Birthdays: James Watt, Edgar Allen
Poe, Robert E. Lee, Paul Cezanne', Janis Joplin, Tipi Hedren, Slobodan
Milosovic’, radio star Ish Kabibble, Dolly Parton, Michael Crawford, Chic
Young, Guy Madison, Richard Lester, John H. Johnson publisher of Ebony and Jet
Magazines, Jean Stapleton, Fritz Weaver, Sean Wayans, Robin MacNeill, Paul
Rodriquez, Antoine Fuqua, Drea Di Matteo is 45, and Bart the Bear-1977 Bear who
starred in movies like Clan of the Cave Bear, The Bear, White Fang and Legends
of the Fall.
1829 Johann Von Goethe published
Faust Part 1.
1840- Explorer Lt. Charles Wilkes
claimed all of Antarctica for the United States. He was on a scientific
expedition to chart the South Seas and Southern polar waters. Captain Wilkes
was really good at exploring, but he was such a tyrannical disciplinarian he
was court-martialed upon his return. Wilkes’ erratic behavior may have been a
model for Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab in his novel Moby Dick.
1853- Giuseppe Verdi's Il
Trovatore with the famous Anvil Chorus premiered in Rome.
1869- New York City controller of
Central Park Andrew Green received a petition from 18 of the city’s wealthiest
citizens. It called for the establishment of a Museum of Natural History. The
famous building was built in 1874.
1940- The Three Stooges do their
impression of Hitler and the top Nazis in the Columbia Pictures short comedy
“You Nazty Spy”. Moe Howard was still the best all time Hitler impersonator.
“Hail-Hail-Hailstone of Moronica! Waahoo!”
1955- President Eisenhower held
the first press conference that was shown on television. It was held in the
treaty room of the State Department. Eisenhower was famous for his ability to
speak at great length and never say anything of substance. “This day, My Fellow
Americans, more than at any other time, ahead of us lies the Future!”
1961- The first episode of the
Dick Van Dyke Show was filmed.
1979- Wendy O. Williams,
mohawk-haired lead singer of the punk band the Plasmatics was arrested in
Milwaukee for masturbating on stage with a sledgehammer.
1985- Bruce Springsteen's Born in
the USA peaked the pop charts at #9.
Answer: The team was originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Land of a
Thousand Lakes.
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