Good morning to all you truly good yet deplorable Dawgs…….. Monday Morning again…….I’m ready for some football news…..a big commitment or two will do….a couple of 5 stars….lol……Enjoy Today’s Rumblings and take care……
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 Linebacker Tommy Lawhorne……
University of Georgia linebacker Thomas Lawhorne played a key role on a Bulldogs defense that allowed just 10.8 points per game in 1967, ranking No. 11 in the country.
Compiling a 97.7 GPA in chemistry, he was a two-time Academic All-SEC selection and UGA’s valedictorian in 1968…….A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lawhorne served as senior class president and a member of the Governor’s Youth Council.
Tommy Lawhorne played high school football in Worth County, Sylvester, Georgia where he was an All-State Honorable Mention QB…he also played basketball, baseball, and track…he started his UGA football career as an end, then switched to another position, and finally settled in as a linebacker…was an All-SEC LBer as a sophomore as well as a two time Academic All-SEC LBer…..He started on the 1966 SEC Champion team that finished 10-1 after a 24-9 win against SMU in the Cotton Bowl. ………majored in chemistry…graduated number one in the UGA Class of 1968 earning the honor of Class Valedictorian…
He received an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and attended John Hopkins University School of Medicine where he graduated in 1972… In 2001, Lawhorne received the Bill Hartman Award, the highest honor a Georgia student-athlete can attain……..He also received the Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award from the University of Georgia Chapter of the National Football Foundation….He is highly and widely respected specializing in vascular surgery in Columbus, Georgia…the academic side of Dr. Thomas Lawhorne always came easier than his athletic side, but he was a competitor in both, and excelled both in the classroom and on the football field…Dr. Thomas Lawhorne, 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)
1787 Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding
1842 Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague
1844 - The gasoline engine was patented by Stuart Perry.
1844 1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1861 John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ
1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1919 Casey Stengel releases a sparrow from under his baseball cap
1921 Kitty Kallen is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known for her 1954 #1 hit single "Little Things Mean A Lot."
1925 John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.
1927 Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford
1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1935 Babe Ruth hits last home run (he actually hit 3 home runs un his final game)
1935 Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Remembered as "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport".
1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
1941 Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for 1st time in 1941
1943 Country singer Jessi Colter is born Miriam Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona. Known for her collaborations with husband Waylon Jennings.
1947 Doo-wop singer Mitch Margo (of The Tokens) is born
1948 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Norwood Hills CC: Ben Hogan scores a convincing 7 & 6 win over Mike Turnesa in the Tuesday final for his 2nd PGA crown
1950 Brooklyn Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
1953 1st atomic cannon electronically fired at Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1953 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
1959 US Supreme Court rules Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
1962 The West Side Story soundtrack LP goes to #1 in the US, where it stays for a record 54 (non-consecutive) weeks. The album won two Grammy Awards and was the best-selling album of the 1960s, certifying three times platinum by the RIAA.
1964 16th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore are the big winners
1964 US Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch
1966 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
1967 John Lennon's psychedelic Rolls Royce is delivered
1968 Gateway Arch in St Louis dedicated
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1969 "Midnight Cowboy" directed by John Schlesinger and starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1970). It was the only x-rated film to win a best picture Oscar……
1969 The Hollies record "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" ????????
1970 3rd ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars, 4 games to 2
1973 George Harrison releases "Give Me Love"
1973 US launches 1st Skylab crew
1975 29th NBA Championship: Golden Warriors sweep Wash Bullets in 4 games
1975 Grizzly bear is classified as a “threatened” species
1975 Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins in 2:54:55.064 (240.135 km/h)
1977 "Brady Bunch Hour" last airs on ABC-TV
1977 Original "Star Wars" movie (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas and starring Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford first released
1978 Stanley Cup Final, Boston Garden, Boston, MA: 3-peat for Montreal Canadiens; beat Boston Bruins, 4-1 as Mario Tremblay scores twice; 4-2 series victory
1978 The nations first legal casino outside of Nevada opens in the resort town of Atlantic City NJ for dice rollers and card players.
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground
1979 Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
1979 "Alien", directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver is released
1980 Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
1980 Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins in 3:29:59.572 (229.914 km/h)
1981 Bobby Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to play 3,000 baseball games (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)
1981 Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours
1981 Rangers' Bill Stein sets AL record with 7 consecutive pinch hits
1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars part VI), produced by George Lucas first released
1983 1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1983 Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs
1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11,000 killed
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed
1986 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY
1986 KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected President in the Soviet Union
1989 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4-2 to win series 4 games to 2; Flames' first SC title
1991 Stanley Cup Final, Metropolitan Sports Center, Bloomington, MN: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Stars, 8-0 for a 4-2 series win; Penguins' first Final series appearance
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "The Tonight Show"
1994 Pennsylvania man buried with his beloved Corvette
1996 - In Nimes, France, Christina Sanchez became the first woman to achieve the rank of matadore in Europe.
