Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Saturday once again……May 30th each year is National Mint Julep Day……. The drink is a refreshing toast to summer…..Each year on this date, people around the country gather for a glass of mint julep!.....This refreshing southern classic is a traditional drink of the Kentucky Derby……A classic mint julep is made with a mint leaf, bourbon, sugar, and water……In the Southern states, where mint julep is more associated with the cuisine, spearmint is the mint of choice…..Cheers…..Take care folks……
UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT:
I’m gonna mention a Dawg great in the UGA football 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 Defensive lineman Tim Callaway………
Contrary to an age old sports myth, you don’t have to be a dumb jock to be a football star in college…..Many professionals today were outstanding football players in the past…….UGA football players are certainly no exception; in fact, no Southern school has produced more National Football Foundation Post-Graduate Scholars than UGA; no Southern School has produced more NCAA Post-Graduate Scholars in football than UGA; no Southern school has produced more NCAA Post-Graduate Scholars in all sports than UGA (and this one isn’t even close)…….The truth is UGA has a proud tradition of graduating some of today’s finest professionals……..Not enough Dawg fans remember that UGA football players set a record of six consecutive coveted National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete recipient awards (also known as the Earl Blaik Fellowship)…….That record is probably safe forevermore, as it’s unlikely to ever be broken………Today, we’ll remember the academic and athletic accomplishments of one of those six scholar-athletes…….The “six in a row” Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete winners from UGA were: Tommy Lawhorne, Bob Etter, Tom Nash, Tommy Lyons, Tim Callaway, and Billy Payne……We’ve already spotlighted Bob Etter, Tom Nash, Billy Payne, Tommy Lyons and Tommy Lawhorne; today is Tim Callaway…..
Tim Callaway, defensive guard: from Thomasville, Georgia…Coach and Athlete Prep All-American honors out of high school…earned first Team All-State honors and was the Class AA Lineman of the Year…earned UGA varsity letters in 1967, 1968, and 1969…was a starting defensive lineman for UGA in 1969 along side All-American Steve Greer…played on two SEC Championship teams for UGA…earned first team Academic All-SEC honors in 1969…earned his undergraduate degree from UGA in 1970 and his post graduate juris doctor degree from UGA’s Joseph Henry Lumpkin Law School in 1975…served as a 1st Lt. in the US Army from 1970 to 1972…he is currently a practicing partner in the Law Firm of Callaway, Braun, Riddle, and Hughes, PC in Savannah, Georgia specializing in Workmen’s Compensation…Timothy Callaway III, a DGD!!!!
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……(by year/comments)
1431 Hundred Years' War: 19 year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France
1539 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's expedition of 10 ships and 700 men lands in Florida
1626 An explosion at the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory in Beijing destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people
1783 The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia.
1806 Future US President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson accused Jackson's wife of bigamy
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals Missouri Compromise creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
1868 "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states. It begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves.
1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 Stampede caused by a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12
1889 The brassiere is invented.
1890 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 Boston Beaneaters baseball second baseman Bobby Lowe first to hit 4 home runs in one game in win against Cincinnati Reds
1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hits a cyclist in NYC
1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened
1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH)
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack as managers who have won 1,000 games
1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1922 Completed Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William H. Taft in front of 50,000
1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1927 Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States
1937 61,756, second largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Lenny Davidson (guitarist for The Dave Clark Five) is born in Enfield, Middlesex, England.
1946 Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 Indianapolis 500: Resumes after WWII; George Robson wins by 44 seconds ahead of rookie Jimmy Jackson
1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 French Championships Men's Tennis: Ken Rosewall of Australia wins his 2nd Grand Slam title, beating American Vic Seixas 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2
1953 French Championships Women's Tennis: Maureen Connolly beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-2, 6-4 for the 2nd leg of her Grand Slam
1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge is officially opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1961 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins in 3:35:37.540 (223.908 km/h)
1964 The Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 in the United States ….John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song as teenagers.
1964 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins in 3:23:35.813 (237.137 km/h)
1964 French Championships Women's Tennis: Margaret Court of Australia wins her second French singles crown; beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 5-7, 6-1, 6-2
1964 Wynonna Judd, singer (Judds-Mama, He’s Crazy) was born in Ashland, Kentucky
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 Vivian Malone is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1966 Dolly Parton marries Carl Thomas Dean, the owner of a Nashville asphalt road-paving business. The long-lasting pair celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2016.
1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles in Gardena, California
1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins in 3:16:13.786 (246.040 km/h)
1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 Indianapolis 500: Mario Andretti wins in 3:11:14.689 (252.453 km/h)
1970 Ray Stevens, known for novelty hits like "The Streak," hits #1 in America with "Everything Is Beautiful."
1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1970 Tigers Al Kaline collides with another player & swallows his tongue
1970 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins in 3:12:37.057 (250.654 km/h)
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
1971 US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1976 Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 1:42:52.466 (239.350 km/h)
1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 Following the Crash of an American Airlines DC 10 in Chicago earlier this week with the loss of 274 lives all DC 10's are currently undergoing inspections of the engine mountain bolts by government inspections prior to use.
