On this Day

[texan]

Few years as US Army boxing coach for AIT soldiers. Not that qualifies me.
But a direct shot to the temple, no matter how short, especially when a man's head and body is coming
towards the punch, it is possible. But with Liston's reputed mob tie's......
It will always be suspect.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I personally think Ali knocked him out.

 

[texan]

Interesting read. One will never know the real truth on this one.
ESPN Classic - Liston was trouble in and out of ring

 

[texan]

On this day, 26 May 1907, the Duke or John Wayne was born.

Born Marion Morrison on this day in 1907 in Winterset, Iowa, John ‘Duke’ Wayne became the archetypical
image of the American hero. His fifty-year film career began in the 1930s in low-budget Westerns.
The Duke’s first major role was in Stagecoach where he played the part of the Ringo Kid.
It was while he was working on this film that John Wayne began his long-term association with
director John Ford.

The two worked so well together that Wayne was cast in Ford’s top pictures, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The
Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, They Were Expendable, and The Quiet Man.

 

[texan]

On this day, 26 May 1985, A.J. Foyt made it to his 30th Indianapolis 500 as he got his sluggish Indy-car to start.

In addition to winning four Indianapolis 500s as a driver, A.J. Foyt won the 1972 Daytona 500 and the
24 Hours of LeMans, making him the only man to have won the crown jewels of Indy car, NASCAR Winston Cup and
international sports car racing.

 

[texan]

On this day, 27 May 1937, Ceremonies marking the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge were held in San Francisco, CA.
The bridge has been called one of the greatest engineering marvels in the world.

 

[texan]

On this day, 28 May 1983, Irene Cara has a #1 pop hit with the Flashdance theme.


Irene Cara's song "Flashdance (What a Feeling)", from the Flashdance movie soundtrack, goes to the top of the
U.S. pop charts on this day in 1983.
"Flashdance (What a Feeling)" was not the first hit song from a movie soundtrack for Irene Cara, whose star was
launched by the 1980 film Fame. Cara not only played the starring role of Coco in the movie Fame, but she also
recorded not one but two Oscar-nominated songs for it: the title song "Fame" (a top-10 hit in the summer of 1980)
and "Out Here On My Own" (a top-20 hit that same fall).

 

[texan]

On this day, 29 May 1917, John Ftizgerald Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, refered to by his initials JFK,
was born.

 

[texan]

On this day, 30 May 1868, Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the United States -- at the request of
General John A. Logan, the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.

It was first called Decoration Day because the General had seen women decorating graves of Civil War heroes.

 

[texan]

On this day, 31 May 1930, Clint Eastwood was born.

 

[texan]

On this day, June 1st 1925, Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played the first of what would become
2,130 consecutive baseball games (Gehrig played in every Yankee game until May 2, 1939), setting
a major-league record not to be broken until Cal Ripken, Jr. of Baltimore did so in the summer of 1995.
Gehrig wasn’t even a starter on this day. He was inserted in the lineup for Wally Pipp.

 

[moreluck]

Happy Donut Day !!

 

[texan]

On this day, 02 June 1904, He was born on this day in 1904 in Freidorf, near Timisoara, Romania.
From the age of three, he was raised in the asphalt jungle of Chicago, but reached the pinnacle of his
fame in a tropical jungle.

Johnny Weissmuller played the role of Tarzan more than any other actor in a decade of Tarzan films.

Weissmuller was a star athlete, however, way before he became a Hollywood star. An Olympic Gold Medalist, he
won a total of five gold medals in swimming in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics.
He also collected 52 U.S. and 67 world swimming records.

 

[texan]

On this day, 3 June 1800, John Adams moved to Washington DC.

He was the first President to live in what became the capital of the United States.

It would be November before he would move into the People’s House, or the Executive Mansion, later known as the White House.

 

[texan]

On this day, 3 June 1932, Lou Gehrig connected for four consecutive home runs -- setting a
major-league baseball record.

 

[texan]

On this day, at approximately 4:00 a.m. on June 4, 1896, in the shed behind his home on Bagley Avenue in
Detroit, Henry Ford unveils the "Quadricycle," the first automobile he ever designed or drove.

Ford was working as the chief engineer for the main plant of the Edison Illuminating Company when he began
working on the Quadricycle. On call at all hours to ensure that Detroit had electrical service 24 hours a
day, Ford was able to use his flexible working schedule to experiment with his pet project--building
a horseless carriage with a gasoline-powered engine.

His obsession with the gasoline engine had begun when he saw an article on the subject in a November 1895 issue
of American Machinistmagazine. The following March, another Detroit engineer named Charles King took his own
hand-built vehicle--made of wood, it had a four-cylinder engine and could travel up to five miles per hour--out for
a ride, fueling Ford's desire to build a lighter and faster gasoline-powered model.

 

[texan]

On this day, 5 June 2004, Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan died at his home in Los Angeles, CA.

He was 93 years old and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease since at least late 1994.
Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980. Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long
confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office -- and the Democratic ticket out
(Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter).

 

[texan]

On this day, 6 June 1933, The first U.S. drive-in to show movies was opened in Camden, New Jersey, on
Crescent Boulevard, this night in 1933. Those first drive-in moviegoers got to see Wife Beware, a flick not
destined to be a classic.

The screen measured a huge 40 feet by 50 feet and was easily seen by everyone in the first cars in the front to the
500th car in the back row. Everyone (including the whole town) could hear the sound, too ... with a slight
delay for the folks in the back row because the sound emanated from speakers mounted next to the screen.
Admission was 25 cents per person plus 25 cents for the car, maximum $1.00.

 

[texan]

On this day, 6 June 1944 This was D-Day, the day thousands of Allied troops invaded Normandy, France.
Their objective: to open a second major European front in the battle against the Nazis.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of these united forces (and, who later became President of
the United States) said, “This landing is but the opening phase of the campaign in Western Europe. Great
battles lie ahead. I call upon all who love freedom to stand with us.”

 

[texan]

On this day, 7 June 1937, The cover of LIFE magazine showed the latest in campus fashions of the times which included
saddle shoes.