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• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Mar 7 2014 8:16 AM

  SweetiePie:

  1959 - Tom Lehman, PGA

  Top notch person in my book too!  Our son, being a member of his HS golf team, was invited by the Phoenix Open to be a volunteer.  He got assigned as a caddy for an amateur during the Wed. Pro-Am.  In Tom Lehman's foursome.   Lehman, having overheard our son had recently had his birthday 3 weeks prior, wrote him a $50 check as a birthday present.

  What a nice, thoughtful gesture.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Mar 8 2014 8:29 AM

  It is true Andyson. Lehman is priceless.

  March 8

  1293 - Beatrice of Castile, Queen of Portugal

  1495 - John of God, Portugese Friar & Saint

  1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese Samurai & Warlord

  1700 - Anne Bonny, Irish-American Pirate

  1726 - Richard Howe, British Admiral

  1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court Justice

  1872 - Anna Held, Ziegfeld girl

  Play Well

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Sat, Mar 8 2014 10:15 AM

  8 March ...

  Notables:

   

  • In 1884, Susan B Anthony addresses the US House Judiciary Committee regarding a woman's right to vote.  Even then, it took the politicians 16 years before they even presented the Women's Suffrage Act to the floor. 
  • Today is "International Women's Day.  It was originally launched in 1911 in Copenhagen Denmark by Clara Zetkin; the leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.  It took another 34 years before this day was recognized by the US and GB.
  • In 1972, the "Goodyear Blimp" takes to the air for the very first time.
  • In 1883, IBM released "DOS version 2.0"

  Edit:  1983 on the release of "DOS, version 2.0"  lol.

   

  Birthdays:

  Athletes:

   

  • Kenny Smith (NBA Sports Announcer) - 49
  • Petra Kuitova (Tennis) is 24

   

  Musicians:

   

  • Micky Dolenz (The Monkeys drummer) is 69
  • Mississippi John Hurt (1892 - 1966)
  • Shawn Mullins is 46

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Boris Kodjoe - 41
  • Aidan Quinn - 55
  • Freddie Prinze, Jr. - 38
  • Alan Hale, Jr. (1921 - 1990)
  • Cyd Charisse (1922 - 2008)
  • Camryn Manheim - 53
  • Lynn Redgrave (1943 - 2010)
  • Susan Clark - 74

   

  As for Alan Hale, Jr - I don't recall too many episodes of the series he was in ... but the theme song for the show, where he played "Skipper" is very popular ... how many can't finish this:

  "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip ..."

  Happy "International Women's Day" everyone!

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Sat, Mar 8 2014 10:30 AM

  DaddysKat:

   

  • In 1883, IBM released "DOS version 2.0"

   

   

   

  As for Alan Hale, Jr - I don't recall too many episodes of the series he was in ... but the theme song for the show, where he played "Skipper" is very popular ... how many can't finish this:

  "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip ..."

   

  IBM ... wouldn't that be 1983?

  " .... that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship." The boat was named the Minnow ... 

  :-)

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Sat, Mar 8 2014 11:56 AM

  donsprintr:

  BM ... wouldn't that be 1983?

  " .... that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship." The boat was named the Minnow ... 

  :-)

  Thanks, Don ... total typo on the date!

  Yeah ... funny how even Aly (age 11) knows the lyrics, but has never seen Gilligan's Island.

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Sat, Mar 8 2014 10:12 PM

  DaddysKat:

  donsprintr:

  BM ... wouldn't that be 1983?

  " .... that started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship." The boat was named the Minnow ... 

  :-)

  Thanks, Don ... total typo on the date!

  Yeah ... funny how even Aly (age 11) knows the lyrics, but has never seen Gilligan's Island.

  You're welcome and yes its funny how children can commit things to memory so easily ... with me, well, let's just say I watched so many episodes of Gilligan's Island, that even now, many years later, I can recite the entire thing without a hitch. 

  Hadn't thought about that television show for ages .... other than Alan Hale, I can remember that the "millionaire" , Thurston Howell III, was played by a famous actor and cartoon character voice-person, named Jim Backus, and Mary Anne was played by a not so famous actress named Dawn Wells. I'm really showing my age ... lol ...

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sun, Mar 9 2014 9:15 AM

  March 9

  1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Explorer

  1564 - David Fabricius, Astronomer discovered Variable star

  1629 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia

  1749 - Honore Mirabeau, French writer & politician

  1791 - George Hayward, Surgeon, 1st to use ether

  1815 - David Davis, Justice of the Supreme Court & dear long time friend of Lincoln

  1824 - Leland Stanford, Gov/Sen & founder of a very excellent University

  1915 - Pete Grey, one-armed outfielder

  1934 - Yuri Gagarin USSR, 1st man in space

  1936 - Mickey Gilley

  1943 - Bobby Fischer, a pretty salty chess player

  1954 - Bobby Sands, IRA

  1959 - Barbie

  and...

  1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte & Josephine de Beauhamais got hitched

  1862 - The Monitor & The Merrimac got into a beef

  1916 - Poncho Villa & friends attacked Columbus NM and killed 18 Americans

  1945 - B-29 bombers let a few out against Japan killing 100,000

  Good Luck teeing it up 

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Sun, Mar 9 2014 9:57 AM

  9th March ...

  SweetiePie:

  1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Explorer

  While Christopher Columbus received recognition for discovering the new continent, America received its name from Amerigo Vespucci.  He sailed under the Portugal flag.

  Also, Will Geer (1902 - 1978) was born on March 9th.  Many remember him from his role as "Grandpa" on "The Waltons".

  And, Ornette Coleman - 84, a great alto sax jazz musician and composer celebrates his birthday today.

  Great post, SP!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Mar 10 2014 9:45 AM

  March 10

  1941 - Sandra Palmer LPGA

  1452 - Ferdinand II The Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily, expelled the Jews

  1538 - Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk, executed by Queen Elizabeth

  1846 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of honest Abe

  1957 - Osama Bin L#*@^......no he won't grace this page

  1983 - Carrie Underwood, she can grace any page

  and

  1785 - Thomas Jefferson becomes minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin...Jefferson's letters from this period are among my favorites.

  1814 - Napoleon I gets his A$$ handed to him at the Battle of Leon...only took two days

  1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is heard by his assistant "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you"

  1914 - Mary Richardson walks into the National Gallery in London and knife slashes the Rokeby Venus, a 17th century painting by Diego Velazquez in protest of the arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst...a fellow suffragist...the connection of any of this escapes my mind...oh, the painting was repaired.

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Mon, Mar 10 2014 10:07 AM

  10 March ...

  Notables:

  • Prince Edward is 50 today.
  • Lance Burton is 54

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Chuck Norris - 74
  • Sharon Stone -56
  • Shannon Tweed - 57

  Also on this date in history ...

  • 1862 - The Federal Reserve Note (paper money) is introduced.
  • 1864 - Ulysses S Grant is named commander of the Union Armies
  • 1906 - Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens ... later to be named "Bakerloo"

  I wonder ... is the "Bakerloo" still in operation?