295 BC: THE FIRST TEMPLE TO VENUS IS DEDICATED BY QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS GURGES.
His son was Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges Junior.
43 BC: GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR OCTAVIANUS COMPELS THE ROMAN SENATE TO ELECT CONSUL.
No wonder the Roman Empire fell. Who can remember all the names?
561: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, WHO WAS 18, RETURNS TO SCOTLAND AFTER SPENDING 13 YEARS IN FRANCE.
What was that? An extended sleepaway camp?
1692: IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, FIVE PEOPLE ARE EXECUTED AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF WITCHCRAFT.
They think that's a crime. Wait till everybody meets the new Darren.
1759: BATTLE OF LAGOS DURING THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
Oh, Lagos. There goes my snap together toy joke.
1812: WAR OF 1812 - AMERICAN FRIGATE USS CONSTITUTION DEFEATS BRITISH FRIGATE GUERRIERE OFF THE COAST OF CANADA EARNING THE NICKNAME "OLD IRONSIDES."
Oh, frigate.
1839: THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES THAT LOUIS DAGUERRE'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS IS A GIFT FREE TO THE WORLD.
Yeah, that eventually led to movies and they are definitely not free.
1848: THE NEW YORK HERALD BREAKS THE NEWS OF THE GOLD RUSH IN CALIFORNIA.
I got here almost 150 years later. Too late.
1854: THE FIRST SIOUX WAR BEGINS WHEN US SOLDIERS KILL LAKOTA CHIEF CONQUERING BEAR AND IN RETURN ARE MASSACRED.
Where's Randolph Scott when you need him?
1871: INVENTOR ORVILLE WRIGHT IS BORN.
Fun fact for Wednesday: Wilbur was four years older.
1883: DESIGNER COCO CHANEL IS BORN.
Inventor of the last minute Christmas present.
1909: THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE RACE AT THE INDIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY.
Varoom.
1921: PRODUCER GENE RODDENBERRY IS BORN.
Going where no one named Gene Roddenberry has gone before.
1931: JOCKEY WILLIE SHOEMAKER IS BORN.
And he's off.
1934: THE FIRST ALL-AMERICAN SOAP BOX DERBY IS HELD IN DAYTON, OHIO.
Varoom. Well, sort of.
1934: THE CREATOR OF THE POSITION FUHRER IS APPROVED BY THE GERMAN ELECTORATE WITH 89.9% OF THE POPULAR VOTE.
You vill be sorry.
1940: ACTRESS JILL ST. JOHN IS BORN.
So do you think hubby Robert Wagner has told her what happened that night on Catalina?
1944: DURING WORLD WAR II, PARIS, FRANCE RISES AGAINST GERMAN OCCUPATION WITH THE HELP OF ALLIED TROOPS.
As if you thought they could do it by themselves.
1945: VIET MINH LED BY HO CHI MINH TAKES POWER IN HANOI, VIETNAM.
Already it starts.
1946: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON IS BORN.
The man Hillary slept with once.
1948: TIPPER GORE IS BORN.
The ex-wife of the man who was the vice president to the man that Hillary slept with once.
1953; POLITICAL CONSULTANT MARY MATALIN IS BORN.
Her marriage to James Carville is a microcosm of the political situation in this nation.
1955: IN THE NORTHEAST US, SEVERE FLOODING IS CAUSED BY HURRICANE DIANE, CLAIMING 200 LIVES.
Flooding will do that to a person.
1960: IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA, DOWNED AMERICAN U-2 PILOT FRANCIS GARY POWERS IS SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT BY THE SOVIET UNION FOR ESPIONAGE.
Comrade, da plane, da plane.
1960: BASEBALL STAR AND BROADCASTER RON DARLING IS BORN.
Now that Tim McCarver has retired, he is the best color announcer working today.
1969: ACTOR MATTHEW PERRY IS BORN.
The weakest Friend...acting-wise.
1977: COMIC GROUCHO MARX DIES.
Tough week for legends. Elvis died three days before.
1989: RADIO CAROLINE, THE OFFSHORE PIRATE STATION IN THE NORTH SEA, IS RAIDED BY BRITISH AND DUTCH GOVERNMENTS.
So we'll just track this Allman Brothers album for now.
1989: SEVERAL HUNDRED EAST GERMANS CROSS THE FRONTIER BETWEEN HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA, PART OF THE EVENTS THAT BEGAN THE PROCESS OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL.
Mr. Gorbachev...tear down...yeah, yeah, I know.
1991: SOVIET PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST WHILE ON HOLIDAY IN THE UKRAINE.
You should never have torn down...yeah, yeah, I know.
1991: BLACK GROUPS TARGET HASIDIC JEWS ON THE STREETS OF CROWN HEIGHTS IN NY FOR THREE DAYS AFTER TWO BLACK KIDS WERE HIT BY A CAR DRIVEN BY A HASIDIC MAN.
It could have been worse. He could have been a Hasidic cop.
2009: TV NEWS PRODUCER DON HEWITT DIES.
Hey, my watch has stopped.
2010: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM ENDS, WITH THE LAST OF THE US COMBAT TEAMS CROSSING THE BORDER TO KUWAIT.
Well, gee, I'm glad that's over. Oh, wait...
Dinner last night: Hamburger.
1 comment:
Often forgotten: Jill St. John got top "villan" billing in the first episode of "Batman." Frank Gorshin, who played the Riddler, was almost an afterthought in that episode, though he earned a recurring gig.
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