Post of the Day Reclayhound's Sunday Morning Ramblings..........Enjoy............

[redclayhound]

Good morning to all you good hearted, yet Deplorable Dawgs…..Sunday ….June 7th…….. Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day…..A Wendys Frostie will do…..More importantly, today is also National Cancer Survivor’s Day, a day of celebration for some…..a day to prove that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality……After three major surgeries, and forty chemo/radiation treatments, my bride is cancer free for the third time…..She’s a trooper…..Have a good day 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 Tim Simpson………

Atlanta native Tim Simpson attended high school at Woodward Academy where he was the Atlanta Junior Champion, Georgia Junior Champion and Westlake National Junior Champion…….He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and was a member of the golf team, where he was 1st team All-SEC as a freshman…….He won the 1976 Southern Amateur tournament….. He left college early and turned professional at age 20……

His Pro career (1977-1991) resulted in 9 wins and 66 Top 10 PGA finishes…..Simpson's PGA Tour career was brought to a sudden end due to his contracting Lyme disease on a hunting trip in 1991, and the neurological pathological condition resulting from it……He has had brain surgery and spinal fusion surgery…….In his late thirties and forties, his health improved enough to allow him to play some on the Nationwide Tour where he’s had a couple of 2nd place finishes…….

During his career Simpson was called one of the greatest ball strikers in the games history by golfing greats Butch Harmon, Jack Nicklaus, and Johnny Miller……Early in his career, he was mentored by long-time friends, Sam Snead and J. C. Snead……

Simpson was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2006…..He began play on the Champions Tour in 2006……He home is now in Greensboro, Georgia…….Tim Simpson, 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)

1665 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded

1665 Great Plague of London

1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass, State of Kentucky

1775 The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.

1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence

1800 David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba

1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada

1862 Union General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint……Confederate consider Mumford a hero…..Construct Grave Monument in his honor.

1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade

1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt

1863 Mexico City captured by French troops

1864 Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by the Republican Party

1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec

1875 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded

1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington, D.C.

1892 J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.

1892 John J. Doyle of Cleveland Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game

1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins

1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago

1900 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Englishman J.H. Taylor wins title for 3rd time; beats runner-up Harry Vardon by 8 strokes

1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches

1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane

1913 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America's highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens

1916 Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes

1917 Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world

1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state

1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1932 Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2

1936 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest game without a strikeout

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution

1937 The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.

1937 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session

1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"

1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)

1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its 1st test flight

1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA

1939 Cleveland Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to NY Yankees

1940 Tom Jones is born Thomas John Woodward in the village of Treforest in Glamorgan, Wales.



1941 US Open Men's Golf, Colonial CC, Fort Worth: In sweltering heat, Craig Wood wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Denny Shute

1941 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Whirlaway to claim first of 2 Triple Crowns

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan

1944 Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants

1946 US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color (Boston Massachusetts)

1953 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants

1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

1955 "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV

1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

1955 Joey Scarbury is born in Ontario, California. Known for the 1981 hit "Believe It or Not," the theme from the popular TV series The Greatest American Hero.



1962 Gene Pitney’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” was enjoying a five week stay in the US Billboard Hot 100 song list……



1962 Switzerland welcomes first drive-through bank

1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"

1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits

1965 Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995

1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples

1966 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1

1966 Ronald Reagan nominated for governor of California

1967 NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of US Senator Bobby Kennedy

1968 The body of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

1969 "Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV.......here is Johnny, Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton on one of the shows.......



1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

1968 Legoland Billund opend in Billund, Denmark. It was the original Legoland park.

1969 Tommy James and the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"



1969 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1

1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire win

1970 American jockey Bill Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 career win

1970 The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center



1971 Don McLean records "Vincent."



1972 Musical "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for first of 3,388 performances

1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1

1974 Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1

1975 Elton John's Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, with the hit "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," becomes the first album to debut at #1 in the US. It holds the top spot for seven (non-consecutive) weeks.



1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public

1976 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres

1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1

1978 32nd NBA Championship: Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3

1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature

1979 Rock n' roll musician Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion

1980 “Against The Wind” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band is #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Song Chart and stays sokid in the Top Ten for two months



1980 Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)

1980 Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter

1980 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert retains title; beats Virginia Ruzici of Romania 6-0, 6-3 for her 10th Grand Slam singles crown

1981 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" & "42nd Street" win

1981 Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility

1981 French Open Men's Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins 11th and final career Grand Slam title; Open era record 6th French title; beats Ivan Lendl 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1

1982 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell was the big winner



1982 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games

1982 Graceland—Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977—was opened for public tours and became one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.

