Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..It’s Friday, and I hope everyone is healthy and happy…..Today is National Biscuit Day….A hot biscuit is good with a piece of sausage, with a fried egg, with bacon, with ham, with jelly, with syrup, with gravy, and 10K other ways……We had biscuits almost every day growing up in rural Georgia……Today is also National Coq Au Vin Day, a French dish of braised chicken, cooked with wine, lardons (salt pork), mushrooms, and garlic…..We never had that growing up in rural Georgia (no body in our house could pronounce it)…….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 center Tommy Lyons………
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, and Tommy Lawhorne; today is Tommy Lyons…..
Tommy Lyons, offensive center: earned Class AAA All-State honors when attending Georgia Military Academy in College Park, Georgia…was also the Georgia State Wrestling Champion in the 180 pound class…was UGA’s number one defensive end in 1966 on the Frosh team…played OG in 1967 and moved to center in 1968 where he earned All-American honors in 1968 and again in 1969…he also earned All-SEC and Academic All-SEC honors in those same two years…he was captain of the football team in 1969…he was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship…he received his undergraduate degree from UGA…he received his post graduate degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1977…he was a six year starter in the NFL for the Denver Broncos…he was inducted into the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame…he is an honored member in UGA’s Circle of Honor…in 1996, he was presented the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award…he is a recipient of the Bill Hartman Award, the highest honor a former UGA student-athlete can attain……he is a pioneer in the field of minimally invasive surgery and a noted gynecologic surgeon…he has authored multiple publications concerning laparoscopic surgery…he is currently the Director and a practicing physician for the Center for Women’s Care and Reproductive Surgery in Atlanta… Dr. Thomas Lyons, 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)
1721 South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld in Quebec City
1765 Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790 Rhode Island becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying US Constitution
1827 The first nautical school opened in Nantucket, MA, under the name Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin’s Lancasterian School.
1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th US state
1849 Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1849 A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for the Union Army
1864 Mexican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1884 1st steam cable trams start in highgate
1886 American chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola
1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1910 An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.
1911 The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time.
1912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1914 Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence River; 1,024 die
1916 Official flag of President of the United States adopted
1916 US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1919 Charles Strite files patent for the pop-up toaster
1919 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa
1919 The Republic of Prekmurje founded - a short-lived, unrecognised state, which on June 6, 1919 was incorporated into the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed "Yugoslavia" in 1929)
1922 US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1932 The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, D.C. to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd
1940 Adolf Kiefer swims world record 100 yards backstroke (58.8 sec)
1942 Jews in Paris are forced to sew a yellow star on their coats
1942 Bing Crosby records "White Christmas", world's best-selling single (estimated 100 million copies sold)
1942 "Yankee Doodle Dandy", based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Joan Lesley, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943)
1943 Meat and cheese rationed in US
1943 "The Million Dollar Band" was heard for the first time on NBC radio.
1945 Gary Brooker (lead singer of Procol Harum) is born in Hackney, East London, England.
1945 US 1st Marine division conquers Shuri Castle, Okinawa
1949 Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi was born in Forest Hill, London, England.
1949 Candid Camera, TV comedy show, moves to NBC
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
1954 British runner Diane Leather becomes first woman to run the mile in under 5 minutes; 4:59.6 at Alexander Sports Ground in Birmingham, England
1958 1958 Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Tears On My Pillow.
1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1959 Saunders-Roe SR.N1, the first practical hovercraft, performs its first engine run
1959 - Ray Charles, B.B. King and Jimmy Reed performed for about 9,000 people at Atlanta's Herndon Stadium. It was one of the first outdoor rock festivals.
1960 Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" becomes the #1 hit song in America
1961 Melissa Etheridge was born in Leavenworth, Kansas.
1961 Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" hits #1 in the US, his second and last chart-topper ("Poor Little Fool" hit #1 in 1958).
1962 Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
1962 4th Grammy Awards: Moon River, Peter Nero, and Judy Garland are the big winners
1965 The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda," with Al Jardine on lead vocals, is the #1 hit song in America.
1968 The (TILA) Truth In Lending Act passes into law with regulations designed to protect consumers in credit transactions requiring clear disclosure of key terms of the lending arrangement and all costs. It is part of the "Consumer Credit Protection Act".
1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1969 - The debut album "Crosby, Stills and Nash" was released.
1971 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins in 3:10:11.545 (253.850 km/h)
1971 The Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" enters the charts. It would climb the US Billboard Hot 100 Chat to the #3 position, and their #24 ranked song for the Year 1971….It would attain gold record status….
1971 The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" hits the top spot on the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart for the first of two weeks.
