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  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Thu, Jan 29 2015 7:26 AM

    ZioMio:

    SweetiePie:
    1967 ~ The Stones release "Let's spend the night together"

    ..and still worth a listen

    Well Z-Man, it is true ! I called my Dad and asked him what he remembered about it, he chuckled and said that when the Stones went on the Ed Sullivan Show to perform it, a strait-laced Ed Sullivan insisted by contract that the words be changed to "Let's spend some time together", and that Jagger was rolling his eyes as he sang it.  ;-}

    January 29

                                  ~ WGT's very own SJU92

    1584 - Frederik Hendrik ~ Count of Nassau ~ Prince of Orange

    1737 - Thomas Paine ~ Thetford, Great Britain ~ Essayist of "Common Sense" & "Age of Reason" both very important pieces of early Americana

    1756 - Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee ~ Governor of Virginia ~ American General

    1761 - Albert Gallatin ~ Switzerland ~ US Minister of Finance during the Jefferson Presidency a very key player

    1843 - William McKinley ~ POTUS #25

    1874 - John D. Rockefeller ~ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!

    1880 - WC Fields [William Claude Dunkenfield]

    1942 - Katherine Ross

    1945 - Tom Selleck

    1945 - Donna Caponi ~ 4 Majors

    1954 - Okra Wimprey

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1595 ~ "Romeo and Juliet" by William Sharespeare first performed

    1820 ~ George III ~ House of Hanover ~ King of England ~ Dies at Windsor Castle

    George III was the first of the Hanoverians born in Britain. England was his home and his first priority, and he doggedly worked at his kingly responsibilities for as long as he could through his 60 years of rule. Though he made costly mistakes, and in later years declined into such poor mental health, requiring he be fitted with a strait waist jacket, a regency was instituted for the final decade of his reign, George gained the affection and admiration of his subjects. With his stolid sense of rectitude, he turned the kingship into a symbol of British values.

    1845 ~ "Raven" by Poe is published

    1886 ~ 1st successful gasoline driven car is patented by, who else? Karl Benz

    ~ and so, the only thing not working for me is WGT...but it's not them ~

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Fri, Jan 30 2015 7:54 AM

    January 30

                                     ~ 1967 - Payne Stewart ~  '-{

      133 - Marcus Severus Diolius Julianus ~ Roman Emperor

    1615 - Thomas Rolfe ~ The only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe

    1882 - Franklin Roosevelt ~ POTUS #32....hung around way too long

    1909 - Saul Alinsky ~ Radical clown loved by 0bama & his ilk...oh brother

    1930 - Gene Hackman

    1937 - Vanessa Redgrave

    1939 - Eleanor Smeal ~ hysterical feminist nut job of NOW

    1951 - Phil Collins

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1349 ~ Jews of Freilsburg, Germany are massacred

    1648 ~ Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster ending the Thirty Years War

    1815 ~ The burned & destroyed US Library of Congress is re-established with 6,500 volumes from Thomas Jefferson's personal collection

    1956 ~ Elvis records "Blue Suede Shoes"

    ~ The Seahawks are going to punk NE ~ 

     

     

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Fri, Jan 30 2015 8:04 AM

    SweetiePie:
    1951 - Phil Collins

    That needs a good tune...

    ...Phil doesn't have any!

  • ZioMio
    4,680 Posts
    Fri, Jan 30 2015 8:44 AM

    PaulTon:
    Phil doesn't have any

    ... but can he drum?

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sat, Jan 31 2015 5:46 AM

    January 31

    36BC - Antonia Minor ~ daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor

    1512 - King Henry of Portugal

    1734 - Robert Morris ~ Merchant ~ Signer of The Declaration of Independence

    1797 - Franz Schubert ~ Austria ~ Composer

    1865 - Henri Desgrange ~ Founder of the Tour-de-France

    1872 - Zane Grey ~ American West novelist

    1913 - Don Hutson ~ 1st NFL wide receiver ~ Packers

    1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott

    1919 - Jackie Robinson

    1929 - Jean Simmons ~ London ~ Beautiful actress

    1947 - Nolan Ryan

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1627 ~ Spain goes bankrupt $$$$$

    1779 ~ Charles Messier catalogs M57, The Ring Nebula in Lyra

    1851 ~ Gail Borden invents condensed milk

    1874 ~ The Jesse James Gang robs a train in Missouri

    ~ see ya ~

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Sun, Feb 1 2015 7:32 AM

    February 1

                                      ~ 1949 - Jim Thorpe ~

    1582 - Edward Coke ~ England ~ Jurist and defender of "Common Law"

    1757 - John Kemble ~ Lancashire, England ~ Drury Lane Actor and brother of the incomparable Sarah Siddons 

    1901 - Clark Gable

    1931 - Boris Yeltsin

    1948 - Harry Vincent (Vince) M**** ~ me papa

    1968 - Lisa Marie Presley

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1327 ~ Edward III ~ House of Plantagenet ~ is crowned King of England..he is a teenager

    1587 ~ Queen Elizabeth I ~ House of Tudor ~ signs death warrent for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

    1790 ~ Supreme Court convenes for 1st time -- in NYC

    1810 ~ US Population -- 7,289,881, Blacks -- 1,377,808

    1856 ~ Auburn University is chartered -- Go Tigers !!