1982 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers

1983 Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out

1984 The film Ghostbusters is released. Its theme song bears similarities to Huey Lewis's "I Want a New Drug." Ghostbusters theme writer Ray Parker, Jr. and Huey settle out of court.



1986 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1

1986 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 for her 18th and final Grand Slam title and record 7th French singles crown

1987 41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win

1987 French Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl retains title; beats Mats Wilander of Sweden 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6

1989 Atlanta Fulton County Commission approves $210M stadium for the Falcons

1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89

1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years

1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time

1992 NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) launches

1992 French Open Men's Tennis: American Jim Courier retains title; beats Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia 7-5, 6-2, 6-1

1993 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Vince Gill are the big winners

1993 Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1993 Singer Prince celebrates his birthday by changing his name to a symbol

1994 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane/Starship is sentenced to 200 hours of community service on charges of pointing a loaded gun at police who responded to reports of a disturbance at her home on March 5th.

1994 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base

1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines

1997 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings edge Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 for a 4-0 series sweep; 8th title in Wings' franchise history and first since 1955

1997 French Open Women's Tennis: Iva Majoli of Croatia wins her 1st and only career Grand Slam singles title; upsets world #1 Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2

1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime

1998 52nd Tony Awards: "The Lion King" and '"Art" win

2000 U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation

2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the UK General Election

2001 BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004

2004 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary Flames, 2-1 for 4-3 series win; Tampa Bay's 1st-ever appearance in final

2004 "Live Like You Were Dying" single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song 2004, Billboard Song of the Year 2004)

2004 AC/DC's Back in Black album goes Double Diamond, becoming just the sixth album with RIAA-certified sales of over 20 million in America.



2009 63rd Tony Awards: "Billy Elliot the Musical" and "God of Carnage" win

2009 French Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins his only French title, outclassing Robin Söderling of Sweden 6-1, 7-6, 6-4

2010 MLB Draft: Southern Nevada outfielder Bryce Harper first pick by Washington Nationals

2014 In Arlington, TX, about 105,000 people attended George Strait's final concert at AT&T stadium. The show set a record for the largest crowd for an indoor concert in North American history

2015 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and "Fun Home" win 5 awards

2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"

2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering

2018 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Washington Capitals beat Las Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 for a 4-1 series victory; first title in franchise history

2019 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN

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[redclayhound]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54

1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 60

1990 Barbara Baxley, American actress and singer (Norma Rae, Countdown), dies at 67 of a heart attack

1992 Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82

1996 Max Factor Jr, American makeup inventor (Max Factor Cosmetics), dies at 91

2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), dies at 86

2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Dracula), dies at 93




SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1843 Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri

1909 Jessica Tandy, British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England

1911 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1913 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C.

1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, Rat Pack member (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), born in Steubenville, Ohio

1933 Herb Score, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Rosedale, New York

1935 Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), born in Alma, Georgia

1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat), born in Pontypridd, Wales

1942 Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, born in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya

1943 Ken Osmond, American actor (Eddie Haskell--Leave It to Beaver), born in Glendale, California



1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher and captain (NY Yankees), born in Akron, Ohio

1949 Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)



1950 Howard Finkel, American pro wrestling ring announcer (WWE Hall of Fame), born in Newark, New Jersey

1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables), born in Ballymena, County Antrim

1955 Joey Scarbury, American singer (Greatest American Hero), born in Ontario, California

1955 William Forsythe, American actor (Raising Arizona, Once Upon a Time in America), born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (Republican: 2017-) and Governor of Indiana (2013-16), born in Columbus, Indiana

1962 Michael Cartellone, American rock drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), born in Solon, Ohio

1971 Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)

1974 Edward "Bear" Grylls, British adventurer, author and TV presenter (Man vs. Wild), born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

1975 Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers)

1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1999, 2002), born in Moscow, Russia

1986 Keegan Bradley, American golfer (PGA C'ship 2011), born in Woodstock, Vermont




TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

I’m going after one not mentioned today, but justly deserving…….Eric Himpton Holder, Jr was the U.S. Attorney General from 2009 to 2015…….Holder was a major player in the Obamagate scandals, prosecuting whistleblowers who leaked information about the Obama administration's illegal activities, and intimidating journalists who attempt to report on them…….