1972 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Southern Pines CC: Sandra Palmer wins first of 2 majors by a massive 10 strokes from Judy Rankin and Mickey Wright
1972 The Official IRA announce a ceasefire
1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
1973 Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1976 Only HR of Joe Niekro's 22-year career, comes off brother Phil
1976 Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" hits #1 in America. It's the first disco hit for Motown Records, which is slow to embrace the sound.
1977 Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt wins for a record 4th time
1977 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1977 Janet Guthrie becomes 1st woman to drive in Indianapolis 500
1977 Australian Sue Prell first female golfer to hit consecutive holes-in one; 13th and 14th holes at Chatswood Golf Club, Sydney
1978 US 1st class postage rises to 15 cents (13 cents for 3 years)
1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres
1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1980 The guessing game continues over who shot JR in the hit television series "Dallas" with speculation including Dusty, Sue Ellen and just about anybody in the show. But viewers will have to wait for the fall before the cliff hanger is resolved as the cast and CBS are giving nothing away.
1980 JMW Turner's "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
1980 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
1983 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
1983 Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins in 3:05:03.092 (260.902 km/h)
1984 Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
1984 Tina Turner releases Private Dancer, her big comeback album.
1985 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months
1986 59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia
1986 Colonel Oliver North told National Security Advisor William McFarlane that profits from weapons sold to Iran were being diverted to the Contras.
1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent of involuntary manslaughter in death of actor Vic Morrow and 2 child actors during filming
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
1988 NBC aired "To Heal A Nation," the story of Jan Scruggs' effort to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1989 Philadelphia Phillies 12-time All Star 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt retires from MLB at 39
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian Republic
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,870.49
1990 Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record
1994 Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr.wins in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph)
1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands
1996 Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Israel's prime minister
1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
1997 Spanish scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
1999 Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments
2001 In New York, four followers of Osama bin Laden were convicted of a global conspiracy to murder Americans. The crimes included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 people.
2001 Natural gas futures plunge 6% to a 10-month low on speculation that growing US inventories will help power plants meet summer demand for air-conditioning
2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2005 Danica Patrick becomes first woman to lead Indy 500
2005 Indianapolis 500: Dan Wheldon wins in 3:10:21.0769 (253.637 km/h)
2005 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Laurel Valley GC: Mike Reid wins his first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Jerry Pate and Dana Quigley
2010 Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay becomes 20th pitcher to throw a perfect game (1-0 vs Florida)
2011 Indianapolis 500: Dan Wheldon wins in 2:56:11.7267 (274.015 km/h)’
2011 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Tom Watson wins his 6th and final Champions Tour major title with a birdie on the first playoff hole against David Eger
2012 Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches
2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups
2015 The Obama adminstration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
2016 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, GC at Harbor Shores: Rocco Mediate wins his lone career major title by 3 strokes from Colin Montgomerie of Scotland
2017 Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida
2018 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigns over an extramarital affair and illegal use of a donor list
2018 ABC TV network cancels TV comedy "Roseanne https://26iulz1iqavr3vjs66t2x3aw-wp...uploads/2017/07/wwii-memorial-complete-01.jpg" after its star Roseanne Barr posts a racist tweet
2018 Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April
2018 Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600 died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study
2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
2019 World's smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)
2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Mary Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets)
Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate
Archibald Cox, American lawyer and special prosecutor (Watergate)
Harvey Korman, American actor (The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
Dennis Hopper, American actor and director
Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician
Doris Hart, American tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles)
Henry Carr, American athlete (2 Olympic gold 200m, 4x400m relay 1964)
Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator (1983-89)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech
John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (a practical folding wooden stepladder)
Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], British born American entertainer
Pepper Paire, American National Women's Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (1948 AAGPBL All-Star Team)
Hubert Opperman, Australian road cyclist, politician (multi-distance world records)
Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete, politician (Rep-D-Ill; joint world record 100m, Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1936), born in Atlanta, Georgia
Tony Zale, American boxer (World Middleweight Champion 1940-47, 48)
Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (Pretty Woman, The Parallax View)
John F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass)
Joe Weatherly, American auto racer (NASCAR Sprint Cup champion 1962-63)
Richie Guerin, American basketball Hall of Fame guard (6-time NBA All Star)
Al Unser, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1970-71, 78, 87)
John Hinckley Jr., American man who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Ken Schrader, American auto racer, promoter (Daytona 500 1988, 89, 90)
LaToya Jackson, American singer and model (If You Feel the Funk), posed for Playboy
Annette Bening, American actress (Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty)
Melissa Etheridge, American singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
Noel Gallagher, English pop musician (Oasis)
Casey Sheehan, American soldier; son of Cindy Sheehan
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
(to be continued--see follow-up post)
