HISTORY LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 29

Alright Speakies:

I’m sorry I can’t let you go too many days without some history lesson, so here we go for Tuesday, September 29. Let’s see who entered our planet, left it and what we did to it this date:

Born:
1758 – British Naval hero Horatio Nelson
1901 – Enrico Fermi – Italian physicist fission
1907 – Gene Autry – American Cowpoke
1929 – Bob Newhart – Comedian
1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis – Piano maniac
1942 – Madeline Kahn – Comedian Actress (Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I)
1943 – Lech Walesa – Polish Solidarity Leader

Died:
1895 – Louis Pasteur
1970 – Edward Everett Horton – Narrator (Rocky and Bullwinkle), a fine actor, watch him in “Here Comes Mr. Jordon.”
1975 – Casey Stengel – N.Y. Yankee manager, “The Old Professor.”
1978 – Pope John Paul I

Stuff that Happened:
1650 – Henry Robinson – Opens 1’st marriage bureau in England.
1829 – Scotland Yard formed in London.
1915 – Hurricane claims 275 lives in the Mississippi Delta.
1953 – Milton Berle Show premiers on TV.
1954 – Willie Mays makes his famous over the shoulder catch.
1963 – Cardinal Stan Musial plays his final game.
1969 – TV show “Love American Style” makes its debut.
1982 – Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago.

That’s it for history today, have a great evening and be careful out there.