Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Wednesday….June 17th……..Okay Folks, Brace Yourselves:
Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day, and…..
Today is National Apple Strudel Day, and………
Today is National Cherry Tart Day, and………
Today is National Stewart’s Root Beer Day…….
That’s a smorgasbord of vittles……Don’t ask me why Stewart’s Root Beer and not just any Root Beer…..I simply do not know the answer to that question……There’s over 100 different brands of that molasses and sassafras (plus a pinch of a few other things) mixture, so I imagine a good ole cold A&W or Frosty’s or Hires or Barg’s or whatever will do…..Hey, I’ve even robbed my SIL’s frig of an IPA root beer or two……..Take care fellow Dawgs……
I'm afraid my ole buddy Yosemite Sam is in his final days due to this politically correct world we live in today........
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 Dawg Golfing Great Arnold Blum……..
A lifelong amateur, Arnold Blum was born in Macon, Ga., on April 21, 1922…….While at Lanier High School, he won the Georgia State High School Championship in 1937 and again in 1939…….He graduated from the University of Georgia, where he won the SEC Championship in 1941…….. Blum won the Southeastern Amateur three times, the Georgia Amateur five times, and the Southern Amateur twice………..He was one of Georgia's all-time great amateur golfers…….Highlights of his competitive career include:
1939 Southeastern Conference Champion
1940 Southeastern Conference Champion
1941 shot a record 11 under in a round of 62 at Athens Country Club
1946 Georgia State Amateur Champion
1947 Southeastern Conference Champion
1950 Georgia State Amateur Champion
1951 Georgia State Amateur Champion
1951 Southern Amateur Champion
1952 Georgia State Amateur Champion
1953 Walker Cup Team Member, US Team Won Championship
1956 Georgia State Amateur Champion
1956 Southern Amateur Champion
Played in 17 U. S. Amateur Matches, won 16, twice quarter-finalist.
1957 Walker Cup Team Member, US Team Won Championship
Played in The Masters 5 times, made the cut 4 times
Macon's City Tour Champion 9 times
Dogwood Invitational Winner in '50
2 time winner of the Peach Blossom
2 time winner of the Radium Springs Invitational
In addition to his on-the-field accomplishments, Arnold also gave back to the game by serving as President of the Georgia State Golf Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Golf Association from 1952-1960…..Blum was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1979……Blum was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 1989…….And on July 15, 1991, at the site of the Annual SGA Men's Amateur Championship at the Country Club of Birmingham, Arnold Blum was inducted into the Southern Golf Association Hall of Fame……
Arnold Blum passed away on April 5, 2017.
Arnold Blum……….a DGD………May he RIP………..
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……
(by year/comments)
1579 English navigator Francis Drake lands on the coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal
1700 Massachusetts orders priest to leave the colony
1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Island from French
1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
1788 After a lengthy stay in Europe, future US President John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams return to Boston
1824 US Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1850 Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
1856 Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
1863 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
1864 -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
1864 Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
1986 Kate Smith, American singer (God Bless America), dies at 78
1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory
1882 Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
1894 1st US polio epidemic breaks out in Rutland, Vermont
1895 US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
1896 Polar explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Frederick Jackson meet by chance in Franz Josef Land, the Arctic
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established
1901 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson of Scotland wins first of his 4 Open titles by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff with Alex Smith
1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT
1902 US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands
1910 Red Foley, American country singer, was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky…..Foley went on to chart 56 Top 10 hit songs including 10 number one hit songs……Among his best was “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy” which was #1 in both the US Country and US Pop Charts……
1915 Stringbean [David Akeman], American banjoist and comedian (Hee Haw), was born in Annville, Kentucky
1915 The League to Enforce Peace is organised at Independence Hall in Philadelphia with William Howard Taft as president; its program anticipates the League of Nations
1916 US troops under General Pershing march into Mexico
1919 "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
1923 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, American NFL halfback and end (LA Rams), was born in Wausau, Wisconsin
1927 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: American-based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Harry Cooper by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win the first of his 3 major titles
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits
1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
1938 Japan declares war on China
1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre
1939 French Championships Men's Tennis: American collegiate champion Don McNeill beats countryman Bobby Riggs 7-5, 6-0, 6-3
1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
1940 Germany occupiers ration bread and cheese in Holland
1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France
1943 Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
1943 Barry Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus], American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs), was born in New York City
