296: POPE MARCELLINUS BEGINS HIS PAPACY.
When do we get some simpler Pope names like Leo or John?
1559: KING HENRY II OF FRANCE IS MORTALLY WOUNDED IN A JOUSTING MATCH AGAINST GABRIEL, COMTE DE MONTGOMERY.
What the hell is a comte?
1859: FRENCH ACROBAT CHARLES BLONDIN CROSSES NIAGARA FALLS ON A TIGHTROPE.
It amazes me the number of people who try things that could ultimately kill you.
1864: US PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN GRANTS YOSEMITE VALLEY TO CALIFORNIA FOR "PUBLIC USE, RESORT AND RECREATION."
Sounds like Lincoln was looking for a vacation spot.
1906: THE US CONGRESS PASSES THE MEAT INSPECTION ACT AND PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT.
That will keep them busy for the next...well...thousand years.
1917: ACTRESS SUSAN HAYWARD IS BORN.
She was in a movie "I Want to Live." And on this date she does.
1917: SINGER LENA HORNE IS BORN.
I wonder if she and Susan are twins.
1919: BASEBALL COACH ED YOST IS BORN.
Also a member of the 1969 NY Mets.
1921: US PRESIDENT WARREN G. HARDING APPOINTS FORMER PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE US.
To this day, I think the Supreme Court is a joke.
1934: THE NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIFES - HITLER'S VIOLENT PURGE OF ENEMIES IN GERMANY TAKES PLACE.
The ultimate villain.
1944: NY MET RON SWOBODA IS BORN.
Still marveling at the catch.
1953: THE FIRST CHEVROLET CORVETTE ROLLS OFF THE ASSEMBLY LINE IN FLINT, MICHIGAN.
And immediately depreciates.
1956: A TWA PLANE AND A UNITED AIRLINES COLLIDE ABOVE THE GRAND CANYON IN ARIZONA AND CRASH, KILLING ALL PASSENGERS.
Fly the Unfriendly Skies.
1966: THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, THE US' LARGEST FEMINIST ORGANIZATION, IS FOUNDED.
And so it begins.
1966: BOXER MIKE TYSON IS BORN.
He didn't have any teeth on that day either.
1972: THE FIRST LEAP SECOND IS ADDED TO THE TIME SYSTEM.
Now everybody's going to lose a little sleep.
1984: AUTHOR LILLIAN HELLMAN DIES.
Love her mayonnaise.
1985: SWIMMER MICHAEL PHELPS IS BORN.
Swam down the birthing canal.
1990: EAST GERMANY AND WEST GERMANY MERGE THEIR ECONOMIES.
Now was that so hard?
1995: ACTOR GALE GORDON DIES.
The guy had one act and played it over and over and over.
2003: COMIC BUDDY HACKETT DIES.
What did he say?
2014: BASEBALL EXEC FRANK CASHEN DIES.
The architect of the 1986 NY Mets.
2019: DONALD TRUMP BECOMES THE FIRST SITTING US PRESIDENT TO VISIT THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA.
Never heard of him.
Dinner last night: Dodger Dog at the game.
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