Wednesday, April 3, 2024

This Date in History - April 3

 

Hey, Doris, it's your special day in Heaven.  And I realize that's redundant.

33:  THIS IS THE GENERALLY AGREED-UPON DATE FOR THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST.

And thereby ruining some baseball team's home opener.

1043:  EDWARD THE CONFESSOR IS CROWNED KING OF ENGLAND.

In some circles, confessor is synonymous with squealer.

1559:  THE PEACE OF CATEAU-CAMBRESIS TREATY IS SIGNED, ENDING THE ITALIAN WARS.

Until the Corleones and Barzinis started it all over again.

1783:  AUTHOR WASHINGTON IRVING IS BORN.

Tarrytown's now on the map.

1834:  THE GENERALS IN THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE STAND TRIAL FOR TREASON.

There's always a good treason.

1860:  THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL UNITED STATES PONY EXPRESS RUN FROM SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI TO SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA BEGINS.

Still faster than the dummy who delivers my mail.

1882:  JESSE JAMES IS KILLED BY ROBERT FORD.

I wonder if the reward was taxable.

1885:  GOTTLIEB DAIMLER IS GRANTED A GERMAN PATENT FOR HIS ENGINE DESIGN.

You vill drive and you vill drive now.

1893:  ACTOR LESLIE HOWARD IS BORN.

That Ashley Wilkes was a real wimp, wasn't he?

1895:  TRIALS OF THE LIBEL CASE INSTIGATED BY OSCAR WILDE BEGINS, EVENTUALLY LEADING TO HIS IMPRISONMENT ON CHARGES OF HOMOSEXUALITY.

Leading to the invention of shower rape.

1898:  ENTERTAINER GEORGE JESSEL IS BORN.

The toastmaster general!

1904:  DANCER SALLY RAND IS BORN.

She had her fans.  And also her fans.

1907:  ACTOR IRON EYES CODY IS BORN.

Pick up that trash on the side of the road, please.

1921:  ACTOR ROBERT KARVELAS IS BORN.

Larrabee on Get Smart!!!

1922:  JOSEPH STALIN BECOMES THE FIRST GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION.

Bigger moustache:  Stalin or Jerry Colonna?  Show of hands, please.

1924:  ENTERTAINER DORIS DAY IS BORN.

Forget all the wonderful work.  How many dogs owe their lives to her?

1924:  ACTOR MARLON BRANDO IS BORN.

On the same day as Doris.  Is this an informative blog or what?
 

1926:  ASTRONAUT GUS GRISSOM IS BORN.

And later burns to a crisp.

1930:  BASEBALL PLAYER WALLY MOON IS BORN.

The Moon Shot in the Los Angeles Coliseum!

1933:  FIRST FLIGHT OVER MOUNT EVEREST LED BY A BRITISH EXPEDITION AND THE MARQUIS OF CLYDESDALE.

Clydesdale???  Nah, it couldn't be.

1936:  BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN IS EXECUTED FOR THE KIDNAPPING AND DEATH OF THE LINDBERGH BABY.

And well he should have been.

1942:  DURING WORLD WAR II, JAPANESE FORCES BEGIN AN ASSAULT ON THE US TROOPS IN BATAAN.

It will be sayonara soon.  Just wait and see.

1942:  ENTERTAINER WAYNE NEWTON IS BORN.

Danke what?

1944:  SINGER TONY ORLANDO IS BORN.

Go tie your own yellow ribbon around your own oak tree.

1948:  PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN SIGNS THE MARSHALL PLAN, AUTHORIZING $5 BILLION IN AID FOR 16 COUNTRIES.

And so the debt begins.

1959:  ACTOR DAVID HYDE PIERCE IS BORN.

Niles on Frasier!

1968:  MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERS HIS "I'VE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP" SPEECH.

From the mountaintop to the motel terrace floor.

1971:  GANGSTER JOSEPH VALACHI DIES.

Where was Paulie Walnuts on this date in history?

1981:  THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL PORTABLE COMPUTER IS UNVEILED IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Talk about your flash in the pan.

1988:  CARTOONIST MILTON CANIFF DIES.

He drew Steve Canyon.  

1993:  TV PERSONALITY PINKY LEE DIES.

Did anybody ever see this guy perform?  Or, with that name, was he an urban legend?

1996:  A UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AIRPLANE CARRYING SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RON BROWN CRASHES IN CROATIA.

Dying in Croatia is really redundant.

1999:  COMPOSER LIONEL BART DIES.

Consider yourself...dead.

2000:  MICROSOFT IS RULED TO HAVE VIOLATED US ANTITRUST LAWS.

Ya think?

2010:  APPLE RELEASES THE FIRST IPAD.

So the warranty has expired??

Dinner last night:  Salisbury steak.

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