Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Monday….June 15th……..Today is Lobster Day….High Cotton eatin’…….Gonna be honest here: other than lookin’ at a photo of some steamed lobsters with some melted butter for dippin’, I won’t see too much more of any lobster today…….Good eatin’, but a food much better eatin’ out than at home……….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)
1219 Dannebrog is the flag of Denmark and the oldest national flag in the world.
1667 1st fully documented human blood transfusion is performed by French physician, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, when a small amount of sheep blood is transfused into a 15-year old boy, who survives the procedure
1762 Austria uses 1st paper currency
1775 George Washington, who would one day become the first American president, accepts an assignment to lead the Continental Army.
1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
1804 Twelfth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing the procedure for electing the President and Vice President, ratified in Congress
1836 Arkansas becomes 25th state of the Union
1842 John C. Frémont sets off from Kansas River on his first expedition of the Oregon Trail with frontierman Kit Carson as his guide
1844 Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber
1846 U.S.-Canadian border established
1851 Jacob Fussell, Baltimore dairyman, sets up 1st ice-cream factory
1859 Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between U.S. and British/Canadian settlers
1860 1st White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1864 Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 Robert E. Lee's home area (Arlington, Virginia) becomes a military cemetery
1867 Atlantic Cable Quartz Lode gold mine located in Montana
1869 World's 1st plastic Celluloid is patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, NY
1869 Mike McCoole (US) defeats Tom Allen (England) in bare-knuckle bout
1871 Phoebe Cousins is 1st woman graduate of a US collegiate law school
1876 Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1876 Tsunamis after earthquake floods NE coast of Japan, kills 28,000
1887 Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
1887 NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
1896 Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured and 13,000 houses destroyed
1898 US House of Representatives passes resolution to annex Hawaii
1898 US marines attack Spanish off Guantánamo, Cuba
1902 Minor League's most lopsided baseball game: Corsicana 51; Texarkana 3 Justin Clark of Corsicana, Texas minors hits 8 home runs in 1 game
1904 More than 1,000 people taking a pleasure trip on New York City’s East River are drowned or burned to death when a fire sweeps through the riverboat-style steamer General Slocum. This was one of the United States’ worst maritime disasters.
1907 Researcher George Soper publishes the results of his investigation into recent typhoid outbreaks in the New York area and announces that Mary Mallon [Typhoid Mary] is the likely source of the outbreak
1911 Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.
1915 US government mints 1st $50 gold pieces, for Panama Pacific Expo
1916 Boys Scouts of America forms
1916 Boeing Model 1 [B & W Seaplane], the 1st Boeing product, flies for the 1st time
1917 Some two months after America’s formal entrance into World War I against Germany, the United States Congress passes the Espionage Act
1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight (Alcock & Brown) lands in Ireland
1920 African American circus workers, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie are taken from jail and lynched by a white mob of thousands in Duluth, Minnesota
1921 Bessie Coleman reaches France as US 1st black pilot
1923 British Open Men's Golf, Troon GC: Englishman Arthur Havers holes a bunker shot on 72nd hole to win his only major title, 1 stroke ahead of defending champion Walter Hagen
1924 1st transmission of radio Bloemendaal
1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth automobile
1924 J. Edgar Hoover assumes leadership of the FBI
1928 Ty Cobb, 41, steals home for 50th & final time
1929 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
1929 Nigel Pickering (rhythm guitarist for Spanky and Our Gang) is born in Pontiac, Michigan.
1934 Ruby Nash Curtis [Garnett], US R&B singer (Ruby and the Romantics), was born in Akron, Ohio
1934 Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1937 Waylon Jennings is born in Littlefield, Texas.
1938 1st night game at Brooklyn Ebbets Field (Reds 6, Dodgers 0) as Cincinnati Red Johnny Vander Meer hurls unprecedented 2nd consecutive no-hitter
1940 World War II: France surrenders to NAZI Germany, German troops occupy Paris
1941 Nilsson is born Harry Edward Nilsson III in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.
1947 US Open Men's Golf, St. Louis CC: Lew Worsham defeats Sam Snead by 1 stroke in an 18-hole playoff for his only major title
1949 Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply is born in Melbourne, Australia.
1950 Soul singer James Smith (of The Stylistics) is born in New York City
1951 Steve Walsh (singer, keyboardist for Kansas, Streets) is born in St Joseph, Missouri.
1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
1953 NY Yankees first baseman Johnny Mize is 93rd MLB player to get 2,000 hits
1953 NYC Transit Authority forms
1954 Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factories nationalized
1954 Country singer Terri Gibbs is born in Miami, Florida, but raised in Grovetown, Georgia. Known for the hit 1980 single "Somebody's Knockin'
1955 The Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack
1955 The International Olympic Committee votes to award Rome the rights to host the 1960 Summer Olympic Games
1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St Louis, Ill (state record)
1957 US Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Dick Mayer defeats defending champion Cary Middlecoff by 7 strokes in an 18-hole playoff to win his only major title
1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
1960 Angel Cordero wins his 1st of over 7000 horse races
1960 "The Apartment" directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1961)
1961 Expansion Washington Senators are 30-30, latest date an expansion team will be at .500, Washington will lose their next 10 games
1963 "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 performances
1963 "Sukiyaki" sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
1965 Bob Dylan records single "Like a Rolling Stone" (#1 in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time")
1965 Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced & record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts
1967 Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill
1967 "The Dirty Dozen", based on E. M. Nathanson's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson is released in the US
1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Coventry Cathedral
1969 "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
1969 US Open Golf, Champions GC: Orville Moody wins only major title by 1 stroke from Al Geiberger, Bob Rosberg & Dean Beman
1970 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: Shirley Englehorn wins her only major title; beats 1967 champion Kathy Whitworth by 4 strokes in an 18-hole playoff
1972 Rock fall inside Vierzy Tunnel (France) causes 2 train crash; 107 die
1974 "Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 on UK pop chart
1974 French Open Women's Tennis: American teenager Chris Evert beats Olga Morozova of Russia 6-1, 6-2 for first of a record 7 French singles titles
1974 "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation is published by Simon and Schuster in the US
1974 "Back Home Again" 8th studio album by John Denver is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
1975 French Open Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg retains title; beats Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6-2, 6-3, 6-4
1976 Rain out! Astrodome cancels game heavy rains make it difficult for visiting team and umpires to get through flooded streets to the stadium
1977 NY Mets trade Tom Seaver to Reds for Pat Zachry
1977 Spain's 1st free elections since 1936 (41 years)
1977 Former 5th Dimension singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. host a summer TV variety series on CBS. They are the first African American married couple to host a network television series.
