GOOD MORNING
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Saturday….June 27th……..Today is National Onion Day……One of Mother Nature’s Greatest Gifts to Mankind is the Onion, with emphasis on the Vidalia Onion…..Man, I do love onions….Double onions on burgers, dogs, black eyed peas, Liver & onion & gravy for me….Wrap one up in aluminum foil with some butter, throw it in the oven…..Baked Onion rather than Baked Potato......Yum, Yum….Today is also National Ice Cream Cake Day…..An Eskimo Pie will suffice…..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 Receiver Harry Babcock………..
Football Letterman 1950, 1951, and 1952
Baseball Letterman 1951 and 1952
All-American in Football 1952
Earned All-SEC honors in Football 1951 and 1952
Earned All-SEC honors in Baseball 1952
led the SEC in receptions in 1951
had 80 career receptions at UGA between 1950-52
finished his UGA career with 1,199 receiving yards
First Southern Player invited to play in the Hula Bowl '53
Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1st round of the '53 draft (first player overall selected in the 1953 Draft)
Played with 49ers from '53 to '55
was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1992
He passed away in 1996.
Harry Babcock………a DGD………..May he RIP………….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire
1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1693 1st women's magazine…… "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1829 English scientist James Smithson establishes the Smithsonian Institution
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
1847 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
1867 Bank of California opens doors
1871 The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin "Nunc" Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England
1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)
1898 Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip.
1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal heavyweight boxing title
1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1918 Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1924 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: American Walter Hagen wins his 2nd Open Championships, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ernest Whitcombe
1924 Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
1929 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI
1931 Ryder Cup Golf, Scioto CC: Walter Hagen captains his 2nd victorious American team; US wins, 9-3
1933 Ryder Cup Golf, Southport & Ainsdale GC: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½; GB's last Cup victory until 1957
1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1939 one of the most famous scenes in movie history is filmed: Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara parting in Gone with the Wind. Director Victor Fleming also shot the scene using the alternate line, “Frankly, my dear, I just don’t care,” in case the film censors objected to the word “damn.” The censors approved the movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including the curse.
1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Bees, 2-2 in 23 innings; called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1940 Germans employ Enigma coding machine for the first time
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1954 The world's first nuclear power plant is activated (Russia)
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1955 "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 The film Moby Dick is premiered
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1958 - NBC's "Matinee Theatre" was seen for the final time.
1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1958 8th Berlin International Film Festival: "Wild Strawberries" wins Golden Bear
1959 US Open Women's Golf, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright successfully defends her Open title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs
1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1959 Lorrie Morgan, American country singer (Out of Your Shoes), was born in Nashville, Tennessee
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1963 Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London
1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
1971 US Open Women's Golf, Kahwa GC: JoAnne Carner wins by 7 strokes from Kathy Whitworth
1971 Bill Graham's New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco
1972 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
1973 "Live & Let Die", 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US
1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1974 "Flip Wilson Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1975 25th Berlin International Film Festival: "Adoption" wins the Golden Bear
1976 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda; later in 1976, Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
1976 Ebola breaks out in Sudan
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
1980 US revives draft registration
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1982 STS-4, 4th NASA Space Shuttle mission, launches
1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro
1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
1984 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 First hotel strike in New York City
1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.
1985 : The Supreme Court invalidated a Connecticut law stating that workers had the right not to work on their chosen religious day off. This was done in an effort to make sure that the government remains neutral regarding the subject of religion.
1986 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break
1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 "The Living Daylights", 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres
1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets
1991 - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court. He had been appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.
1992 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia defeats #1 seed Jim Courier 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the 3rd round at Wimbledon
1992 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
1993 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Jim Colbert wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Raymond Floyd
1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton
1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1994 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
1995 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
1998 - An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
1999 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, DuPont CC: Juli Inkster shoots final round 65 to win by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Liselotte Neumann; completes career grand slam
1999 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Hale Irwin wins his 5th of 7 Champions Tour major titles by 7 strokes from Australian Graham Marsh
2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2001 NBA Draft: Glynn Academy (Brunswick, GA) center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards
2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports
2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 "Bad Day" single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)
2005 - In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2007 Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2010 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: American Christie Kerr takes her second major title with a 12 stroke win over Song-Hee Kim of South Korea
2011 : Former governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on seventeen of twenty corruption charges after being accused of trying to sell the senate seat that was held by President Obama.
2011 The Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
2012 After mediation with creditors fails, the city of Stockton, California becomes the largest city in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy
2013 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
2014 NHL Coyotes franchise changes geographic name from "Phoenix" to "Arizona" after change of ownership
2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
2017 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users
2017 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices
2017 Tennis star Serena Williams poses pregnant and nude for the cover of "Vanity Fair"
2017 Colombia's rebel group FARC officially end armed existence after 52 years in ceremony with President Juan Manuel Santos in Mesetas
2017 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize
2017 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries
2018 US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces he will retire 31st July
2018 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu
2018 French government intoduces plan to bring back national service for 16 year-olds
2018 Democrat Representative Joseph Crowley is defeated in New York Primary election by liberal challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2018 Complex carbon-based molecules found by Cassini spacecraft on Saturn moon Enceladus, previously only ever found on earth and meteorites in research published in "Nature"
2019 Chief Apple designer Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years
2019 US Supreme Court rules 2020 census cannot contain a question about citizenship in a 5-4 ruling
2019 US Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn't prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1942 Bruce Johnston (of The Beach Boys) is born Benjamin Baldwin in Peoria, Illinois. He is adopted by William and Irene Johnston and grows up in Los Angeles.