1980 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek and the Dominoes), dies of a kidney infection at 37
1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1983 AL President Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1985 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers take back-to-back titles; beat Philadelphia Flyers, 8-3 for a 4-1 series victory; Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri each post a goal and 3 assists
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates
1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1989 Cat Stevens) makes an appearance on a British TV show called Hypotheticals.
1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,878.56
1991 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1992 Paul Simon marries Edie Brickell, a singer known for her song "What I Am," at a small ceremony in Montauk, Long Island. Simon, who was previously married to Carrie Fisher, is 26 years older than Brickell.
1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1993 Indianapolis 500: Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi passes reigning F1 World Champion Nigel Mansell with 16 laps to go for his second race win
1996 69th National Spelling Bee: Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set on fire by 12-year old grandson
1997 Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas is convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling seven year old Megan Kanka, the case inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in.
1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
999 - In London, a bomb threat at a Kenny Rogers concert being held at Royal Albert Hall caused the evacuation of more than 3,000. No bomb was found and no injuries were reported.
2000 35th Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw were the big winners
2003 "Finding Nemo", directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres is released in the US and Canada
2004 Indianapolis 500: Buddy Rice wins from pole for team owners Bobby Rahal and David Letterman in a rain shortened race
2010 Anita Humes, lead singer of The Essex ("Easier Said Than Done") dies at age 69.
2010 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Colorado GC: Tom Lehman wins first of 3 Champions Tour major titles with a par on the first hole of a playoff with Fred Couples and David Frost
2011 Germany abandons nuclear energy. The government's decision followed the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima power plant and years of hands-on protests and activism by Germany powerful anti-nuclear movement.
2013 U.S. President Barack Obama appoints James Comey as the new director of the FBI
2014 Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is released to theatres, MacFarlane's first live-action role on the big screen
2017 Bob Seger's Greatest Hits album, released in 1994, is certified Diamond for sales of 10 million copies. His music was kept off streaming services until 2017, which helped boost sales, at least half of which came after 2002.
2017 Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John reveals her breast cancer has returned after 25 years
2019 Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs new anti-abortion, making it the fifth southern US state to ban abortion when fetal heartbeat detected
2019 Two new studies find eating processed foods leads to an early death and ill health published in "British Medical Journal"
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date), executed and burnt at the stake at 19
Milton Bradley, American business magnate and game manufacturer
Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer
John S. Mosby, Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War, aka The Grey Ghost
Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500
Georg von Trapp, Austrian WWI submarine commander and inspiration for "The Sound of Music" character
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist (Doctor Zhivago) (Nobel Prize 1958)
Leo Szilard, Hungarian-German-American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project) and peace activist
Eddie Sachs, American auto racer
Steve Prefontaine, American runner (5K 1972 Olympic 4th), dies in a car accident at 24
1980 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek and the Dominoes), dies of a kidney infection at 37
Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56)
Marge, American cartoonist (created Little Lulu)
Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of Mormon Church and US Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph [Beau] Biden III, American politician and son of Vice President Joe Biden, dies of cancer at 47
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Benny Goodman , American jazz musician and bandleader Benny Goodman, who was known as the “King of Swing,”
Mel Blanc, American voice actor, comedian best known for his Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig), born in San Francisco, California
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Ben-Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!), born in Marian Glas, Anglesey, Wales
Joseph Stein, American dramatist and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof), born in NYC, New York
Larry Kelley, American College Football Hall of fame end (Heisman Trophy 1936; Unanimous All-American 1936; Yale)
Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual (born George William Jorgensen, Jr)
Norman "Clint" Walker, American actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen) , born in Hartford, Illinois
Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (Voskhod 2, first person to walk in space), born in Listvyanka, Soviet Union
Bill Mallory, College Football coach (Miami, Colorado, Northern Illinois, Indiana), born in Sandusky, Ohio
Michael J Pollard, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne), born in Passaic, New Jersey
Gale Sayers, College, Pro Football Hall of Fame halfback (Chicago Bears, 4 x Pro Bowl), born in Wichita, Kansas
Candy Lightner, American political activist/founder (MADD), born in Pasadena, California
Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler, born in Gainesville, Texas
Wynonna Judd, singer (Judds-Why Not Me), born in Ashland, Kentucky
Billy Donovan Jr., American basketball head coach (Oklahoma City Thunder 2015-19; University of Florida, NCAA Cship 2006-07), born in Rockville Centre, New York
To be continued (see response below)......
