455: VANDALS ENTER ROME AND PLUNDER THE CITY FOR TWO WEEKS.
Just like last summer in the United States.
1692: BRIDGET BISHOP IS THE FIRST PERSON TO BE TRIED FOR WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM. SHE WAS FOUND GUILTY AND LATER HANGED.
Or hung.
1763: AT WHAT IS NOW MACKINAW CITY, MICHIGAN, CHIPPEWAS CAPTURE A FORT BY USING A GAME OF LACROSSE AS A DIVERSION.
So how come Lacrosse is in Wisconsin and not Michigan?
1774: THE QUARTERING ACT IS ENACTED, ALLOWING A GOVERNOR IN COLONIAL AMERICA TO HOUSE BRITISH SOLDIERS IN RESIDENCES IF SUITABLE QUARTERS ARE NOT PROVIDED.
We'll leave the lights on for you.
1835: P.T. BARNUM AND HIS CIRCUS BEGIN THEIR FIRST TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES.
Paging Mr. Bailey. Paging Mr. Ringling.
1896: GUGLIELMO MOSCONI APPLIES FOR A PATENT FOR HIS WIRELESS TELEGRAPH.
Radio? It will never work.
1904: SWIMMER JOHNNY WEISSMULLER IS BORN.
So how long before Cheeta gets here.
1910: CHARLES ROLLS, A CO-FOUNDER OF ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, BECOMES THE FIRST MAN TO MAKE A NON-STOP DOUBLE CROSSING OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL BY PLANE.
What? You can't swim?
1924: US PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE SIGNS THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT INTO LAW, GRANTING CITIZENSHIP TO ALL NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE US.
Casinos for everybody!
1933: BASEBALL PLAYER JERRY LUMPE IS BORN.
Tying in the Jerry Mathers theme.
1937: ACTRESS SALLY KELLERMAN IS BORN.
The original Hot Lips!
1941: BASEBALL STAR LOU GEHRIG DIES.
Hence the disease.
1944: COMPOSER MARVIN HAMLISCH IS BORN.
Talented guy. We lost him too soon.
1948: ACTOR JERRY MATHERS IS BORN.
Personally, I preferred Beaver's snarky friend Gilbert.
1950: ACTRESS JOANNA GLEASON IS BORN.
The daughter of proud dad Monty Hall.
1953: THE CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
For those of you who thought "The Crown" was fiction.
1956: ACTOR JEAN HERSHOLT DIES.
I know little about him, except they named a big deal Academy Award after him.
1964: THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION IS FORMED.
We will regret this.
1969: ACTOR LEO GORCEY DIES.
A Really Dead End kid.
1979: POPE JOHN PAUL II MAKES HIS FIRST OFFICIAL TRIP TO HIS HOMELAND POLAND.
Kielbasie for all!
1990: ACTOR JACK GILFORD DIES.
One too many potato chips.
1990: ACTOR REX HARRISON DIES.
Damn you, Enry Iggins.
1990: THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY ENDURES 66 CONFIRMED TORNADOES.
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
1997: IN DENVER, TIMOTHY MCVEIGH IS CONVICTED ON 15 COUNTS OF MURDER FOR HIS ROLE IN THE 1995 OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING.
Ya think?
2001: ACTRESS IMOGENE COCA DIES.
Unlike in National Lampoon's Vacation, her body was not strapped to the roof of a station wagon.
2012: FORMER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR HIS ROLE IN THE KILLING OF DEMONSTRATORS DURING THE 2011 EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION.
We told you.
Dinner last night: Chicken sandwich at the Dodger game.
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