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Post by Cteve on Feb 7, 2021 13:16:56 GMT -5
RW'er Ralph Warburton 2/27/24(Cranston/LaSalle) on Dartmouth's rec. breaking 46-0-1 teams and Nat. hockey team member, is 97yo. today www.rihhof.com/ralph-a-warburton/
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Post by dex on Feb 7, 2021 18:34:13 GMT -5
Warburton is a prominent name in RI hockey including back in the 60s when I was at LaSalle Academy
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Post by friar82 on Feb 8, 2021 6:52:47 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1862 *Roanoke Island, North Carolina, is captured by General Ambrose Burnside.
1937 *Providence's first parking meters are installed.
1951 *Providence National Bank (Charter #1302) and the Union Trust Company merge to form the Providence Union National Bank and Trust Company.
1995 *AT&T announces that it will reopen its LaSalle Square office in Providence to operate a center to assist deaf and hard-of-hearing telephone callers. The facility will eventually employ about 300 people.
1997 *Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci hosts "Rhode Island Night" at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles to promote the City of Providence to Hollywood filmmakers during Locations Expo '97.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 9, 2021 4:50:42 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1631 *The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony issues a Thanksgiving proclamation in honor of the arrival of the Lyon, the ship that brought Roger and Mary Williams to America.
1778 *The Rhode Island General Assembly ratifies The Articles of Confederation between the thirteen states, and also authorizes a regiment made up of black slaves.
1885 *Stephen Conroy, driver for Providence Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, dies in the line of duty.
1928 *Lieutenant Governor Norman S. Case takes the oath as governor, succeeding Governor Aram J. Pothier, who passed away six days ago.
1934 *The temperature today, -17 degrees, is the lowest on record for any date in Rhode Island.
1938 *In response to allegations of illegal political contributions, sheriffs batter down the doors at the Narragansett Racing Association office and seize records on order of the Superior Court. Walter E. O'Hara resigns as president of the association.
1966 *The first steel pile is driven for the Newport Bridge.
1979 *Actress Mena Adrienne Suvari (American Pie, American Beauty, Loser) is born in Newport.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 10, 2021 6:15:06 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1776 *The Continental Fleet, commanded by Esek Hopkins, lies in rendezvous at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, ready to sail for the Bahamas.
1860 *The Rhode Island Exchange Bank of East Greenwich fails after massive embezzlement is exposed.
1862 *Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is captured by General Ambrose Burnside.
1864 *The Rhode Island Association of Freedmen is formed.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 11, 2021 4:59:02 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1776 *General Charles Lee arrives in Newport with 2,000 men to aid in its defense.
1852 *The Rhode Island legislature votes to abolish capital punishment, substituting life imprisonment and loss of all civil rights. The death penalty remains in force for murder committed by anyone serving a life sentence.
1907 *The steamer Larchmont sinks in Block Island Sound; between 183 and 200 people die.
1915 *All buildings in the Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet complex, except for the stateroom and gazebo, are destroyed by fire.
1953 *A bill creating the Rhode Island Development Council, to encourage expansion of the state's industry, is signed into law by Governor Dennis J. Roberts.
1979 *The temperature drops to 6 degrees below zero at 6:30am, breaking the record of 5 below set for this date in 1912. The highest recorded temperature for the date is 62 degrees.
1983 *A panel of three federal judges rules that the second reapportionment plan drafted by the General Assembly the previous year violates the Rhode Island constitution by gerrymandering state Senate districts in Providence, but it declares constitutional the rest of the state's proposed plan for the remaining thirty-five Senate districts outside of Providence.
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Post by dex on Feb 11, 2021 10:14:05 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Thursday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2021. There are 323 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1847: American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio.
1945: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement, in which Stalin agreed to declare war against Imperial Japan following Nazi Germany’s capitulation.
1975: Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative Party.
1979: Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran.
