Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIV

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History


On Sept. 8, 1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. (Go to article.)

On Sept. 8, 1900, Claude Pepper, the American politician and champion of aid to the elderly, was born. Following his death on May 30, 1989, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 8, 1894, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about passage of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff.


On this date in:

1565    A Spanish expedition established the first permanent European settlement in North America at present-day St. Augustine, Fla.

1664    The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.

1900    Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6,000 people.

1921    Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, N.J.

1930    The comic strip "Blondie" by Chic Young was first published.

1935    Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot at the state capital building in Baton Rouge; he died two days later.

1941    A 900-day siege of Leningrad by German forces began during World War II.

1966    The TV series "Star Trek" premiered on NBC.

1975    Boston's public schools began a court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.

2002    Pete Sampras won a record 14th grand slam tennis title at the U.S. Open in New York.

2004    "60 Minutes Wednesday" aired a report questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service. CBS News later apologized for a "mistake in judgment" after memos featured in the report were challenged as forgeries.

2006    A Senate report faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

2009    A U.N.-backed commission said it had found "convincing evidence" of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election.

Current Birthdays

TV personality Brooke Burke ("Dancing with the Stars") turns 39 years old today.

88    Sid Caesar
Comedian ("Your Show of Shows")

72    Sam Nunn
Former U.S. senator, D-Ga.

68    Bernard Sanders
U.S. senator, I-Vt.

50    Aimee Mann
Rock singer

40    Latrell Sprewell
Basketball player

39    David Arquette
Actor

39    Martin Freeman
Actor ("The Office")

33    Nathan Corddry
Actor

31    Pink
Rock singer

29    Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Actor ("Home Improvement")

Historic Birthdays

Claude Pepper

9/8/1900 - 5/30/1989
American senator (1936-51) and U.S. representative (1963-89) from Florida; championed help for the elderly
(Go to obit.)

58    Ludovico Ariosto
9/8/1474 - 7/6/1533
Italian poet

59    Marin Mersenne
9/8/1588 - 9/1/1648
French philosopher and theologian

90    Margaret Olivia Sage
9/8/1828 - 11/4/1918
American philanthropist

83    Frederic Mistral
9/8/1830 - 3/25/1914
French Nobel Prize-winning poet (1904 )

62    Antonin Dvorak
9/8/1841 - 5/1/1904
Bohemian composer

71    Jessie Willcox Smith
9/8/1863 - 5/3/1935
American painter and illustrator

63    Robert A. Taft
9/8/1889 - 7/31/1953
American senator from Ohio (1939-53) and powerful Republican Party leader

35    Jimmie Rodgers
9/8/1897 - 5/26/1933
American country and western singer and guitarist

90    Buck Leonard
9/8/1907 - 11/27/1997
American baseball player

30    Patsy Cline
9/8/1932 - 3/5/1963
American country and western singer

[Peelz]

thank you Krandall. I feel better.

[Krandall]

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.


he didn't use steroids.

thanks Mark!

[Peelz]

1998    Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals broke Roger Maris' record for home runs in a single season, hitting No. 62 off Chicago Cubs pitcher Steve Trachsel.


he didn't use steroids.

thanks Mark!

he didn't "use" them per se...as much as they were administered unto him.

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 9, 1976, Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at age 82.

On Sept. 9, 1887, Alfred Landon, the American politician who ran against Franklin Roosevelt for United States president in 1936, was born. Following his death on Oct. 12, 1987, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 9, 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Oscar Wilde's tour of America.







On this date in:

1850    California became the 31st state of the union.

1893    President Grover Cleveland's wife, Frances, gave birth to a daughter, Esther, in the White House.

1926    The National Broadcasting Co. was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America.

1948    The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created.

1956    Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

1957    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

1965    Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

1971    Prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a four-day siege that claimed 43 lives.

1993    The Palestine Liberation Organization agreed to recognize Israel's right to exist, and Israel agreed to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

1997    Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political ally, formally renounced violence as it took its place in talks on Northern Ireland's future.