1956 At Master Recorders in Hollywood, Fats Domino records "Blueberry Hill," a song popularized by Gene Autry in 1940. Domino's version, with his famous piano intro, becomes his biggest hit and the definitive version of the song.
1960 Connie Francis becomes the first solo female act with a Hot 100 #1 hit when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" tops the chart.
1964 - Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was released.
1970 Three Dog Night on June 27th, 1970, had the #2 song in America, "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"….In two weeks, it would become the #1 hit song in America…..
1974 Bill Withers, on June 27, 1974, had the #4 song in America, “Lean on Me” and it was headed in the right direction……In one more week it would be the #1 hit song in America…….
1975 Fandango becomes ZZ Top's second gold album.
1978 On June 27th, 1978, the #2 song in America was Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty…….It was a hard luck song as it held down the #2 spot for 6 consecutive weeks, but never made it to #1……..
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1989 Tom Jones gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1989 The B-52s release Cosmic Thing, their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson.
2002 John Entwistle (age 57), bassist for The Who, dies in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, from a heart attack triggered by cocaine use…..
(TO BE CONTINUED.......SEE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE)
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Saturday….June 27th……..Today is National Onion Day……One of Mother Nature’s Greatest Gifts to Mankind is the Onion, with emphasis on the Vidalia Onion…..Man, I do love onions….Double onions on burgers, dogs, black eyed peas, Liver & onion & gravy for me….Wrap one up in aluminum foil with some butter, throw it in the oven…..Baked Onion rather than Baked Potato......Yum, Yum….Today is also National Ice Cream Cake Day…..An Eskimo Pie will suffice…..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 Receiver Harry Babcock………..
Football Letterman 1950, 1951, and 1952
Baseball Letterman 1951 and 1952
All-American in Football 1952
Earned All-SEC honors in Football 1951 and 1952
Earned All-SEC honors in Baseball 1952
led the SEC in receptions in 1951
had 80 career receptions at UGA between 1950-52
finished his UGA career with 1,199 receiving yards
First Southern Player invited to play in the Hula Bowl '53
Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1st round of the '53 draft (first player overall selected in the 1953 Draft)
Played with 49ers from '53 to '55
was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1992
He passed away in 1996.
Harry Babcock………a DGD………..May he RIP………….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sets sail from the Mexican port of Navidad to explore the west coast of North America on behalf of the Spanish Empire
1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1693 1st women's magazine…… "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1829 English scientist James Smithson establishes the Smithsonian Institution
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut
1847 New York & Boston linked by telegraph wires
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia
1867 Bank of California opens doors
1871 The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as US presidential candidate
1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black world champion when he stops English bantamweight champion Edwin "Nunc" Wallace in 18 rounds in London, England
1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out from Boston to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes journey September 1895)
1898 Joshua Slocum became the first person to successfully circumnavigate the earth alone when he landed his sloop Spray in Newport, R.I., a 46,000-mile trip.
1914 Defending champion Jack Johnson beats fellow American Frank Moran on points in 20 rounds in Paris, France to retain his lineal heavyweight boxing title
1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)
1918 Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1924 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: American Walter Hagen wins his 2nd Open Championships, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ernest Whitcombe
1924 Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.
1927 The U.S. Marines adopt the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
1929 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI
1931 Ryder Cup Golf, Scioto CC: Walter Hagen captains his 2nd victorious American team; US wins, 9-3
1933 Ryder Cup Golf, Southport & Ainsdale GC: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½; GB's last Cup victory until 1957
1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1939 one of the most famous scenes in movie history is filmed: Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara parting in Gone with the Wind. Director Victor Fleming also shot the scene using the alternate line, “Frankly, my dear, I just don’t care,” in case the film censors objected to the word “damn.” The censors approved the movie but fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 for including the curse.
1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Bees, 2-2 in 23 innings; called on account of darkness after 5 hours 15 minutes
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1940 Germans employ Enigma coding machine for the first time
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers" debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1954 The world's first nuclear power plant is activated (Russia)
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1955 "Julius LaRosa Show" debuts on CBS-TV
1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 The film Moby Dick is premiered
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1957 The British Medical Research Council publishes a report suggesting a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1958 - NBC's "Matinee Theatre" was seen for the final time.
1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1958 8th Berlin International Film Festival: "Wild Strawberries" wins Golden Bear
1959 US Open Women's Golf, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright successfully defends her Open title by 2 strokes from Louise Suggs
1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1959 Lorrie Morgan, American country singer (Out of Your Shoes), was born in Nashville, Tennessee
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1963 Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1966 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London
1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police. This incident is considered to be the birth of the homosexual rights movement.
