Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Tuesday….June 23rd……..Today is National Pecan Sandies Day, which, in redneck talk, are souped-up pecan shortbread cookies…..They are good…..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 Jim Cavan………
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UGA Baseball and Football Letterman '36, '37….Played on Coach Harry Mehre’s last team
Coached in Georgia High Schools for 30 years: Gainesville, Rome, Griffin, Robert E Lee
Region Coach of the Year '61, '65, '66, '67
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; while in the Navy he was a coach at the Iowa Pre-Flight School where he worked with such football legends as Bud Wilkinson, Jim Tatum, and Johnny Vaught
Coach of the Year in '61 by the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Touchdown Club
Coached Girls Basketball, compiling 300+ wins
While at Lee won 4 region titles in football, being runner up 3 times
One time North Georgia Champions in Basketball has 2 State Championships and 11 Region Championships
Jim Cavan was inducted into the Thomaston-Upson Sports Hall of Fame in the 2005 Charter Class.
He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1969.
Jim Cavan passed away in 1983…….Jim Cavan, a DGD…….May he RIP………
SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DON”T KNOW” AND SOME “STUFF YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED YOU DO KNOW”……
(by year/comments)
1626 A large Codfish, split open at a Cambridge market, is found to contain a copy of a book of religious treatises by John Frith.
1683 William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1713 The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada
1775 1st regatta held on river Thames, England
1784 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1810 John Jacob Astor organizes the Pacific Fur Company in Astoria, Oregon
1819 First editions of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." by Washington Irving released, featuring story "Rip Van Winkle"
1860 US Congress establishes Government Printing Office
1865 At Fort Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable confederate army
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind
1888 Frederick Douglass is 1st African-American nominated for US President
1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin
1908 The USA suspends diplomatic relationships with Venezuela after the refusal of Cipriano Castro's government to compensate Americans for injuries suffered in the uprising of 1899
1915 Yankees get record 16 walks & 3 wild pitches beat A's Bruno Hass, 15-0
1917 Ammunition factory in Boleweg Bohemia explodes, killing 1,000
1917 Ernie Shore enters game after Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth is ejected for throwing punch at umpire; retires all 26 batters he faces to win 4-0 vs Washington Senators; ruled combined no-hitter
1922 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Walter Hagen becomes first American-born winner of the Open Championship, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Jim Barnes and George Duncan
1925 Landslides create 3-mile long "Slide Lake" (Gros Ventre Wyoming)
1926 The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA
1927 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox
1929 June Carter Cash, American country singer (Johnny Cash Show), born in Maces Spring, Virginia (d. 2003)
1931 Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
1932 Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland)
1933 Don McNeill's Pepper Pot (Breakfast Club) begins 35½ year run on NBC
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1938 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium
1938 NYC Mayor LaGuardia assigns 21 cops to patrol subway
1939 Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to win National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title
1939 US Congress establishes US Coast Guard Reserve (renamed US Coast Guard Auxiliary 1941) as uniformed volunteer units supporting the Coast Guard
1940 After conquering France, Adolf Hitler visits Paris and views the Eiffel Tower and the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte
1942 World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales
1944 Rosetta Hightower (lead singer of The Orlons) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1947 US President Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by Congress
1949 First twelve women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1949 Dutch Constellation aircraft plunges into the sea near Bari, 33 die
1950 Swiss parliament refuses voting rights for women
1950 Yanks & Tigers hit record 11 HRs, Tigers win 10-9
1950 Indians' Luke Easter hits longest ball in Cleveland Stadium history, 477 feet, into upper deck, Section 4
1951 Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean flee to USSR
1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1952 US airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu Korea
1955 Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1956 "Jimmy Durante Show" last airs on NBC-TV
1958 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958 US Federal judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock, Arkansas
1959 Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career history of ultrasounds
1960 "The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom" last airs on ABC-TV
1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.
1960 Japan signs security treaty with the US
1961 The Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that Antarctica is used for peaceful purposes; for international cooperation in scientific research; and does not become the scene or object of international discord, comes into force
1961 Cubs Ernie Banks ends his 717 consecutive-games-played streak
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to an altitude of 32,830 m
1961 11th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Night" wins the Golden Bear
1963 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: Julius Boros wins his second Open title in an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit
1963 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Maple Bluff CC: Mickey Wright defends title by 9 shots from Kathy Whitworth for her 10th major championship
1963 NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards
1963 The Detroit March to Freedom occurs with 125,000 people participating, the largest civil rights demonstration in America up to that point
1964 Arthur Melin of the Wham-O company (of Frisbee fame) patented the hula-hoop. Great exercise.
1965 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles release "The Tracks Of My Tears."