Holder is a far-left activist who does not believe in the Second Amendment and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C…….On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban”…….Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases………

Holder is the only Attorney General in history cited for criminal Contempt of Congress…….Holder called for mob violence in the wake of the failure of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and Kavanaugh smear to uproot American democracy and the Constitution……

While he was a freshman in Columbia University, he was reportedly involved in an armed occupation by various black students of an abandoned ROTC lounge for five days……

Holder claimed that the phrase "Make America Great Again" was somehow "rooted in fear," and he stated that he would "never call [Trump] president”…….During the 2018 Midterm elections while speaking to a group of young Democrat campaign volunteers, Holder encouraged violence against Republicans…..

On August 11, 1999, on Holder's advice, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist group……On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people…..Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people….Holder was criticized for his "unconscionable" efforts to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the Department of Justice's pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies…….Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg were also pardoned who were serving life sentences for the murder of two police officers and a Brinks armored guard in 1981……

In 2009, despite overwhelming evidence towards the voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-Bazz, and Jerry Jackson at a Philadelphia polling office in 2008, they were acquitted with minimal charges by the Department of Justice, then controlled by Eric Holder………Holder, when questioned about his rationale, said he didn't want to prosecute "my people”……(thus implying that he holds bias against white voters and for minorities, and that attempts to bring justice to people who violated the Voting Rights Act is comparable to what happened to Blacks in Charleston during the Civil Rights era)………..

Fast & Furious: Holder (in an attempt to clear himself) claimed he asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious (the gun deal gone bad)…… Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation….. Holder had been Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s……During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together……Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder…….The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement…….

There’s tons of more stuff on Mr. Holder, but by now you get the message…….So Eric Holder, step up on the podium, put on that crown of shame, as I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day, an honor that you deserve 365 days each and every year, you crooked POS……And one other thing Eric, you can KMA……..




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Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

 

[JudgeLarryDawg]

Bravo. Great work, rch. Thank you.

Lots of good stuff, as always. The mention of Sony introducing the first home video recorder reminds me of when I outsmarted myself and bought a Betamax rather than the VCR format. Used to go to rental stores. They would have 3,000 VCR videos for rent and 12 Betamax options.

Mention of saddle shoes introduction also took me to the memory bank. When I was a student at Georgia, everyone, male & female, wore saddle shoes. Wore them everyday. They were called Rah Rahs.

 

[EufaulaDawg]

Great ramblings this AM.
Thanks for your dedicated posts...they are a great way to start the morning.

 

[911DAWG]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54

1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 60

1990 Barbara Baxley, American actress and singer (Norma Rae, Countdown), dies at 67 of a heart attack

1992 Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82

1996 Max Factor Jr, American makeup inventor (Max Factor Cosmetics), dies at 91

2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), dies at 86

2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Dracula), dies at 93




SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1843 Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri

1909 Jessica Tandy, British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England

1911 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1913 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C.

1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, Rat Pack member (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), born in Steubenville, Ohio

1933 Herb Score, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Rosedale, New York

1935 Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), born in Alma, Georgia

1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat), born in Pontypridd, Wales

1942 Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, born in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya

1943 Ken Osmond, American actor (Eddie Haskell--Leave It to Beaver), born in Glendale, California

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1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher and captain (NY Yankees), born in Akron, Ohio

1949 Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)

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1950 Howard Finkel, American pro wrestling ring announcer (WWE Hall of Fame), born in Newark, New Jersey

1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables), born in Ballymena, County Antrim

1955 Joey Scarbury, American singer (Greatest American Hero), born in Ontario, California

1955 William Forsythe, American actor (Raising Arizona, Once Upon a Time in America), born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (Republican: 2017-) and Governor of Indiana (2013-16), born in Columbus, Indiana

1962 Michael Cartellone, American rock drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), born in Solon, Ohio

1971 Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)

1974 Edward "Bear" Grylls, British adventurer, author and TV presenter (Man vs. Wild), born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

1975 Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers)

1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1999, 2002), born in Moscow, Russia

1986 Keegan Bradley, American golfer (PGA C'ship 2011), born in Woodstock, Vermont




TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

I’m going after one not mentioned today, but justly deserving…….Eric Himpton Holder, Jr was the U.S. Attorney General from 2009 to 2015…….Holder was a major player in the Obamagate scandals, prosecuting whistleblowers who leaked information about the Obama administration's illegal activities, and intimidating journalists who attempt to report on them…….

