Birthdays: Tomaso Albinioni,
Progressive congressman Fighting Bob LaFollette, Margaret Bourke-White, Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Sam Wanamaker, Cliff
Edwards the voice of Jiminy Cricket, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Gene Barry,
Jerzy Kosinski, Diablo Cody is 36, Donald
Trump is 68.
1846-THE GREAT BEAR REBELLION-
U.S. citizens living in Spanish California led by a school teacher named
William Ide and Ezekiel Merritt declared themselves an independent country, not
knowing that back east the U.S. government had already declared war on Mexico
and annexed California to the U.S.. Remember information took months to get
back East across Indian territory and burning deserts. The Anglo-Californians
seized a Sonoma military post and arrested the owner of the largest hacienda in
the area, a retired Mexican General named Mariano Vallejo. Ironically Senor
Vallejo himself desired AltaCalifornia to have independence from Mexico
City.
They chose as their flag for the
new republic the grizzly bear and the polar star, which is now the state flag.
It wasn’t well drawn and a Mexican noblewoman watching the events thought the
flag looked like a large towel with a pig painted on it. US Col. John Freemont took over the Great
Bear settlers and raised the US flag over the Presidio in San Francisco July
1st.
1959- Three new rides are debuted
at Disneyland in Anaheim. The first monorail the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail
System, Matterhorn Mountain and the Submarine Voyage, today called the Finding
Nemo Submarine Voyage. Back then the submarines were named and painted to be
the USN nuclear submarines Nautilus, Triton, Skipjack, Skate, Patrick Henry, Sea
Wolf, George Washington and Ethan Allen. The ride took visitors for an
adventure under the North Pole, an achievement which the real USN Nautilus had
just done the previous year. The subs were repainted the more pacific yellow
color after the Vietnam era.
1989- Elderly actress Zsa Zsa
Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills policeman who was writing her a
traffic ticket.
1995, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MP3. The researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for
Integrated Circuits decided to use "mp3" as the file name extension
for their new audio coding technology. Development on this technology started
in 1987. By 1992 it was considered far ahead of its times. MP3 became the
generally accepted acronym as the popular standard for digital music on the on
the Internet.
2001- The Oxford English
Dictionary admitted the slang expletive of Homer Simpson "DOH!" into
its august pages.
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