GOOD MORNING
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Thursday….June 25th……..
Today is:
(1) National Strawberry Parfait Day—count me in
(2) National Catfish Day—If I had my way, I’d be the first one to the table, and the last one to get up…..one of life’s delicacies is fried “bone-in” catfish…..
(3) National Leon Day—Never heard of it, so I looked it up…….Leon is Noel spelled backwards (how creative)…...It is a day to begin planning for Christmas gifts and decorations (especially homemade ones)……It can also be a day for those who miss the winter holidays to have a mini winter celebration in June…..Sorry, but I won’t be celebrating Leon on either one of those counts………Way too early for that.........
Take care fellow Dawgs……
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 halfback Robert (Bobby) Hooks………
Robert Greene Hooks (March 13, 1907 – April 7, 1969) was an American football player and coach…….He was a halfback for the Georgia Bulldogs, a member of its 1927 "Dream and Wonder" team
Against Yale, he threw a 59-yard touchdown pass to Frank Dudley
He was selected All-Southern honors by football fans of the South through Central Press newspapers……..One of the “Four Horsemen” of Georgia - Hooks, Dudley, McCrary and Johnson
He later coached Riverside Military, Georgia Military College, Valdosta High School, and the Mercer Bears
In 1964, he was elected to the State of Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame
UGA Football Letterman '26, '27, '28
Captain of the UGA Boxing and Swimming teams in '28
Named the Southern Conference Light Heavyweight Boxing Champ in '28
Fought in 6 professional fights in '30 in which he won all by knockouts
Helped train Young Stribling for the world title match
Coached wrestling and swimming at Riverside Military Academy where the teams won the GIAA Championship
Coached at Georgia Military College and won the GIAA Football Championship in '30 and the Jr. College Championship in '31
Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Valdosta High School '32-'40 where his teams won the District championship in '32, '33, '36 and '38; and the State Championship in '40
Track Coach at Valdosta High School where his teams won the District Championship 6 times & the State Title in '36 and '38
Bobby Hooks……..a DGD………May he RIP…………
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
1638 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S.
1667 Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1692 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass
1749 General fast because of drought in MA
1798 U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1876 - In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3
1906 - Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a winning score of 291 at Royal Lytham
1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam
1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit home runs in a game
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1938 "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1942 General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe
1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 Tennis shoe introduced
1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to U.S.)
1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1951 - In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. (Arthur Godfrey Show to four cities)…The public did not own color TV's at the time.
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1955 "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1957 "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1976 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1985 - ABC's "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.
1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die
1985 - New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team's bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.
1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1988 Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1989 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1989 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1993 - Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
1997 - The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 - U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 - Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
1999 NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks 4 games to 1
2000 - U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 - A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
2006 Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2009 Farrah Fawcett died……She was an American actress, fashion model and artist. A five-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels
2011 New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the New York State Marriage Equality Law
2011 According to a new study, the number of adults in the world with diabetes has doubled since 1980
2012 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that minor's cannot be automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole
2013 A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voting rights, is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that Congress has not taken into account the nation's racial progress when singling out certain states for federal oversight
2014 Facebook reports that over 90% of its tech employees are Asian or white, while women make up only 15% of tech employees and 31% of all employees; COO Cheryl Sandberg notes that more women are also needed in leadership roles at the company
2015 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds key provisions of Obamacare, including premium subsidies for about 6.4 million people enrolled in the federal health insurance exchange
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1937 Eddie Floyd is born in Montgomery, Alabama, and will grow up in Detroit, Michigan……
1942 Joe Chambers (of The Chambers Brothers) is born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania………
1946 Rock multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald (for Foreigner( is born in Osterley, Middlesex, England……..
