A LITTLE HISTORY LESSON TODAY

Happy Tuesday Speakies:

I thought today we would take a look at April 27 in history. Let’s see who was born, died and what stuff happened today.

Born on this Day:
1791 – Samuel Finley Breece Morse – You got it that Morse Code inventor.
1822 – Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant – Great Civil War general and later Prez.
1896 – Rogers Hornsby – 2nd baseman St. Louis Cardinals.
1900 – Walter Lantz – Woody Woodpecker’s creator.
1922 – Jack Klugman – Actor Odd Couple, Quincy, M.E.
1932 – Casey Kasem – Radio DJ.
1959 – Sheena Easton – Singer “For Your Eyes Only.”

Went Up or Went Down Today:
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan – Explorer, killed by natives.
1813 – Zebulon M. Pike – Pike’s Peak guy, dies in battle.
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson – US poet.
1957 – Mario A. Gianini – Creator of the maraschino cherry.
1965 – Edward R. Murrow – Newscaster and great WWII reporter from London.

Stuff Today in History:
1646 – King Charles I flees Oxford – King Chuck gets out of Dodge.
1805 – US Marines attack the shores of Tripoli – hence their song begins.
1841 – Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening – Of what I don’t know.
1865 – Cornell University is chartered – Go Big Red.
1937 – US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment.
1947 – Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium.
1953 – Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins the term “Pencil Neck Geek.”

That’s enough stuff for today. Let all of this sink in that grey matter and remain there and when your kids come and say “What happened today?”, you won’t have to squirm but will hit them with the knowledge of JoeyZ. Have a great day and evening.