Wednesday, June 14, 2023

This Date in History - June 14

 

Happy birthday to Marla Gibbs...the last person standing from the Jeffersons cast.

1158:  MUNICH IS FOUNDED BY HENRY THE LION.

Sounds like a Dr. Seuss character.

1287:  KUBLAI KHAN DEFEATS THE FORCE OF NAYAN IN EAST MONGOLIA.

The Force of Nayan?  Didn't that open at 500 theaters last Friday?

1381:  RICHARD II OF ENGLAND MEETS LEADERS OF THE PEASANTS' REVOLT.

You want to pay attention to the peasants.   That's how Trump got elected.

1645:  IN THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR, 12,000 ROYALIST FORCES ARE BEATEN BY 15,000 SOLDIERS.

Ever notice how bloody world history can get?

1775:  THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - THE CONTINENTAL ARMY IS ESTABLISHED BY THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, MARKING THE BIRTH OF THE US ARMY.

So that's how they started.

1777:  THE STARS AND STRIPES IS ADOPTED BY CONGRESS AS THE FLAG OF THE US.

Betsy, you can stop now.

1789:  MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - CAPTAIN BLIGH AND 18 OTHERS ARE CAST ADRIFT IN AN OPEN BOAT.

So it wasn't just a movie?

1801:  BENEDICT ARNOLD DIES.

What goes around...

1811:  AUTHOR HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IS BORN.

Hello, Topsy.

1822:  CHARLES BABBAGE PROPOSES A DIFFERENCE ENGINE IN A PAPER TO THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY ENTITLED "NOTE ON THE APPLICATION OF MACHINERY TO THE COMPUTATION OF ASTRONOMICAL AND MATHEMATICAL TABLES."

Ever notice how boring world history can get?

1900:  HAWAII BECOMES A US TERRITORY.

Aloha.

1900:  THE REICHSTAG APPROVES A SECOND LAW THAT ALLOWS THE EXPANSION OF THE GERMAN NAVY.

We'll be sorry.

1907:  NORWAY GRANTS WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

As long as dinner is on the table by six.

1909:  ACTOR BURL IVES IS BORN.

Christmas songs to be announced.

1919:  ACTOR GENE BARRY IS BORN.

It's Burke's law.

1921:  ACTRESS MARTHA GREENHOUSE IS BORN.

Never heard of her?   She was a character actress from NY and also ran a writers workshop I once took there.

1926:  BRAZIL LEAVES THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

After they tried to pay their annual dues with nuts.

1926:  DODGER PITCHER DON NEWCOMBE IS BORN.

Still see him around the ballpark.

1931:  ACTRESS MARLA GIBBS IS BORN.

I wish my housekeeper was this sassy.

1937:  PENNSYLVANIA BECOMES THE FIRST AND ONLY STATE TO CELEBRATE FLAG DAY AS A STATE HOLIDAY.

A day off is a day off.

1937:  THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES THE MARIJUANA TAX ACT.

Smokin'.

1940:  WORLD WAR II - PARIS IS OCCUPIED.

Rolled over and played dead is more like it.

1946:  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS BORN.

My apologies.

1954:  US PRESIDENT DWIGHT EISENHOWER SIGNS A BILL THAT PLACES THE WORDS "UNDER GOD" INTO THE US PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

And does anybody know what that is any more?

1959:  THE DISNEYLAND MONORAIL OPENS.

I don't think I was ever on it.

1967:  THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA TESTS ITS FIRST HYDROGEN BOMB.

No wonder they're always wearing face masks.

1986:  COMPOSER ALAN JAY LERNER DIES.

He could have danced all night...but didn't.

1994:  COMPOSER HENRY MANCINI DIES.

Of all his work, I like what he did for "Victor/Victoria" best.

1994:  RIOTS OCCUR IN VANCOUVER AFTER THE NEW YORK RANGERS BEAT THE CANUCKS FOR THE STANLEY CUP.

Big deal since this only happens every 54 years.

2016:  ACTRESS ANN MORGAN GUILBERT DIES.

Millie from the Dick Van Dyke Show!

2017:  REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE AND THREE OTHERS ARE SHOT DURING A CONGRESSIONAL SOFTBALL GAME.

IL stints for all, I suppose.

Dinner last night:  Asian chopped salad.

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