2003    The Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese agreed to pay $85 million to 552 people to settle clergy sex abuse cases.

2005    Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, the principal target of harsh criticism of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, was relieved of his onsite command.

2009    Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on health care.




Current Birthdays

Actor Hugh Grant turns 50 years old today.


87    Cliff Robertson
Actor

75    Topol
Actor ("Fiddler on the Roof")

61    Joe Theismann
Football player, sportscaster

59    Tom Wopat
Actor ("Dukes of Hazzard")

58    Angela Cartwright
Actress ("The Danny Thomas Show," "Lost in Space")

58    Dave Stewart
Rock musician, producer (Eurythmics)

45    Constance Marie
Actress ("George Lopez")

44    Adam Sandler
Actor, comedian

41    Rachel Hunter
Model

38    Goran Visnjic
Actor ("ER")

35    Michael Buble
Singer

30    Michelle Williams
Actress

Historic Birthdays

Alfred Landon

9/9/1887 - 10/12/1987
American governor of Kansas (1933-7) and unsuccessful Republican presidential candidate (1936)
(Go to obit.)

61    Luigi Galvani
9/9/1737 - 12/4/1798
Italian physician and physicist

63    William Bligh
9/9/1754 - 12/7/1817
English admiral; commanded the HMS Bounty

74    Fremont Lawson
9/9/1850 - 8/19/1925
American newspaper editor and publisher

70    Max Reinhardt
9/9/1873 - 10/31/1943
Austrian stage and screen director

69    James Agate
9/9/1877 - 6/6/1947
English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923-47)

54    James Hilton
9/9/1900 - 12/20/1954
English novelist

80    Granville Hicks
9/9/1901 - 6/18/1982
American critic, novelist and teacher

26    Otis Redding
9/9/1941 - 12/10/1967
American soul singer and songwriter

44    John Curry
9/9/1949 - 4/15/1994
English Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater (1976 )

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I.

On Sept. 10, 1934, Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 10, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the stock and gold markets during the Civil War.




On this date in:

1608    John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813    Oliver H. Perry sent the message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after an American naval force defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

1846    Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.

1924    A judge in Chicago sentenced Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb to life in prison for the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks - a "thrill killing" that had shocked the nation.

1935    Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died two days after being shot in Baton Rouge.

1948    American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.

1955    "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS. (It ran for 20 years, longer than any other network prime-time series.)

1963    Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala., following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.

1977    A convicted murderer became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.

1988    Steffi Graf of West Germany achieved tennis' Grand Slam - winning all four major tournaments in a calendar year - by taking the U.S. Open women's title.

1989    Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.

2000    The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" closed after 7,485 performances over nearly 18 years as the longest-running show in Broadway history.

2000    NBC's "The West Wing" won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.

2002    Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.

2003    Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.

2008    The world's largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile ring under the Franco-Swiss border.



Current Birthdays

Actor Colin Firth turns 50 years old today.


81    Arnold Palmer
Golfer

79    Philip Baker Hall
Actor

65    Jose Feliciano
Singer

62    Bob Lanier
Basketball Hall of Famer

60    Joe Perry
Rock musician (Aerosmith)

57    Amy Irving
Actress

53    Kate Burton
Actress

50    David Lowery
Rock singer, musician

47    Randy Johnson
Baseball player

47    Sean O'Bryan
Actor

46    John E. Sununu
Former U.S. senator, R-N.H.

42    Big Daddy Kane
Rapper

42    Guy Ritchie
Director

36    Ryan Phillippe
Actor

34    Gustavo Kuerten
Tennis player

30    Mikey Way
Rock musician (My Chemical Romance)

26    Matthew Followill
Rock musician (Kings of Leon)

36    Sanjaya Malakar
Singer ("American Idol")

Historic Birthdays

Roger Maris

/1934 - 12/14/1985
American professional baseball player
(Go to obit.)

