Phillies, and briefly, for the Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins before retiring and becoming a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1994 - The Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge album was released. Their Voodoo Lounge Tour started in Toronto, July 19, 1994 and ended in Rotterdam on August 30, 1995 -- and holds the all-time North America tour ticket-sale record of $121.2 million.

Birthdays
July 12th.

1730 - Josiah Wedgwood
pottery designer and manufacturer; died Jan 3, 1795

1817 - Henry David Thoreau
philosopher, writer: On Walden Pond; died May 6, 1862

1849 - Sir William Osler
physician, author: Principles and Practice of Medicine; died Dec 29, 1919

1854 - George Eastman
inventor: Kodak camera; flexible roll film; died Mar 14, 1932

1865 - George Washington Carver
botanist: developed multiple uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes; died Jan 5, 1943

1895 - Oscar (Greeley Clendenning) Hammerstein II
lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music; died Aug 23, 1960

1908 - Milton Berle (Berlinger)
comedian: Uncle Miltie, Mr. Television: The Milton Berle Show, Texaco Star Theatre; actor: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Oscar, Side by Side; died Mar 27, 2002

1909 - ‘Curly’ Joe DeRita (Joseph Wardell)
comedian: The Three Stooges: The Outlaw is Coming, Snow White and the Three Stooges, Have Rocket, Will Travel; died July 3, 1993

1917 - Andrew Wyeth
artist: the Helga pictures, Christina’s World, Young Swede, Adrift, Wind from the Sea, Knapsack

1927 - Conte (Secondo) Candoli
musician: trumpet: bandleader; toured with Stan Kenton et al.; with brother Pete in film: Bell Book and Candle

1932 - Otis Davis
track: Olympic Gold medal winner [1960/Rome]: Men’s 4x400 meter relay w/Jack Yerman, Earl Young and Glenn Davis

1934 - Van (Harvey Lavan) Cliburn
piano virtuoso

1937 - Bill Cosby
Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor: I Spy [1965-66; 1966-67, 1967-68], The Bill Cosby Special [1968-69]; The Cosby Show, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Leonard VI, California Suite; see The Cos Day [above]

1943 - Christine (Perfect) McVie
musician, singer: group: Fleetwood Mac: Got a Hold on Me, Dreams, Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow

1944 - Denise Nicholas
actress: Room 222, In the Heat of the Night, Ghost Dad

1948 - Richard Simmons
weight loss expert, entertainer: Sweatin’ to the Oldies

1948 - Jay Thomas
Emmy Award-winning actor: Murphy Brown: Gold Rush [1991]; Mork & Mindy, Married People, Love & War, Cheers, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Straight Talk, Little Vegas, The Gig

1949 - John Wetton
musician: bassist, singer: group: Asia: Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell

1950 - Gilles Meloche
hockey: California Golden Seals; 5 NHL teams over 18 seasons

1951 - Cheryl Ladd (Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor)
actress: Dancing with Danger, Changes, The Grace Kelly Story, One West Waikiki, Charlie’s Angels, Poison Ivy

1951 - Jamey Sheridan
actor: The House on Carroll Street, Shannon’s Deal

1952 - Liz Mitchell
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon

1957 - Mel (Mary Ellen) Harris
actress: thirtysomething, Sharon’s Secret, The Spider and the Fly, Raising Cain, Desperate Motives, Wanted Dead or Alive

1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi
Olympic gold medalist: figure skater [1992]; U.S. and world champion [1992]

Chart Toppers
July 12th.

1945 Dream - The Pied Pipers
The More I See You - Dick Haymes
Bell Bottom Trousers - Tony Pastor
Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima - Bob Wills

1953 Song from Moulin Rouge - The Percy Faith Orchestra
Ruby - Richard Hayman
I’m Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
It’s Been So Long - Webb Pierce

1961 Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
The Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton
Every Beat of My Heart - Pips
Heartbreak U.S.A. - Kitty Wells

1969 In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat & Tears
Good Morning Starshine - Oliver
Statue of a Fool - Jack Greene

1977 Undercover Angel - Alan O’Day
Da Doo Ron Ron - Shaun Cassidy
Looks like We Made It - Barry Manilow
I’ll Be Leaving Alone - Charley Pride

1985 Sussudio - Phil Collins
A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
Raspberry Beret - Prince & The Revolution
She’s a Miracle - Exile


Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end... ;)



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Sunday, July 13, 2008
LIVE AID DAY.
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The year was 1985. The event was the Live Aid concert for African famine relief. The place was Philadelphia, PA and it was also, London, England. Electrifying performances from Philly’s JFK Stadium, London’s Wembley Stadium and other venues were telecast world-wide.

The all-day and much-of-the-night concert featured some of the biggest names in rock music including Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Madonna, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney. The audience was equally as big - 162,000 attended the concert and another 1.5 billion viewed it on TV.

Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof organized the Live Aid concert, gathering the big name stars, all of whom performed without pay.

Live Aid ran for some sixteen hours and raised over $100 million.
Click. (http://www.herald.co.uk/local_info/live_aid.html)

Events
July 13th.

1812 - The first pawnbroking ordinance was passed in New York City on this day.

1832 - U.S. Indian agent and explorer Henry Schoolcraft stumbled upon the source of the Mississippi River. Its 2,552-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico begins at Lake Itasca, Minnesota.

1836 - John Ruggles of Thomaston, Maine received patent #1 from the U.S. Patent Office under a new patent-numbering system. Before Ruggles, a U.S. senator from Maine and the author of the 1836 Patent Act which brought back the examination process, there had been 9,957 non-numbered patents issued. Ruggles received his patent for a traction wheel used in locomotive steam engines.

