1138: A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES ALEPPO.
Aleppo? Wasn't that also one of the Marx Brothers?
1311: THE ORDINANCES OF 1311 ARE ESTABLISHED, IMPOSING A SERIES OF REGULATIONS UPON KING EDWARD II OF ENGLAND BY THE PEERAGE AND CLERGY.
Whatever you say...
1582: DUE TO THE ADOPTION OF THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR, THIS DAY DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS YEAR IN ITALY, POLAND, PORTUGAL, AND SPAIN.
Don't mess with December 25.
1634: THE BURCHARDI FLOOD KILLED 15,000 MEN IN DENMARK AND GERMANY.
No women?
1767: SURVEYING THE MASON-DIXON LINE SEPARATING MARYLAND FROM PENNSYLVANIA IS COMPLETED.
A little more than a line in the sand.
1809: IN TENNESSEE, EXPLORER MERIWETHER LEWIS DIES UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
A 19th Century cry for the folks at CSI.
1811: INVENTOR JOHN STEVENS' BOAT, THE JULIANA, BEGINS OPERATION AS THE FIRST STEAM-POWERED FERRY SERVICE BETWEEN NEW YORK CITY AND HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.
And ferries still sail the war all across the US>
1865: PAUL BOGLE LED HUNDREDS OF BLACK MEN AND WOMEN IN A MARCH IN JAMAICA.
Just to be clear, not Queens?
1884: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT IS BORN.
My grandmother used to say she lived in a suitcase.
1890: IN WASHINGTON DC, THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IS FOUNDED.
If they are true daughters of the American Revolution, damn, they must be old.
1899: THE WESTERN LEAGUE IS RENAMED THE AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Which would be confusing when we got the American League West.
1906: SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD SPARKS A DIPLOMATIC CRISIS BETWEEN THE US AND JAPAN BY ORDERED JAPANESE STUDENTS TO BE TAUGHT IN RACIALLY SEGREGATED SCHOOLS.
Would anybody be bitching about this in 1941?
1910: FORMER PRESIDENT TEDDY ROOSEVELT BECOMES THE FIRST US PRESIDENT TO FLY IN AN AIRPLANE. HE DOES SO FOR FOUR MINUTES.
So no time for getting any food for purchase.
1946: SINGER DARYL HALL IS BORN.
Private eyes, we're watching you.
1950: CBS'S MECHANICAL COLOR TELEVISION IS THE FIRST TO BE LICENSED FOR BROADCAST BY THE FCC.
Okay, so how come all the first color TV shows were on NBC??
1954: FIRST INDOCHINA WAR - THE VIET MINH TAKE CONTROL OF NORTH VIETNAM.
Yeah, this crap will be with us for a while.
1961: COMIC CHICO MARX DIES.
Not Aleppo.
1962: POPE JOHN XXIII CONVENES THE FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 92 YEARS.
What took them so long?
1968: NASA LAUNCHES APOLLO 7, THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL MANNED APOLLO MISSION, WITH ASTRONAUTS WALLY SCHIRRA, DONN F. EISELE, AND WALTER CUNNINGHAM ABOARD.
Those were the moon practice Apollos.
1975: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE DEBUTS.
And this turns into a civil service job for Lorne Michaels.
1976: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S APPOINTMENT, POSTHUMOUSLY, TO THE GRADE OF GENERAL IS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT FORD.
And you thought Pope John XXIII was slow.
1984: ABOARD THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER, ASTRONAUT KATHRYN D. SULLIVAN BECOMES THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO PERFORM A SPACE WALK.
Without stopping into a mall on the way.
1986: US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV MEET IN ICELAND IN AN EFFORT TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SCALING BACK THEIR MISSILE ARSENALS IN EUROPE.
A President talking to a Russian? Seriously??
1987: FIRST PUBLIC DISPLAY OF THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, DC.
In the early days of that horrible disease.
1991: COMIC REDD FOXX DIES.
Dropped dead while rehearsing a new sitcom.
2007: SINGER WERNER VON TRAPP DIES.
Not one of his favorite things.
2008: COMPOSER NEAL HEFTI DIES.
Dah dah dah dah dah dah Batman!
Dinner last night: Had a big lunch so just a leftover chicken drumstick.
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