Good morning to all you good hearted, yet deplorable Dawgs…..Thursday….July 2nd……..Today is National Amisette Day……That’s a licorice flavored liquor……I’m gonna pass on that one……Take care folks…….
UGA SPORTS SPOTLIGHT
Hugh Royer, Jr…………Golf
Hugh Royer, Jr., was born in Eastman, Ga., on August 19, 1936. He moved to Columbus, where he was nurtured into a love of golf by Country Club of Columbus professionals Fred Haskins and Charlie Harper, as well as University of Georgia golf coach Howell Hollis.
His first win was the All-Southern Junior in 1949 at the age of 13.
He lettered in golf at UGA in 1956, 1957, and 1958. He was the team captain in 1958.
In 1958, he won both the Georgia Amateur and the Southern Amateur.
In 1958 he was the Columbus Country Club Champion.
Royer turned professional in 1959 and won both the St. Charles Open and the Western Open on the PGA TOUR.
He served as head golf professional at Callaway Gardens from 1960-66. He also spent time as head golf professional at Bull Creek Golf Club in Columbus.
Royer won the Georgia PGA Championship twice in addition to the Georgia Open and Georgia Senior Open.
Royer served as president of the Georgia PGA and was the Georgia Golf Professional of the Year in 1983. He was the Georgia Pro of the Year in 1983.
He was inducted into the GeorgiaSports Hall of Fame in 1987. He was inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.
Royer passed away on September 12, 2014.
Hugh Royer, Jr……..a DGD…….May he RIP…….
SOME STUFF ON THIS DATE
1679 Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth
1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
1776 New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds
1776 Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain
1809 Chief Tecumseh urges Native Americans to unite against white settlers
1822 Denmark Vesey is executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a massive slave revolt.
1839 Early in the morning, enslaved Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rise up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba
1843 An alligator reportedly fell from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina.
1847 Envelope bearing 1st U.S. 10 cents stamps, still exists today
1850 - Benjamin Lane patented a gas mask with a breathing apparatus.
1857 - New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business.
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)
1881 President James A. Garfield shot
1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1900 The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time
1901 Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner Montana
1903 AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later
1917 Riots in East St. Louis Mo
1921 Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
1921 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)
1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps; Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight"
1931 Stephen Moulton Babcock died. Babcock developed a test to measure the fat content of milk, which helped improve the quality of commercial dairy production.
1935 Great Britain boxers beat U.S. team in 1st International Golden Gloves
1937 The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.
1939 - At Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt's face was dedicated.
1940 Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated
1940 Hitler orders invasion of England
1941 DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1944 - American bombers, as part of Operation Gardening, dropped land mines, leaflets and bombs on German-occupied Budapest.
1947 An identified or unidentified object crashes near Roswell, Ne Mexico.
1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
1958 Musical drama Film "King Creole" starring Elvis Presley based on a novel by Harold Robbins premieres
1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.
1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
1964 Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
1966 1966 : United States navy planes sink 3 North Vietnamese torpedo boats
1967 - The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Buffalo in response to the North Vietnamese Army's efforts to seize the Marine base at Con Thien.
1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament
1969 Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
1972 Bob Seagren pole vaults world record 5.63m
1976 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
1976 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam were reunited.
1977 “Gonna Fly Now (Theme From ‘Rocky’)” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts
1979 - The U.S. Mint officially released the Susan B. Anthony coin in Rochester, NY. (the first US coin to honor a woman)
1980 Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Year
1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.
1982 Larry Walters used 45 helium filled weather ballons tied to an aluminum lawn chair to ascend to 16,000 feet above Long Beach. Several very perplexed commercial airline pilots reported seeing Larry sitting in his lawn chair in the sky, to the Long Beach airport. The FAA fined him $4,000, but later settled for $1,500.
1985 - General Motors announced that it was installing electronic road maps as an option in some of its higher-priced cars.
1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
1986 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings
1989 10th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody is the winner
1990 Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis
1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business
1993 New York Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27)
1994 John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
1994 37 die in U.S. Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina
1995 - "Forbes" magazine reported that Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, was the worth $12.9 billion, making him the world's richest man.
1995 16th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf was the winner
1997 “Men in Black” premieres in theaters
1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.
1998 "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" the second book in the series is published by Bloomsbury in the UK
2001 World's First Self-Contained Artificial Heart Transplant
2002 Steve Fossett became the first to circumnavigate the globe solo in a balloon.
2006 Michael Schumacher wins US F1 Grand Prix for the 5th time, 1st driver in any series to win 5 races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
2008 2008 A settlement was reached allowing former NBA franchise the Seattle Super Sonics to move to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2012 The first space-bound Orion spacecraft is unveiled in Cape Canaveral, Florida by NASA and Lockheed Martin
2012 Airbus announces it's plan to invest $600 million to open an assembly plant in Mobile, Alabama
2013 Planet Pluto receives names for its fourth and fifth moons; the International Astronomical Union names them Kerberos and Styx
2014 A survey by Consumer Reports reveals that diners prefer restaurants that use higher quality ingredients and allow for customization of the meal; Chipotle Mexican Grill led the survey in the fast-casual category
2015 British Petroleum (BP) reaches a settlement with U.S. federal, state and local government entities regarding damages from its Deepwater Horizon rig explosion five years ago; BP will pay USD $18 billion through the year 2030
SOME MUSIC ON THIS DATE
1936: Tom Springfield of the Springfields ("Silver Threads And Golden Needles") was born in Hampstead, London England.
