Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Thursday….June 18th……..Today is National Sushi Day…..My kids love it, but me? No thanks….Sorry, just something about eatin’ raw fish…..Today is also International Picnic Day….Raw fish in a Picnic Basket?.......Now that’s interesting 4sure…..Take care my fellow Dawg friends………
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 Running Back Joe Geri………
Joe Geri, a WWII veteran, was an All-SEC selection at running back in 1948 for the Georgia Bulldog football team…….
Geri was an offensive force, who earned fame on the gridiron for his play at Georgia and in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers…….
The native of Phoenixville, Pa., and son of Hungarian immigrants, came to Georgia as a freshman in 1942…….He was a highly-sought-after, triple-threat halfback…….But he saw action in only one game that season, playing behind Georgia's first Heisman trophy winner, Frank Sinkwich, and Georgia’s first Maxwell Award winner Charley Trippi…..Trippi was captain of the University's undefeated and untied 1946 team, a unanimous All-America selection and runner-up in the Heisman balloting…….
The following year, Geri traded his Bulldog uniform for a service uniform……..He served as a gunner in a Marine detachment aboard the U.S.S. Quincy, which took part in the invasion of Normandy, France………
Geri returned to Georgia as the No. 2 fullback in 1946……In 1947, he scored 94 points on runs, receptions, field goals and PATs, in every backfield position except quarterback……..
As a senior in 1948, Geri was the starting halfback on the Bulldogs' SEC-championship team……..He led the conference with 90 total points scored……He also set what was then a league record for extra-point conversions at 92.3 percent by connecting on 36-of-39……
Head coach Wally Butts called Geri "one of the best examples of what a football player can earn by hard work."
"He's not a natural athlete, but he has the will to play and is willing to pay the price," Butts said.
Geri was the fourth-round draft pick for the Steelers and earned NFL Rookie of the Year honors in 1949 for his running and kicking……
With this performance Geri became one of just four players to garner unanimous All-Pro honors…….
In 1953, Geri took a position as backfield coach at the University of Chattanooga under former Georgia quarterback Scrappy Moore, where he served for 18 years…….
Geri was inducted into the State of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1989……
Joe Geri…….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)
1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1778 British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia
1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces
1872 Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for US President
1879 W. H. Richardson, an African-American inventor, patents the children's carriage (Patent no. 405599)
1892 Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1908 Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1911 Detroit Tigers, trailing White Sox 13-1, come back to win 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history
1912 The Chicago national Republican Convention splits between President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt; after Taft is nominated, Roosevelt and progressive elements of the Party form the Progressive Party (also known as the 'Bull Moose Party')
1917 Richard Boone (Have Gun, Will Travel) was born
1934 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin
1938 Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season
1940 General Charles de Gaulle on BBC tells French to defy Nazi occupiers
1940 German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs and chickens
1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons
1941 Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 Bernard W Robinson, becomes 1st African American ensign in US Navy
1942 Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38h21m
1944 German submarine U-767 sunk by English Navy destroyers in the English Channel
1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1948 National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1948 Phillies pitching great Robin Roberts debut, loses 2-0 to Pirates
1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights
1951 Charles de Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 Eugene Stephens is 1st to get 3 hits in one inning & Red Sox score 17 runs in 1 Inning (7th) Red Sox beat Detroit 23-3
1953 3rd Berlin International Film Festival: "The Wages of Fear" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
1954 4th Berlin International Film Festival: "Hobson's Choice" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US
1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane
1959 New York City premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
1960 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Arnold Palmer stages greatest comeback in tournament history; erases a 7-stroke final round deficit to win his only US Open title by 2 strokes ahead of Jack Nicklaus
1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1961 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1963 Darren "Dizzy" Reed (keyboardist of Guns N' Roses) is born in Hinsdale, Illinois.
1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1965 The Moody Blues made their US concert debut at the Academy of Music in New York City.
1966 The Beach Boys release "Wouldn't It Be Nice" with "God Only Knows" on the flip side.
1967 US Open Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Jack Nicklaus shoots a final round 65 for a new tournament record 275, 4 strokes ahead of Arnold Palmer
1967 Houston’s Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0
1967 Cosing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California. First major US appearances of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The WHO and Otis Redding
1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing
1969 "The Wild Bunch", directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, is released
1972 US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Jack Nicklaus captures his 3rd Open title, 3 strokes ahead of Bruce Crampton of Australia
1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 US Supreme Court, 5-3, confirms lower court rulings in Curt Flood case, upholding baseball's exemption from antitrust laws
1973 Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev visits the US and President Nixon
