1025: BOLESLAW CHROBRY IS CROWNED IN GNIEZNO, BECOMING THE FIRST KING OF POLAND.
This is the second time the name "Boleslaw" has shown up here in a month and I simply can't resort to the coleslaw gag again.
1506: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE CURRENT ST. PATER'S BASILICA IS LAID.
I didn't even know the cornerstone was sexually active.
1518: BONA SFORZA IS CROWNED AS QUEEN CONSORT OF POLAND.
Bona Sforza sounds like a treat for Italian dogs.
1636: ENGLISH JUDGE JULIUS CAESAR DIES.
Clever name your folks gave you, Julie.
1689: BOSTONIANS RISE UP IN REBELLION AGAINST ST. EDMUND ANDROS.
Andros must have been a Yankee fan.
1775: DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, PAUL REVERE AND OTHER RIDES WARN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF THE TROOP MOVEMENTS.
One lone voice from a home on the way: Shaddap! You woke the baby!
1831: THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IS FOUNDED.
Where the tusks are looser.
1848: AMERICAN VICTORY AT THE BATTLE OF CERRO GORDO OPENS THE WAY FOR INVASION OF MEXICO.
Back when the invasion was going south and not the other way around.
1881: BILLY THE KID ESCAPES FROM THE LINCOLN COUNTY JAIL IN NEW MEXICO.
Who let the kid out? Whoop, whoop, whoop. Who let the kid out? Whoop, whoop, whoop.
1906: AN EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE DESTROY MUCH OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
I left my heart...and a whole lot of other body parts....in San Francisco.
1907: MOVIE COMPOSER MIKLOS ROZSA IS BORN.
He did the fantastic score for "Ben-Hur," among hundreds of others.
1912: THE CUNARD LINER "CARPATHIA" BRINGS 705 SURVIVORS FROM THE "TITANIC" TO NEW YORK CITY.
Leonardo DiCaprio was not one of them.
1922: ACTRESS BARBARA HALE IS BORN.
Making her ninety today. And she can probably still type like a pro.
1923: YANKEE STADIUM OPENS.
The first one. Just in case you didn't realize that.
1924: SIMON AND SCHUSTER PUBLISHES THE FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK.
Finally people have something to do during long hospital stays.
1930: BBC RADIO ANNOUNCES THAT THERE IS NO NEWS ON THIS DAY.
Well, that's good news.
1934: ACTOR JAMES DRURY IS BORN.
TV's Virginian!!!!
1942: DURING WORLD WAR II, JAPAN IS BOMBED DURING THE DOOLITTLE RAID.
That's hardly doing little.
1942: BASEBALL PITCHER STEVE BLASS IS BORN.
And that's outside. Ball four.
1945: JOURNALIST ERNIE PYLE IS KILLED.
Now under one.
1946: ACTRESS HAYLEY MILLS IS BORN.
I once saw her in the waiting room for an ultrasound.
1953: ACTOR RICK MORANIS IS BORN.
Mommy, I shrunk your uterus.
1954: GAMAL ABDAL NASSER SEIZES POWER IN EGYPT.
Several years before he started the United States' space program.
1955: PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN DIES.
Well, there goes the Math club.
1958: A UNITED STATES FEDERAL COURT RULES THAT POET EXRA POUND BE RELEASED FROM AN INSANE ASYLUM.
Having already gotten his pound of flesh.
1961: ACTRESS JANE LEEVES IS BORN.
Daphne!!
1981: THE LONGEST PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL GAME IS BEGUN IN PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND. THE GAME IS COMPLETED ON JUNE 23.
A tip of the cap to all those who stayed and had to go to work the next morning.
2002: EXPLORER THOR HEYERDAHL DIES.
Kon-No-More-Tiki.
2002: WRESTLER/PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER WAHOO MCDANIEL DIES.
I know of only one blog reader who will smile when he reads this.
2007: THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UPHOLDS THE PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT IN A 5-4 DECISION.
What the hell is a partial birth anyway? The feet come out and the head stays in for a couple of years?
Dinner last night: Beef brochettes at Della Terra.
2 comments:
RIP Dick Clark.
I'm Wahoo-enjoyer #3.
I remember being at a Jet game at Shea and they were hyping him so much they'd call any play near him as his tackle. Once the P.A. said "Guess Who? WAHOO!"
I just gave my circa-1965 Jets helmet coin bank to a buddy.
Rich
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