Holder is a far-left activist who does not believe in the Second Amendment and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C…….On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban”…….Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases………

Holder is the only Attorney General in history cited for criminal Contempt of Congress…….Holder called for mob violence in the wake of the failure of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and Kavanaugh smear to uproot American democracy and the Constitution……

While he was a freshman in Columbia University, he was reportedly involved in an armed occupation by various black students of an abandoned ROTC lounge for five days……

Holder claimed that the phrase "Make America Great Again" was somehow "rooted in fear," and he stated that he would "never call [Trump] president”…….During the 2018 Midterm elections while speaking to a group of young Democrat campaign volunteers, Holder encouraged violence against Republicans…..

On August 11, 1999, on Holder's advice, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist group……On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people…..Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people….Holder was criticized for his "unconscionable" efforts to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the Department of Justice's pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies…….Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg were also pardoned who were serving life sentences for the murder of two police officers and a Brinks armored guard in 1981……

In 2009, despite overwhelming evidence towards the voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-Bazz, and Jerry Jackson at a Philadelphia polling office in 2008, they were acquitted with minimal charges by the Department of Justice, then controlled by Eric Holder………Holder, when questioned about his rationale, said he didn't want to prosecute "my people”……(thus implying that he holds bias against white voters and for minorities, and that attempts to bring justice to people who violated the Voting Rights Act is comparable to what happened to Blacks in Charleston during the Civil Rights era)………..

Fast & Furious: Holder (in an attempt to clear himself) claimed he asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious (the gun deal gone bad)…… Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation….. Holder had been Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s……During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together……Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder…….The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement…….

There’s tons of more stuff on Mr. Holder, but by now you get the message…….So Eric Holder, step up on the podium, put on that crown of shame, as I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day, an honor that you deserve 365 days each and every year, you crooked POS……And one other thing Eric, you can KMA……..




**************************************

Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

Time goes by so fast and things change even faster! Thanks RCH for your update and information. As our lives slip by we need remembering. Thank God for you and my thoughts are with you and your wife. Bravo! 65

 

[3 Pete]

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of US Senator Bobby Kennedy

Kennedy was killed by a Palestinian and today his party is pro-arab.

Great call on AOTD.

 

[Vandydog]

Good stuff RCH! Congrats to your bride on being cancer free. Having been down that road myself, it's a great feeling to win that battle.. Eric Hoder deserves 2 Ahole awards.

 

[_Keef_]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54

1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 60

1990 Barbara Baxley, American actress and singer (Norma Rae, Countdown), dies at 67 of a heart attack

1992 Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82

1996 Max Factor Jr, American makeup inventor (Max Factor Cosmetics), dies at 91

2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), dies at 86

2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Dracula), dies at 93




SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1843 Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri

1909 Jessica Tandy, British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England

1911 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1913 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C.

1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, Rat Pack member (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), born in Steubenville, Ohio

1933 Herb Score, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Rosedale, New York

1935 Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), born in Alma, Georgia

1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat), born in Pontypridd, Wales

1942 Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, born in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya

1943 Ken Osmond, American actor (Eddie Haskell--Leave It to Beaver), born in Glendale, California

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1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher and captain (NY Yankees), born in Akron, Ohio

1949 Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)

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1950 Howard Finkel, American pro wrestling ring announcer (WWE Hall of Fame), born in Newark, New Jersey

1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables), born in Ballymena, County Antrim

1955 Joey Scarbury, American singer (Greatest American Hero), born in Ontario, California

1955 William Forsythe, American actor (Raising Arizona, Once Upon a Time in America), born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (Republican: 2017-) and Governor of Indiana (2013-16), born in Columbus, Indiana

1962 Michael Cartellone, American rock drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), born in Solon, Ohio

1971 Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)

1974 Edward "Bear" Grylls, British adventurer, author and TV presenter (Man vs. Wild), born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

1975 Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers)

1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1999, 2002), born in Moscow, Russia

1986 Keegan Bradley, American golfer (PGA C'ship 2011), born in Woodstock, Vermont




TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

I’m going after one not mentioned today, but justly deserving…….Eric Himpton Holder, Jr was the U.S. Attorney General from 2009 to 2015…….Holder was a major player in the Obamagate scandals, prosecuting whistleblowers who leaked information about the Obama administration's illegal activities, and intimidating journalists who attempt to report on them…….