1945 Carly Simon is born in the Bronx, New York City…….
1954 David Paich (keyboardist for Toto) is born in Los Angeles, California………
1969 The Guess Who's "These Eyes" is certified gold………
1969 Sly & the Family Stone records "Hot Fun in the Summertime."
1969 The Hollies record "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."
1970 Chicago released the single "25 or 6 to 4" from their Chicago II album…….
1973 Bobby Darin marries his second wife, legal secretary Andrea Yeager……..
2009 Sky Saxon (lead singer of The Seeds) dies at age 71 when an untreated infection leads to heart failure……….May he RIP…….
2009 Fifty-year-old Michael Jackson is found dead in the Los Angeles mansion he is renting…….May he RIP…….
SOME FOLKS THAT DIED ON THIS DATE
2009 Farrah Fawcet, actress (Charlie's Angels)
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, made many documentaries about the ocean, dies of heart attack at 87
1995 Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1976 Johnny Mercer, U.S. songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66
1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1876 George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE
1984 Lauren Bush, born in Houston, Texas, fashion model, environmentalist, niece, President George W. Bush
1966 Dikembe Mutombo, NBA center, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets
1963 George Michael, born in Bushey, England, singer, songwriter, member of band Wham!, famous song, 'Careless Whisper', sold over 100 million records
1956 Anthony Bourdain, born in New York City, New York, chef, author, 'Kitchen Confidential', host of television show, 'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'
1954 Sonia Sotomayor, born in the Bronx, New York City, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, third female Supreme Court justice
1949 Jimmie Walker, born in Bronx, New York, comedian, JJ-Good Times, At Ease
1949 Phyllis George-Brown, born in Denton, Texas, Miss America, 1971, sportscaster, CBS
1946 Ian McDonald, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Foreigner, King Crimson
1945 Carly Simon, born in New York City, singer, Anticipation, You're So Vain
1942 Willis Reed, NBA hall of fame MVP center/coach for the New York Knicks
1940 Clint Warwick, born in Birmingham England, bassist, Moody Blues,
1935 Eddie Floyd, born in Montgomery, Alabama, singer/composer, Knock On Wood
1925 June Lockhart, New York City, actress, Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction
AOTD
Today’s AOTD is provided by JudgeLarryDawg, a Great American……Needless to say, y’all won’t be disappointed……Thank you Judge……
Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to think he is a gift to the people of New York, planes everyone but himself, but sentenced thousands of nursing home residents to death with his policy of sending Chinese Flu victims to infiltrate New York's elderly and most vulnerable.
Cuomo didn't just start being an egotistical AH when the Virus came. In 2018, Joseph Percoco, a former top adviser and confidant to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday in a case that cast a long and unflattering shadow over the Cuomo administration.
Mr. Percoco, 49, was convicted in March of soliciting and accepting more than $300,000 in bribes from executives of two companies with state business in return for taking official actions on the firms’ behalf.
“I hope that this sentence will be heard in Albany,” Judge Valerie E. Caproni, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said before sentencing.
Then there was Cuomo's marriage to the late Robert F Kennedy's daughter, Kerry. Cuomo may have been attracted to Jerry, but the opportunist knew his u ion with a Kennedy would give him great political capital. Then he cheated on her, talked her into holding back on the divorce until after he won an election, then fought with her for years over child support payments.
After all this, the chump Gov thinks it's entertaining to give television interviews with his idiot brother, Chris Cuomo of CNN, and joke about which one loves their mother more.
This could go on and on but truly Governor Andrew Cuomo is , to borrow from Blazing Saddles, "the leading a**hole in the state.
HAPPY TRAILS FOLKS
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
That’s All Folks………………
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Thursday….June 25th……..
Today is:
(1) National Strawberry Parfait Day—count me in
(2) National Catfish Day—If I had my way, I’d be the first one to the table, and the last one to get up…..one of life’s delicacies is fried “bone-in” catfish…..
(3) National Leon Day—Never heard of it, so I looked it up…….Leon is Noel spelled backwards (how creative)…...It is a day to begin planning for Christmas gifts and decorations (especially homemade ones)……It can also be a day for those who miss the winter holidays to have a mini winter celebration in June…..Sorry, but I won’t be celebrating Leon on either one of those counts………Way too early for that.........
