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LOTS of History
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Aug 16
Well hello, humans & welcome back to another segment of LOTS of History.
May your day be filled with 24 hrs and your coffee not spill. Yeah, that’s a vague intro, but it’ll work. There’s a salad bowl to tend to… anyway…
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis routed the numerically superior American forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden, South Carolina, thus strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas following the capture of Charleston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camden
- 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
Pip’s notes – did they get lag on a telephone line?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
- 1920 – US baseball player Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Next day, Chapman will become the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game.
Chapman’s death and sanitary concerns also led to the ban on spitballs after the 1920 season.
Pip’s notes – Chapman’s death was also one of the examples cited to justify the wearing of batting helmets. However, it took over 30 years to adopt the rule that required their use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Chapman
- 1933 – Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
The riot occurred in the midst of the Great Depression and six months after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany.
The Toronto papers, including the Toronto Telegram and the Toronto Daily Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed from professions in Germany, including lawyers, professors, and teachers, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews, the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Pits_riot
- 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
Founded by Stuart Scheftel, it was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice.
Pip’s notes – The swimsuit issue has been published since 1964, the rest are just details and sportsball stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Illustrated
- 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico, United States, at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
an officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) who served from 1950 to 1978, and earned Command Pilot status before retiring with the rank of colonel. He held the world record for the highest skydive—102,800 feet (31.3 km)—from 1960 until 2012
Pip’s notes – This dude also helped out in the Redbull ‘space jump’ a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
Happy Birthdays
- 1892 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (d. 1983)
The extent of Messmer’s role in the creation and popularity of Felix is a matter of ongoing dispute, particularly as he only laid his claim to the character after the death of Sullivan, who until that time had received the credit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Messmer
- 1910 – Gloria Blondell, American actress (d. 1986)
a stage, film, and television actress who was the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.
Gloria Blondell said that she first went on stage when she was 9 months old, and she was described as “a trouper at three [years of age].”
Her family comprised a vaudeville troupe, the “Bouncing Blondells”, whose members were her parents, her sister and her brother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Blondell
- 1955 – Jeff Perry, American actor
He is known for his role as Richard Katimski on the teen drama My So-Called Life, Thatcher Grey on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, Cyrus Beene on the political drama series Scandal, all for ABC, and as Inspector Harvey Leek on the CBS crime drama Nash Bridges. He currently stars on the ABC drama Alaska Daily, alongside Hilary Swank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Perry_(American_actor)
- 1958 – Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
Madonna has been widely recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. She has pushed the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music, while continuing to maintain control over every aspect of her career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna
Passings
- 1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
Most of the boys at St. Mary’s played baseball in organized leagues at different levels of proficiency.
Ruth later estimated that he played 200 games a year as he steadily climbed the ladder of success.
Although he played all positions at one time or another, he gained stardom as a pitcher. According to Brother Matthias, Ruth was standing to one side laughing at the bumbling pitching efforts of fellow students, and Matthias told him to go in and see if he could do better.
Ruth had become the best pitcher at St. Mary’s, and when he was 18 in 1913, he was allowed to leave the premises to play weekend games on teams that were drawn from the community.
He was mentioned in several newspaper articles, for both his pitching prowess and ability to hit long home runs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth
- 1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
Presley played guitar, bass, and piano; he received his first guitar when he was 11 years old. He could not read or write music and had no formal lessons, and played everything by ear. Presley often played an instrument on his recordings and produced his own music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
- 1989 – Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress “Miss Kitty Russell” on the western television series Gunsmoke. Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Blake
- 2002 – Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
An American stage and screen actor who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s
Corey’s career was over in the early 1950s, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He refused to give names of alleged Communists and subversives in the entertainment industry[2] and went so far as to ridicule the panel by offering critiques of the testimony of the previous witnesses. That led to his being blacklisted for 12 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Corey
- 2008 – Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer and author (b. 1913)
a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as “natural farming” or “do-nothing farming”
Pip’s notes – The book 1 straw revolution. good stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
- 2018 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942
an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the “Queen of Soul”, Rolling Stone twice named her as the greatest singer of all time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aretha_Franklin
- Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan)
- Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
- The first day of the Independence Days, celebrates the independence of Gabon from France in 1960.
- Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France)
- National Airborne Day (United States)
a day designated by the United States Congress to honor the nation’s airborne forces of the Armed Forces. It was created in 2002 by George W. Bush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airborne_Day
Thus concludes todays LOTS of History, and now back to you’re regularlly scheduled Brian.
May the day be ok-ish, and camel up, humans to go GSD.
Pip saying Cheers, and more words and stuff.