GOOD MORNING
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Friday….June 26th……..Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day…..OK……Today is also National Coconut Day……I like this choice better…..Anything from a Pina Colada to Coconut Shrimp to Coconut Cakes & Macaroons & Pies to a Peter Paul’s Almond Joy…..It's all Yummy......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 Multi-Sport Letterman Jack Roberts………
James Thomas "Jack" Roberts was an extraordinary athlete; he was the best athlete in all of Northeast Georgia in his day……
He was All-State at Gainesville High School football in 1947 and again in 1948……..
He was All-Northeast Georgia all four years of his high school career (194 6-1949)…….
Baseball was his best sport…..He was All-State in baseball in 1947, 1948, and 1949…….During this time he pitched 4 no-hit games…….
In High School Track & Field, he was the State High Jump Champion…..
In 2008, Gainesville High School retired his jersey……
At UGA, Jack was All-Sec in football (1953)……
At UGA, he was a three year letterman in baseball (1951-1953)…….He was an All-Southeastern Conference pitcher for the Georgia Bulldogs…...His finest season on the diamond came in 1953 when he led the team to an SEC title, going 8-2 with a school record 87 strikeouts…..His strikeout mark, achieved in just 12 appearances, held for 32 years……
Following his graduation, he was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and reached their AAA club, Rochester. Also, he played for the Atlanta Crackers. His professional baseball career was interrupted by a period of military service with the United States Air Force from 1956-58.
Jack was an excellent golfer and was so proud when he qualified for his senior PGA card.
He was inducted into the Northeast Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 (the first class)……
He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1958 for multi-sports (Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Track)
Jack Roberts was simply a true all-around talented athlete……He was, without a doubt, one of the best, most gifted, all-around athletes to ever set foot on the UGA campus…..He could do it all…..And he could do it all in a very competitive way…….
Jack Roberts…….a DGD…….May he RIP…….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1284 According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1900 Japan mobilizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising in China and to advance their long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
1900 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there
1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
1911 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: 19-year old John McDermott becomes first American born champion; wins in a playoff with Mike Brady and George Simpson
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game)
1917 1st US troops arrive in France during World War I
1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
1918 The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris.
1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood.
1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1933 : "The Kraft Music Hall" debuted on NBC radio. The ever-popular radio show ran for 16 years and featured some of the most popular entertainment names of its day.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in centerfield in doubleheader
1935 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ’’
1938 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
1944 Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote
1952 Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1953 Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Russian leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested
1956 the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Cousins" wins Golden Bear
1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Barbara Edwards, American model and Playboy playmate (Sept, 1983, 1984 Playmate of the Year), was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1962 : Motel 6 opened it's 1st location in Santa Barbara, CA on June 25th, 1962.
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1964 Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1964 14th Berlin International Film Festival: "Dry Summer" wins the Golden Bear
1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
1971 21st Berlin International Film Festival: "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" wins the Golden Bear
1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers
1973 London production of musical "Grease" premieres
1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
1975 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
1976 - In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest tower until 2010.
1976 White Sox shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career
1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes & kills a driver
1979 "Moonraker", 11th James Bond film starring Roger Moore, premieres in London
1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
1981 "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in U.S.
1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement
1987 - The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1989 Canada updates coins with a new portrait of the Queen
1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 Eight Kansas and Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1991 Nelson Mandela addresses Congress
1991 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
1993 In the state of California, the 2008 Proposition 8 ballot measure is upheld in an appeals case, allowing same-sex marriage to continue
1993 Actress Julia Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett wed
1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1993 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss
1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado, 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico, 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas, 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada, 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
1994 PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1994 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: 1992 champion Dave Stockton wins by 6 strokes from Jim Albus
1996 NBA Draft: Georgetown guard Allen Iverson first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published
1998 - The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998 : A study done on the Coyote Population in America says they continue to grow in numbers and more are now mating with dogs and wolves.
1998 - Windows 98 Released
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2002 - David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.
2002 - WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2002 NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming first pick by Houston Rockets
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional
2003 NBA Draft: St. Vincent–St. Mary HS (Akron, Ohio) small forward LeBron James first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
2003 : The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is increasing it's policing and increasing the number of lawsuits on those caught file sharing music and committing copyright violations. It is estimated that over 1 billion songs are file swapped each month.
