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TODAY’s “Geez”
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
1904 - Boston Herald again refers to NY baseball club as Yankees, when it reports "Yankees take 2," Yankee name not official till 1913
1945 - 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log
1942 - 1st bombing on continental US soil, Mount Emily Oregon (WW II)
1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1985 - President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa
Free Rambling Thoughts…
Lots of rain this afternoon, combined with lightning and thunder. The NPR station said the weather will be ‘unstable’ for the next 4 days. Hmmm…guess they were right.
The remembrances for 9-11 have started on TV. I must say, when I was watching The Talk, I was taken back to that day. They ran some footage from the filmmaker who was inside the lobby with the NYFD that day. Another film maker has followed five survivors for the past decade. An Asian woman was on the 85th floor, walked to the 78th when the plane hit and then was directed down by a stranger. Her story talked about how she was burned over 30% of her body and her recovery. Turns out much of her burns were thermal burns..something I had never heard of. That means the heat actually cooked her muscle rather than fire burning it. She will never fully recover. I don’t plan on watching a lot of these shows, but they will be available from now until Sunday. As was pointed out, not only did America change, the whole world changed on 9-11. We do have a new vocabulary; we have lost much of our freedoms; and our position in the world has truly changed.
Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)
1. What was Kojak's first name?
2. Which role did Richard Chamberlain play in The Thornbirds?
3. Who was the hero of the cop series Highway Patrol?
4. What was the name of the boss in Taxi?
5. ABC cancelled Get Smart after what was blown up in an episode?
6. Who played the Spencer Tracy film role in the TV sitcom Adam's Rib?
7. What was the name of the detective in the 70s series Vegas?
8. Which song did Richard Chamberlain record to the Dr Kildare theme?
9. Who played the title role in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the 1981TV movie?
10. On whose comedy show did The Simpsons first appear?
11. On which family from where was the Partridge Family based?
12. Who played the Bing Crosby role in the TV version of Going My way?
Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)
Hmmmmm…
- Minimum number of man-made objects orbiting Earth: 22,000
Somewhat Useless Information…
- U.S. textile mills presently convert over half of the cotton they use into clothing.
- The majority of cotton is used for men's and boys' clothing, with jeans, underwear, and shirts topping the list.
- Cotton is a food crop. Almost 200 million gallons of cottonseed oil are used in food products such as margarine and salad dressing. Cottonseed and cottonseed meal are used in feed for livestock and poultry.
- The Cotton Belt covers the southern half of the United States, reaching from Virginia to California. Texas is the top cotton-producing state, harvesting about one-third of the crop each year.
- One bale of cotton can produce 1,217 men's t-shirts or 313,600 one-hundred dollar ($100) bills.
- If all of the cotton produced annually in the U.S. were used to make one product, such as blue jeans, it would make five billion pairs.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
WASHINGTON - A Washington area social worker said she has learned the sperm donor used to conceive her son seven years ago fathered 150 other children.
Cynthia Daily, 48, told The New York Times in an article Tuesday she began a quest for her son's half-siblings by searching a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the same sperm donor. Daily said she set up an online group to track the children and today they number 150 -- with more on the way.
Her story has prompted concern among parents, donors and medical experts about the potential negative consequences of having so many children fathered by the same donor. Britain, France and Sweden limit how many children a sperm donor can father but there is no limit in the United States, only guidelines. Law Professor Naomi R. Kahn of George Washington University said without limits the same donor could theoretically produces hundreds of related children. It's that accidental incest could occur, Kahn said.
Guffaw…or at least smile…
Married couples, both 60 years old, were celebrating their 35th anniversary.
During their party, a fairy appeared to congratulate them and grant them each one a wish.
The wife wanted to travel around the world. The fairy waved her wand and poof -- the wife had tickets in her hand for a world cruise.
Next, the fairy asked the husband what he wanted.
He said, "I wish I had a wife 30 years younger than me."
