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LOTS of History
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August 4th
Welcome back to friday, humans. 149 days remain until the end of the year.
Pip’s Bitcoin price prediction would be $28,796.42. The current price is $29,194.
Here’s LOTS of History for ya on a Friday – anyone recall the Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
Two USS destroyers “mistakenly” report coming under attack?… or something like that…
Anyway… what else happened today….
- 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne;
it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
The quote attributed to Perignon—”Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!”—is supposedly what he said when tasting the first sparkling champagne. However, the first appearance of that quote appears to have been in a print advertisement in the late 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_P%C3%A9rignon_(monk)
- 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
established by an act of Congress on 4 Aug, 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to serve as an armed customs enforcement service.
As time passed, the service gradually gained missions either voluntarily or by legislation, including those of a military nature. It was generally referred to as the Revenue-Marine until
31 July 1894, when it was officially renamed the Revenue Cutter Service.
The Revenue Cutter Service operated under the authority of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
On 28 January 28 1915, the service was merged by an act of Congress with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Revenue_Cutter_Service
- 1821 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
an American magazine, currently published six times a year.
It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969.
From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely circulated and influential magazines
within the American middle class, with fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and features that reached
two million homes every week. The magazine declined in readership through the 1960s, and in 1969
The Saturday Evening Post folded for two years before being revived as a quarterly publication
with an emphasis on medical articles in 1971.
Pip’s history on the history notes – The Saturday Evening Post was first published in 1821 in the same
printing shop at 53 Market Street in Philadelphia where the Benjamin Franklin-founded Pennsylvania
Gazette had been published in the 18th century.
While the Gazette ceased publication in 1800, ten years after Franklin’s death,
the Post links its history to the original magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post
- 1914 – World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British
Empire declare war on Germany.
The United States declares its neutrality.
On 2 August, the German government sent an ultimatum to Belgium, demanding passage through the country
and German forces invaded Luxembourg. Two days later, the Belgian government refused the German
demands and the British government guaranteed military support to Belgium.
The German government declared war on Belgium on 4 August; German troops crossed the border and
began the Battle of Liège.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914)
- 1944 – The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an
Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
Pip’s notes – “informant” is another word for a rat. Just sayin’.
I think it was the book 1984 where the kids would rat out the parents for “anti-party thoughts”
In 2015, Flemish journalist Jeroen De Bruyn and Joop van Wijk, Bep Voskuijl’s youngest son,
wrote a biography in which they alleged that Bep’s younger sister Nelly (1923–2001)
could have betrayed the Franks. Nelly was a Nazi collaborator from the age of 19 to 23.
She had run away to Austria with a Nazi officer, and returned to Amsterdam in 1943 after
the relationship ended.
Nelly had been critical of Bep and their father,
Johannes Voskuijl, for helping the Jews; Johannes was the one who constructed the bookcase covering
the entrance to the hiding place and remained as an unofficial watchman of the hideout.
In one of their quarrels, Nelly shouted to them, “Go to your Jews.”[59] Karl Josef Silberbauer,
the SS officer who made the arrest, was reported to have said that the informer had “the voice of a young woman”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
- 1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
The 1973 oil crisis called attention to the need to consolidate energy policy.
On August 4, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed into law The Department of Energy Organization
Act of 1977, which created the Department of Energy.
The new agency, which began operations on October 1, 1977, consolidated the Federal Energy
Administration, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Federal Power Commission,
and programs of various other agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy
Happy Birthdays
From a Stargate fan, happy Birthday Don Davis.
- 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
an American character actor best known for playing Base Commander General Hammond in the televisionseries Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007),
and earlier for playing Major Garland Briggs on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991).
He was also a theater professor, painter, and United States Army captain.
Pip’s notes – In the TV show MacGyver, Davis was the stunt/photography double for Dana Elcar.
He was often mistaken for Elcar, and vice versa. Both TV shows were with Richard Dean Anderson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_S._Davis
- 1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director, and screenwriter
an American film actor and director. He had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller One False Move, and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade
Pip’s notes – I only recall seeing this dude in Armageddon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton
- 1961 – Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Pip’s notes – “he said he wanted to try to make things ok, so they gave him a Nobel”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
- 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor
an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jin-Soo Kwon in Lost, Chin Ho Kelly in Hawaii Five-0.
Pip’s notes – Rewatching LOST is on the list of things to do, but it’s on the list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dae_Kim
- 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver and actor
an American stock car racing executive and former professional stock car racing driver,
who currently serves as the vice chairman for Hendrick Motorsports.
He raced full-time from 1993 to 2015, driving the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in the
former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Sprint Cup Series
Pip’s notes – “Another Left Turn!!!”…. anyway…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gordon
- 1989 – Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men’s C-2 1000 metres with Marcin Grzybowski.
At the 2016 Olympics, he competed in the C-1 200 m and the C-1 1000 m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Kaczor
Passings
- 1932 – Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
n American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally andin New York City during the early twentieth century.
Highly respected today,his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Maurer
- 1962 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)’
an American actress, model, and singer. Known for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters,
she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s,
as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution.
Monroe died between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on August 4; the toxicology report showed
that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning.
She had 8 mg% chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg% of pentobarbital in her blood, and 13 mg% of
pentobarbital in her liver. he possibility that Monroe had accidentally overdosed was ruled
out because the dosages found in her body were several times the lethal limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
- 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian.
He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust.
Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust Studies and his three-volume,
1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as seminal for
research into the Nazi Final Solution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Hilberg
- 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
an American screenwriter, consultant, author and educator based in Los Angeles.
His screenplays include the comedies Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Blank Check (1994)
Snyder died unexpectedly August 4, 2009, of what was
characterized as either a pulmonary embolism or cardiac arrest.
Pip’s notes – Blank Check! Geeze, that was a bit ago…. decent flick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_Snyder
Holidays
- Coast Guard Day (United States)
- Constitution Day (Cook Islands); first Monday in August
- Matica slovenská Day (Slovakia)
- Barack Obama Day in Illinois in the United States
- 2020 Beirut explosion commemoration day in Lebanon
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Cheers and have a prosperous weekend, humans.
-Pip