Holder is a far-left activist who does not believe in the Second Amendment and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C…….On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban”…….Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases………

Holder is the only Attorney General in history cited for criminal Contempt of Congress…….Holder called for mob violence in the wake of the failure of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and Kavanaugh smear to uproot American democracy and the Constitution……

While he was a freshman in Columbia University, he was reportedly involved in an armed occupation by various black students of an abandoned ROTC lounge for five days……

Holder claimed that the phrase "Make America Great Again" was somehow "rooted in fear," and he stated that he would "never call [Trump] president”…….During the 2018 Midterm elections while speaking to a group of young Democrat campaign volunteers, Holder encouraged violence against Republicans…..

On August 11, 1999, on Holder's advice, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist group……On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people…..Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people….Holder was criticized for his "unconscionable" efforts to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the Department of Justice's pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies…….Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg were also pardoned who were serving life sentences for the murder of two police officers and a Brinks armored guard in 1981……

In 2009, despite overwhelming evidence towards the voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-Bazz, and Jerry Jackson at a Philadelphia polling office in 2008, they were acquitted with minimal charges by the Department of Justice, then controlled by Eric Holder………Holder, when questioned about his rationale, said he didn't want to prosecute "my people”……(thus implying that he holds bias against white voters and for minorities, and that attempts to bring justice to people who violated the Voting Rights Act is comparable to what happened to Blacks in Charleston during the Civil Rights era)………..

Fast & Furious: Holder (in an attempt to clear himself) claimed he asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious (the gun deal gone bad)…… Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation….. Holder had been Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s……During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together……Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder…….The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement…….

There’s tons of more stuff on Mr. Holder, but by now you get the message…….So Eric Holder, step up on the podium, put on that crown of shame, as I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day, an honor that you deserve 365 days each and every year, you crooked POS……And one other thing Eric, you can KMA……..




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Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

Double Diamond is strong. What are the other 5 albums? I am guessing Thriller, Eagles - Greatest Hits, maybe Dark Side among them. I start getting stuck after that. Maybe a Beatles album. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack?

 

[Eastmandawg]

Good morning to all you good hearted, yet Deplorable Dawgs…..Sunday ….June 7th…….. Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day…..A Wendys Frostie will do…..More importantly, today is also National Cancer Survivor’s Day, a day of celebration for some…..a day to prove that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality……After three major surgeries, and forty chemo/radiation treatments, my bride is cancer free for the third time…..She’s a trooper…..Have a good day 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 Tim Simpson………

Atlanta native Tim Simpson attended high school at Woodward Academy where he was the Atlanta Junior Champion, Georgia Junior Champion and Westlake National Junior Champion…….He attended the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and was a member of the golf team, where he was 1st team All-SEC as a freshman…….He won the 1976 Southern Amateur tournament….. He left college early and turned professional at age 20……

His Pro career (1977-1991) resulted in 9 wins and 66 Top 10 PGA finishes…..Simpson's PGA Tour career was brought to a sudden end due to his contracting Lyme disease on a hunting trip in 1991, and the neurological pathological condition resulting from it……He has had brain surgery and spinal fusion surgery…….In his late thirties and forties, his health improved enough to allow him to play some on the Nationwide Tour where he’s had a couple of 2nd place finishes…….

During his career Simpson was called one of the greatest ball strikers in the games history by golfing greats Butch Harmon, Jack Nicklaus, and Johnny Miller……Early in his career, he was mentored by long-time friends, Sam Snead and J. C. Snead……

Simpson was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 2006…..He began play on the Champions Tour in 2006……He home is now in Greensboro, Georgia…….Tim Simpson, 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)

1665 Boston's First Baptist Church, one of the oldest Baptist churches in America, is founded

1665 Great Plague of London

1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass, State of Kentucky

1775 The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.

1776 Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed to the Continental Congress a resolution calling for a Declaration of Independence

1800 David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba

1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada

1862 Union General B. Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed and destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint……Confederate consider Mumford a hero…..Construct Grave Monument in his honor.

1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade

1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt

1863 Mexico City captured by French troops

1864 Abraham Lincoln renominated for US President by the Republican Party

1866 1,800 Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec

1875 California Rifle and Pistol Association founded

1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington, D.C.

