GOOD MORNING
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Tuesday….June 30th……..Today is National Mai Tai Day......Mai Tais are a nice fruity alcoholic drinks, but it’s hard to find a bar that makes a really good one…..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 Center Len Hauss ….
Hauss is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins from 1964 to 1977.
Hauss attended Jesup High School in Wayne County, GA, where he played high school football as a fullback. As a senior, he rushed for 1,500 yards and scored 15 touchdown
Hauss attended and played college football at the University of Georgia, where he became a center……He was a UGA Football Letterman 1961, 1962, and 1963…….He received All-Southeastern Conference honors as a sophomore.
Hauss was drafted in the ninth round (115th overall) of the 1964 NFL Draft……He started his first game at center four games into the 1964 season, a job he would not lose until retirement……Hauss helped lead the Redskins to the Super Bowl VII in 1972……He started 192 consecutive games for the Redskins between 1964 and 1977…….He was named to the Pro Bowl 5 times in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1972…….
He was the Redskins team captain in 1969, calling the offensive signals……He was selected to the All-Pro Team in 1971, 1972, and 1974……..He was voted in the 70 Greatest Redskins Club…..He was inducted into the Washington Redskins Ring of Fame…..He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1981…..
A little story about Len Hauss…….
Hauss was in his rookie season with the Washington Redskins when he lined up in practice against Sam Huff, a future Hall of Fame Linebacker……The whistle blew for action, and when it did Hauss knocked Huff on his rear……The entire team was watching, and cheered….Huff got up and said, “That’s the way Hauss….That’s an old Georgia Bulldog….I never knew a Georgia Bulldog in my career who wouldn’t knock you on your butt.” Then one of the coaches yelled, “All those guys from Georgia are always tough”……..
Len Hauss……..A DGD………
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1665 1665 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
1857 Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London--his first public reading.
1859 Jean Francois Gravelet, a Frenchman known professionally as Charles Blondin, becomes the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. The feat, which was performed 160 feet above the Niagara gorge just down river from the Falls, was witnessed by some 5,000 spectators.
1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate in the US
1876 After a slow two-day march, the wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Little Big Horn reach the steamboat Far West
1893 The Excelsior diamond—which, weighing 995 carats, was the largest uncut diamond ever found to that time—was discovered in the De Beers mine at Jagersfontein, Orange Free State.
1894 - Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese aid.
1894 London Tower Bridge opens
1895 A U.S. patent was issued for an electric stove.
1900 : A major fire broke out on a Pier in New Jersey (Pier 3 in Hoboken) engulfing 4 German ships that were docked and spreading to over 27 ships before the fire was bought under control. 326 die.
1906 The Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed by Congress.
1908 An enormous aerial explosion, presumably caused by a comet fragment colliding with Earth, flattened approximately 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia.
1908 1908 At 41 years, 3 months future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young becomes oldest player to record a third career no-hitter
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1929 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 Judge Joseph F. Crater of the New York State Supreme Court, walked out of a 45th Street restaurant in New York City on his way to the theater. He was never heard from again.
1931 : Al Capone's attorney has asked for and been granted a one month period for Al Capone to put his business affairs in order and spend time with his family prior to sentencing for tax evasion and jail time.
1933 U.S. Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise, Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah closes
1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1934 In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
1936 Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published
1936 Congress approved the 40-hour work week.
1940 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1942 U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination
1952 - CBS-TV debuted "The Guiding Light."
1954 Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1955 - The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament.
1955 "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1957 - The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
1958 - The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.
1960 U.S. stops sugar import from Cuba
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 Mike Tyson was born. On June 28, 1997, Tyson bit off a big chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the 3rd round of a boxing match. Tyson was disqualified.
1967 Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government could not prevent the Washington Post or the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers.
1971 The three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world’s first space station die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.
1973 Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
1974 - The July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie "Jaws" was filmed.
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-1 bomber.
1977 1977 Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1978 Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 home runs
1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans
1984 Last sixpence minted in Great Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in "The King and I."
1985 : Thirty Nine American hostages being held captive by the Shia Muslim Amal militia in Lebanon are released
1985 Los Angeles Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 home runs in June
1985 James A. Dewar, died. The creator of the Twinkie (1930)
1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1990 East and West Germany merge their economies
1992 1st pay bathrooms in U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City
1993 NBA Draft: Michigan center Chris Webber first pick by Orlando Magic (traded to Golden State)
1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 : The U.S. Figure Skating Association (USFSA) stripped Tonya Harding of her her 1994 national Figure Skating championship title and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1996 Dr. Edward Anton Asselbergs died. (Exact date uncertain). He developed the process for making instant mashed potato flakes, the patent that is still used world-wide today
1998 The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie
1999 NBA Draft: Duke power forward Elton Brand first pick by Chicago Bulls
2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in pen and ink.