Take care fellow Dawgs……
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 halfback Robert (Bobby) Hooks………
Robert Greene Hooks (March 13, 1907 – April 7, 1969) was an American football player and coach…….He was a halfback for the Georgia Bulldogs, a member of its 1927 "Dream and Wonder" team
Against Yale, he threw a 59-yard touchdown pass to Frank Dudley
He was selected All-Southern honors by football fans of the South through Central Press newspapers……..One of the “Four Horsemen” of Georgia - Hooks, Dudley, McCrary and Johnson
He later coached Riverside Military, Georgia Military College, Valdosta High School, and the Mercer Bears
In 1964, he was elected to the State of Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame
UGA Football Letterman '26, '27, '28
Captain of the UGA Boxing and Swimming teams in '28
Named the Southern Conference Light Heavyweight Boxing Champ in '28
Fought in 6 professional fights in '30 in which he won all by knockouts
Helped train Young Stribling for the world title match
Coached wrestling and swimming at Riverside Military Academy where the teams won the GIAA Championship
Coached at Georgia Military College and won the GIAA Football Championship in '30 and the Jr. College Championship in '31
Athletic Director and Head Football Coach at Valdosta High School '32-'40 where his teams won the District championship in '32, '33, '36 and '38; and the State Championship in '40
Track Coach at Valdosta High School where his teams won the District Championship 6 times & the State Title in '36 and '38
Bobby Hooks……..a DGD………May he RIP…………
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1630 Fork introduced to American dining by Governor Winthrop
1638 Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in U.S.
1667 Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1692 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in U.S. held, Sandwich, Mass
1749 General fast because of drought in MA
1798 U.S. passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1835 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now San Francisco)
1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 - Lucien B. Smith patented the first barbed wire.
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1876 - Lt. Col. Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
1876 - In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1888 Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
1903 Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 and 5-3
1906 - Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1910 Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1926 61st British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a winning score of 291 at Royal Lytham
1929 President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam
1937 Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit home runs in a game
1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 40 cents per hour
1938 "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1940 Adolf Hitler views Eiffel tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - Finland declared war on the Soviet Union.
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1942 General Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of U.S. forces in Europe
1945 Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
1947 1st edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 Tennis shoe introduced
1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1948 Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to U.S.)
1948 Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea initiating the Korean War.
1951 - In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. (Arthur Godfrey Show to four cities)…The public did not own color TV's at the time.
1953 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
1955 "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1957 "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1961 Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1967 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1969 Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
1976 Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1977 Roy C. Sullivan of Virginia is struck by lightning for 7th time
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1985 - ABC's "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.
1985 Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes, 21 die
1985 - New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team's bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.
1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1988 Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1989 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1989 1st U.S. postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
1990 Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1991 Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
1992 Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1993 - Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
1997 - The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 - U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
1997 Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 Supreme Court rules attorney-client privilege extends beyond the grave, exempting Vince Foster's conversations with his lawyers from being used as evidence by Kenneth Starr
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 - Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
1999 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
1999 NBA Finals, San Antonio Spurs beat New York Knicks 4 games to 1
2000 - U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 - A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against America Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
2006 Warren Buffett donates $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
2009 Farrah Fawcett died……She was an American actress, fashion model and artist. A five-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels
2011 New York becomes the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage when Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the New York State Marriage Equality Law
2011 According to a new study, the number of adults in the world with diabetes has doubled since 1980
2012 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that minor's cannot be automatically be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole
2013 A portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protects minority voting rights, is struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that Congress has not taken into account the nation's racial progress when singling out certain states for federal oversight
2014 Facebook reports that over 90% of its tech employees are Asian or white, while women make up only 15% of tech employees and 31% of all employees; COO Cheryl Sandberg notes that more women are also needed in leadership roles at the company
2015 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds key provisions of Obamacare, including premium subsidies for about 6.4 million people enrolled in the federal health insurance exchange
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1937 Eddie Floyd is born in Montgomery, Alabama, and will grow up in Detroit, Michigan……
1942 Joe Chambers (of The Chambers Brothers) is born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania………
1946 Rock multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald (for Foreigner( is born in Osterley, Middlesex, England……..
