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Post by dex on Jul 19, 2018 8:32:31 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
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Today is July 19, the 200th day of 2018. There are 165 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1812, during the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.
In 1848, a pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.
In 1903, the first Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1989, 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, California.
In 1992, anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was killed along with five members of his security detail in a car bombing in Palermo, Sicily.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue.”
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Post by pcdad on Jul 20, 2018 20:31:56 GMT -5
In 2018, United States military intervention in Afghanistan has been ongoing for seventeen years - Endless war.
In July 2018, in Helsinki, Finland, the President of the United States of America.... Interpretations of his confounding statements welcome.
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Post by dex on Jul 23, 2018 15:39:01 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press
Today is July 23, the 204th day of 2018. There are 161 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, New York, at age
63.
In 1914, Austria-Hungary presented a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia’s refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to the outbreak of World War I.
In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the pro-Axis Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life in prison. On this date in 1951, Petain died in prison.)
In 1962, the first public TV transmissions over Telstar 1 took place during a special program featuring live shots beamed from the United States to Europe, and vice versa.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of manslaughter.)
In 1984, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her taken in 1982 were published in Penthouse magazine.
In 1996, at the Atlanta Olympics, Kerri Strug made a heroic final vault despite torn ligaments in her left ankle as the U.S. women gymnasts clinched their first-ever Olympic team gold medal.
In 1999, space shuttle Columbia blasted off with the world’s most powerful X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a U.S. space flight.
In 2011, singer Amy Wine-house, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
Today’s birthdays
Concert pianist Leon Fleisher is 90.
Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 82.
Radio personality Don Imus is 78.
Country singer Tony Joe White is 75.
Rock singer David Essex is 71.
Singer-songwriter John Hall is 70.
Actress Belinda Montgomery is 68.
Rock musician Blair Thornton (Bachman Turner Overdrive) is 68.
Actress-writer Lydia Cornell is 65.
Actor Woody Harrelson is 57.
Rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) is 57.
Rock musician Slash is 53.
Actor Juan Pope is 51.
Actress Charisma Carpenter is 48.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Watters is 48. Country singer Alison Krauss is 47. Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans is 46. Actress Kathryn Hahn is 45. Retired MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra is 45. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is 45. Actress Stephanie March is
44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Michelle Williams is 38. Actor Paul Wesley is 36. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 29.
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Post by pcdad on Jul 24, 2018 12:28:58 GMT -5
Took the teens to see Velvet Revolver about 15 years ago. Clearly Scott Wylan (sp) was "close to the edge" mentally and physically but helicopter parenting over the kids body surfing in the mosh pit took me closer to the stage to see the cigarette and foam drool dripping from the corner of Slashes mouth. Another tortured artist with demons as Scott and Amy Winehouse? Glad to read he's made it to age 53.
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Post by dex on Jul 24, 2018 15:30:31 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 24, the 205th day of 2018. There are 160 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782.
In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
In 1915, the SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River; an estimated 844 people died in the disaster.
In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped charges against four of the nine young black men accused of raping two white women in the “Scottsboro Case.”
In 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
In 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.
In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
In 1983, a two-run homer by George Brett of the Kansas City Royals was disallowed after New York Yankees manager Billy Martin pointed out there was too much pine tar on Brett’s bat. However, American League president Lee MacPhail reinstated the home run. (The game was completed Aug. 18, 1983 with the Royals beating the Yankees, 5-4.)
In 1987, Hulda Crooks, a 91-year-old mountaineer from California, became the oldest woman to conquer Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak.
In 1998, a gunman burst into the U.S. Capitol, killing two police officers before being shot and captured. (The shooter, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., is being held in a federal mental facility.)
In 2005, Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France. (Those wins were stripped away after Armstrong’s 2013 confession to using steroids and other banned performance-enhancing drugs and methods.)
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Post by pcdad on Jul 24, 2018 17:19:20 GMT -5
In 1983, a two-run homer by George Brett of the Kansas City Royals was disallowed after New York Yankees manager Billy Martin pointed out there was too much pine tar on Brett’s bat. However, American League president Lee MacPhail reinstated the home run. (The game was completed Aug. 18, 1983 with the Royals beating the Yankees, 5-4.)
I was watching that game. surely, many recall how Brett ran out of the dugout in protest, as a wild mad bull, when the umpire disallowed the home run. Man, temper on 'roids displayed. Of course Billy Martin, played him like a fiddle and manipulated Brett into a rage seldom displayed on the field of play. Martin was a prickly bastage (as dex is fond of using).
Too bad Lee MacPhail didn't have the temerity to uphold the umpires decision.
Heady days those KC Royals - Yankee games were.
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Post by wtm97 on Jul 24, 2018 19:42:38 GMT -5
I watched it later on the news - a classic Billy Martin head game move...when he was sober he was one heck of a manager.
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Post by dex on Jul 25, 2018 7:59:21 GMT -5
WTM wrote: "...when he was sober he was one heck of a manager."
truer words were never spoken
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Post by pcdad on Jul 25, 2018 12:04:54 GMT -5
Some of a Gun in life. His early demise directly related to his affliction.