2004 "Spider-Man 2" directed by Sam Raimi and starring Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst is released
2004 - The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit. The craft had been on a nearly seven-year journey.
2013 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2014 The U.S. Supreme Court agrees with a lower court ruling that Google's Street View data collection violated anti-wiretapping laws by capturing personal data from wi-fi networks
2014 Toyota is seeking to sell fuel-cell vehicles in the U.S. but must receive an exemption from certain safety requirements to do so; Toyota states that its car meets safety requirements through a different mechanism than that specified in the rules
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1941: Larry Henley of the Newbeats ("Bread And Butter" from 1964), was born in Arp, Texas; died of Lewy Body Dementia in Nashville, Tennessee December 18, 2014.
1944 Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock is born in Chatham, Kent, England. He moves with his family to Adelaide, Australia, when he is 10.
1949 Andy Scott (lead guitarist for Sweet) is born in Wrexham, Wales.
1953 Hal Lindes (guitarist for Dire Straits from 1980-1985) is born in Monterey, California.
1958: "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters was the #1 R&B song.
1966 - The Supremes made the studio recording of "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
1971: CCR released the single "Sweet Hitch Hiker" on Fantasy Records.
1973 George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" dislodges Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the #1 spot on the US singles charts.
1979 One Hit Wonder Anita Ward started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Ring My Bell', also a UK No.1.
1979 "Good Times" single released by Chic (Billboard Song of the Year 1979)
1981 This song was enjoying a six week run in the Top 10…..It’s one of Hall & Oates’ many hits, “You Make My Dreams Come True”
(TO BE CONTINUED…………..SEE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE)
Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Tuesday….June 30th……..Today is National Mai Tai Day......Mai Tais are a nice fruity alcoholic drinks, but it’s hard to find a bar that makes a really good one…..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 Center Len Hauss ….
Hauss is a former American football center in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins from 1964 to 1977.
Hauss attended Jesup High School in Wayne County, GA, where he played high school football as a fullback. As a senior, he rushed for 1,500 yards and scored 15 touchdown
Hauss attended and played college football at the University of Georgia, where he became a center……He was a UGA Football Letterman 1961, 1962, and 1963…….He received All-Southeastern Conference honors as a sophomore.
Hauss was drafted in the ninth round (115th overall) of the 1964 NFL Draft……He started his first game at center four games into the 1964 season, a job he would not lose until retirement……Hauss helped lead the Redskins to the Super Bowl VII in 1972……He started 192 consecutive games for the Redskins between 1964 and 1977…….He was named to the Pro Bowl 5 times in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1972…….
He was the Redskins team captain in 1969, calling the offensive signals……He was selected to the All-Pro Team in 1971, 1972, and 1974……..He was voted in the 70 Greatest Redskins Club…..He was inducted into the Washington Redskins Ring of Fame…..He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1981…..
A little story about Len Hauss…….
Hauss was in his rookie season with the Washington Redskins when he lined up in practice against Sam Huff, a future Hall of Fame Linebacker……The whistle blew for action, and when it did Hauss knocked Huff on his rear……The entire team was watching, and cheered….Huff got up and said, “That’s the way Hauss….That’s an old Georgia Bulldog….I never knew a Georgia Bulldog in my career who wouldn’t knock you on your butt.” Then one of the coaches yelled, “All those guys from Georgia are always tough”……..
Len Hauss……..A DGD………
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1665 1665 The number of deaths in London from the Great Plague during June is recorded as 6,137 people
1834 Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1841 - The Erie Railroad rolled out its first passenger train.
1857 Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London--his first public reading.
1859 Jean Francois Gravelet, a Frenchman known professionally as Charles Blondin, becomes the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. The feat, which was performed 160 feet above the Niagara gorge just down river from the Falls, was witnessed by some 5,000 spectators.
1865 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate in the US
1876 After a slow two-day march, the wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Little Big Horn reach the steamboat Far West
1893 The Excelsior diamond—which, weighing 995 carats, was the largest uncut diamond ever found to that time—was discovered in the De Beers mine at Jagersfontein, Orange Free State.
1894 - Korea declared independence from China and asked for Japanese aid.
1894 London Tower Bridge opens
1895 A U.S. patent was issued for an electric stove.
1900 : A major fire broke out on a Pier in New Jersey (Pier 3 in Hoboken) engulfing 4 German ships that were docked and spreading to over 27 ships before the fire was bought under control. 326 die.