So the fairy picked up her wand and poof -- the husband was 90.
Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…
Daybook Information…
…Happening This Week:
1-10
International Enthusiasm Week
4-10 National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week:
National Waffle Week Suicide Prevention Week 6-10 National Payroll Week:
Play Days9-11
Popeye Week
TODAY IS
- Teddy Bear Day
- Stand Up To Cancer Day
- Wonderful Weirdoes Day
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- Japan: Chrysanthemum Day
- Tajikistan: Independence Day (1991 from USSR)
- Uganda: Independence Day (1967 from Great Britian)
- US: California: Admission Day (1850—31st state)
Today’s Events:
IN ARTS
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1955 - Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
IN ATHLETICS
1968 - 1st US Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins)
1971 - NHL great Gordie Howe retires
1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
IN BUSINESS
1753 - 1st steam engine arrives in US colonies
IN EDUCATION
1817 - Alexander Lucius Twilight, probably 1st black to graduate from US college, receives BA degree at Middlebury College
FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1836 - Alexander Le Grand is appointed by Texas leader David Burnet as Indian Commissioner. He is charged with negotiating a peace treaty with the Comanches and the Kiowas
1850 - The "Robinson Treaty with the Ojibewa Indians of Lake Huron Conveying Certain Lands to the Crown" is signed in Canada
IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
1492 - Columbus' fleet sets sail west
1881 - Egyptian military coup under colonel Arab "El Wahid"
1948 - People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed
1985 - Race riot in Birmingham England
1993 - PLO recognizes state of Israel
2004 - Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
IN RELIGION
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IN SCIENCE
1839 - John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph
1977 - 1st TRS-80 computer sold
IN US POLITICS
1675 - New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag Indians
1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created
1957 - Pres Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (War & Peace, Anna Karenina)
ATHLETES
1919 - Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder, gambler/sportscaster
Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster turns 62
Brett Hull, NHL right wing (MVP 1991, 86 goals)turns 47
ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician
Angela Cartwright, actor(Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space) turns 59
1899 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Commisioner Gordon-Batman)
Michael Keaton, actor turns 60
Hugh Grant, actor turns 51
Cliff Robertson, actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T turns 86
Adam Sandler, actor turns 45
Dee Dee Sharp, American R&B singer turns 66
Goran Visnjic, actor (TV-ER) turns 39
1919 - Richard Webb, actor (Invisible Monster, Git, Capt. Midnight)
Tom Wopat, actor (Dukes of Hazard)turns 60
ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS
1890 - Harland Sanders, colonel/CEO (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
POLITICIANS
1887 - Alfred M Landon, (R-Ks) pres candidate (1932, 1936)1887 - Alf Landon, American politician
SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS
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Today’s Obits:
1999 - James Augustus Catfish Hunter, American baseball player dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 53
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer dies at 65
1976 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86
ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
1. What was Kojak's first name?
a. Theo
2. Which role did Richard Chamberlain play in The Thornbirds?
a. Ralph De Bricassart
3. Who was the hero of the cop series Highway Patrol?
a. Dan Matthews
4. What was the name of the boss in Taxi?
a. Louie De Palma
5. ABC cancelled Get Smart after what was blown up in an episode?
a. Statue of Liberty
6. Who played the Spencer Tracy film role in the TV sitcom Adam's Rib?
a. Ken Howard
7. What was the name of the detective in the 70s series Vegas?
a. Dan Tanna
8. Which song did Richard Chamberlain record to the Dr Kildare theme?
9. Who played the title role in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the 1981TV movie?
a. Jaclyn Smith
10. On whose comedy show did The Simpsons first appear?
a. Tracy Ullman
11. On which family from where was the Partridge Family based?
a. The Cowshill, of Rhode Island
12. Who played the Bing Crosby role in the TV version of Going My way?
a. Gene Kelly
Close Up Picture
Ms PacMan Video Game
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree. All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] may not be totally accurate.
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