Question: In what part of the world is Bessarabia?
Yesterday’s Question Answered Below: What does the phrase mean “ …at one fell swoop”?
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History for 4/29/2025
Birthdays: Emperor Hirohito, Duke Ellington, Duke Wellington, William Randolph Hearst, Sir Thomas Beacham, Tom Ewell, Rod McKuen, Fred Zinneman, Irvin Kershner, Zubin Mehta is 89, Jerry Seinfeld is 71, Michelle Pfeiffer is 67, Daniel Day Lewis is 68, Uma Thurman is 54, Willie Nelson is 92.
Scooby Doo designer Iwao Takamoto would be 100.
1771- Artist Benjamin West unveils his painting of the “Death of General Wolfe” at the Royal Academy in London. Wolfe was killed in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which decided that Canada would be English. West’s portrayal of Wolfe in his actual uniform instead an idealized Grecian god surrounded by floating cherubs, was considered scandalously realistic, and revolutionized painting.
1786- The day before his opera THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO was to premiere, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sat down after dinner and wrote the famous overture. Friends said he liked to think while playing billiards.
1856- The US CAMEL CORPS- The first shipment of 33 Egyptian camels arrived in Camp Verde, Texas. It was an idea of Secty of War Jefferson Davis. The Spanish brought horses to America. Why not camels? They have deserts. We have deserts. The First U.S. Dromedary Corps was set up under a Lt. Beale, to run a camel train from the Texas Gulf Coast to Ft. Tejon, just north of Los Angeles. After one or two initial trips, the idea was scrapped by the Civil War. The camels were let loose, but never really took to multiplying in the wild, like horses and donkeys did. One Egyptian camel driver stranded in America, Hajj Ali, called Hi Jolly, wandered over to settle in Mexico. His son became president of Mexico. Plutarcho Elias Calles in 1923.
1944- Dancing Romeos, the last Our Gang comedy short was produced by MGM, which had bought the franchise in 1938 from Hal Roach.
1950- MGM chief Louis B. Mayer fired Frank Sinatra for making a joke. At a production meeting Sinatra was told Mayer could not make the meeting because he hurt his hip riding. Sinatra joked he got hurt not from falling off his horse, but falling off Ginny Simms, a young actress Mayer was chasing. Sinatra was fired later that day.
1962- President John Kennedy hosted a dinner for a group of Nobel Prize winners at the White House. Kennedy said: “ I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.”
1992- THE GREAT LOS ANGELES RIOT- Los Angelenos go berserk after an all-white jury in Simi Valley acquitted four policemen who beat up drunk motorist Rodney King while being videotaped. 63 killed, 2500 businesses destroyed, $1.5 billion dollars in damage, 13,200 arrests and large sections of Los Angeles put under martial law. Even Rodney King was moved to go on TV and proclaim: " Can't we all just get along?"
2001- Pioneer 10 was a space probe launched to the outer planets in 1972. After sending the first photos of Jupiter and Pluto in 1973, Pioneer 10 left our solar system and headed for deep space in 1997. It is aimed at the Constellation Taurus. On this day 7 billion miles away Pioneer 10 phoned home to say it was fine. Its last message was received in 2003. I wonder if it asked if Richard Nixon was still president?
2004- The last Oldsmobile made, was ending the 106-year-old product line.
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