February 4th…10th Anniversary of Facebook…

 

1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the 47 Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.

1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.

1902 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and activist, is born.

1913 – Rosa Parks is born.

1940 – George A. Romero is born.

1947 – Dan Quayle is born.

1948 – Alice Cooper is born.

1971 – Rob Corddry is born.

1975 – Natalie Imbruglia is born.

1976 – American rapper Cam’ron is born.

1977 – Gavin DeGraw (of One Tree Hill fame) is born…he’s also a singer-songwriter…

1987 – Liberace dies.

2004 – Facebook is “founded” by Mark Zuckerberg.

 

October 16th or HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTIN!

 

 

1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France is executed.

1831 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist, is born.

1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrates ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.

1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright is born.

1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.

1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor is born.

1888 – American playwright and Nobel Prize laureate Eugene O’Neill is born.

1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States in Brooklyn, New York.

1923 – Roy & Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company.

1940 – The Warsaw Ghetto is established.

1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.

1947 – American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Weir is born.

1958 – Tim Robbins is born.

1962 – Flea is born.

1977 – John Mayer is born.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN LENNON!

 

 

(and Jackson Browne)

 

(and John Entwistle)

(and Nick swardson)

(and Sean Lennon……..)

September 29th…a day that will NOT live in infamy

 

1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis is born.

1966 – The Chevy Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1997 – Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor, dies at age 73.

 

today is also International Coffee Day!!

June 6th: Man, it’s a hot one…

 

1411 – King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of the Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they bad been doing for centuries.

1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.

1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage (because Massachusetts is the greatest state in the Union)

1919 – The U.S. Congress approves the 19thAmendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.

1969 – Horatio Sanz is born.

1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.

1975 – Angelina Jolie is born.

2004 – Marvin Heemeyer’s eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall.