Question: Queen Marie Antoinette of France was born in what country?
Yesterday’s Question answered below: People used to describe a real backwards, hick town as Podunk. Podunk Junction. Where is Podunk?
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History for 9/17/2022
Birthdays: Hank Williams, Spiro Agnew, Ken Kesey, Jerry Colonna, Roddy MacDowell, George Blanda, Wendy Carlos Williams, Elvira- real name Cassandra Peterson, Anne Bancroft, Jeff MacNelly, John Ritter, Sir Frederick Ashton, Rita Rudner, animator Tim Walker, Baz Luhrmann is 60
1179- Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval female composer.
1857- James Pierpont, an uncle of banker J.P. Morgan, had moved from Massachusetts to Savannah Georgia to be organist in a local church. There he missed the snowy winters of home. So, this day he published a song he wrote about what fun it was to riding in a sleigh. He called it The One-Horse Open Sleigh, but we know it by its popular chorus- Jingle Bells.
1880- The L.A. Athletic Club opened.
1925- In Mexico City, a streetcar crashed into a schoolbus carrying 14 year old Frida Kahlo. It fractured her pelvis, when she had already been dealing with polio. The difficulty she suffered recovering had a great impact on her painting.
1932- Mickey Mouse short Mickey’s Whoopee Party, premiered.
1965- If you ever wondered what could be funny about being held in a Nazi prison camp you could watch the TV sitcom HOGANS HEROES, which debuted this day. Commandant Colonel Klink was acted by Werner Klemperer, whose father was the famous orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer. They had to flee Germany because they were Jewish. Sargent Schulz and the Frenchman LeBeau were also played by actors who survived the Holocaust- John Banner and Robert Clary.
1971- RCA gave up and pulled out of the retail computer market.
1972- Filmation’s The Groovie Ghoulies" debuts.
1980- Saddam Hussein’s Iraq attacked the Ayatollah Khomeni's Iran. An 8 year war resulted. Because at the time we hated the Ayatollah’s Iran more, the US actively supplied Saddam with arms, CIA intelligence on Iranian troop movements and a lot of those hand held rockets Iraqis shot at us later in 1991 and 2003.
1991- The TV show Home Improvement debuted, making a star out of stand up comedian Tim Allen.
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