2007 : China announced it had completed construction on the world's longest sea bridge. The bridge spans twenty-two and a half miles across Hangzhou Bay in the East China Sea, making it the longest sea crossing bridge on the planet.
2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional
2009 : During a hearing on poppy crop security, the attorney general for Tasmania, Lara Giddings, reported that wallabies had been creating crop circles in poppy fields. She reported findings that wallabies had been eating opium poppies grown legally for medicinal purposes, getting high off of the poppies, and then wandering around the fields and crashing, creating crop circles and causing damage.
2012 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres
2013 In the state of California, the 2008 Proposition 8 ballot measure is upheld in an appeals case, allowing same-sex marriage to continue
2013 : Democratic state senator Wendy Davis successfully blocked a bill that would have shut down most of the abortion clinics in the state of Texas and banned abortions in pregnancies over twenty weeks. Davis held a filibuster in which she spoke for over ten hours in an attempt to block the passage of the bill.
2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
2014 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a Greek referendum on new bailout terms
2015 Members of the E.U. have agreed to relocate 40,000 of the recent migrants to Italy and Greece; over 120,000 of the 150,000 migrants to Europe so far this year have landed in these two countries
2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation
2018 Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
2019 Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release
2019 Two US Florida towns pay hackers considerable ransom to unfreeze their computer systems; Riviera Beach $600,00 and Lake City $500,000
2019 More than 5,000 smuggled turtles discovered in luggage at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia, bound for India
2019 Highest ever June temperatures recorded in Germany (38.6C), Poland (38.2C) and the Czech Republic (38.9C) during week-long heatwave in Europe
2019 Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1938 Singer Billy Davis, Jr. (of The 5th Dimension) is born in St. Louis, Missouri
1942 Larry Taylor, bassist with American rock band Canned Heat, was born.
1957 Singer Patty Smyth is born in New York City.
1959 Stef Burns, who replaced Chris Hayes as guitarist for Huey Lewis and the News, is born in Oakland, California.
1961 Terri Nunn, singer from American new wave band Berlin, who scored the 1986 US & UK No.1 single 'Take My Breath Away' which was featured in the 1986 film Top Gun.
1961 Elvis Presley records "Little Sister."
1965 The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" goes to #1 on the Hot 100. It's the only song written by Bob Dylan ever to top that chart.
1965 On this date, Johnny Rivers moved from #15 to #10 on the charts with "Seventh Son".
1973 1973 Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer (Redneck Woman), was born in Pocahontas, Illinois (THIS MAY BE MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO)
1974 Bad Company released their debut album
1976 Peter Frampton releases "Baby, I Love Your Way."
1981 Foreigner released their soon to be next hit song “Urgent”
(TO BE CONTINUED......SEE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE)
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Friday….June 26th……..Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day…..OK……Today is also National Coconut Day……I like this choice better…..Anything from a Pina Colada to Coconut Shrimp to Coconut Cakes & Macaroons & Pies to a Peter Paul’s Almond Joy…..It's all Yummy......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 Multi-Sport Letterman Jack Roberts………
James Thomas "Jack" Roberts was an extraordinary athlete; he was the best athlete in all of Northeast Georgia in his day……
He was All-State at Gainesville High School football in 1947 and again in 1948……..
He was All-Northeast Georgia all four years of his high school career (194 6-1949)…….
Baseball was his best sport…..He was All-State in baseball in 1947, 1948, and 1949…….During this time he pitched 4 no-hit games…….
In High School Track & Field, he was the State High Jump Champion…..
In 2008, Gainesville High School retired his jersey……
At UGA, Jack was All-Sec in football (1953)……
At UGA, he was a three year letterman in baseball (1951-1953)…….He was an All-Southeastern Conference pitcher for the Georgia Bulldogs…...His finest season on the diamond came in 1953 when he led the team to an SEC title, going 8-2 with a school record 87 strikeouts…..His strikeout mark, achieved in just 12 appearances, held for 32 years……
Following his graduation, he was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals and reached their AAA club, Rochester. Also, he played for the Atlanta Crackers. His professional baseball career was interrupted by a period of military service with the United States Air Force from 1956-58.