1997 Minnesota Twins retire Kirby Puckett's uniform #
1997 - U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history (41 years and 10 months)
1997 Todd and Mel Stottlemyre become 1st MLB father and son to win 100 games
1999 - A report by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China concluded that China had "stolen design information on the U.S. most-advanced thermonuclear weapons" and that China's penetration of U.S. weapons laboratories "spans at least the past several decades and almost certainly continues today."
2000 - The Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc. signed a long-term deal that ended a dispute over the airing policies of Time Warner
2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
2002 A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people
2003 Indianapolis 500: Gil de Ferran wins in 3:11:56.989 (251.526 km/h)
2005 Carrie Underwood wins Season 4 of American Idol and becomes their most successful alum: Her debut album goes on to sell over 7 million copies.
2005 The longest oil pipeline in the world opened
2006 - In Houston, former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skillinng were convicted of conspiracy and fraud for the downfall of Enron
2008 - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander landed in the arctic plains of Mars
2008 Indianapolis 500: Scott Dixon wins in 3:28:57.6792 (231.049 km/h)
2008 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Oak Hill CC: Jay Haas wins his second title in the event by 1 stroke from Germany’s Bernhard Langer
2009 North Korea conducts its second nuclear test while also conducting several missile tests
2009 Thailand’s economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter of 2009, contracting the most in a decade and plunging the nation into recession
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show
2011 46th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Brad Paisley are the big winners
2012 A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station
2013 Yuichiro Miura of Japan becomes the oldest person to climb Mount Everest at 80
2014 Indianapolis 500: Ryan Hunter-Reay wins in 2:40:48.2305 (300.244 km/h)
2014 Senior PGA Championship Men's Golf, GC at Shore Harbor: Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins first of 3 Champions Tour majors by 4 strokes from Tom Watson
2017 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004
2017 "Wonder Woman" directed by Patty Jenkins, starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine premieres in Los Angeles - 1st superhero film directed by a woman
2018 Harvey Weinstein turns himself in to New York police to face charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct
2019 First ever albino panda footage in the wild released (taken in April) from China's Wolong National Nature Reserve
SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:
Jimmie Rodgers, legendary country singer
Pam Morrison, wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
Victor "Vic" Tayback, American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice”)
Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock
Jay Hebert, American golfer (PGA Championship 1960)
Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian and gameshow panelist (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
Bill Mallory, College Football coach (Miami, Colorado, Northern Illinois, Indiana
LaSalle Leffall Jr., American surgeon, medical educator, and 1st black president of the American Cancer Society (1978), and the American College of Surgeons (1995)
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn),
Igor Sikorsky, Aircraft designer, who successfully developed the helicopter, was born in Kiev, Ukraine, Russian Empire.
Gene Tunney, American boxer, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
Lindsey Nelson, American sportscaster (NY Mets)
Hal David, American lyricist (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head)
Claude Akins, American character actor (B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Movin' On)
Bill Sharman, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics)
K. C. Jones, American basketball point guard (Olympic gold 1956; NBA champion 1959–66, Boston Celtics) and coach (NBA C'ship 1984, 86; Boston Celtics
Cookie Gilchrist, American football fullback (AFL All Star 1962-65; AFL MVP 1962; CFL All Star 1956-60
Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
Brian Urlacher, American football player
Sir Ian McKellen, English film and theatre actor (Lord of the Rings, X-Men)
Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings’ widow, American country music singer (I'm Not Lisa)
Frank Oz, American muppetteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show
Bob Payton, American pizza magnate (The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory),
Connie Selleca, American actress (Hotel, Capt America II),
Amy Klobuchar, American politician (D), senator for Minnesota (2007-)
TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:
Obvious choice today…….did you catch it?
2018 Harvey Weinstein turns himself in to New York police to face charges of rape, a criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct….
If that old SOB was guilty of having sex with half the women he was associated with, my gracious then, he’s up there with Warren Beatty, Tom Jones, and Mick Jagger status……To hell with him…….He did the crime, I’m sure he enjoyed it……now let him do the time and enjoy it……Sex is supposed to be a two way adventure, not intended to satisfy just one of the participants who used leverage in the “shenanigans”……
Step up on the podium Harvey Weinstein………With your women looking down on you, I crown you @$$Hole of the Day, the price you pay for the women you lay…… One more thing Harvey, you can KMA……
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........