?    Alonso Perez Medina-Sidonia
/1550 - ?/?/1619
Spanish naval commander

83    Sir John Soane
/1753 - 1/20/1837
English Neoclassical architect

74    William Torrey Harris
/1835 - 11/5/1909
American public school educator and philosopher

92    John Lynch
/1847 - 11/2/1939
American politician; served in Mississippi legislature and U.S. Congress during Reconstruction

64    Carl Van Doren
/1885 - 7/18/1950
American novelist, biographer and critic

54    Franz Werfel
/1890 - 8/26/1945
German Expressionist poet, playwright and novelist

83    Elsa Schiaparelli
/1890 - 11/13/1973
Italian-born French dress designer

69    Arthur Holly Compton
/1892 - 3/15/1962
American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927)

71    Cyril Connolly
/1903 - 11/26/1974
English critic, novelist and founder of Horizon magazine

   

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History


On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

On Sept. 13, 1860, John J. Pershing, American commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, was born. Following his death on July 15, 1948, his obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 13, 1862, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Dakota (Indian) War of 1862.



On this date in:

1788    The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election and declared New York City the temporary national capital.

1943    Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.

1948    Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.

1949    The Ladies Professional Golf Association of America was formed in New York City.

1971    A four-day inmates' rebellion at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York ended as police and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault claimed 43 lives.

1990    "Law & Order" premiered on NBC.

1996    Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, died at a Las Vegas hospital six days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.

1998    NBC's "Frasier" won a record fifth consecutive Emmy as TV's best comedy series.

1999    A bomb blamed by authorities on Chechen rebels devastated an eight-story apartment building in Moscow, killing at least 124 people.

2000    Former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty in Albuquerque, N.M., to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets. Lee, who had been held in solitary confinement for nine months, was set free with an apology from U.S. District Judge James Parker.

2000    Chase Manhattan agreed to buy J.P. Morgan for more than $35 billion, creating the third largest financial company in the U.S.

2001    Secretary of State Colin Powell named Osama bin Laden as the prime suspect in the terror attacks on the United States; limited commercial flights resumed for the first time in two days.

2007    The NFL fined New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 for spying on the New York Jets during a game.

2009    Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for best female video at the MTV Video Awards, taking the microphone to say Beyonce should have won the award instead.




Current Birthdays

Country musician Joe Don Rooney (Rascal Flatts) turns 35 years old today.


79    Barbara Bain
Actress ("Mission: Impossible")

71    Larry Speakes
Former White House spokesman

66    Jacqueline Bisset
Actress

66    Peter Cetera
Rock singer (Chicago)

59    Jean Smart
Actor ("Designing Women")

58    Don Was
Record producer

49    Dave Mustaine
Rock singer, musician (Megadeth)

46    Tavis Smiley
Radio, TV personality

45    Zak Starkey
Rock musician, son of Ringo Starr

43    Michael Johnson
Runner

43    Steve Perkins
Rock musician (Porno For Pyros; Jane's Addiction)

42    Bernie Williams
Baseball player

40    Louise Lombard
Actress ("CSI")

39    Goran Ivanisevic
Tennis player

33    Fiona Apple
Rock singer

21    Thomas Mueller
Soccer player

Historic Birthdays

John J. Pershing

9/13/1860 - 7/15/1948
American commander of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
(Go to obit.)

