Birthdays
99 Bob Shepherd - New York Yankees PA Announcer
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Hello Mr. Spammer.

Goodbye Mr Spammer.

With Love,

icehog3
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I miss this thread!!!:-)
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It was never updated when Blake bought his cigars.
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Same day, two headlines:

Blake orders Cuban cigars.

Hell freezes over.

:-) :-)
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On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City




In response to the Cuban alignment with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy extended measures by Executive Order, first widening the scope of the trade restrictions on February 7 (announced on February 3 and again on March 23, 1962).
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Today in History
1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die
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Let's see if we can keep this one awake for a while.

June 1, 1779 - Court-martial trial of Benedict Arnold begins in Philadelphia, though it is soon delayed by battle to resume only on Dec. 23 in Morristown, NJ.

June 1, 1967 - The Beatles release Sgt. Peppers album.
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Hellen Keller died on this date.
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On June 2 in 1935, Babe Ruth retired, and in 1953 Elizabeth II was crowned. Thus a Sultan stepped down and a Queen ascended on the same day.
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On June 3 in 1956 the city of Santa Cruz CA bans rock and roll music, and in 1989 Chinese troops clear protesters out of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Different lyrics, same tune.
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Today in 1942 the Battle of Midway began, and in 1919 the passage of the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

Well, you can't win 'em all.
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On this day in 1896, Henry Ford first tests his "Quadricycle".

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On this day in 1933, the US went off the Gold Standard, and in 1956 Elvis appeared on The Milton Berle Show.

I leave it to others to decide which had a greater cultural and economic impact on the world.
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Aside from the well-known D-Day anniversary, on June 6 1933 the first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden NJ, and in 1971 the last Ed Sullivan Show aired . . . which was also about the same time TV started killing of the drive-in.
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Today in 1692 the pirate haven Port Royal in Jamaica was destroyed in an earthquake. Meanwhile, today in 2015, half a world away in Australia, Johnny Depp continues in the destruction of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
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Guten morgan. On this date in 1948, a hand-built aluminum prototype vehicle was finished in Austria by Ferdinand Porsche, the first automobile to bear his name. And in 1986 former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was elected president of Austria, despite charges that he had also formerly been a Nazi staff officer.

On a personal note, I met Herr Waldheim once, in Nashville back in 1976. Odd story that, which also includes me getting a wink from Dolly Parton. :-)
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I'd rather have the wink from Dolly Parton! ;-)
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It gave a whole new meaning to Dollywood. :-)
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Today in 1954, one Joseph effectively ended the career of another when Joseph Welch, special counsel for the US Army, famously and publicly chided Sen. Joseph McCarthy with the phrase "Have you no sense of dignity, sir, at long last?"

A cloak of many colors, even one of flag-drapery, can shelter a scoundrel only so long.
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