1990: South African Black activist
Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
2006: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded Harry Whittington, a companion during a weekend quail-hunting trip in Texas.
2012: Pop singer Whitney Houston, 48, was found dead in a hotel room bathtub in Beverly Hills, California.
2013: Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope had done in more than 500 years: announced his abdication.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Conrad Janis (“Mork and Mindy”) is 93. Actor Tina Louise (“Gilligan’s Island”) is 83. Musician Sergio Mendes is 80. Actor Philip Anglim (“The Thorn Birds”) is
69. Actor Catherine Hickland (“One Life to Live”) is 65. Drummer
David Uosikkinen of The Hooters is 65.
Actor Carey Lowell (“Law and Order”) is
60. Singer Sheryl Crow is 59. Actor Jennifer Aniston is
52. Actor Damian Lewis (“Billions”) is
50. Singer D’Angelo is 47. Actor Brice Beckham (“Mr. Belvedere”) is
Crow
45. Vocalist Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and of Fort Minor is 44. Singeractor Brandy (“Moesha”) is 42. Actor Matthew Lawrence (“Boy Meets World”) is 41. Singer Kelly Rowland (Destiny’s Child) is 40. Actor Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) is 39.
Singer Aubrey O’Day (Danity Kane) is
37. Actor Q’orianka Kilcher (“The New World”) is 31. Actor Taylor Lautner is 29.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 12, 2021 6:40:30 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1776 *The Bristol Artillery Company is chartered.
1809 *Abraham Lincoln is born in Hodgenville, Kentucky.
1830 *Stephen Wilcox, Jr., co-inventor, with George H. Babcock, of the water tube steam boiler, deemed "the best boiler God has permitted man yet to make" by Thomas Edison, is born in Westerly.
1902 *Abraham Lincoln's birthday is observed as Grand Army Flag Day in the schools of Rhode Island.
1908 *An explosion levels the four-story brick building at the starch works of Charles S. Tanner on South Water Street in Providence, killing five workers.
1914 *Shareholders of the New England Commercial Bank, a state bank in Newport, vote to close the institution down. The Newport Trust Company acts as the liquidating agent.
1932 *The Narragansett Times reports that Federal men have seized the bar at the Bay View Hotel on ConWowon Street in Narragansett.
1940 *A Providence County grand jury returns an indictment charging that 169 persons "conspired to violate the election laws of this state in the general election of November 8, 1938"; seventy-two are Pawtucket employees, including eleven policemen.
1978 *The deaths of four people bring the number of blizzard-related deaths in the state to twenty-one.
1985 *Native Rhode Island actor (Family Plot, Raging Bull, "Cheers") and director ("S.W.A.T.", "Starsky & Hutch", "ChiPs", "Logan's Run") Nicholas "Coach" Colasanto dies in Studio City, California.
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Post by dex on Feb 13, 2021 9:12:13 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Saturday, Feb. 13, the 44th day of 2021. There are 321 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1633: Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around.
(Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.)
1939: Justice Louis D. Brandeis retired from the U.S. Supreme Court.
(He was succeeded by William O.
Douglas.)
1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
1965: During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese.
2000: Charles Schulz’s final “Peanuts” strip ran in Sunday newspapers, the day after the cartoonist died in his sleep at age 77.
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Post by thumper on Feb 13, 2021 10:07:55 GMT -5
In 1972, the morning after Richard Nixon was elected, I woke up in sadness and decided to thumb arcoss the US. Throwing on just a cordoroy sports jacket and carrying a gym bag, I jumped on the MA Pike in Copley Sq. Boston. The first person to pick me up was one of Charles Schulz's daughters. She took me to the Merritt Pkwy. near Southington, CT. From there I could write a book about my travels ... but I'd rather root on our Friars.
PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by dex on Feb 13, 2021 11:37:38 GMT -5
Maybe you could author a weekly composition of your journey's high and low lites.
