This Date in History - June 12

Happy birthday, Marv Albert.  Now that he's retired, does he still wear the wig?

1665:  THOMAS BILLETT IS APPOINTED THE FIRST MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.

It was all downhill after that.

1817:  THE EARLIEST FORM OF BICYCLE, THE DANDY HORSE, IS INVENTED.

Sounds a little gay to me.

1900:  THE REICHSTAG APPROVES NEW LEGISLATION CONTINUING GERMANY'S NAVAL EXPANSION.

Sounds like they're planning something.

1921:  MIKHAIL TUKHACHEVSKY ORDERS THE USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS TO END THE TAMBOV PEASANT UPRISING.

That should keep these slobs quiet.

1939:  THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME OPENS IN COOPERSTOWN, NY.

A great place, but a bitch to get to.

1941:  SPORTS ANNOUNCER MARV ALBERT IS BORN.

And, to think he was once accused of sexual assault.

1942:  ANNE FRANK RECEIVES A DIARY FOR HER 13TH BIRTHDAY.

Now write everything down.

1943:  GERMANY LIQUIDATES THE JEWISH GHETTO IN POLAND.

Did you write that down, Anne?

1957:  ACTOR TIMOTHY BUSFIELD IS BORN.

I conversed with him on a LA-NY flight....one of the first flights after 9/11/01.  Nice guy.

1963:  NAACP FIELD SECRETARY MEDGAR EVERS IS MURDERED IN FRONT OF HIS HOME BY A KLU KLUX KLAN MEMBER.

The sheet was a dead giveaway.

1963:  "CLEOPATRA" STARRING LIZ TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON, ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE FILMS EVER MADE, IS RELEASED.

And that's why Fox sold their backlot to what is now the Century City mall.

1967:  THE US SUPREME COURT IN LOVING VS. VIRGINIA DECLARES ALL US STATE LAWS WHICH PROHIBIT INTERRQCIAL MARRIAGE TO BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Thereby widening the dating pool.

1981:   THE FIRST INDIANA JONES FILM, "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" OPENS.

And I was there Day One.

1987:  US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN CHALLENGES MIKHAIL GORBCHEV TO TEAR DOWN THE BERLIN WALL.

And put up a Starbucks in its place.

1991:  IN RUSSIA'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION, BORIS YELTSIN IS ELECTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA.

With no election fraud?

1994:  NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON AND RON GOLDMAN ARE MURDERED.

The late OJ may have been involved.  Wink, wink.

2003:  ACTOR GREGORY PECK DIES.

One of the best.

2018:  US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND KIM JONG-UN OF NORTH KOREA FOR THE FIRST TIME.

Fake news.

2019:  ACTRESS SYLVIA MILES DIES.   

At 95.  And she looked that old when she was 40.

2023:  ACTOR TREAT WILLIAMS DIES.

Way too young.

Dinner last night:  Pulled pork at the Dodger game.