Wednesday, August 30, 2023

This Date in History - August 30

 

Happy birthday to Cameron Diaz.   There's something about Botox.

526:  KING THEODERIC THE GREAT DIES OF DYSTENTERY AND HIS DAUGHTER AMALASUNTHA TAKES POWER.

Easy for you to say.

1282:  PETER III OF ARAGON LANDS AT TRAPANI TO INTERVENE IN THE WAR OF THE SICILIAN VESPERS.

Who knew that Vespers could get so angry?

1464:  POPE PAUL II SUCCEEDS POPE PIUS II AS THE 211TH POPE.

There's already been 211 Popes?   Back in the day when you could die from a sinus infection.

1574:  GURU RAM DAS BECOMES THE FOURTH SIKH GURU/MASTER.

Wasn't this guy a Star Wars character?

1727:  ANNE, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF KING GEORGE II OF GREAT BRITAIN, IS GIVEN THE TITLE PRINCESS ROYAL.

Daddy's little girl.

1791:  HMS PANDORA SINKS AFTER HAVING RUN AGROUND ON THE OUTER GREAT BARRIER REEF.

My money is on HMS Spotify.

1800:  GABRIEL PROSSER POSTPONES A PLANNED SLAVE REBELLION IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

There'll be a slave rebellion doubleheader next month.

1835:  MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA IS FOUNDED.

I got nothing, mate.

1836:  THE CITY OF HOUSTON IS FOUNDED.

Fuck the Astros!

1873:  AUSTRIAN EXPLORERS JULIUS VON PAYER AND KARL WEYPRECHT DISCOVER THE ARCHIPELAGO OF FRANZ JOSEK LAND IN THE ARCTIC SEA.

And this impacts me how?

1896:  ACTOR RAYMOND MASSEY IS BORN.

Dr. Gillespie!

1898:  ACTRESS SHIRLEY BOOTH IS BORN.

So, she was already in her 60s when she was playing Hazel.   I did not know that.

1908:  ACTOR FRED MACMURRAY IS BORN.

Mike.  Robbie.  Chip.  Ernie.   Tramp.

1914:  WORLD WAR I - GERMANS DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS IN THE BATTLE OF TANNENBERG.

Still not interested.

1918:  FANNI KAPLAN SHOOTS AND SERIOUSLY INJURES BOLSHEVIK LEADER VLADIMIR LENIN.

If the latter had four girls, would they be the Lenin Sisters?

1918:  BASEBALL STAR TED WILLIAMS IS BORN.

First day of warmth.

1927:  ACTOR BILL DAILY IS BORN.

"And Bob will never die."

1938:  MAKE-UP ARTIST MAX FACTOR DIES.

Screw the mascara.   Bring the formaldehyde.

1944:  BASEBALL STAR TUG MCGRAW IS BORN.

You gotta believe.

1945:  HONG KONG IS LIBERATED FROM JAPAN BY BRITISH ARMED FORCES.

Well, the last thing Japan needs right now is another country, given the recent nuclear bomb and all.

1945:  THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE ALLIED FORCES, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR LANDS AT ATSUGI AIR FORCE BASE.

He always shall return.

1946:  ACTRESS PEGGY LIPTON IS BORN.

The Old Squad.

1963:  THE MOSCOW-WASHINGTON HOTLINE BETWEEN THE LEADERS OF THE USA AND THE SOVIET UNION GOES INTO OPERATION.

Collusion!!!!!!

1967:  THURGOOD MARSHALL IS CONFIRMED AS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US.

There goes the neighborhood.

1968:  ACTOR WILLIAM TALMAN DIES.

This time, it was lung cancer and not Perry Mason who beat him.

1972:  ACTRESS CAMERON DIAZ IS BORN.

51 this year.   I remember when we thought she was young.

1974:  A POWERFUL BOMB EXPLODES AT MITSUBISHI INDUSTRIES IN TOKYO.

Twenty-three TVs were killed.

1979:  ACTRESS JEAN SEBERG DIES.

Really breathless now.

1981:  DANCER VERA-ELLEN DIES.

A great unsung talent.   Focus on her next time you see "White Christmas."

1991:  AZERBAIJAN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION.

More collusion!!!!

2006:  ACTOR GLENN FORD DIES.

The Demise of Eddie's Father.

2015:  FILM DIRECTOR WES CRAVEN DIES.

The nightmare you never wake up from.

2019:  ACTRESS VALERIE HARPER DIES.

Hard to believe that most of this cast died over a three-year-period.

2022:  MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DIES.

Mr. Gorbachev, put up that tombstone.

Dinner last night:  Fried chicken sandwich at the Dodger game.

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