1892 J.F. Palmer patented the cord bicycle tire.

1892 John J. Doyle of Cleveland Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game

1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins

1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chicago

1900 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Englishman J.H. Taylor wins title for 3rd time; beats runner-up Harry Vardon by 8 strokes

1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches

1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane

1913 1st verifiable ascent of main summit of Denali (Mt McKinley), North America's highest mountain led by Hudson Stuck and Harry Karstens

1916 Theodore Roosevelt declines nomination of the Progressive Party and throws his support behind Republican Charles Evans Hughes

1917 Melvin Jones and a number of other Chicago businessmen found Lions Clubs International, now the largest service organization in the world

1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state

1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

1932 Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2

1936 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 16 innings; longest game without a strikeout

1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution

1937 The cover of "LIFE" magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times, which included saddle shoes.

1937 Time magazine publishes the second of the only two known photos taken of the United States Supreme Court in session

1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"

1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)

1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its 1st test flight

1939 George VI and Elizabeth become the 1st king and queen of Britain to visit USA

1939 Cleveland Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to NY Yankees

1940 Tom Jones is born Thomas John Woodward in the village of Treforest in Glamorgan, Wales.



1941 US Open Men's Golf, Colonial CC, Fort Worth: In sweltering heat, Craig Wood wins by 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Denny Shute

1941 73rd Belmont: Eddie Arcaro wins aboard Whirlaway to claim first of 2 Triple Crowns

1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island

1942 Battle of Midway ends: Admiral Chester Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan

1944 Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.

1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants

1946 US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel

1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color (Boston Massachusetts)

1953 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Washington, D.C. restaurants

1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)

1955 "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV

1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)

1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

1955 Joey Scarbury is born in Ontario, California. Known for the 1981 hit "Believe It or Not," the theme from the popular TV series The Greatest American Hero.

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1962 Gene Pitney’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” was enjoying a five week stay in the US Billboard Hot 100 song list……

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1962 Switzerland welcomes first drive-through bank

1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"

1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits

1965 Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995

1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples

1966 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1

1966 Ronald Reagan nominated for governor of California

1967 NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1

1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of US Senator Bobby Kennedy

1968 The body of assassinated US Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York

1969 "Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV.......here is Johnny, Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton on one of the shows.......

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1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special

1968 Legoland Billund opend in Billund, Denmark. It was the original Legoland park.

1969 Tommy James and the Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"

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1969 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1

1970 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire win

1970 American jockey Bill Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 career win

1970 The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center



1971 Don McLean records "Vincent."

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1972 Musical "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for first of 3,388 performances

1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1

1974 Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1

1975 Elton John's Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy, with the hit "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," becomes the first album to debut at #1 in the US. It holds the top spot for seven (non-consecutive) weeks.

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1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public

1976 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres

1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1

1978 32nd NBA Championship: Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3

1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature

1979 Rock n' roll musician Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion

1980 “Against The Wind” by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band is #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Song Chart and stays sokid in the Top Ten for two months

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1980 Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)

1980 Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter

1980 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert retains title; beats Virginia Ruzici of Romania 6-0, 6-3 for her 10th Grand Slam singles crown

1981 35th Tony Awards: "Amadeus" & "42nd Street" win

1981 Israeli F-15/F-16 destroys alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility

1981 French Open Men's Tennis: Björn Borg of Sweden wins 11th and final career Grand Slam title; Open era record 6th French title; beats Ivan Lendl 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1

1982 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell was the big winner

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1982 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games

1982 Graceland—Elvis Presley's home in Memphis, Tennessee, where he died in 1977—was opened for public tours and became one of the top tourist attractions in the United States.

1982 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers

1983 Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out

1984 The film Ghostbusters is released. Its theme song bears similarities to Huey Lewis's "I Want a New Drug." Ghostbusters theme writer Ray Parker, Jr. and Huey settle out of court.



1986 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1

1986 French Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 for her 18th and final Grand Slam title and record 7th French singles crown

1987 41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win

1987 French Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl retains title; beats Mats Wilander of Sweden 7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6

1989 Atlanta Fulton County Commission approves $210M stadium for the Falcons

1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89

1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years

1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2

1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time

1992 NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) launches

1992 French Open Men's Tennis: American Jim Courier retains title; beats Petr Korda of Czechoslovakia 7-5, 6-2, 6-1

1993 27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Vince Gill are the big winners

1993 Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1993 Singer Prince celebrates his birthday by changing his name to a symbol

1994 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane/Starship is sentenced to 200 hours of community service on charges of pointing a loaded gun at police who responded to reports of a disturbance at her home on March 5th.