1973 NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
1974 Rare Earth's drummer Peter Hoorelbeke is arrested after tossing his drumsticks into a concert crowd.
1975 Fred Lynn gets 10 RBIs in a single Red Sox game in a 15-1 victory over the Tigers
1975 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
1976 A Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
1976 St Louis Cards Lou Brock & Hector Cruz both hit inside-the-park HRs in a game
1976 Bowie Kuhn voids A's sales, totaling $35 million, of Joe Rudi & Rollie Fingers to Red Sox, & Vida Blue to Yankees
1976 Electric Light Orchestra's Olé ELO album is certified Gold.
1976 ABBA perform for Sweden's king on the eve of his wedding.
1976 Blake Shelton is born in Ada, Oklahoma
1977 After Jimmy Helms pulled out of a gig at Shoreditch College, the members of the social committee decided to call upon famous local, Elton John who lived up the road and ask if he would perform. Elton did the gig for two bottles of wine.
1977 Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson get into a dug out altercation
1977 Sex Pistols johnny rotten & Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub
1977 Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, it was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
1978 US Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Andy North holds on for a 1-stroke victory over runners-up Dave Stockton and J. C. Snead to claim the first of his 2 US Open titles
1978 On this day in 1978, Fleetwood Mac had “Dreams” as the #1 hit song in America, their only song that made it to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 Chart……..
1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 US President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons
1980 Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1981 Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced
1981 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
1982 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote
1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space
1983 IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC
1984 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Fuzzy Zoeller beats Greg Norman of Australia by 8 strokes in a Monday 18-hole playoff to win his first Open title
1986 De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25
1986 Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games
1986 US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
1988 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
1989 US Open Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Curtis Strange wins by 3 from Scott Simpson for first back-to-back Open titles since Ben Hogan 1950-51
1990 1st sudden death US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin
1991 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
1991 SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
1991 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" single released by Bryan Adams (Billboard Song of the Year 1991)
1993 Expo's Dennis Martínez is 92nd to win 200 games
1994 Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
1994 Gay Games open in NYC
1995 US Open Men's Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Corey Pavin wins his only major championship, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman of Australia
1995 Memorial service for Elizabeth Montgomery is held at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills
1996 Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts
2000 100th US Open Men's Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Tiger Woods wins his first US Open by a major championship record-setting 15 strokes over Ernie Els and Miguel Ángel Jiménez
2001 US Open Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Retief Goosen of South Africa wins first of 2 US Open titles in an 18-hole Monday playoff, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Mark Brooks
2001 "The Fast and the Furious" film directed by Rob Cohen starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez premieres
2003 Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) go on to start their own publishing businesses
2006 The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched
2006 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot GC: Geoff Ogilvy of Australia makes clutch pars on the final 2 holes to win by 1, as runners-up Jim Furyk, Colin Montgomerie and Phil Mickelson all fail to par the 72nd hole
2007 Doo-wop singer Hank Medress (of The Tokens) dies of lung cancer at age 68.
2007 The Traveling Wilburys went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Collection.' The line of the Wilburys was: George Harrison (Nelson Wilbury), Jeff Lynne (Otis Wilbury), Roy Orbison (Lefty Wilbury), Tom Petty (Charlie T. Wilbury Jr.) and Bob Dylan (Lucky Wilbury).
2011 Leslie West of Mountain has his right leg amputated below the knee at a Biloxi, Mississippi, hospital the day after performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in the city. West later says, "when I play 'Mississippi Queen' now, I think about Jesus Christ."
2010 "Recovery" 7th studio album by Eminem is released (best selling album worldwide 2010)
2012 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards: Community wins Best Comedy Series, Homeland wins Best Drama Series
2013 Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children
2014 Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"
2016 Soyuz capsule returns to Earth 1st British International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Timothy Kopra after 186 days
2017 US Open Men's Golf, Erin Hills GC: Brooks Koepka wins his first major title by 4 strokes from Brian Harman and Hideki Matsuyama
2018 President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military - a space force
2018 Ferry sinks on Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, with 193 suspected dead
2019 Chennai, India's 6th largest city with 4 million people runs out of water as its reservoirs dry up
2019 China has been forcefully harvesting organs from marginalized groups in prison camps on a significant scale according to International Tribunal in London
2019 US President Donald Trump announces his campaign for reelection
2019 Sex-changing Australian bush tomato study published in journal "PhytoKeys" detailing how Solanum Plastisexum can change from male to female to hermaphrodite
2019 Two 14 year-old boys become the youngest in Irish history to be convicted of murder when found guilty of the murder and sexual assaultof 14 year-old girl in Dublin
(To be continued....see followup response)