1937: David Palmer the keyboard player for Jethro Tull between 1969 and 1980…….Palmer changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation during the nineties.
1941: Charlie Watts, drummer of the Rolling Stones, was born in Islington, London, England.
1941: William Guest, of Gladys Knight & the Pips, was born in Atlanta Georgia
1952: Johnny Colla of Huey Lewis and the News was born in Sacramento, California.
1956: Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" at RCA Studios in New York City on this date.
1957: Paul Anka released his first single-- "Diana"
1966: Frank Sinatra moved to #1 on the Billboard Chart with "Strangers In The Night"
1966: Tommy James & the Shondells moved into the Top 10 with "Hanky Panky"
1977: "It's Sad To Belong" by England Dan & John Ford Coley was #1 on the Adult chart for a second week
1977 “Gonna Fly Now (Theme From ‘Rocky’)” is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts
1980: Sheena Easton recorded "Morning Train"
SOME FOLKS THAT DIED ON THIS DATE’
1566 Nostradamus [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist and prophet (Les Propheties), dies at 62
1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British Prime Minister/founder London Police, dies at 62
1903 Ed Delahanty, American Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder (NL batting champion 1899, 1902), dies at Niagara Falls at 35
1961 Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate (The Old Man and the Sea), dies from suicide at 61
1964 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American auto racer (Daytona 500 1962), dies from injuries in May 24 crash at 35
1973 Betty Grable, American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56
1973 Chick Hafey, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (2 World Series 1926, 31), dies at 70
1991 Lee Remick, American actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55
1993 Fred Gwynne, American actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66
1994 Andrés Escobar, Colombian soccer defender (51 caps, World Cup own goal vs US), dies of a gunshot wound at 27
1997 Jimmy Stewart, American actor (The Philadelphia Story and It's a Wonderful Life), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 89
2006 Jan Murray, American comedian (b. 1916)
2012 Ben Davidson, American actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R) and football player, dies from prostate cancer at 72
2013 Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (computer mouse, Engelbart's Law), dies at 88
2014 Louis Zamperini, American World War II veteran whose story of capture by the Japanese inspired the movie "Unbroken", dies at 97
SOME FOLKS BORN ON THIS DATE
1810 Robert Toombs, American lawyer and 1st Confederate States Secretary of State, born in Washington, Georgia (d. 1885)
1908 Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Court justice (1967-91), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1993)
1916 Ken Curtis, American actor (Ripcord, Festus - Gunsmoke), born in Lamar, Colorado (d. 1991)
1916 Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII, born in Konradswaldau, German Empire (d. 1982)
1925 Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist and NAACP official who was assassinated, born in Decatur, Mississippi (d. 1963)
1932 Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s, was borm
1937 Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
1937 Richard Petty, American auto racer (7 x NASCAR Championship, 7 x Daytona 500), born in Level Cross, North Carolina
1939 Paul Williams, American baritone singer and choreographer (The Temptations - Cloud Nine), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1973)
1947 Larry David, American actor, comedian and screen-writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), born in Brooklyn, New York
1952 Johnny Colla, American musician (Huey Lewis and the News), born in Sacramento, California
1956 Jerry Hall, American model, married to Mick Jagger and Rupert Murdoch (Batman, Freejack), born in Mesquite, Texas
1957 Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Canadian WWF champion, born in Alberta
1962 Brandel Chamblee, American golfer, broadcaster (Golf Channel, 1 PGA Tour title), born in St Louis, Missouri
1964 Jose Canseco, Cuban MLB outfielder (AL MVP 1988), born in Havana, Cuba
1986 Lindsay Lohan, American actress (Alli Fowler-Another World), born in NYC, New York
1989 Alex Morgan, American soccer player (Orlando Pride) and co-captain of the US women's national soccer team, born in San Dimas, California
1990 Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer (The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus), born in Dalby, Queensland
AOTD
Running short on time, so I’ll make this short and sweet…..Congratulations Jay Carney, Obama’s 2nd press secretary……What a pitiful little lying “yes” man to go home to his wife…..I believe he’s writing a book….That’s what he needs to do…..Stay at home and write and not be seen or heard from again…..
Congratulations on this long overdue honor……You Jay Carney are our @$$Hole of the Day…….And, you can KMA too…..
HAPPY TRAILS FOLKS
As always folks, I hope each of you have a Great Bulldawg Day.......GATA.....THWGT......MAGA......Go Dawgs......God Bless.......
That’s All Folks………………
