Reclayhound's Later Than Usual Sunday Ramblings..........Enjoy............

[redclayhound]

Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Sunday….June 14th……..Today is National Strawberry Shortcake Day…..This tasty dessert has been around for a long time, and it’s been a winner the whole time…..Try a Strawberry Shortcake Trifle……Fresh Strawberries are plentiful this time of year……

But wait, there’s more…..Today is also National Bourbon Day….The choices are many, personal preference is in order…..For me in my past, it was Maker’s Mark…..My son keeps a bottle of Woodford Reserve in his bar…..I had a bottle of Jim Beam Black Label give to me, and it was very good…..As I said, the choices are plentiful…..Just don’t consume too much of any of it…..Take care folks…..

SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……

(by year/comments)

1623 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Virginia files against Cicely Jordan, he loses

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1755 1e edition of Dr. Johnsons "Dictionary"


1775 US Army first forms as the Continental Army to fight American Revolutionary War

1777 US Continental Congress adopts the Stars & Stripes flag, designed by Francis Hopkinson, replacing the Grand Union flag

1789 Mutiny on the Bounty--Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch

1834 Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine

1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont

1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico

1847 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

1850 Third great fire of early San Francisco, starts in a bakery chimney

1864 Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay

1864 US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears off Cherbourg

1870 All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games

1872 Trade unions are legalised in Canada.

1876 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Philadelphia Athletics)

1876 California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise

1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

1900 Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organised territory

1901 1st golf championship is played

1909 Burl Ives is born in Jasper County, Illinois.



1916 Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Woodrow Wilson campaigns on the slogan "he kept out of the war"

1917 1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London

1919 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Newfoundland

1922 US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)

1928 Republican National Convention, meeting in Kansas City, nominates Herbert Hoover for President

1931 French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450

1931 Sax player Junior Walker (of Junior Walker & the All-Stars) is born in Blytheville, Arkansas.



1933 MLB's Lou Gehrig and Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games

1934 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna

1934 American boxer Max Baer KO's defending champion Primo Carnera of Italy in 11th round at Madison Square Garden for the lineal world heavyweight title

1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson (bass vocalist of The Four Tops) is born in Detroit, Michigan.



1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1940 German forces enter Paris during WWII

1940 German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral

1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) in Wichita, Kansas


1942 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released

1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

1942 Anne Frank begins her diary

1944 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan

1945 Rod Argent (keyboardist for The Zombies, founder of Argent) is born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.



1946 Canadian Library Association established

1949 Alan White (drummer for Yes) is born in Ferryhill, County Durham, England.



1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1952 US Open Men's Golf, Northwood GC: Julius Boros wins 1st of 3 majors by 4 shots from Ed Oliver

1952 Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub USS Nautilus (4th to be named Nautilus)

1952 Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss

1953 Elvis Presley graduates from L. C. Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee

1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)

1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz to become NWA wrestling champion

1958 US Open Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Native Oklahoman Tommy Bolt wins his only major championship, 4 strokes ahead of 22-year old South African Gary Player


1959 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Billy Casper wins first of his 2 Open titles, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Bob Rosburg

1961 106°F, hottest temperature in San Francisco

1961 Patsy Cline gets in a nasty car accident in Nashville, when she is thrown through the windshield. She is hospitalized for about a month



1962 Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim

1963 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR (my favorite MLB growing up)

1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days

1965 Beatles release album "Beatles VI"

1965 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11 innings, 1-0

1966 Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball

1967 The Monkees record "Daydream Believer."



1967 Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)

1967 "Steve Allen Show" premieres on CBS-TV

1967 USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit

1967 California Governor Ronald Reagan signs the Therapeutic Abortion Act, legalizing abortions in the state under certain circumstances, the second state after Colorado to do so


1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock convicted for aiding draft resisters

1968 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 2nd studio album by Iron Butterfly is released

1969 Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs in one game to beat Red Sox 21-7

1970 Fifty years ago this song never made it to #1 (it peaked at #4 in the US and #2 in the UK), but it has been a leader in radio plays in the US (over 3 million by 2006)……Pure Solid Classic Rock…..



1970 Eric Clapton's new band is introduced as "Derek and the Dominos" when they take the stage for the first time at the Lyceum in London. They tell the promoter they are "The Dynamics," but he convinces them to add the "Derek," which is a nickname for Clapton. His mangled name interpretation sticks.