1994 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base

1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines

1997 Stanley Cup Final, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings edge Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1 for a 4-0 series sweep; 8th title in Wings' franchise history and first since 1955

1997 French Open Women's Tennis: Iva Majoli of Croatia wins her 1st and only career Grand Slam singles title; upsets world #1 Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2

1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime

1998 52nd Tony Awards: "The Lion King" and '"Art" win

2000 U.S. Federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation

2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the UK General Election

2001 BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004

2004 Stanley Cup Final, Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL: Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary Flames, 2-1 for 4-3 series win; Tampa Bay's 1st-ever appearance in final

2004 "Live Like You Were Dying" single released by Tim McGraw (Grammy Award Best Country Song 2004, Billboard Song of the Year 2004)

2004 AC/DC's Back in Black album goes Double Diamond, becoming just the sixth album with RIAA-certified sales of over 20 million in America.



2009 63rd Tony Awards: "Billy Elliot the Musical" and "God of Carnage" win

2009 French Open Men's Tennis: Roger Federer wins his only French title, outclassing Robin Söderling of Sweden 6-1, 7-6, 6-4

2010 MLB Draft: Southern Nevada outfielder Bryce Harper first pick by Washington Nationals

2014 In Arlington, TX, about 105,000 people attended George Strait's final concert at AT&T stadium. The show set a record for the largest crowd for an indoor concert in North American history

2015 69th Tony Awards: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and "Fun Home" win 5 awards

2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal "Science"

2018 Baltimore ex-police sergeant Wayne Earl Jenkins, head of a rogue police unit sentenced to 25 years for robbery and racketeering

2018 Stanley Cup Final, T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, NV: Washington Capitals beat Las Vegas Golden Knights, 4-3 for a 4-1 series victory; first title in franchise history

2019 More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to its economic crisis according to the UN

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Outstanding!

 

[3 Pete]

2004 AC/DC's Back in Black album goes Double Diamond, becoming just the sixth album with RIAA-certified sales of over 20 million in America.

 

[redclayhound]

Double Diamond is strong. What are the other 5 albums? I am guessing Thriller, Eagles - Greatest Hits, maybe Dark Side among them. I start getting stuck after that. Maybe a Beatles album. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack?

Here you go:
More than or equal to 20 million copies
Year Artist Album Label Shipments (Sales) Certification[2][3]
1976 Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) Asylum 38,000,000 38× Platinum‡
1982 Michael Jackson Thriller Epic 33,000,000 33× Platinum‡
1976 Eagles Hotel California Asylum 26,000,000 26× Platinum‡
1980 AC/DC Back in Black Atlantic 25,000,000 25× Platinum‡
1971 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV Atlantic 23,000,000 23× Platinum
1977 Fleetwood Mac Rumours Warner Bros. 20,000,000 20× Platinum

 

[deadduckdawg]

Really nice read this morning and a great report on Mrs rch. I enjoyed it.

 

[NedRacineDawg]

Excellent read and an AHOD worthy of his place in the guillotine lineup!

 

[maugwa]

Excellent read

 

[JohnnyBeeDawg]

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SOME FOLKS WHO DIED ON THIS DATE:

1871 Thomas Jackson Rodman, American military inventor of the rodman gun and perforated-cake gunpowder, dies on duty at 54

1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at 60

1990 Barbara Baxley, American actress and singer (Norma Rae, Countdown), dies at 67 of a heart attack

1992 Bill France, Sr., American auto racer (co-founder of NASCAR), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 82

1996 Max Factor Jr, American makeup inventor (Max Factor Cosmetics), dies at 91

2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports), dies at 86

2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Dracula), dies at 93




SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE:

1843 Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten", born in St. Louis, Missouri

1909 Jessica Tandy, British actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), born in London, England

1911 Brooks Stevens, American automotive designer (1949 Hydra-Glide Harley; 1963 Jeep Wagoneer), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1913 Dallas Shirley, American Basketball Hall of Fame referee (officiated 2,000+ games in 33-year career), born in Washington, D.C.

