This Day In History

Discussion in 'Movies, TV and Music' started by Len, Jul 30, 2022.

  1. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    April 19, 1988

    Sonny Bono is inaugurated as mayor of Palm Springs, California.

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  2. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    4/23/1985 - Madonna plays San Francisco with special guests Beastie Boys and Run DMC.

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  3. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Seeing as you posted this on April 23rd, you missed the most important April 23rd in entertainment history: both the birth (1564) and death (1616) of William Shakespeare.
     
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  4. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    5/17/1979 - Cubs score 22 runs and lose to the Phillies in extra innings.

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  5. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    #55 Len, May 28, 2023
    Last edited: May 28, 2023
    Released 52 years ago - May 28, 1971

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  6. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    May 30, 1982. Cal Ripken played the first of 2632 consecutive games.

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  7. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I went to an Orioles game that Memorial Day weekend with a group of friends. It was a pre-HS graduation outing sort of thing. Ripken played in the game. Within about 7 or 8 years, The Streak became a thing and we tried to remember which game we had seen. His first game was a loss to Toronto while the game on the 31st was a win over Texas. He was an 0 - fer in the first game. He got two hits in the Texas game. You'd think we all have the same memory. But we didn't. Half of the guys think we were there for the Toronto debut. I think we saw his first base hits of the streak. Memory is a funny thing, how it degraded that quickly. And we were all sports fans, so it's not like it was unimportant to us. Sigh.
     
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  8. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    I don't remember the first game I saw of his, but I had to take a year off in college after having back surgery which meant I was home when the record was being broken and I was able to get scalped tickets to the record tying and breaking games. The only thing I've been to that's close is the Caps winning in Vegas a couple of years ago.
     
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  9. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands


    “moving like an amazing machine”
     
  10. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    June 12, 1987 - Ronald Reagan makes his unforgettable statement that seemed to really speed up the fall of the Soviet Union.

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  11. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    15 June, 1215 -- King John is forced to sign the Magna Carta. For my money, the most important single event in western history.
     
  12. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    June 16, 1904
    Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
     
  13. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
     
  14. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    A day late, but...

    15 years ago, yesterday, we lost George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008).

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  15. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    1939 - from the Memphis morning news paper - The Commercial Appeal

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    Not sure if this is necessarily from this date in 1939; still......

    EDIT: And I think it's actually 74 years ago.......Regardless.
     
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  16. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    76 years ago:

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    July 8, 1947 issue of the Roswell Daily Record, announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer".
     
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  17. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    1985

    Live Aid.

    'Nuff said.
     
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  18. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    July 24, 1983

    The Pine Tar Incident

     
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  19. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    42 years ago, yesterday, August 1, 1981 MTV debuted:

     
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  20. Val1

    Val1 Member+

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Never knew the exact date, but the wife and I were married on 1 August, 1991, ten years later.
     
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  21. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    On this day in 1988 heavy metal and glam metal both died a horrible death as Winger released their debut album.

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  22. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Turks and Caicos Islands
    1689960568810070016 is not a valid tweet id
     
  23. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    Recorded 50 years ago today, August 18, 1973.

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    All songs by Jerry Jeff Walker except as noted.
    1. "Gettin' By" – 4:01
    2. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark)– 5:47
    3. "Sangria Wine" – 4:25
    4. "Little Bird" – 4:10
    5. "Get It Out" – 3:37
    6. "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother" (Live) (Ray Wylie Hubbard) – 4:32
    7. "Backslider's Wine" (Michael Martin Murphy) – 3:34
    8. "Wheel" – 6:00
    9. "London Homesick Blues" (Live) (Gary P. Nunn) – 7:43
     
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  24. Len

    Len Member+

    Club: Dallas Tornado
    Jan 18, 1999
    Everywhere and Nowhere.....I'm the wind, baby.
    I know a lot of you have been asking yourself, "Gee. I wonder what Len was doing 50 years ago today." Well, wonder no more:

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    First concert.
     
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  25. TheJoeGreene

    TheJoeGreene Member+

    Aug 19, 2012
    The Lubbock Texas
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    On September 7, 1936 Charles Hardin Holly was born.

     
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