If any of you Sawx fans ever visit The Babe's resting place at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Mt Pleasant (near Valhalla), NY, Billy's resting place is diagonally behind The Babe's (Section 25). Martin's fitting long headstone has #1 cared into either end. There is a quotation of his inscribed that I'll paraphrase: "I may not have been the greatest Yankee to have played, but I was the proudest."
Billy's widow honored him in this setting that has a restful bench where one can sit and contemplate. In a word - Peaceful.
Perhaps the peace that eluded Billy in life is granted for eternity.
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Post by dex on Jul 25, 2018 12:43:24 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that Daddy-O
My very 1st real baseball glove was a Billy Martin model when I was probably 8 years old
when I was 5 or 6 I got an Andy Pafko model which was tantamount to catching a ball bare-handed
I was so sad when Weiss sent Billy to Kansas City and left Mickey, Whitey, Hank and Yogi to paint the town red alone
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Post by pcdad on Jul 26, 2018 11:39:11 GMT -5
We often wondered whether The Mick ever needed to reach into his own pocket to pay for his libations. We also imagined that when a bartender poured into a glass that it was always a generous measure akin to a double or a triple. Mick never stood a chance against those odds that he and his mates so willingly played between games into the early morning hours.
My sainted aunt and godmother constantly would remind me, "It's easy to become fond of the drink."
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Post by dex on Jul 26, 2018 12:23:25 GMT -5
Mel Allen, Red Barber and the Scooter back in the day when I was a Yankee fan were poetry during broadcasts.
My memory says that Dan Topping ordered the firing of Mel Allen, the Voice of the Yanks, bec supposedly he was driving home one afternoon and Mel didn't say the score of the game for too long.What an jerk.
I could listen to mel and Red spinning yarns about the old timers for hours and hours.
Who was Next?
Jerry Coleman (Ted's Wing Man), Scooter and Bill White ?
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Post by dex on Jul 27, 2018 8:50:46 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is July 27, the 208th day of 2018. There are 157 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1789, President George Washington signed a measure establishing the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the Department of State. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field finished laying out the first successful underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe (a previous cable in 1858 burned out after only a few weeks’ use). In 1909, during the first official test of the U.S. Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright flew himself and a passenger, Lt. Frank Lahm, above Fort Myer, Va., for one hour and 12 minutes. In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto. In 1942, during World War II, the First Battle of El Alamein in Egypt ended in a draw as Allied forces stalled the progress of Axis invaders. (The Allies went on to win a clear victory over the Axis in the Second Battle of El Alamein later that year.) In 1953, the Korean War armistice was signed at Panmunjom, ending three years of fighting. In 1960, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican national convention in Chicago. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of urban rioting, the same day black militant H. Rap Brown told a press conference in Washington that violence was “as American as cherry pie.” In 1980, on day 267 of the Iranian hostage crisis, the deposed Shah of Iran died at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age 60. In 1981, 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a department store in Hollywood, Fla., and was later murdered. (His father, John Walsh, became a well-known crime victims’ advocate.) In 1996, terror struck the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park, directly killing one person and injuring 111. (Anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph later pleaded guilty to the bombing, exonerating security guard Richard Jewell, who had been wrongly suspected.)
Today’s birthdays
TV producer Norman Lear is 96. Sportscaster Irv Cross is 79. Actress-director Betty Thomas is 71. Olympic gold medal figure skater Peggy Fleming is 70. Singer Maureen McGovern is 69. Comedian-actress-writer Carol Leifer is 62. Comedian Bill Engvall is 61. Jazz singer Karrin Allyson is 56. Rock singer Juliana Hatfield is 51. Comedian Maya Rudolph is 46. Singer-songwriter Pete Yorn is 44. Former MLB All-Star Alex Rodriguez is 43. Actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is 41. Actress Taylor Schilling is 34. Golfer Jordan Spieth is 25. Actress Alyvia Alyn Lind is 11.
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Post by pcdad on Jul 27, 2018 14:32:27 GMT -5
On radio Phil we with Frank Messer and Jerry Coleman and added Bob Ganere for a year in 1970. After that the radio trio of Phil, Messer, and Bill Whire for many years. Phil's last year on radio was1984 but did the WPIX broadcasts until 1996 with Bobby Mercer.
Missed many years of Yankee broadcasts as the games were on Sportschannel and MSG and ultimately YES. No cable tv in Bronx back in the day. ( Reason I stopped watching Rangers and ultimately left pro hockey for good.) Cable literally killed the goose that layed the golden egg. No broadcasts of Giant football games with the blackout either tempered my interest in that team.
Of course that was a lifetime ago now and cable is dying and streaming is the new vogue.
Quick story, I worked many summers in my youth atThe Daily News building and spent hours at WPIX. Phil would be in the building at times and always cheerful and gregarious. A nobody colleague once got on the elevator with Phil and asked knowing it was him, "Are you Phil Rizzutto?" As Phil broadly smiled and acknowledged that he was gladly extending is hand to shake, the colleague exited the elevator and told Phil simply,"You're an assh@le"...
The smile left Phil's face and I was left thinking what a miserable assh@le my colleague was.
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Post by dex on Jul 27, 2018 16:14:11 GMT -5
Better that the jerk was a forced colleague rather than a friend.
I mean...who in the freak does that? Unbelievable
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