Wednesday, May 18, 2022

This Date in History - May 18

 

Happy first birthday in Heaven, Dobie Gillis.   Now you and Maynard...or Gilligan...are together again.

332:  CONSTANTINE THE GREAT ANNOUNCED FREE DISTRIBUTIONS OF FOOD TO THE CITIZENS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

Meals on Wheels.   Or, more likely, hooves.

526:  JOHN 1 DIES.

Meaning there are going to be 22 more Pope Johns.

1096:  FIRST CRUSADE - ABOUT 800 JEWS ARE MASSACRED IN WORMS, GERMANY.

In case you thought this was an original idea of Adolf Hitler.

1152:  HENRY II OF ENGLAND MARRIES ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE.  

Aquitaine always sounds like a new mineral water drink.

1499:  ALONSO DE OJEDA SETS SAIL FROM CADIZ ON HIS VOYAGE TO WHAT IS NOW VENEZUELA.  

Later on it was a stop for the Love Boat.   Charo was in that episode.

1565:  THE ROYAL AUDIENCIA OF CONCEPCION IS CREATED BY A DECREE OF PHILIP II OF SPAIN.

Done before a live studio audiencia.

1631:  JOHN WINTHROP TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE AND BECOMES THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Because somebody had to.

1652:  RHODE ISLAND PASSES THE FIRST LAW IN NORTH AMERICA MAKING SLAVERY ILLEGAL.

The littlest state will lead.

1756:  THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR BEGINS WHEN GREAT BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE.

Gee, these countries have never loved each other, have they?

1763:  FIRE DESTROYS A LARGE PART OF MONTREAL.

Mon Dieu!

1804:  NAPOLEON BONAPARTE IS PROCLAIMED EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH BY THE FRENCH SENATE.

Mon Dieu, the Sequel.

1860:  ABRAHAM LINCOLN WINS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION OVER WILLIAM H,. SEWARD.

I wonder if this was a brokered convention.

1896:  THE US SUPREME COURT RULES IN PLESSY V. FERGUSON THAT THE "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL" DOCTRINE IS CONSTITUTIONAL.

Back when the US Supreme Court was impartial.

1897:  DIRECTOR FRANK CAPRA IS BORN.

Beginning a wonderful life.

1902:  COMPOSER MEREDITH WILLSON IS BORN.

The man responsible for my favorite musical, "The Music Man."

1904:  POLITICIAN JACOB JAVITS IS BORN.   

He was once a colonel.   Who knew?

1910:  THE EARTH PASSES THROUGH THE TAIL OF COMET HAILEY.

That had to hurt.

1912:  SINGER PERRY COMO IS BORN.

Zzzzzzzzzzz.

1917:  WORLD WAR I - THE SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT OF 1917 IS PASSED, GIVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE US THE POWER OF CONSCRIPTION.

Isn't this about the time Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in office?

1920:  POPE JOHN PAUL II IS BORN.

Habeas baby.

1922:  ACTOR BILL MACY IS BORN.

Maude!

1924:  ACTRESS PRISCILLA POINTER IS BORN.

Mother of Pam and Cliff Barnes on TV.   Mother of Amy Irving in real life.

1926:  EVANGELIST AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON DISAPPEARS WHILE VISITING A CALIFORNIA BEACH.

Okay, who buried the preacher in the sand?

1928:  ACTOR PERNELL ROBERTS IS BORN.

Adam Cartwright!   Trapper John, MD!!

1931:  ACTOR ROBERT MORSE IS BORN.

How To Slide Down a Birth Canal Without Really Trying.

1933:  NEW DEAL - PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT SIGNS AN ACT CREATING THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY.

Never became a song like "Harper Valley PTA."

1934:  ACTOR DWAYNE HICKMAN IS BORN.

It's Many Loves, No Many Lives of Dobie Gillis.

1953:  JACKIE COCHRAN BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER.

Too many jokes to choose just one.

1969:  APOLLO 10 IS LAUNCHED.

The one in two months will be the big deal.

1980:  MOUNT ST. HELENS ERUPTS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, KILLING 57 PEOPLE.

Boy, that's hot.

1981:  ACTOR ARTHUR O'CONNELL DIES.

Great character actor.

1990:  ACTRESS JILL IRELAND DIES.

Mrs. Charles Bronson.

1992:  ACTOR MARSHALL THOMPSON DIES.

Daktari!

1995:  ACTRESS ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY DIES.

Wiggle your nose now.

2014:  SINGER JERRY VALE DIES.

Pass the meatballs.

2020:  ACTOR KEN OSMOND DIES.

Yes, Mrs. Cleaver.

2021:  ACTOR CHARLES GRODIN DIES.

Always found him a little odd.

Dinner last night:  Pork tenderloin sandwich.

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