1971 US Open Women's Golf, Kahwa GC: JoAnne Carner wins by 7 strokes from Kathy Whitworth
1971 Bill Graham's New York rock venue Fillmore East closes down, to be succeeded by Fillmore West in San Francisco
1972 Legendary video game and home computer Atari, Inc. founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Sunnyvale, California
1973 "Live & Let Die", 8th James Bond Film, 1st to star Roger Moore, also starring Jane Seymour, 1st released in the US
1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1974 "Flip Wilson Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1975 25th Berlin International Film Festival: "Adoption" wins the Golden Bear
1976 Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda; later in 1976, Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda; four hijackers members Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany
1976 Ebola breaks out in Sudan
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
1980 US revives draft registration
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1982 STS-4, 4th NASA Space Shuttle mission, launches
1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro
1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
1984 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 First hotel strike in New York City
1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified, the victim of the Interstate Highway System.
1985 : The Supreme Court invalidated a Connecticut law stating that workers had the right not to work on their chosen religious day off. This was done in an effort to make sure that the government remains neutral regarding the subject of religion.
1986 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break
1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 "The Living Daylights", 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres
1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 NBA Draft: Syracuse power forward Derrick Coleman first pick by New Jersey Nets
1991 - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court. He had been appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.
1992 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia defeats #1 seed Jim Courier 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the 3rd round at Wimbledon
1992 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
1993 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Jim Colbert wins his lone career major title by 1 stroke from Raymond Floyd
1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton
1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1994 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
1995 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
1998 - An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
1999 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, DuPont CC: Juli Inkster shoots final round 65 to win by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Liselotte Neumann; completes career grand slam
1999 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, TPC of Michigan: Hale Irwin wins his 5th of 7 Champions Tour major titles by 7 strokes from Australian Graham Marsh
2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2001 NBA Draft: Glynn Academy (Brunswick, GA) center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards
2002 - In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission required companies with annual sales of more than $1.2 billion to submit sworn statements backing up the accuracy of their financial reports
2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 "Bad Day" single is released by Daniel Powter, 1st song to sell 2 million digital copies in the US (Billboard Song of the Year 2006)
2005 - In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2007 Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2010 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: American Christie Kerr takes her second major title with a 12 stroke win over Song-Hee Kim of South Korea
2011 : Former governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on seventeen of twenty corruption charges after being accused of trying to sell the senate seat that was held by President Obama.
2011 The Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
2012 After mediation with creditors fails, the city of Stockton, California becomes the largest city in the U.S. to declare bankruptcy
2013 NBA Draft: UNLV power forward Anthony Bennett first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
2014 NHL Coyotes franchise changes geographic name from "Phoenix" to "Arizona" after change of ownership
2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
2017 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users
2017 European Union fines Google record $2.7 billion for unfair competition practices
2017 Tennis star Serena Williams poses pregnant and nude for the cover of "Vanity Fair"
2017 Colombia's rebel group FARC officially end armed existence after 52 years in ceremony with President Juan Manuel Santos in Mesetas
2017 African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina wins the World Food Prize
2017 Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries
2018 US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announces he will retire 31st July
2018 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 arrives at diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu
2018 French government intoduces plan to bring back national service for 16 year-olds
2018 Democrat Representative Joseph Crowley is defeated in New York Primary election by liberal challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2018 Complex carbon-based molecules found by Cassini spacecraft on Saturn moon Enceladus, previously only ever found on earth and meteorites in research published in "Nature"
2019 Chief Apple designer Jony Ive, designer of the iMac and the iPhone, announces he is leaving Apple after 30 years
2019 US Supreme Court rules 2020 census cannot contain a question about citizenship in a 5-4 ruling
2019 US Supreme Court rules the Constitution doesn't prohibit partisan gerrymandering, allowing a ruling party to redraw electoral boundaries
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1942 Bruce Johnston (of The Beach Boys) is born Benjamin Baldwin in Peoria, Illinois. He is adopted by William and Irene Johnston and grows up in Los Angeles.
1956 At Master Recorders in Hollywood, Fats Domino records "Blueberry Hill," a song popularized by Gene Autry in 1940. Domino's version, with his famous piano intro, becomes his biggest hit and the definitive version of the song.
1960 Connie Francis becomes the first solo female act with a Hot 100 #1 hit when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" tops the chart.
1964 - Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was released.
1970 Three Dog Night on June 27th, 1970, had the #2 song in America, "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)"….In two weeks, it would become the #1 hit song in America…..
1974 Bill Withers, on June 27, 1974, had the #4 song in America, “Lean on Me” and it was headed in the right direction……In one more week it would be the #1 hit song in America…….
1975 Fandango becomes ZZ Top's second gold album.
1978 On June 27th, 1978, the #2 song in America was Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty…….It was a hard luck song as it held down the #2 spot for 6 consecutive weeks, but never made it to #1……..
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1989 Tom Jones gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1989 The B-52s release Cosmic Thing, their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson.
2002 John Entwistle (age 57), bassist for The Who, dies in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, from a heart attack triggered by cocaine use…..
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