1875 - David Brown of Lebanon, New Jersey patented the first cash-carrier system. It was a basket moved by a wire, a pail and pulleys, the forerunner of the pneumatic tube ... like those we use at the drive-in-bank windows.

1896 - Philadelpia’s Ed Delahanty became the second major-league player to hit four home runs in a single game.

1925 - Reporters covering the Broadway beat were most impressed by Will Rogers, an Oklahoma cowboy, who had been standing in for W.C. Fields on a temporary basis in the Ziegfeld Follies.

1938 - Spectators paid 25 cents to witness the first television theatre that opened in Boston, MA. The variety show with dancing and song lasted 45 minutes and was attended by 200 people. The acts were performed on a floor above the theatre and transmitted downstairs by TV.

1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut with the Harry James band. Frankie sang Melancholy Mood and From the Bottom of My Heart.

1959 - Dedicated to the One I Love, by The Shirelles, was released. The tune went to number 83 on the Top 100 chart of "Billboard" magazine. The song was re-released in 1961 and made it to number three on the charts. That’s just one case for being in the right place at the right time...

1971 - Reggie Jackson hit a home run off Doc Ellis in the All-Star Game in Tiger Stadium, Detroit, MI. The shot bounced off the light tower deep in right field. The American League won the game 6-4.

1972 - Carroll Rosenbloom (owner of the Baltimore Colts) and Robert Irsay (of the Los Angeles Rams) came up with a unique trade for the NFL. The wealthy businessmen traded teams!

1973 - The Everly Brothers called it quits during a concert at the John Wayne Theatre in Buena Park, CA. Phil Everly walked off the stage in the middle of the show and brother Don said, “The Everly Brothers died ten years ago.” The duo reunited a decade later for a short time.

1973 - David Bedford set a new world record in the 10,000-meter race in London. The track star from Great Britain ran the distance in 27 minutes, 30.8 seconds.

1982 - The first All-Star Game played outside the United States was played this day in Montreal, Canada. The National League won for the 11th consecutive year, defeating the American League 4-1.

1984 - Sportscaster Howard Cosell said that he was “tired of being tied to the football mentality” and asked to be released from duties on Monday Night Football. Roone Arledge obliged. In fact, Cosell was removed from television altogether a year later.

1985 - Duran Duran took A View to a Kill, from the James Bond movie of the same name, to the top of the record charts this day. The song stayed on top for two weeks. Live and Let Die by Wings and Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simon -- both James Bond themes -- got only as high as number two on the record charts.

1986 - Kent Tekulve of the Philadelphia Phillies broke the National League record for relief appearances by notching his 820th performance. He helped the Phils with an 11-inning victory over the Houston Astros (5-4). Elroy Face of Pittsburgh had been the previous record holder in the National League.

1992 - An appeals court in New York ruled that Jett Williams, the secret daughter of Hank Williams Senior, was entitled to share the royalties from his songs. In 1984, Jett had hired investigator Keith Adkinson, who found that Jett had been deliberately defrauded out of her father’s estate and his copyright royalties. Adkinson sued on her behalf. On October 26, 1987 the Alabama Circuit Court ruled that Hank Williams was Jett’s father. On July 5, 1989 the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jett had been defrauded, and awarded her half of her father’s estate. And on July 13, 1992 the federal court in New York awarded Jett her proportionate share of her father's copyright renewal royalties.

1995 - The temperature in Chicago, Illinois reached its all-time high -- 106 degrees (Fahrenheit) -- recorded at Midway Airport.

Birthdays
July 13th.

100 B.C. - Julius Caesar
Roman writer, orator, politician, emperor, dictator: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”; month of July named for him; assassinated Mar 15, 44 B.C.

1886 - Father Edward Joseph Flanagan
Catholic priest, founder of Boys Town, Omaha NE; died May 14, 1948

1913 - Dave Garroway
TV talk-show host: Today, Garroway at Large; died July 21, 1982

1914 - Sam Hanks
auto racer: Indianapolis 500 winner [1957: 135.601 mph]; died June 27, 1994

1927 - Ruben (Colon) Gomez
baseball: pitcher: NY Giants [World Series: 1954], SF Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins; died July 26, 2004

1928 - Bob (Robert Edward) Crane
actor: Hogan’s Heroes, Return to Peyton Place, Super Dad; DJ: KNX [LA]; found murdered in his hotel room in Scottsdale, AZ June 29, 1978

1931 - Frank Ramsey
The Kentucky Colonel: Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics: played in 7 NBA championships; coach: Kentucky Colonels

1933 - David Storey
playwright: The Performance of Small Firms, This Sporting Life

1934 - Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka)
author: The Strong Breed, The Lion and the Jewel

1935 - Jack Kemp
football: NFL QB: San Diego Chargers, Buffalo Bills; U.S. congressman from NY [1971-1989]: chairman of House Republican Conference [1980-1987]; U.S. presidential candidate [1988]; U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development [1989-1992]; Republican party candidate for vice-president [w/Bob Dole: 1996]

1937 - Charles Coody
golf: Masters Champion [1971]

1940 - Patrick Stewart
actor: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gunmen, Excalibur, L.A. Story, Conspiracy Theory, X-Men

1941 - Robert Forster
actor: Cover Story, Diplomatic Immunity, Delta Force, Standing Tall, The Death Squad, Medium Cool, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Banyon, Nakia

1942 - Stephen Jo Bladd
musician: drummer: group: J. Geils Band: Centerfold

1942 - Harrison Ford
actor: The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, Presumed Innocent, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, The Devil’s Own, Air Force One, Six Days Seven Nights, Random Hearts

1942 - Roger McGuinn
musician, singer, group: The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man, Eight Mile