About 25 years ago, or so I am led to believe, my Mom was born. As such, here's a short list of some excellent things that happened on this day in history:
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R
1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Crooked Man" (BG)
1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1912 Phil. A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game
1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks
1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies
1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers
1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger
1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR
1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance
1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You"
1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company
1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont
1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
Happy Birthday Ma!
The Gift
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[Christmas, 1965 or thereabout]
The boy was very young; perhaps 7 or 8 years old. He loved everything about
Christmas - the lights, the music, Santa ...
10 months ago
4 Comments:
Happy Birthday, Stu's Mom!
Many, many happy returns of the day, Mom of Stu! :)
Happy Birthday to your Mom.
thanks suldog, thimbelle, and barbara for all your good wishes for my birthday. and thank you dear stu for all your good wishes every day of the year. you are always so good to me. i wish a son like you on everyone.
i just wanted to add to your list that on sept 11th, 1932 the A train of the subway was born and your grandpa jim took the train to the hospital to see grandma sophie and her new bundle of joy (that was me).
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