Jack was an excellent golfer and was so proud when he qualified for his senior PGA card.
He was inducted into the Northeast Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 (the first class)……
He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1958 for multi-sports (Football, Baseball, Basketball, and Track)
Jack Roberts was simply a true all-around talented athlete……He was, without a doubt, one of the best, most gifted, all-around athletes to ever set foot on the UGA campus…..He could do it all…..And he could do it all in a very competitive way…….
Jack Roberts…….a DGD…….May he RIP…….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1284 According to the Lüneburg manuscript, a piper leads 130 children of Hamelin away
1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1807 Lightning hits gunpowder warehouse in Luxembourg; 230 die
1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1900 Japan mobilizes 20,000 troops to help put down the Boxer uprising in China and to advance their long-term interest in gaining land and power in mainland Asia
1900 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there
1906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix (Le Mans, France)
1907 - Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
1911 US Open Men's Golf, Chicago GC: 19-year old John McDermott becomes first American born champion; wins in a playoff with Mike Brady and George Simpson
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1915 Germany suppresses "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with numbers on their jerseys (one game)
1917 1st US troops arrive in France during World War I
1918 The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed
1918 The Germans begin firing their huge 420 mm howitzer, "Big Bertha," at Paris.
1919 NY Daily News begins publishing
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave Dominican Republic
1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood.
1926 A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France is unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1927 The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island
1933 : "The Kraft Music Hall" debuted on NBC radio. The ever-popular radio show ran for 16 years and featured some of the most popular entertainment names of its day.
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
1935 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in centerfield in doubleheader
1935 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
1936 1st flight of Fw61 helicopter
1936 Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ’’
1938 Cincinnati Red Lonny Frey hits 8 doubles in a doubleheader
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 Lithuanian fascists massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
1944 Yanks, Dodgers & Giants play unique 6 inn game for War Bonds, each playing successive innings, final score Dodgers-5, Yanks-1 & Giants-0
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco
1946 Fred Allen's last radio show, his guest is Jack Benny
1948 US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
1949 1st Belgian parliamentary election where women can vote
1952 Nelson Mandela & 51 others infringe South Africa curfew
1953 Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Russian leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested
1956 the U.S. Congress approves the Federal Highway Act, which allocates more than $30 billion for the construction of some 41,000 miles of interstate highways; it will be the largest public construction project in U.S. history to that date.
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1959 Ingemar Johansson TKOs Floyd Patterson in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1959 Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway
1959 9th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Cousins" wins Golden Bear
1959 - CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Barbara Edwards, American model and Playboy playmate (Sept, 1983, 1984 Playmate of the Year), was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1960 Hall of Fame allows veteran committee to vote annually
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
1962 : Motel 6 opened it's 1st location in Santa Barbara, CA on June 25th, 1962.
1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill
1964 Blacks & Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1964 14th Berlin International Film Festival: "Dry Summer" wins the Golden Bear
1968 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1971 Angels suspend Alex Johnson (after 5 benchings & 29 fines)
1971 21st Berlin International Film Festival: "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" wins the Golden Bear
1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers
1973 London production of musical "Grease" premieres
1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1975 Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
1975 U.S. Supreme Court's rules unanimously in "O'Connor v. Donaldson" that non-dangerous people can't be confined to psychiatric facilities without adequate treatment if able to live viably in outside society
1976 - In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest tower until 2010.
1976 White Sox shortstop Toby Harrah plays DH without touching a batted ball
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career
1977 The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1978 Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers on board perish.
1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, accidentally crashes & kills a driver
1979 "Moonraker", 11th James Bond film starring Roger Moore, premieres in London
1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
1981 "For Your Eyes Only" premieres in U.S.
