Happy birthday, Bob Newhart. Keep your phone open for those calls from well wishers.
1590: ALEXANDER FARNESE'S ARMY FORCES HENRY IV OF FRANCE TO RAISE THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
Is it me or there is a reference every week to some siege or takeover of Paris???
1661: LOUIS XIV IS ARRESTED IN NANTES BY D'ARTAGNAN, CAPTAIN OF THE KING'S MUSKETEERS.
For you people who thought it was just a candy bar...
1666: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON - 10,000 BUILDINGS INCLUDING ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL ARE DESTROYED.
They likely rebuilt them, only to have them destroyed again during the Nazi blitz.
1698: TSAR PETER I OF RUSSIA IMPOSES A TAX ON BEARDS FOR ALL MEN EXCEPT THE CLERGY AND PEASANTRY.
Great marketing for Just For Men.
1774: FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLES IN PHILADELPHIA.
The start of the Constitution. Anybody remember what that was???
1798: CONSCRIPTION IS MADE MANDATORY IN FRANCE BY THE JOURDAN LAW.
All of a sudden, it got a little "drafty" in France.
1800: NAPOLEON SURRENDERS MALTA TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Why? He just got all these new soldiers via the draft.
1836: SAM HOUSTON IS ELECTED AS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
They still think they're in their own country.
1846: DISTILLER JACK DANIELS IS BORN.
Hiccup.
1847: OUTLAW JESSE JAMES IS BORN.
Isn't the word "outlaw" the same as "politician?"
1877: SIOUX CHIEF CRAZY HORSE IS BAYONETED BY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN NEBRASKA.
To die in Nebraska is redundant.
1882: THE FIRST UNITED STATEDS LABOR DAY PARADE IS HELD IN NEW YORK CITY.
With your hosts, Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards.
1902: MOVIE PRODUCER DARRYL F. ZANUCK IS BORN.
"F" standing for what he did to most of the people who got in his way in Hollywood.
1906: THE FIRST LEGAL FORWARD PASS IN AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS THROWN BY BRADBURY ROBINSON OF ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY.
Does that mean there were a lot of illegal ones attempted before this?
1916: COMEDIAN FRANK SHUSTER IS BORN.
So, Wayne now had somebody to talk to.
1927: THE FIRST OSWALD THE RABBIT CARTOON, PRODUCED BY WALT DISNEY, IS RELEASED.
Hmmm. There must be some back story as to what it didn't wind up as the "Oswald the Rabbit Club."
1929: COMEDIAN BOB NEWHART IS BORN.
I see him in the supermarket all the time.
1934: SINGER CAROL LAWRENCE IS BORN.
Singer...and former Robert Goulet punching bag.
1936: BASEBALL PLAYER BILL MAZEROSKI IS BORN.
Beat the Yankees in the 1960 World Series with a walk-off home run.
1937: ACTOR WILLIAM DEVANE IS BORN.
Greg Sumner on "Knots Landing!!!"
1939: ACTOR GEORGE LAZENBY IS BORN.
James Bond? Not!
1940: ACTRESS RAQUEL WELCH IS BORN.
People who have dealt with her tell me she is an absolute bitch. Albeit one with very big breasts.
1941: ESTONIA IS OCCUPIED BY NAZI GERMANY.
They probably put up a better fight than those scummy French.
1945: WARTIME RADIO PROPAGANDIST TOKYO ROSE IS ARRESTED IN YOKOHAMA.
Signing off...
1960: CASSIUS CLAY IS AWARDED THE GOLD MEDAL FOR FIRST PLACE IN THE LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING COMPETITION AT THE ROME OLYMPIC.
I heard he once thought the medal was made a chocolate candy and he tried to unwrap it.
1969: US ARMY LT. WILLIAM CALLEY IS CHARGED WITH SIX COUNTS OF PREMEDITATED MURDER FOR THE DEATH OF 109 VIETNAMESSE CIVILIANS IN MY LAI.
That comes to 18.2 dead civilians per count.
1972: A PALESTINIAN TERRORIST GROUP CALLED BLACK SEPTEMBER ATTACK AND TAKE 11 ISRAEL ATHLETES AT THE MUNICH OLYMPIC GAMES.
One day later, they're gone. They're all gone.
1975: LYNETTE FROMME ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE US PRESIDENT GERALD FORD.
Make that Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme.
1978: MENACHIM BEGIN AND ANWAR SADAT BEGAN PEACE PROCESS AT CAMP DAVID, MARYLAND.
They got it done about ten days later and the peace lasted for, what, 13 minutes?
1988: ACTOR GERT FROBE DIES.
Goldfinger, he's the man...well, he was.
1997: MOTHER TERESA DIES.
Did they finally bury her?
1999: TV PERSONALITY ALLEN FUNT DIES.
Smile, you're dead.
2003: SINGER GISELE MCKENZIE DIES.
A former sure shot on the Hit Parade of life.
2016: ACTOR HUGH O'BRIEN DIES.
Wyatt Earp!
Dinner last night: Leftover sausage, peppers, and onions.
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