1906 The Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed by Congress.
1908 An enormous aerial explosion, presumably caused by a comet fragment colliding with Earth, flattened approximately 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia.
1908 1908 At 41 years, 3 months future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young becomes oldest player to record a third career no-hitter
1910 Russia absorbs Finland
1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1929 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY
1930 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY
1930 Judge Joseph F. Crater of the New York State Supreme Court, walked out of a 45th Street restaurant in New York City on his way to the theater. He was never heard from again.
1931 : Al Capone's attorney has asked for and been granted a one month period for Al Capone to put his business affairs in order and spend time with his family prior to sentencing for tax evasion and jail time.
1933 U.S. Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise, Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah closes
1934 NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions
1934 In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
1936 Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published
1936 Congress approved the 40-hour work week.
1940 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms
1940 "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1942 U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation
1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination
1952 - CBS-TV debuted "The Guiding Light."
1954 Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57
1955 - The U.S. began funding West Germany’s rearmament.
1955 "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1956 United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128
1957 - The American occupation headquarters in Japan was dissolved.
1958 - The U.S. Congress passed a law authorizing the admission of Alaska as the 49th state in the Union.
1959 During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time
1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.
1960 U.S. stops sugar import from Cuba
1965 NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise
1966 Mike Tyson was born. On June 28, 1997, Tyson bit off a big chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the 3rd round of a boxing match. Tyson was disqualified.
1967 Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1970 Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City
1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government could not prevent the Washington Post or the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers.
1971 The three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world’s first space station die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.
1973 Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)
1974 - The July 4th scene from the Steven Spielberg movie "Jaws" was filmed.
1975 Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-1 bomber.
1977 1977 Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss
1977 U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C.
1978 Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 home runs
1982 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans
1984 Last sixpence minted in Great Britain (in use since 1551)
1984 Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
1985 - Yul Brynner left his role as the King of Siam after 4,600 performances in "The King and I."
1985 : Thirty Nine American hostages being held captive by the Shia Muslim Amal militia in Lebanon are released
1985 Los Angeles Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 home runs in June
1985 James A. Dewar, died. The creator of the Twinkie (1930)
1986 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states could outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1988 Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam
1989 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
1990 East and West Germany merge their economies
1992 1st pay bathrooms in U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City
1993 NBA Draft: Michigan center Chris Webber first pick by Orlando Magic (traded to Golden State)
1994 Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
1994 : The U.S. Figure Skating Association (USFSA) stripped Tonya Harding of her her 1994 national Figure Skating championship title and banned her from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
1996 Dr. Edward Anton Asselbergs died. (Exact date uncertain). He developed the process for making instant mashed potato flakes, the patent that is still used world-wide today
1998 The remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie
1999 NBA Draft: Duke power forward Elton Brand first pick by Chicago Bulls
2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the E-Signature bill to give the same legal validity to an electronic signature as a signature in pen and ink.
2004 "Spider-Man 2" directed by Sam Raimi and starring Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst is released
2004 - The international Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit. The craft had been on a nearly seven-year journey.
2013 19 fire fighters are killed controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona
2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
2014 The U.S. Supreme Court agrees with a lower court ruling that Google's Street View data collection violated anti-wiretapping laws by capturing personal data from wi-fi networks
2014 Toyota is seeking to sell fuel-cell vehicles in the U.S. but must receive an exemption from certain safety requirements to do so; Toyota states that its car meets safety requirements through a different mechanism than that specified in the rules
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1941: Larry Henley of the Newbeats ("Bread And Butter" from 1964), was born in Arp, Texas; died of Lewy Body Dementia in Nashville, Tennessee December 18, 2014.
1944 Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock is born in Chatham, Kent, England. He moves with his family to Adelaide, Australia, when he is 10.
1949 Andy Scott (lead guitarist for Sweet) is born in Wrexham, Wales.
1953 Hal Lindes (guitarist for Dire Straits from 1980-1985) is born in Monterey, California.
1958: "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters was the #1 R&B song.
1966 - The Supremes made the studio recording of "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
1971: CCR released the single "Sweet Hitch Hiker" on Fantasy Records.
1973 George Harrison's "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" dislodges Paul McCartney and Wings' "My Love" from the #1 spot on the US singles charts.
1979 One Hit Wonder Anita Ward started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Ring My Bell', also a UK No.1.
1979 "Good Times" single released by Chic (Billboard Song of the Year 1979)
1981 This song was enjoying a six week run in the Top 10…..It’s one of Hall & Oates’ many hits, “You Make My Dreams Come True”
(TO BE CONTINUED…………..SEE FOLLOW-UP RESPONSE)