1971 In London, the first Hard Rock Cafe opened.

1972 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula

1973 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe

1973 US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies

1974 Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings

1975 USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing

1975 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 for her 2nd of 7 French singles titles

1975 Janis Ian releases "At Seventeen"

1975 America's "Sister Golden Hair" hits #1 in the US



1976 "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)

1979 NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record

1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands

1980 Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32

1981 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Donna Caponi Young sinks 15 foot birdie putt on 18th to beat Jerilyn Britz and Pat Meyers by 1 stroke

1981 No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl

1982 Argentina surrenders to Great Britain, ending the 74-day Falklands Islands conflict

1983 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx

1984 Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members

1985 "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV

1985 Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Baltimore Orioles

1985 Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847

1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2

1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

1987 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Sawgrass CC: South African Gary Player wins by 1 stroke from Bruce Crampton and Chi-Chi Rodriguez

1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years

1988 Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000, alleges he hit her

1988 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released

1989 Groundbreaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall

1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)

1989 Singer-songwriter Carol King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman

1990 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1

1990 NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season

1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman

1991 Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC

1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands

1992 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Dave Stockton wins first of 3 Champions Tour major titles by 1 stroke from J.C. Snead and lee Trevino

1992 46th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2

1992 Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate

1992 Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play

1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton

1994 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: New York Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 3-2 for a 4-3 series victory; Rangers end their record 54-year Championship drought

1995 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games

1996 "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released

1998 "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show

1998 NBA Championship, Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz, 87-86 for 4 games to 2 series win; Bulls 6th title in 8 years

2000 34th Country Weekly Presents the TNN Music Awards: George Strait & Faith Hill are the big winners

2000 Greg Maddux makes his 387th putout, breaking Jack Morris' career record

2002 "The Bourne Identity" directed by Doug Liman and starring Matt Damon is released in the US

2003 Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers is awarded a Member of the British Empire medal by Queen Elizabeth in London



2005 Asafa Powell of Jamaica sets a new Men's 100 meters world record of 9.77 at the Athens Olympic Stadium

2007 61st NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Cleveland Cavaliers, 4 games to 0

2009 American basketball coach Phil Jackson won a record-setting 10th NBA championship…..63rd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Orlando Magic, 4 games to 1

2009 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bulle Rock GC: 22 year old Tour rookie Anna Nordqvist of Sweden wins her only major title by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Lindsey Wright

2009 Bob Bogle (lead guitarist, bassist for The Ventures) dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 75.



2012 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl

2013 Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran

2013 Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people

2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property

2014 49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down

2015 "Jurassic World", 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend

2015 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Belmont CC: Defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany wins by 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Kirk Triplett

2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced - the Bramble Cay melomys from Torres Strait

2017 US Senate approves new sanctions against Russia as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election

2017 US Library of Congress names Tracey K. Smith as Poet Laureate

2017 Bernie Sanders supporter opens fire at Republican politicians practicing baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring four

2018 US Justice Department concludes James Comey was "insubordinate" in his handling of Hilliary Clinton investigation in 2016

2018 US government confirms 1500 boys being held separated from their parents in Casa Padre, shelter facility for illegal immigrants in a former Walmart in Brownsville, Texas

******(to be continued…….see follow-up response page)******

 

[wayxpython]

 

[redclayhound]

UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:

I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA sports spotlight section this morning, just to make sure at least something Dawg is mentioned today in this “DAWGChat” forum…Today the Georgia Bulldog in the spotlight is former Lady Dawg Tennis Great Lisa Spain-Short………..

Spain grew up in Moultrie, Georgia, where she attended Moultrie High School…….She played on the school tennis team and had 56 wins with only a single loss in her high school career, winning the state singles championship all four years of high school……When she was a junior, she received a scholarship offer from Clemson to play as the number 2 singles player on its team…….Her reaction was " I wanted to be the number one singles player……..I thanked the coach for the offer but said no thanks”……This experience was followed by an offer for a full scholarship from Georgia, which she accepted…….Lisa was the first female tennis player to receive a full scholarship at the University of Georgia…….Entering UGA, Lisa was ranked number One in Georgia and number 34 in the nation in the Girl’s 18 and Under Tennis Rankings…….

In a coincidence, her first match at Georgia was against Clemson, where she played their number one single player and won……She calls it her "sweetest tennis victory" and added "I won that match, and I think it made the Clemson coaches realize they had made a terrific mistake to let me get away"……..

Lisa played number one singles and number one doubles all four years at UGA……..

Spain earned All-SEC honors each of her four years at Georgia and was named to All-American teams three years………

Spain won the 1983 ITCA All-American Clay Court Championship……..

In 1984, she appeared in the 1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships and won the singles title……

Spain won the Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate tennis player in 1984…….

Spain won the 1984 Manchester Grass Court Tournament……..

Lisa played on the pro circuit from 1984 to 1987, appearing in each of the four grand slam tournaments (ranked #63 in the world)……

Lisa defeated Top 10 player Sylvia Hanika at Wimbledon in 1985…….

Lisa is a teaching professional at the Atlanta Athletic

Lisa was inducted into the Georgia Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995……

Lisa was inducted into the Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame in 2000……..

Lisa was inducted into the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame in 2008………

Lisa was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2011………

Regarding the photo above, it was one of the greatest days in Georgia athletics history, May 20, 1984, when two NCAA singles championships were won by Bulldogs — the first for both the men's and women's programs that have since gone on to produce multiple team and individual champions and become two of the most successful programs in the sport……..Lisa Spain, the small-town girl from Moultrie that went to Hollywood to win a national championship, and Mikael Pernfors, the cool Swede who came to Athens by way of Seminole (Fla.) Junior College to become one of the greatest collegiate players ever……

Lisa Spain, a DGLadyDawg……….



SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1801 Benedict Arnold, American general and turncoat (American Revolutionary War), dies of delirium in London at 60

1825 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C., dies at 70

1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and father of the television, dies of a stroke at 57

1962 Anna Sleasers, first Boston Strangler victim

1967 Eddie Eagan, American boxer (Olympic gold 1920) and bobsledder (Olympic gold 1932), dies of a heart attack at 69

1977 Alan Reed, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and voice artist (Fred Flintstone, Lady and the Tramp), dies at 69

1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), dies at 81

1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93

1994 Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70

1997 Richard Jaeckel, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima, Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of cancer at 70

2007 Ruth Graham [Bell], American Christian author and wife of evangelist Billy Graham, dies at 87

2016 Henry McCullough, Irish guitarist (Wings), dies at 72



SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), born in Litchfield, Connecticut

1864 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria

1909 Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), born in Hunt City, Illinois

1912 E. Cuyler Hammond, American epidemiologist (first to link smoking with lung cancer), born in Baltimore, Maryland

1916 Dorothy McGuire, American actress (Gentlemen's Agreement, Old Yeller, Summer Magic), born in Omaha, Nebraska

1918 LeRoy T. Walker, American sports executive (first black president US Olympic Committee 1992-96), born in Atlanta, Georgia

1925 Pierre Salinger, American newsman (ABC) and press secretary (John F. Kennedy), born in San Francisco, California

1926 Don Newcombe, American baseball pitcher (4-time MLB All Star), born in Madison, New Jersey

1931 Marla Gibbs [Margaret Theresa Bradley], American comedian and actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227), born in Chicago, Illinois

1936 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, American singer (The Four Tops), born in Detroit, Michigan

1939 Steny Hoyer, American politician (Rep-D-MD, 1981-), born in NYC, New York

1945 Rod Argent, English rock musician (The Zombies, Argent), born in St Albans, Hertfordshire

1946 Donald Trump, 45th US President, real estate tycoon (Trump Towers) and TV personality (The Apprentice), born in NYC, New York

1949 Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled), born in Pelton, County Durham, England

1952 Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (University of Tennessee), born in Clarksville, Tennessee

1955 Vince Evans, American NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders), born in Greensboro, North Carolina

1956 Fred Funk, American golfer (The Tradition 2008, 10; US Senior Open 2009), born in Takoma Park, Maryland

1958 Eric Heiden, American speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980), born in Madison, Wisconsin

1961 Boy George [O'Dowd], British singer-songwriter (Culture Club), born in Bexley, Kent, England

1961 Sam Perkins, American NBA forward and center (Seattle Supersonics), born in Brooklyn, New York

1969 Steffi Graf, German tennis player (Golden Slam 1988, 22 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Mannheim, Germany



TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY

Three years ago today, a Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire at Republican politicians practicing baseball near Washington, D.C., injuring four…..The shooter’s name is James T. Hodgkinson, and he’s our AOTD………

Hodgkinson was a small business owner in Illinois who defined himself publicly by his firm support of Bernie Sanders' progressive politics -- and his hatred of conservatives and President Donald Trump, strong anti-Trump……….

"Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy…..It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." he posted on his personal Facebook page on March 22, 2017…….

"Republicans are the Taliban of the USA," he posted in February, 2017…….

His public Facebook posts date back to 2012 and are nearly all about his support for liberal politics…….He was passionate about tax hikes on the rich and universal health care…….He posted “Stop the NEXUS Pipeline" in Michigan and Ohio., and to "vote all Republicans out of Congress."

Police described him as a Left wing activist…….He called repeatedly for higher taxes on the rich……He had also joined several anti-GOP Facebook groups, including "Terminate The Republican Party;" "The Road to Hell Is Paved With Republicans;" and "Join The Resistance Worldwide”……..

His favorite television shows were listed as "Real Time with Bill Maher;" "The Rachel Maddow Show;" "Democracy Now!" and other left-leaning programs.

He had several previous run-ins with he law, some involving guns, yet none stopped him from carrying a gun to gun down unarmed Republicans……

The Virginia Attorney General concluded Hodgkinson's attack was "an act of terrorism...fueled by rage against Republican legislators"……I guess the news media painted him as a far right wing conservative redneck tea party member named Bubba who owns a pick-up truck with a gun rack and an old George Wallace bumper sticker……James T Hodgkinson was just a peaceful left wing Democratic…….Yeah, Right…..

He is burning in Hell today, where he belongs………

James Hodgkinson, I anoint you @$$Hole of the Day……and the media describes tea Partiers as radicals…….Go figure…….



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Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

 

[Vandydog]

Good stuff RCH! Didn't mind the wait because the info. was top notch..

 

[JudgeLarryDawg]

Bravo. Well done, rch. Thank you.

Just finished reading AOTD and I look up at the Golf Channel and see Patrick Reed. Is that an omen?

 

[EufaulaDawg]

Thanks for the ramblings...I enjoy them daily.
Look in your mailbox and have a good rest if the day.