You were probably around 26 and didn't have to work because of your industrious efforts at PC selling food.
Folks like me who went to work after PC might find it interesting to read a more modern version of Gulliver's Travels.
I always wanted to DRIVE across the country....and I wonder if I ever will.
ps If you wound up in SanFran as a Flower Child, please post a photo
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Post by Cteve on Feb 14, 2021 18:03:20 GMT -5
2/14 BostonCelticsForever @bostoncelts4eva 35 years ago today, Larry Bird was bored so he decided to play left-handed against Portland. He finished with: 47 PTS, 14 REB, 11 AST 10 of 21 FG made lefty
Reporters asked him why he did this. His response? "I'm saving my right hand for the Lakers."
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Post by johnnypc on Feb 14, 2021 19:06:38 GMT -5
Dex, Driving across the country is the best trip ever. I drove across the USA the summer of 1972. Having grown up in the Northeast we often have little knowledge of people, their habit and beliefs in others parts of the USA. I think it helps restore your faith in humanity. The country Midwest was quite interesting. The people are very nice but distrustful until they know you or you have proven to be trustworthy. Very good work ethic and the idea you have to drive 100 miles for dinner and the movies, It might be 300 miles to the nearest city. I loved it and it was very interesting. People help each other out, even strangers. The terrain and sites in America are spectacular. Do it if you can. Lots of parts west of the Mississippi are quite desolate. There are still parts of America that are like driving on the moon.
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Post by thumper on Feb 14, 2021 19:15:55 GMT -5
Maybe you could author a weekly composition of your journey's high and low lites. You were probably around 26 and didn't have to work because of your industrious efforts at PC selling food. Folks like me who went to work after PC might find it interesting to read a more modern version of Gulliver's Travels. I always wanted to DRIVE across the country....and I wonder if I ever will. ps If you wound up in SanFran as a Flower Child, please post a photo Truth be told, dex. I was 25 and finishing up a lack luster career in insurance and about to embark on a run as a cab driver in Boston, driving for Checker. I turned the cab into a package delivery service that also carried passengers. Full head of blond hair with locks down to my shoulders. Think Prince Valiant. So yeah, I was a flower child rolling in dough. Carry over from the PC food business. Someday I'll tell you the story of me trying to drag a guy out of a Cadillac who wasn't moving at a light. He put a gun to my temple. Found out later he, and his two brothers, ran the bookies and numbers throughout MA. You'd know the name. Lots of stories. Maybe we can share a non-alcoholic beverage pre-game next year over some of them. Be safe and healthy, buddy. And may there be a vaccine in our near future. PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by dex on Feb 15, 2021 9:47:25 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2021. There are 319 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.
On this date in:
1764: The site of present-day St.
Louis was established by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau.
1798: A feud between two members of the U.S. House of Representatives (meeting in Philadelphia) boiled over as Roger Griswold of Connecticut used a cane to attack Vermont’s Matthew Lyon, who defended himself with a set of tongs.
(Griswold was enraged over the House’s refusal to expel Lyon for spitting tobacco juice in his face; after the two men were separated, a motion to expel them both was defeated.)
1898: The U.S. battleship Maine
mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor, killing more than 260 crew members and bringing the United States closer to war with Spain.
1933: President-elect Franklin D.
Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami that mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton J.
Cermak; gunman Giuseppe Zangara was executed more than four weeks later.
1944: Allied bombers destroyed the monastery atop Monte Cassino in Italy.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Actor Claire Bloom is 90. Songwriter Brian Holland (Holland-Dozier-Holland) is 80. Actor Jane Seymour is 70. Singer Melissa Manchester is 70.
Cartoonist Matt Groening is 67. Model Janice Dickinson is 66. Bassist Mikey Craig of Culture Club is 61. Actor Steven Michael Quezada is 58. Country singer Michael Reynolds
Wynter
of Pinmonkey is 57. Actor Sarah Wynter is 48.
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