1944 Iceland dissolves its union with Denmark and declares itself a Republic
1946 SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
1947 Gregg Rolie (keyboardist for Santana, Journey) is born in Seattle, Washington
1947 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
1953 Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
1953 US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala. Organised by John Foster Dulles and United Fruit Co.
1954 Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles by unanimous points decision in his 3rd world heavyweight boxing title defence at Yankee Stadium, NYC
1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
1956 Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
1958 The Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1960 Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
1961 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Gene Littler wins his sole major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Bob Goalby and Doug Sanders
1962 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Jack Nicklaus wins his first major title by 3 strokes in an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer
1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1965 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
1965 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)……
1965 Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US Tour…..
1967 "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
1967 Longest MLB doubleheader 9 hours, 15 minutes (Tigers & Athletics)
1967 The Hollies release "Carrie Anne."
1968 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
1970 Edwin Land patents the Polaroid camera
1971 Carole King's album "Tapestry" goes to No. 1 on US album charts and stays there for 15 weeks
1972 Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
1972 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington
1972 9 firefighters are killed in the Hotel Vendome fire in Boston
1973 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Johnny Miller fires a record final round 63 (-8) to win his first major championship, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up John Schlee
1973 Dolly Parton records her song "I Will Always Love You" (later huge hit for Whitney Houston) for RCA in Nashville
1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US
1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
1978 Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
1978 Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" hits #1 in America.
1979 US Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Hale Irwin wins his second Open title, 2 strokes ahead of former champions Jerry Pate and Gary Player
1981 At Earls Court in London, Pink Floyd play the last of 31 performances of The Wall, a unique stage show where a giant wall is erected (and torn down) as the band plays the album in its entirety. It's Roger Waters' last concert with the band, which breaks up in 1983 and carries on without him a few years later.
1982 President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in the Falkland Islands
1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his replacement
1988 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
1988 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
1988 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
1990 US Open Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Hale Irwin wins his 3rd Open title; defeats Mike Donald at the 91st hole, the first in sudden-death, after tying the 18-hole Monday playoff
1991 US Open Golf, Hazeline National GC: Payne Stewart wins a Monday playoff with 1987 champion Scott Simpson
1991 Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
1991 The body of the 12th US President, Zachary Taylor, is exhumed to test how he died; rumors had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found
1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
1992 Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker and WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA police chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours before he eventually gives up (seen live on national TV)……..
1997 NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
2003 Moneyball, a book about the 2003 Oakland Athletics baseball team and GM Billy Beane's sabermetric approach, inspired by Bill James, is published
2006 Sci-Fi author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
2007 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont GC: Ángel Cabrera wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods; first Open won by an Argentine or a South American
2008 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California
2008 62nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
2009 43rd CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift & Brad Paisley wins
2010 64th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 3
2012 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic Club, SF: American Webb Simpson wins his first major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Graeme McDowell and Michael Thompson
2015 John David Crow, American College Football Hall of Fame back and tight end (Heisman Trophy 1957, Texas A & M; Pro Bowl 1959, 60, 62, 65; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 79
2015 Nine people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman
2015 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman
2017 Bill Cosby trial for aggravated indecent assault declared a mistrial after jurors couldn't reach a verdict
2017 Collision at sea between U.S.S. Fitzgerald and ACX Crystal, a Philippine cargo ship kills 7 US sailors in Japanese waters
2018 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Brooks Koepka wins by 1 stroke from Tommy Fleetwood for first back-to-back Open titles since 1988-89 (Curtis Strange)
2018 "The Incredibles 2" sets a box office record for an animated release, earning $180 million its opening weekend
2018 24 Hours of Le Mans: Former F1 world champion Fernando Alonso teams with Kazuki Nakajima and Sébastien Buemi to win for Toyota Gazoo Racing
2018 World electric speed record broken by Jaguar Vector V20E in battery-powered boat at 88.61 mph (142.60 kph) Coniston Water, English Lake District
******(to be continued…….see follow-up response page)******