Wednesday, September 13, 2023

This Date in History - September 13

 

Happy birthday to Barbara Bain, Cinnamon on TV's Mission:Impossible. Now that's a spice.

585 BC:  LUCIUS TARQUINIUS PRISCUS, KING OF ROME, CELEBRATES A TRIUMPH FOR HIS VICTORY OVER THE SABINES.

I don't know who any of these people are.

509 BC:  THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OPTIMUS MAXIMUS ON ROME'S CAPITOLINE HILL IS DEDICATED ON THE IDES OF SEPTEMBER.

So every month has ides?   I did not know that.

1501:  MICHELANGELO BEGINS WORK ON HIS STATUE OF DAVID.

Is it me or did he spend way too much time around the crotch area?

1504:  QUEEN ISABELLA AND KING FERDINAND ISSUES A ROYAL WARRANT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A ROYAL CHAPEL.

All of this is a royal pain.

1609:  HENRY HUDSON REACHES THE RIVER THAT WOULD LATER BE NAMED THE HUDSON RIVER.

Long before it became a Mafia burial ground.

1743:  GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRIA, AND THE KINGDOM OF SARDINIA SIGN THE TREATY OF WORMS.

They swallowed the bait.

1788:  THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION SETS THE DATE FOR THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN THE US.

It's all downhill from here.

1814:  DURING THE BATTLE WHERE THE BRITISH FAIL TO CAPTURE BALTIMORE, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY COMPOSES HIS POEM WHICH WOULD LATER BECOME THE COUNTRY'S NATIONAL ANTHEM.

Play ball!

1848:  VERMONT RAILROAD WALKER PHINEAS GAGE SURVIVES AN IRON ROD 1 1/4 INCHES IN DIAMETER BEING DRIVEN THROUGH HIS BRAIN.

Just for funsies.

1862:  AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - UNION SOLDIERS FIND A COPY OF ROBERT E. LEE'S BATTLE PLANS IN A FIELD OUTSIDE FREDERICK, MARYLAND.

Written on the back of a Denny's menu.

1899:  HENRY BLISS IS THE FIRST PERSON IN THE US TO BE KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.

And he won't be the last.

1903:  ACTRESS CLAUDETTE COLBERT IS BORN.

It Happened One Day in 1903.

1908:  ACTRESS MAE QUESTEL IS BORN.

Not only the voice of Betty Boop, but Olive Oyl as well.

1914:  WORLD WAR I -  THE BATTLE OF AISNE BEGINS BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE.

Don't tell me.   France lost?

1918:  MUSICIAN RAY CHARLES IS BORN.

Remember what you saw the first seven years.

1925:  SINGER MEL TORME IS BORN.

I hear this guy was a real shithead.

1931:  ACTRESS BARBARA BAIN IS BORN.

Married to Martin Landau for a while.   Saw her once in the lobby of the Arclight Hollywood.

1948:  MARGARET CHASE SMITH IS ELECTED US SENATOR AND BECOMES THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE IN BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.

I suppose she's proud of that.

1948:  ACTRESS NELL CARTER IS BORN.

Oh, gimme a break.

1953:  NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV IS APPOINTED GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PART OF THE SOVIET UNION.

Florsheim is having a shoe sale.

1971:  STATE POLICE AND NATIONAL GUARDSMEN STORM NEW YORK'S ATTICA PRISON TO QUELL A PRISON REVOLT.

Attica!  Attica!!  Attica!!!

1977:  CONDUCTOR LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI DIES.

Can you imagine what the mortician said when he saw that hair?

1985:  SUPER MARIO BROS IS RELEASED IN JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME.

I was not a video game fan.  Just sayin'.

1993:  ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN SHAKES HANDS WITH PLO CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER SIGNING THE OSLO ACCORDS GRANTING LIMITED PALESTINIAN AUTONOMY.

Anybody got some Purell?

1996:  MUSICIAN TUPAC SHAKUR DIES.

Caput.

1998:  POLITICIAN GEORGE WALLACE DIES.

At last.

2006:  TEXAS GOVERNOR ANN RICHARDS DIES.

I met her when she did a cameo on Murphy Brown.   I actually had to wake her up from a nap during rehearsal.

2019:  ROCK STAR EDDIE MONEY DIES.

No longer current-cy.

Dinner last night:  The pregame buffet at the Dodger Stadium Club.

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