Hello Speakies: I'm not calling this a history lesson, let's just see who entered, who departed this good earth and if anything important happened today.
Entered this Planet:
1870 - George Cormack - Created "Wheaties" cereal.
1882 - Igor Stravinsky - Great Composer.
1904 - Ralph Bellamy - Actor, was one of the rich brothers in "Trading Places".
1915 - Stringbean - Hee Haw musician.
1928 - James Brown - The original Godfather of Soul.
1946 - Barry Manilow - Singer (Mandy).
1951 - Joe Piscopo - Comedian Saturday Night Live.
Zoomed out of this Planet:
1961 - Jeff Chandler - Actor - Made war movies and Return to Peyton Place.
1986 - Kate Smith - Singer (God Bless America) - Good luck charm for the Philadelphia Flyers.
1989 - John Matusek - Oakland Raider and Actor.
On this Day......
1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (It was really Breed's Hill).
1837 - Charles Goodyear - gets his first rubber patent.
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives from France in New York.
1928 - Amelia Earhart leaves to become 1st woman to fly the Atlantic.
1950 - 1st kidney transplant in Chicago performed.
1972 - 5 arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party HQ at Watergate. Tricky Dick heard saying, "I'm not a Crook".
1986 - Chief Justice Warren Burger resigns, Antonin Scalia nominated. (Trenton, NJ boy makes good).
4 comments:
Joe Piscopo was a DJ in Trenton
in the 70s :)
Mack never knew that, the last time I saw him on TV was on a Star Trek where he played a comedian.
I LOVED Piscopo's imitation
of Sinatra. and luckily for him,
so did Frank:)
I forgot about Sinatra,he did it great.
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