Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Saturday….June 13th……..Today is Cupcake Lovers Day…..My SIL is top in my family in that Department…..She can decorate a cupcake so good that you don’t want to bite into it….But once you do, yum….yum….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 Golfer James R. Gabrielsen……….
James R. Gabrielsen was born in St. Peter, Minnesoata, on October 28, 1941……..While attending the University of Georgia, Gabrielsen was selected as an All-American (1963) and his teams took three consecutive SEC Championships…He was a quarterfinalist in the 1962 U.S. Amateur………His exceptional amateur career gained him three Georgia Amateur titles, the Atlanta Amateur Championship, and he was runner-up in the 1974 British Amateur………Gabrielsen also competed in three Masters Tournaments……..He was a member of the 1971 Walker Cup team, a non-playing captain of the 1981 and ‘91 Walker Cup teams, and the general chairman of the 1989 Walker Cup Match in Atlanta……..He was a member of the USGA Executive Committee and is a former GSGA Director…….Gabrielsen served as president of Atlanta’s Peachtree Golf Club from 1987-89………
Gabrielsen was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 1990…….He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1993……James R. Gabrielsen, 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)
1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit
1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1854 Anthony Faas patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (11,062)
1865 President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states
1866 US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, British Columbia
1888 US Congress creates Department of Labor
1895 Emile Levassor wins the first automobile race in history the Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, taking 48 hours and 48 minutes (1,178 km)
1896 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Harry Vardon of Jersey wins first of 6 Open titles by 4 strokes in a 36-hole playoff with defending champion J.H. Taylor
1898 Yukon Territory of Canada established, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night
1903 Harold "Red" Grange, American "Galloping Ghost" of football (University of Illinois, Chicago Bears), born in Forksville, Pennsylvania
1907 Lowest temperature ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack, California
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia
1912 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
1917 World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children with 432 injuries
1920 US Post Office says children cannot not be sent by parcel post (after various instances)
1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops
1925 American William DeHart Hubbard sets men's long jump world record at 7.89m (25 ft 10 3⁄4 in) in Chicago, Illinois
1925 Charles Jenkins demonstrates the transmission of synchronized pictures and sound (early television)
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady, NY)
1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering
1935 James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1940 Bobby Freeman, known for the 1958 hit "Do You Want To Dance," is born in Northern California.
1940 Paris evacuates before German advance
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942 Germany lands 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed
1942 The United States opens its Office of War Information, with Elmer Davis as head
1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) flying bomb (doodle-bugs) attacks
1945 Pacific Theater: Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead
1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1949 Dennis Locorriere (lead vocalist and guitarist for Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) is born in Union City, New Jersey.
1951 Howard Leese (guitarist for Heart) is born in Hollywood, California.
1952 Soviet fighters shoot Swedish Dakota down over East Sea, kills 8
1953 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Ben Hogan wins a record-tying 4th US Open title, 6 strokes ahead of runner-up Sam Snead
1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine laid in Bronx
1956 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt
1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1959 "Sammy Kaye Show" last airs on ABC-TV
1962 Norway named ombudsman
1962 Rick Nelson records "It's Up To You."
1963 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut
1965 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses & Fiddler on the Roof win
1965 Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai ends in a Viet Cong victory
1966 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st African American Supreme Court justice
1967 Colin Hay, 14 years old, arrives in Australia with his family, who have left Scotland for better opportunity. He forms the band Men at Work, which becomes one of the most popular acts in the country
1969 At a press conference in London, Mick Taylor is introduced as the new guitarist of The Rolling Stones, replacing founding member Brian Jones.
1970 Bread release the soft rock classic "Make It With You."
1970 "In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry hits #1 in the UK
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: Kathy Whitworth wins by 4 strokes from Kathy Ahern
1971 "The New York Times" begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam
1972 Clyde McPhatter, American R&B singer (Drifters-Lovers Question), dies at age 39
1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8½ years (LA Dodgers)
1974 Henry Aaron addresses House of Representatives
1974 IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices
1976 Inge Helten runs female European record 100m (11.04)
1977 Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured
1978 Film "Grease" opens, starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, based on the 1971 musical
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1980 The film Roadie, starring Meat Loaf as, yep, a roadie, opens in theaters. It also stars Debbie Harry
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 Teenager fires 6 blank rounds at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Jan Stephenson of Australia wins by 2 strokes from JoAnne Carner
1983 NASA's Pioneer 10 becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the solar system
1985 "Prizzi's Honor", starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, and Anjelica Huston, is released
1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1986 Big band leader Benny Goodman dies at age 77.
1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer
1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
1989 Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian)
1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1990 Nelson and Winnie Mandela welcomed in NYC
1991 A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament
1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)
1991 The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication
1993 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Patty Sheehan wins her 4th major title by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Lauri Merten
1993 YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ
1994 Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
1994 Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages
1995 New Jersey Devils beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2 for a 4-2 series win; qualify for their first Stanley Cup Finals Series (beat Detroit Red Wings, 4-0)
1995 "Jagged Little Pill" 3rd studio album by Alanis Morissette is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1996)
1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents
1997 51st NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz 4, games to 2
1997 Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death
1997 American fugitive Ira Einhorn is arrested in France for the murder of Holly Maddux after 16 years on the run, though he would not return for another four years
2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
2000 Samuel L. Jackson is honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2001 35th TNN & CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill & Alan Jackson are the big winners
2002 The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
2002 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat Carolina Hurricanes, 3-1 for a 4-1 series win; Red Wings' 10th title; coach Scotty Bowman retires with record 9th title
2005 A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch
2006 The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation
2008 "Viva la Vida" single released by Coldplay, - their 1st US No. 1, (Grammy Song of the Year)
2010 64th Tony Awards: Memphis & Red win
2010 Country music singer Jimmy Dean dies while watching television at age 81 in Varina, Virginia.
2012 San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise's history against the Houston Astros
2012 "The Amazing Spider-Man" directed by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone premieres at the Tokyo Film Festival
2014 Stanley Cup Final, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: LA Kings edge New York Rangers, 3-2 in double OT for a 4-1 series win; second Championship in LA franchise history
2015 Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2017 Warriors win 2nd NBA title in 3 years over the Cavaliers (129-12
2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians
2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,
2018 Roger Connor, American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (career HR record 138 stood for 23 years), dies of a stomach illness at 73
2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal
2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2018 Raccoon climbs 23 story office building in St Paul, Minnesota, becoming an internet sensation
2018 FIFA Congress votes to award 2026 World Cup to joint bid by US, Canada & Mexico
2018 Drummer D.J. Fontana, known for his work with Elvis Presley, dies at 87.
2019 President Donald Trump announces Sarah Sanders will be leaving her position as White House Press Secretary
2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran is responsible for recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman
2019 Kenyan MP Rashid Kassim arrested for slapping female MP Fatuma Gedi, following a walk out of parliament by female MPs after claiming male MPs joked "its slapping day"
2019 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC , older than Stonehenge
2019 NBA Finals: Toronto Raptors beat defending champion Golden State Warriors, 114-110 to win franchise's first Championship; last game at Oracle Arena, Oakland; Kawhi Leonard MVP
******(to be continued…….see follow-up response page)******
