1124: DAVID I BECOMES KING OF SCOTS.
Any bets on whether there were bagpipes at the ceremony?
1296: AT THE BATTLE OF DUNBAR, THE SCOTS ARE DEFEATED BY EDWARD I OF ENGLAND.
That Scottish euphoria was shortlived, wasn't it?
1521: EXPLORER FERNINAND MAGELLAN IS KILLED BY NATIVES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Sounds like he got lost. Which is pretty bad since his name is now on a locating device in cars.
1578: THE DUEL OF THE MIGNONS BEGINS.
Well done versus medium rare.
1667: THE BLIND AND IMPOVERISHED JOHN MILTON SELLS THE COPYRIGHT OF PARADISE LOST FOR TEN POUNDS.
Except the guy only really gave him five pounds. Hell, he was blind. How could he know the difference?
1773: THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN PASSES THE TEA ACT.
We all know how this ended. At the bottom of Boston Bay.
1810: BEETHOVEN COMPOSES HIS FAMOUS PIANO PIECE, FUR ELISE.
On the flip side of the record, you found "Happy and Peppy and Bursting with Love" by Felix Unger.
1822: GENERAL/PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT IS BORN.
Everybody thinks they know where he's buried, but does anybody care where he was born???
1840: FOUNDATION STONE FOR NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, LONDON, IS LAID BY THE WIFE OF SIR CHARLES BARRY.
Later that night, the wife of Sir Charles Barry was...oh, never mind.
1861: PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SUSPENDS THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
A little more than four years later, Lincoln would be one dead corpus.
1899: CARTOONIST WALTER LANTZ IS BORN.
Woody Woodpecker's father. And the indirect creator of the expression "peckerwood."
1909: SULTAN OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE ABDUL HAMID I IS OVERTHROWN.
That's a lot of commotion for some empire devoted to hassocks.
1916: BASEBALL PLAYER ENOS SLAUGHTER IS BORN.
One great name for a ballplayer.
1922: ACTOR JACK KLUGMAN IS BORN.
Oscar, Oscar, Oscar....
1939: ACTRESS JUDY CARNE IS BORN.
Sock it to her.
1945: BENITO MUSSOLINI IS ARRESTED BY ITALIAN PARTISANS IN DONGO.
Something tells me he won't be hanging around long.
1950: IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE GROUP AREAS ACT IS PASSED FORMALLY SEGREGATING RACES.
Somehow, they managed to do the same thing in my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York.
1965: NEWSCASTER EDWARD R. MURROW DIES.
Person To Heaven. He died of lung cancer. Surprise? Anybody?
1967: EXPO 67 OPENS IN MONTREAL, CANADA.
When did you think it opened? In 1965?
1974: 10,000 MARCH IN WASHINGTON DC, CALLING FOR RICHARD NIXON'S IMPEACHMENT.
He looked out the White House window, saw the crowd, and probably thought it was an "Up With People" concert.
1981: XEROX INTRODUCES THE COMPUTER MOUSE.
And also Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome.
1999: TRUMPETER AL HIRT DIES.
He was obviously more than hirt.
2000: DISCO SINGER VICKI SUE ROBINSON DIES.
You can only turn the beat around so many times.
Dinner last night: Pepperoni sandwich and salad.
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