1982 Marie Osmond marries Steve Craig
1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announces his retirement
1987 - The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1989 Canada updates coins with a new portrait of the Queen
1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 Eight Kansas and Oklahoma radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad
1991 Nelson Mandela addresses Congress
1991 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Larry Johnson first pick by Charlotte Hornets
1992 NYC's MTA votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993
1993 In the state of California, the 2008 Proposition 8 ballot measure is upheld in an appeals case, allowing same-sex marriage to continue
1993 Actress Julia Roberts and country singer Lyle Lovett wed
1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1993 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss
1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1994 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado, 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico, 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas, 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada, 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
1994 PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1994 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: 1992 champion Dave Stockton wins by 6 strokes from Jim Albus
1996 NBA Draft: Georgetown guard Allen Iverson first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
1996 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1997 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Communications Decency Act, inconsistent with the 1st Amendment
1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st book in J. K. Rowling's best-selling series, is published
1998 - The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998 : A study done on the Coyote Population in America says they continue to grow in numbers and more are now mating with dogs and wolves.
1998 - Windows 98 Released
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2002 - David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.
2002 - WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2002 NBA Draft: Shanghai Sharks (China) center Yao Ming first pick by Houston Rockets
2003 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional
2003 NBA Draft: St. Vincent–St. Mary HS (Akron, Ohio) small forward LeBron James first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
2003 : The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is increasing it's policing and increasing the number of lawsuits on those caught file sharing music and committing copyright violations. It is estimated that over 1 billion songs are file swapped each month.
2007 : China announced it had completed construction on the world's longest sea bridge. The bridge spans twenty-two and a half miles across Hangzhou Bay in the East China Sea, making it the longest sea crossing bridge on the planet.
2008 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia v. Heller that the ban on handguns in the District of Columbia is unconstitutional
2009 : During a hearing on poppy crop security, the attorney general for Tasmania, Lara Giddings, reported that wallabies had been creating crop circles in poppy fields. She reported findings that wallabies had been eating opium poppies grown legally for medicinal purposes, getting high off of the poppies, and then wandering around the fields and crashing, creating crop circles and causing damage.
2012 Animated film "Ice Age: Continental Drift", directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo premieres
2013 In the state of California, the 2008 Proposition 8 ballot measure is upheld in an appeals case, allowing same-sex marriage to continue
2013 : Democratic state senator Wendy Davis successfully blocked a bill that would have shut down most of the abortion clinics in the state of Texas and banned abortions in pregnancies over twenty weeks. Davis held a filibuster in which she spoke for over ten hours in an attempt to block the passage of the bill.
2014 Luis Suárez is expelled from the 2014 FIFA World Cup following his biting incident
2014 Following the military coup in Thailand, people are warned that anyone calling for protest on social media will be prosecuted for sedition
2014 NBA Draft: Kansas small forward Andrew Wiggins first pick by Cleveland Cavaliers
2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states
2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a Greek referendum on new bailout terms
2015 Members of the E.U. have agreed to relocate 40,000 of the recent migrants to Italy and Greece; over 120,000 of the 150,000 migrants to Europe so far this year have landed in these two countries
2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation
2018 Hello Kitty bullet train unveiled by the West Japan Railway
2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease
2019 Japanese animation film "Spirited Away" by Hayao Miyazaki is released in China and tops the box office, 18 years after its initial release
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2019 Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou "Toufah" Jallow says she was raped by former President Yahya Jammeh as part of a Human Rights Watch and Trial International report
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1938 Singer Billy Davis, Jr. (of The 5th Dimension) is born in St. Louis, Missouri
1942 Larry Taylor, bassist with American rock band Canned Heat, was born.
1957 Singer Patty Smyth is born in New York City.
1959 Stef Burns, who replaced Chris Hayes as guitarist for Huey Lewis and the News, is born in Oakland, California.
1961 Terri Nunn, singer from American new wave band Berlin, who scored the 1986 US & UK No.1 single 'Take My Breath Away' which was featured in the 1986 film Top Gun.
1961 Elvis Presley records "Little Sister."
1965 The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" goes to #1 on the Hot 100. It's the only song written by Bob Dylan ever to top that chart.
1965 On this date, Johnny Rivers moved from #15 to #10 on the charts with "Seventh Son".
1973 1973 Gretchen Wilson, American country music singer (Redneck Woman), was born in Pocahontas, Illinois (THIS MAY BE MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO)
1974 Bad Company released their debut album
1976 Peter Frampton releases "Baby, I Love Your Way."
1981 Foreigner released their soon to be next hit song “Urgent”
(TO BE CONTINUED......SEE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE)
