On this Day

[moreluck]

I remember her appearing on talk shows like Merv Griffin.

Helen Gurley Brown, Groundbreaking Cosmopolitan Editor, Has Died at 90 - Yahoo! News

 

[texan]

On this day, 14 August 1936, during the first basketball competition that was held at the Olympic Games
in Berlin, Germany, the U.S. defeated Canada, 19-8.

Why only 19-8?


The finals were played 14 August under abysmal conditions. The contest was played outdoors, on a dirt court
in a driving rain. Due to the quagmire, the teams could not dribble and the score was held to a minimum.
High scorer in the game was Joe Fortenberry for the United States with 7 points.

In addition, there were no seats for spectators and the nearly 1,000 in attendance had to stand in the
rain throughout the entire game.

 

[texan]

On this day, 14 August 1953, David N. Mullany and his 13-year-old son, David A. Mullany, while trying to come up with
a ball that would curve every time it was thrown, wound up inventing the Wiffle Ball.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I used to throw those sidearm with the holes facing down. The ball would roll off of my index and middle fingers and curve in to right handed batters.

 

[texan]

On this day, 15 August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened on a farm owned by Max Yasgur in an area of
Sullivan County, New York called Bethel.

Two dozen bands played. Jimi Hendrix was there, Joan Baez, and Arlo Guthrie, too. Country Joe and the
Fish, Santana, Crosby, Stills and Nash. Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, and
so many more.

 

[texan]

On this day, 15 August 1926, The famous Three Men on Third play happened in Boston’s Fenway Park.
Babe Herman came to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning. One man was out and the bases were loaded.
Chick Fewster was on first base, Dazzy Vance on second and Hank DeBerry on third. Herman hit the ball off
the right-field wall.
DeBerry crossed the plate, Vance stopped at third and Fewster ran past second base on his way to third.
Herman ran PAST Fewster on HIS way to third.
Herman was declared out and Fewster was tagged out. Herman had hit into a double
play. DeBerry’s score, however, was allowed -- and the Brooklyn Dodgers won,
2-1.

 

[texan]

I missed this, not that I post all that others would want posted:

Julia Child. She would have been 100 this day, 15 August.

One of the best TV cook people ever. Also she was one of the first.

Julia Child Vetgetables part1.m4v - YouTube

 

[texan]

On this day, 16 August 1977, Elvis Presley was rushed from Graceland to Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis,
Tennessee on this day in 1977.

Doctors’ efforts to revive him were fruitless and he was pronounced dead (coronary arrhythmia) at 3:30 p.m.
He was 42 years old.

 

[moreluck]

Elvis Presley-How Great Thou Art-April 9th,1972 - YouTube

 

[texan]

Elvis Presley-How Great Thou Art-April 9th,1972 - YouTube

Great post. Such a shame another talent that went down that path.

 

[Necropostophiliac]

There are still devoted fans out there. Candle light vigil last night.
35 years, yet some do not forget.

 

[texan]

On this day, 17 August 1939, was the first showing of the Wizard of Oz in a theater.

 

[texan]

On this day, 18 August 1920, Women throughout the United States rejoiced, as the 19th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was ratified.

It gave women the right to vote.

 

[menotyou]

On this day, 18 August 1920, Women throughout the United States rejoiced, as the 19th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was ratified.

It gave women the right to vote.

And, I do. Proudly. I don't care if t's about whether they should paint the town barn periwinkle. I vote.

 

[menotyou]

I missed this, not that I post all that others would want posted:

Julia Child. She would have been 100 this day, 15 August.

One of the best TV cook people ever. Also she was one of the first.

Julia Child Vetgetables part1.m4v - YouTube

I would watch her on Saturday afternoons on PBS. I love Julia. She would love my mac and cheese.

 

[texan]

On this day, 19 August 1972, NBC-TV presented The Midnight Special for the first time.
John Denver was the host for the first show. Wolfman Jack was the show’s announcer.
The Midnight Special proved to be a ratings success.

 

[texan]

On this day, August 21st 1959, that the citizens of the United States said aloha to their new, fellow Americans.
The Hawaiian Islands became the State of Hawaii by a proclamation signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The statehood bill had been passed in March of 1959, but it contained a stipulation that the residents of the
Hawaiian Islands would have to give their vote of approval. Three months later, they did so -- and by a huge margin.
Hawaii finally became the 50th state of the United States of America on this day.

Although the Aloha State is made up of a chain of 122 volcanic islands spread out over 1,600 miles, only seven, at
the southeastern end of the chain, are inhabited.

 

[texan]

On this day, 22 August 1989, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers fanned Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics
to become the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters.

It happened in the fifth inning at 8:51 p.m. on a 3-2, 96-mph fastball.

Ryan’s accomplishment prompted a one-minute, 25-second standing ovation from the
sellout crowd of 42,869 at Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

 

[texan]

On this day, 23 August 2012 one wonders........
Will Hoaxster post 10,001?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

On this day, 23 August 2012 one wonders........
Will Hoaxster post 10,001?

I certainly hope so.