1945 Carly Simon is born in the Bronx, New York City…….
1954 David Paich (keyboardist for Toto) is born in Los Angeles, California………
1969 The Guess Who's "These Eyes" is certified gold………
1969 Sly & the Family Stone records "Hot Fun in the Summertime."
1969 The Hollies record "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."
1970 Chicago released the single "25 or 6 to 4" from their Chicago II album…….
1973 Bobby Darin marries his second wife, legal secretary Andrea Yeager……..
2009 Sky Saxon (lead singer of The Seeds) dies at age 71 when an untreated infection leads to heart failure……….May he RIP…….
2009 Fifty-year-old Michael Jackson is found dead in the Los Angeles mansion he is renting…….May he RIP…….
SOME FOLKS THAT DIED ON THIS DATE
2009 Farrah Fawcet, actress (Charlie's Angels)
1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, made many documentaries about the ocean, dies of heart attack at 87
1995 Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78
1976 Johnny Mercer, U.S. songwriter (That old Black Magic), dies at 66
1906 Stanford White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit
1876 George A Custer, U.S. general (Little Bighorn), dies at 36
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE
1984 Lauren Bush, born in Houston, Texas, fashion model, environmentalist, niece, President George W. Bush
1966 Dikembe Mutombo, NBA center, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets
1963 George Michael, born in Bushey, England, singer, songwriter, member of band Wham!, famous song, 'Careless Whisper', sold over 100 million records
1956 Anthony Bourdain, born in New York City, New York, chef, author, 'Kitchen Confidential', host of television show, 'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'
1954 Sonia Sotomayor, born in the Bronx, New York City, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, third female Supreme Court justice
1949 Jimmie Walker, born in Bronx, New York, comedian, JJ-Good Times, At Ease
1949 Phyllis George-Brown, born in Denton, Texas, Miss America, 1971, sportscaster, CBS
1946 Ian McDonald, born in London, England, rock guitarist, Foreigner, King Crimson
1945 Carly Simon, born in New York City, singer, Anticipation, You're So Vain
1942 Willis Reed, NBA hall of fame MVP center/coach for the New York Knicks
1940 Clint Warwick, born in Birmingham England, bassist, Moody Blues,
1935 Eddie Floyd, born in Montgomery, Alabama, singer/composer, Knock On Wood
1925 June Lockhart, New York City, actress, Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction
AOTD
Today’s AOTD is provided by JudgeLarryDawg, a Great American……Needless to say, y’all won’t be disappointed……Thank you Judge……
Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to think he is a gift to the people of New York, planes everyone but himself, but sentenced thousands of nursing home residents to death with his policy of sending Chinese Flu victims to infiltrate New York's elderly and most vulnerable.
Cuomo didn't just start being an egotistical AH when the Virus came. In 2018, Joseph Percoco, a former top adviser and confidant to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday in a case that cast a long and unflattering shadow over the Cuomo administration.
Mr. Percoco, 49, was convicted in March of soliciting and accepting more than $300,000 in bribes from executives of two companies with state business in return for taking official actions on the firms’ behalf.
“I hope that this sentence will be heard in Albany,” Judge Valerie E. Caproni, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said before sentencing.
Then there was Cuomo's marriage to the late Robert F Kennedy's daughter, Kerry. Cuomo may have been attracted to Jerry, but the opportunist knew his u ion with a Kennedy would give him great political capital. Then he cheated on her, talked her into holding back on the divorce until after he won an election, then fought with her for years over child support payments.
After all this, the chump Gov thinks it's entertaining to give television interviews with his idiot brother, Chris Cuomo of CNN, and joke about which one loves their mother more.
This could go on and on but truly Governor Andrew Cuomo is , to borrow from Blazing Saddles, "the leading a**hole in the state.
HAPPY TRAILS FOLKS
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
That’s All Folks………………