    1884 ~ 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary is published

    1968 ~ Vince Lombardi resigns

    1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile...isn't that spectacular news ?

    ~ I gotta question. I know nothing, nada, zero about Cricket and yet almost daily see news of Donald Bradman...what is he ? the friggin Pope of Cricket, the Nicklaus of Cricket ? ~

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Sun, Feb 1 2015 9:20 AM

    SweetiePie:
    ~ I gotta question. I know nothing, nada, zero about Cricket and yet almost daily see news of Donald Bradman...what is he ? the friggin Pope of Cricket, the Nicklaus of Cricket ? ~

    He's an Australian legend and one of the best batsman of all time.

    England cricket team developed bodyline* bowling in an attempt to curb his scoring prowess. 

    Questions were raised in both countries Parliaments over this issue.

    * trying to knock the batsmans head off with the leather covered solid wooden cored ball.

     

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Mon, Feb 2 2015 7:20 AM

    PaulTon:

    SweetiePie:
    ~ I gotta question. I know nothing, nada, zero about Cricket and yet almost daily see news of Donald Bradman...what is he ? the friggin Pope of Cricket, the Nicklaus of Cricket ? ~

    He's an Australian legend and one of the best batsman of all time.

    England cricket team developed bodyline* bowling in an attempt to curb his scoring prowess. 

    Questions were raised in both countries Parliaments over this issue.

    * trying to knock the batsmans head off with the leather covered solid wooden cored ball.

     

    TY ;-} ...I love free education

    February 2

    1208 - James I of Aragon

    1455 - King John of Denmark

    1650 - Nell Gwyn ~ English Actress and the Mistress of King Charles II ~ House of Stuart

    1861 - Solomon Gugganheim ~ $$$$ and a spiffy Museum in NYC

    1882 - James Joyce ~ Ireland ~ novelist

    1895 - George Halas ~ Papa Bear

    1905 - Ayn (rhymes with mine) Rand ~ writer

    1942 - Graham Nash ~ rocker with a snazzy resume

    1947 - Farrah Fawcett

    1977 - Shakira ~ Colombia

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1536 ~ Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires

    1653 ~ New Amsterdam becomes a city...renamed New York City

    1848 ~ Treaty of Hildago ~ The US acquires California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona from Mexico for a paltry $15 million....a darn fine deal  ;-}

    1863 ~ Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain

    1897 ~ In Punxsutawney, PA,  the !st Groundhog Day is observed

    1913 ~ The NY Giants sign Jim Thorpe

    1932 ~ Scareface Al Capone goes to the Graybar Hotel

    1940 ~ Frank Sinatra debuts with Tommy Dorsey

    1949 ~ Ben Hogan has his horrible car accident...a real bad one

    1959 ~ Buddy Holly's last performance

    1962 ~ 1st Pole Vault over 16' -- John Uelses

    ~ Peace ~

  • SweetiePie
    4,925 Posts
    Tue, Feb 3 2015 8:41 AM

    February 3

                            ~ 1941 - Carol Mann - LPGA Hall of Fame ~

                                          ~ 1969 - Retief Goosen ~

    1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon ~ wife of Charles V of France

    1368 - Charles VI ~ King of France ~

    1811 - Horace Greeley ~ powerful NY publisher with a strange beard who advised "Go West, young man"

    1874 - Gertrude Stein ~ author of "Alice B Toklas" and a `***` (whoops, the star-room..lets try`butch`)

    1894 - Norman Rockwell ~ ;-}

    1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd ~ criminal trash job

    1920 - Henry Heimlich ~ the "Heimlich Maneuver" ...  which he tried on his wife and found her `G-Spot`

    1940 ~ Fran Tarkenton

    ~ By the Bye ~

    1834 ~ Wake Forrest University is established

    1876 ~ Gilbert Spaulding starts his sporting goods company with $800

    1882 ~ PT Barnum buys JUMBO

    1937 ~ Bradman does a good Cricket thing of some type (?)

    1947 ~ Bradman gets some more Cricket Kudos for (?)  

    1959 ~ "The Day the Music Died" yep, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens & JP (The Big Bopper) Richardson all get whacked in a naughty plane crash

    1967 ~ "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix...whoo-who!!

    ~ see ya ~

  • PaulTon
    10,731 Posts
    Tue, Feb 3 2015 9:49 AM

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