1917 Dean Martin, American singer, actor, Rat Pack member (Martin and Lewis, The Dean Martin Show), born in Steubenville, Ohio

1933 Herb Score, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians), born in Rosedale, New York

1935 Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), born in Alma, Georgia

1940 Tom Jones, Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat), born in Pontypridd, Wales

1942 Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, politician, and political theorist, born in Qasr Abu Hadi, Libya

1943 Ken Osmond, American actor (Eddie Haskell--Leave It to Beaver), born in Glendale, California

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1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball catcher and captain (NY Yankees), born in Akron, Ohio

1949 Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)

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1950 Howard Finkel, American pro wrestling ring announcer (WWE Hall of Fame), born in Newark, New Jersey

1952 Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables), born in Ballymena, County Antrim

1955 Joey Scarbury, American singer (Greatest American Hero), born in Ontario, California

1955 William Forsythe, American actor (Raising Arizona, Once Upon a Time in America), born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

1958 Prince, American singer-songwriter and musician (1999, Purple Rain), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

1959 Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States (Republican: 2017-) and Governor of Indiana (2013-16), born in Columbus, Indiana

1962 Michael Cartellone, American rock drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), born in Solon, Ohio

1971 Terrell Buckley, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)

1974 Edward "Bear" Grylls, British adventurer, author and TV presenter (Man vs. Wild), born in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

1975 Allen Iverson, NBA guard (Philadelphia 76ers)

1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1999, 2002), born in Moscow, Russia

1986 Keegan Bradley, American golfer (PGA C'ship 2011), born in Woodstock, Vermont




TODAY’S @$$HOLE OF THE DAY:

I’m going after one not mentioned today, but justly deserving…….Eric Himpton Holder, Jr was the U.S. Attorney General from 2009 to 2015…….Holder was a major player in the Obamagate scandals, prosecuting whistleblowers who leaked information about the Obama administration's illegal activities, and intimidating journalists who attempt to report on them…….

Holder is a far-left activist who does not believe in the Second Amendment and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C…….On February 25, 2009 Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban”…….Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases………

Holder is the only Attorney General in history cited for criminal Contempt of Congress…….Holder called for mob violence in the wake of the failure of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and Kavanaugh smear to uproot American democracy and the Constitution……

While he was a freshman in Columbia University, he was reportedly involved in an armed occupation by various black students of an abandoned ROTC lounge for five days……

Holder claimed that the phrase "Make America Great Again" was somehow "rooted in fear," and he stated that he would "never call [Trump] president”…….During the 2018 Midterm elections while speaking to a group of young Democrat campaign volunteers, Holder encouraged violence against Republicans…..

On August 11, 1999, on Holder's advice, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) terrorist group……On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people…..Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people….Holder was criticized for his "unconscionable" efforts to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the Department of Justice's pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies…….Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg were also pardoned who were serving life sentences for the murder of two police officers and a Brinks armored guard in 1981……

In 2009, despite overwhelming evidence towards the voter intimidation by New Black Panther Party members Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Sha-Bazz, and Jerry Jackson at a Philadelphia polling office in 2008, they were acquitted with minimal charges by the Department of Justice, then controlled by Eric Holder………Holder, when questioned about his rationale, said he didn't want to prosecute "my people”……(thus implying that he holds bias against white voters and for minorities, and that attempts to bring justice to people who violated the Voting Rights Act is comparable to what happened to Blacks in Charleston during the Civil Rights era)………..

Fast & Furious: Holder (in an attempt to clear himself) claimed he asked the Inspector General to try to get to the bottom of Fast & Furious (the gun deal gone bad)…… Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar was asked to head an independent investigation….. Holder had been Schnedar's boss from 1994 until 1997 while she served as assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. in the 90s……During Ms. Schnedar's tenure the two had worked a number of cases together……Schnedar quit shortly before the Inspector General's Report was issued, clearing Holder…….The bulk of the report throughout was done by Schnedar, but Press Releases attributed the report to her replacement…….

There’s tons of more stuff on Mr. Holder, but by now you get the message…….So Eric Holder, step up on the podium, put on that crown of shame, as I now anoint you @$$Hole of the Day, an honor that you deserve 365 days each and every year, you crooked POS……And one other thing Eric, you can KMA……..




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Message to all: I think it only appropriate that you folks join in on the fun of crowning an AOTD…….In fact, I’m inviting each of you to do so…….Just give me the AOTD candidate’s name, and 2,3,4 paragraphs stating your case why he/she is an @$$Hole…….Send it by UGASports mail…….I’m anxiously awaiting your participation……And, it would help me out…..Thx, redclayhound…….

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As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless........

MAN, that Eric Holder looks like a ferret in the face. He does himself no favors with those weasel expressions he makes.

 

[911DAWG]

Holder and O'bama have an additional item to push----Gerrymandering! It is a number one agenda item if Biden is elected.. 65