On August 26 1789 "La declaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen" was adopted by the french revolutionary national constituent assembly (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen)
30 years ago today I was a Camden Yards as Cal Ripken Jr. tied the MLB consecutive games streak record set by Lou Gehrig. The next day, September 6, 1995, I was there again as he broke the 56 year old record. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...baltimore-orioles-streak-iron-man-anniversary
Holy cow. Just can't rep this enough. Those were some seriously hard tickets to get. My father in law was prominent in the day, knew the governor, was good friends with the owner's lawyer, and he couldn't get tickets.
We counted out the days when the season schedule was announced and the day they went on sale we bought single game tickets for the full home stand with the hopes that there wouldn't be too many rainouts/makeup games to push the record breaking game to a later date.
60 years ago today, Green Acres debuted on CBS in prime time. You can currently catch all 6 seasons free on the Roku Channel or the first 2 seasons free on both YouTube and Tubi.
This was posted yesterday (50 year anniversary) I wasn't there, but I thought there might be some WHO fans out there who might enjoy: Live at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee during their "By Numbers" tour on 11/23/1975 Recording Quality: B+ 00:00:04 I Can't Explain 00:02:26 Substitute 00:06:01 Squeeze Box 00:09:19 Baba O'Riley 00:15:38 Boris The Spider 00:18:32 Drowned 00:25:34 However Much I Booze 00:31:01 Dreaming From The Waist 00:36:37 Behind Blue Eyes 00:41:07 Amazing Journey 00:44:25 Sparks -:--:- The Acid Queen (?) 00:48:55 Fiddle About 00:50:38 Pinball Wizard 00:52:28 I'm Free 00:55:52 Tommy's Holiday Camp 00:56:36 We're Not Gonna Take It 01:06:08 Summertime Blues 01:10:04 My Generation/Join Together/Roadrunner 01:20:26 Won't Get Fooled Again Early BN show in the US, the last show in the South (though TN is in the middle of America). This show actually has the last ever "However Much I Booze" in their career. Enjoy! Picture is from Murfreesboro, TN on the 25th Roger Daltrey - Lead vocals, percussion Pete Townshend - Guitar, vocals John Entwistle - Bass, vocals Keith Moon - Drums, percussion, vocals
7:32pm local time, 12/25/1991 the flag of the Soviet Union was lowered at the Kremlin for the final time. On 12/26/1991 the Supreme Soviet met and signed 142-N to dissolve the Soviet Union.
4/8/74 - Hank Aaron becomes the new HR king. 15 years later Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, made his debut.