52    Grigory Potemkin
9/13/1739 - 10/5/1791
Russian army officer and statesman

43    Daniel Macmillan
9/13/1813 - 6/27/1857
Scottish bookseller; co-founded Macmillan Publishing Co.

76    Clara Schumann
9/13/1819 - 5/20/1896
German pianist and composer

66    Anthony Drexel
9/13/1826 - 6/30/1893
American banker and philanthropist

51    Walter Reed
9/13/1851 - 11/22/1902
American pathologist and bacteriologist

88    Milton Hershey
9/13/1857 - 10/13/1945
American chocolate manufacturer

82    Maud Ballington Booth
9/13/1865 - 8/26/1948
English-born American cofounder of Volunteers of America

76    Arnold Schoenberg
9/13/1874 - 7/13/1951
Austrian-born American composer

64    Sherwood Anderson
9/13/1876 - 3/8/1941
American author

92    Claudette Colbert
9/13/1903 - 7/30/1996
American stage and film actress

84    Bill Monroe
9/13/1911 - 9/9/1996
American singer, songwriter and mandolin player

74    Roald Dahl
9/13/1916 - 11/23/1990
English author

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History


On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.

On Sept. 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger, the outspoken early twentieth-century advocate of birth control, was born. Following her death on Sept. 6, 1966, her obituary appeared in The Times.
   
On September 14, 1901, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the assassination of President William McKinley.





On this date in:

1814    Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812.

1847    U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott took control of Mexico City.

1901    President William B. McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin eight days earlier. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, 42, was sworn in, becoming the youngest president in U.S. history.

1940    Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

1948    Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.

1975    Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982    Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries suffered in a car crash.

1982    Lebanon's president-elect, Bashir Gemayel, was killed by a bomb.

1994    Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.

2001    The FBI released the names of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; President George W. Bush toured the ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed rescue workers over a bullhorn.

2005    Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2005    A federal judge in San Francisco declared the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.

2009    Actor Patrick Swayze died at age 57.






Current Birthdays

Actor-director Tyler Perry turns 41 years old today.


74    Walter Koenig
Actor ("Star Trek")

70    Larry Brown
Hall of Fame basketball coach

66    Joey Heatherton
Singer, dancer

63    Jon "Bowzer" Bauman
Rock singer (Sha Na Na)

63    Sam Neill
Actor

46    Faith Ford
Actress ("Faith and Hope," "Murphy Brown")

40    Ben Garant
Actor ("Reno911!")

40    Craig Montoya
Rock musician

39    Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Actress ("According to Jim")

37    Nas
Rapper

27    Amy Winehouse
Singer

Historic Birthdays

Margaret Sanger

9/14/1879 - 9/6/1966
American birth-control advocate
(Go to obit.)

81    Luigi Cherubini
9/14/1760 - 3/15/1842
Italian-born French composer of opera and sacred music

89    Alexander von Humboldt
9/14/1769 - 5/6/1859
German naturalist and explorer

92    Alice Stone Blackwell
9/14/1857 - 3/15/1950
American women's suffragist and editor

77    Charles Dana Gibson
9/14/1867 - 12/23/1944
American artist and illustrator

61    Jan Masaryk
9/14/1886 - /1948
Czechoslovakian statesman and diplomat

66    Karl Compton
9/14/1887 - 6/22/1954
American educator, physicist, and president of M. I. T. (1930-48)

74    Norman Chandler
9/14/1899 - 10/20/1973
American publisher of the Los Angeles Times

87    Hal Wallis
9/14/1899 - 10/5/1986
American motion-picture producer

62    Allan Bloom
9/14/1930 - 10/7/1992
American writer, philosopher and teacher

[Peelz]

1994    Acting commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players.


haven't watched a game since.

[socalrappy700]

Heading to Roscoes for lunch today.   

Wonder if I'll run into snoop dogg.

http://roscoeschickenandwaffles.com/

[Krandall]

still don't get the whole chicken and waffles thing.

[Peelz]

yeah...white boys

[Colorado700R]

That place is awesome!  It needs crashcarts and oxygen at every booth though

"Clear"  <ZAAAAAAAPPP> "woaw!.........ummm nom nom"......"Da bears"...

[Krandall]

Sounds like the Heart Attack Grill. (Google it.)   

[Colorado700R]

Sounds like the Heart Attack Grill. (Google it.)   

That's in Arizona! Been there!