1967 Aretha Franklin records "Chain Of Fools."
1967 Arthur Conley's "Sweet Soul Music" is certified gold.
1967 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA)
1967 US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
1967 17th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Departure" wins the Golden Bear
1968 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium
1969 Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1969 Warren E. Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice
1969 24 Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district, Cape Province, appear in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; alleged they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police
1969: Neil Diamond released the single "Sweet Caroline"
1970 "Red Skelton Show" last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
1970 Charles Rangel defeats Adam Clayton Powell in Democratic primary
1970 Rocker and singer Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
1972 Hurricane Agnes becomes America's costliest natural disaster, effecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage
1972 US President Nixon & his Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
1972 US President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1972 Bernice Gera becomes first female umpire in US pro baseball, Geneva Senators and Auburn Twins in Geneva, New York
1972 22nd Berlin International Film Festival: "The Canterbury Tales" wins the Golden Bear
1973 B.W. Stevenson records "My Maria."
1973 Phillies Ken Brett 4th consecutive game HR in which he pitched
1974 1st extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space
1974 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: 1965 champion Sandra Haynie wins by 2 shots from JoAnn Carner
1975 US Open Men's Golf, Medinah CC: Lou Graham defeats John Mahaffey by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff to win his only major championship
1975 Rocker Alice Cooper falls off stage in Vancouver, breaks 6 ribs
1976 CCN Tower in Toronto, tallest free-standing structure (555 m) opens
1976 The U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
1979 "My Sharona" single released by The Knack
1979 The Charlie Daniels Band release "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." Daniels plays the fiddle parts for both Johnny and the Devil; he says the Devil part is "just a bunch of noise."
1979 Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring "Take the Long Way Home"
1980 "David Letterman Show" debuts on NBC-TV daytime
1980 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
1981 Longest game in Professional Baseball: Pawtucket Red Sox finally beat Rochester Red Wings 3-2 in 33 innings (game began 18th April)
1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 NYC Mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy
1982 -117°F; All time low at South Pole
1982 Himmy, of Australia, weighs in at domestic cat record 20.7 kg (45 lb)
1982 US pass the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200)
1982 Mary Hart joins Entertainment Tonight, she stays there for 30 years
1983 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat
1983 US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 d
1985 Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million
1985 Senior Tournament Players Championship Men's Golf, Canterbury GC: Defending champion Arnold Palmer wins his final major by 11 shots from Miller Barber, Lee Elder, Gene Littler & Charles Owens
1986 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)
1986 Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House
1988 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft
1988 Yanks manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1989 Movie "Batman" premieres directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson
1990 Buddy Holly's Gibson acoustic guitar sold for $237,419 in a Sotheby's auction. The guitar was in a tooled leather case made by Holly himself.
1990 A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty
1990 Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home
1990 TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year
1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1993 Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis
1993 United Nations authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti
1994 South Africa reclaims its seat in United Nations
1994 Replay shows Oakland Athletics's Bobby Witt beat Kansas City's Greg Gagne to 1st in 6th but umpire Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, ruining Witt's perfect game
1994 Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
1996 Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
1997 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts
1997 In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May
2000 The bulk ore carrier MV Treasure sinks off the western coast of South Africa, soiling more than 19 000 penguins; this resulted in the world's largest ever rescue of birds from an oiling event
2003 Barry Bonds steals second base against the LA Dodgers, becoming the first player in MLB history to have 500 career homers and 500 steals
2004 Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctorate of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
2005 59th NBA Championship: San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3, Tim Duncan MVP
2008 Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners hits a grand slam home run against New York Mets, 1st pitcher since Steve Dunning in 1971]]
2009 Akio Toyoda is confirmed as the new President of the Toyota Motor Corporation
2010 62-year-old Gregg Allman underwent a successful liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Allman had begun a series of treatments for Hepatitis C, but chronic damage of his liver led doctors to recommend a transplant. In a statement to the press, Allman said "I changed my ways years ago, but we can't turn back time. Every day is a gift."
2011 "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
2011 NBA Draft: Duke point guard Kyrie Irving first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
2012 Greece proposes to slow down austerity measures by two years
2012 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees
2014 Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US $54 million
2016 Led Zeppelin cleared of stealing riff from "Stairway to Heaven" from band Spirit in a Los Angeles court
2016 American bluegrass artist Ralph Stanley, who was known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing, died aged 89. With his brother Carter, he helped popularise the bluegrass genre. Stanley won new fans when his work featured in the Coen brothers film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2016 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union
2016 Storms and widespread flooding in West Virginia leave at least 24 dead
2016 NBA Draft: LSU point guard Ben Simmons first pick by Philadelphia 76ers
2017 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" single organized by Simon Cowell for those affected by Grenfell tower fire reaches No. 1 in UK charts
2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from book award by US Association for Library Service to Children, becuase of author's racist views and language
2018 Indian chess prodigy Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa becomes the second-youngest grandmaster at 12 years, 10 months, 13 days
2019 Ashleigh Barty becomes first Australian female in 42 years (Evonne Goolagong Cawley) to attain world #1 tennis ranking when she beats Julia Görges 6-3, 7-5 at the Birmingham Classic
2019 Women's PGA Championship, Hazeltine National GC: Australian Hannah Green leads wire-to-wire to win her first LPGA event by 1 stroke ahead of Park Sung-hyun
…………….(to be continued……..see follow-up response)………….
