325: THE FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS HELD IN NICEA.
Meetings in the morning. Golf in the afternoon.
526: AN EARTHQUAKE KILLS ABOUT 250,000 PEOPLE IN WHAT IS NOW SYRIA AND ANTIOCHIA.
Now that's an earthquake.
794: KING ETHELBERHT II OF EAST ANGLIA VISITS THE ROYAL MERCIAN COURT AT SUTTON WALLS, WITH A VIEW TO MARRYING A PRINCESS. HE IS TAKEN CAPTIVE AND BEHEADED.
I prefer to wait for Queen Ethelmertz I.
1293: KING SANCHO IV OF CASTILE CREATES THE STUDY OF GENERAL SCHOOLS OF ALCALA.
Sounds like some gut courses to me.
1498: PORTUGUESE EXPLORER VASCO DA GAMA DISCOVERS THE SEA ROUTE TO INDIA.
For you three who want to go there.
1521: IGNATIUS LOYOLA IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF PAMPELUNA.
Didn't this guy Loyola open up a lot of colleges?
1609: SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ARE FIRST PUBLISHED IN LONDON.
When do we see the Cliff Notes?
1775: THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Doesn't Mecklenburg sound like one of those countries in a Marx Brothers movie?
1802: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE REINSTATES SLAVERY IN THE FRENCH COLONIES, REVOKING ITS ABOLITION IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
I guess that's Shorty's version of an executive action.
1861: DURING THE CIVIL WAR, THE STATE OF KENTUCKY PROCLAIMS ITS NEUTRALITY, WHICH WILL LAST UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3. MEANWHILE, THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA SECEDES FROM THE UNION.
Why do I think this kind of stuff will happen again?
1862: US PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNS THE HOMESTEAD ACT INTO LAW.
Pitch your tent here.
1873: LEVI STRAUSS AND JACOB DAVIS RECEIVE A US PATENT FOR BLUE JEANS WITH COPPER RIVETS.
So that's how they got there.
1883: KRAKATOA BEGINS TO ERUPT. THE VOLCANO EXPLODES THREE MONTHS LATER.
From the movie title, I know this is "east of Java." Or was it West? Who does remember that film anyway?
1891: THE FIRST PUBLIC DISPLAY OF THOMAS EDISON'S PROTOTYPE KINETOSCOPE.
Two on the aisle please.
1899: THE FIRST TRAFFIC TICKET IN THE US --- NYC CAB DRIVER JACOB GERMAN WAS ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING WHILE DRIVING 12 MILES PER HOUR.
He probably contested it.
1902: CUBA GAINS INDEPENDENCE FROM THE US.
Babalu.
1908: ACTOR JAMES STEWART IS BORN.
This will be a wonderful life.
1915: ISRAELI POLITICIAN MOSHE DAYAN IS BORN.
Are they coming on the left?
1916: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PUBLISHES ITS FIRST COVER WITH A NORMAN ROCKWELL PAINTING.
It was a boy with a baby carriage in case you're in a trivia contest.
1919: COMEDIAN GEORGE GOBEL IS BORN.
No longer lonesome.
1927: CHARLES LINDBERGH TAKES OFF FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD IN LONG ISLAND TO MAKE THE WORLD'S FIRST SOLO NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. HE LANDS IN PARIS THE NEXT DAY.
After what we learned later on, it's a shame this was a round trip.
1932: AMELIA EARHART TAKES OFF FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO BEGIN THE WORLD'S FIRST SOLO NONSTOP FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BY A FEMALE PILOT.
This one she actually finished.
1940: THE FIRST PRISONERS ARRIVE AT A NEW CONCENTRATION CAMP AT AUSCHWITZ.
And so it begins.
1944: SINGER JOE COCKER IS BORN.
He'll get high. With help from his friends.
1946: ACTRESS/SINGER CHER IS BORN.
We got you, babe.
1948: CHIANG KAI-SHEK IS ELECTED AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF CHINA.
Waiter, Kai-shek, please.
1964: DISCOVERY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION BY ROBERT WOODROW WILSON AND ARNO PENZIAS.
Oh, good, now we can heat up lunch.
1966: ACTRESS MINDY COHN IS BORN.
Saw her once picking up take-out food at Blue Plate Diner in Santa Monica.
1969: THE BATTLE OF HAMBURGER HILL IN VIETNAM ENDS.
Hold the pickle. Add the napalm.
1983: FIRST PUBLICATIONS OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIV VIRUS THAT CAUSES AIDS IN THE JOURNAL SCIENCE BY LUC MONTAGNIER.
Uh oh.
1989: ACTRESS GILDA RADNER DIES.
Marvelous talent. What a waste.
1990: THE FIRST POST-COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ARE HELD IN ROMANIA.
Da, I can vote now.
1996: THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US RULES AGAINST A LAW THAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED ANY CITY, TOWN, OR COUNTY IN COLORADO FROM TAKING ANY JUDICIAL ACTION TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF GAYS AND LESBIANS.
And now you can legally smoke weed in the same state.
2012: SINGER ROBIN GIBB DIES.
How do you mend a broken heart? You really can't.
2013: SINGER RAY MANZAREK DIES.
From the Doors....now knocking on Heaven's...well, you get it.
Dinner last night: Leftover ravioli and salad.
1 comment:
Ray Manzarek was the organ player (and a great one; his sound was one of the band's trademarks). Jim Morrison was the singer who drank himself to death.
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