1980 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Jack Nicklaus sets new tournament scoring record 272 (-8) to win his 4th Open title, 2 strokes ahead of Isao Aoki of Japan
1982 Supreme Court rules all children, regardless of citizenship, are entitled to a public education
1983 Supreme Court struck down state and local restrictions on abortion
1984 American boxer Thomas Hearns retains WBC light middleweight title with 2 round KO of Roberto Durán of Panama at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; marks first time in his illustrious career Durán knocked out
1985 "Pryor's Place" children's show last airs on CBS-TV
1985 Pinklon Thomas KOs Mike Weaver in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985 Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by man later judged insane; he throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with his knife
1986 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Raymond Floyd wins his 4th and final major, 2 strokes ahead of Georgia Bulldog Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins
1986 Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
1987 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1988 "If You Wanna Be Happy" singer Jimmy Soul dies of a heart attack at age 45 after years of drug use takes its toll.
1990 "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty & Madonna premieres
1991 Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest volcanic eruption on Earth of the 20th century
1992 1st Berlin Air Show in 60 years
1992 Jeff Reardon breaks Rollie Fingers' save record with #342
1992 Dan Quayle, relying on faulty card, erroneously instructs Trenton NJ, elementary student to spell "potato," "potatoe" during spelling bee
1994 New York Giants cut Super Bowl XXI MVP quarterback Phil Simms after 15 years service with the NFL club
1994 The Disney film The Lion King hits theaters.
1996 IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
1997 US Open Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Ernie Els wins his second Open title, the second of his 4 major championships, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Colin Montgomerie
1997 Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson appear on VH1's Storytellers.
1998 32nd Music City News Country Awards: Neal McCoy, Lorrie Morgan & Billy Ray Cyrus are the big winners
2001 55th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 1
2002 Near earth asteroid 2002 MN missed the Earth by 75,000 miles (120,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon
2003 57th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat New Jersey Nets, 4 games to 2
2003 US Open Men's Golf, Olympia Fields CC: American Jim Furyk wins his only major title by 3 from Stephen Leaney of Australia
2003 58th NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1
2005 "Batman Begins", directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Katie Holmes goes on wide release
2005 On this day in 2005, more than two weeks after American teen Natalee Holloway vanished while on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba, police there search the home of 17-year-old Joran Van der Sloot, one of the last known people to see the young woman
2006 On the remote island of Spitsbergen halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland lay the ceremonial first stone of the Global Seed Vault. The vault, which now has the capacity to hold 2.25 billion seeds, is intended to “provide insurance against both incremental and catastrophic loss of crop diversity.”
2008 62nd Tony Awards: In the Heights & August: Osage County win
2008 Lionel Richie is given a TV Land Icon Award by the cable network.
2011 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC: Boston Bruins defeat Vancouver Canucks, 4-0 for 4-3 series win; Bruins end 39-year Stanley Cup drought
2012 President Barack Obama states that the U.S. will stop deporting some illegal immigrants
2012 Apple I computer sells for a record $374,500
2013 Former President George W. Bush's airplane, a Gulfstream IV, on its way to Dallas' Love Field , was diverted safely to Louisville International AIrport when the pilot smelled smoke
2014 68th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Miami Heat, 4 games to 1
2014 US Open Men's Golf, Pinehurst Resort: Martin Kaymer of Germany leads wire-to-wire to win his second major title, 8 strokes ahead of runners-up Georgia Bulldog Erik Compton and Rickie Fowler
2014 American Top 40 host (and voice of Shaggy on Scooby Doo) Casey Kasem dies at age 82.
2015 Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, announces he will run for the US Presidency in Miami
2015 800 year anniversary of "the birthplace of modern democracy", the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England
2015 Stanley Cup Final, United Center, Chicago, IL: Chicago Blackhawks defeat Tampa Bay Lightning, 2-0 for a 4-2 series victory; Blackhawks' 6th Championship
2016 CVS Health will pay $1.6 billion to take over the pharmacy and clinic business of Target; CVS will continue existing operations within the Target stores
2016 Jimmy Page takes the stand in a trial where he is accused of stealing part of the song "Taurus" for the intro to "Stairway To Heaven."
2017 New record set for price of a parking lot in Hong Kong - $664,000
2018 Physicist Stephen Hawking's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin
2018 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company's blood tests
2019 Baseball jersey belonging to Babe Ruth becomes most expensive sports memorabilia when it sells for $5.64 million at an auction in New York
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