Sunday, September 30, 2012

September 30 - 1.5





1.5


2012-09-28 17.09.23

"Whaddaya mean, six months until my cake?"


This Day In History
1791
The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1860
Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882
Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1927
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1947
The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1954
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1968
The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1980
Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
2004
The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.


Famous Birthdays
1743
Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche (d. 1813)
1800
Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1813
John Rae, Scottish physician and explorer (d. 1893)
1861
William Wrigley, Jr., American industrialist (d. 1932)
1882
Hans Geiger, German physicist (d. 1945)
1921
Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (d. 2007)
1924
Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)
1926
Robin Roberts, American baseball player (d. 2010)
1927
W. S. Merwin, American poet
1931
Angie Dickinson, American actress
1939
Len Cariou, Canadian actor
1953
S. M. Stirling, Canadian author
1959
Debrah Farentino, American actress
1961

Eric Stoltz, American actor
Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer
1970
Tony Hale, American actor
1971
Jenna Elfman, American actress

Saturday, September 29, 2012

September 29 - Baker





Baker





This Day In History
1789
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1829
The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1885
The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1907
The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1951
The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1954
The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1979
Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
1990
Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
2004
The Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the prize.


Famous Birthdays
1240
Margaret of England, Queen consort of Scotland, (d. 1275)
1518
Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
1547
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1571
Caravaggio, Italian artist (d. 1610)
1758
Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1803
Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (d. 1872)
1895
Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (d. 1970)
1899
László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the modern ballpoint pen (d. 1985)
1901
Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1907
Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
1923
Stan Berenstain, American children's author (d. 2005)
1930
Colin Dexter, British author of Inspector Morse novels
1935
Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1942
Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
1943
Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1944
Mike Post, American composer
1956
Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1962
Roger Bart, American actor
1966
Hersey Hawkins, American basketball player

Thursday, September 27, 2012

September 27 - Packed





Packed


2012-09-24 15.50.53



This Day In History
1066
William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1540
The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
1777
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
1822
Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825
The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
1905
The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
1930
Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
1938
RMS Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
1968
The stage musical Hair opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
1983
Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
1997
Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
2007
NASA launches the Dawn probe.


Famous Birthdays
1389

Cosimo de' Medici, Italian art patron and de facto ruler of Florence (d. 1464)
1696
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Italian Catholic bishop (d. 1787)
1722
Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (d. 1803)
1803
Samuel Francis du Pont, American admiral (d. 1865)
1840
Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (d. 1914)
Thomas Nast, German-born American political cartoonist (d. 1902)
1885
Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
1918
Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
1920
William Conrad, American actor (d. 1994)
1934
Wilford Brimley, American actor
1941
Don Nix, songwriter, composer, arranger, musician, and author
1947
Meat Loaf, American singer
1949
Mike Schmidt, American baseball player
1958
Shaun Cassidy, American screenplay writer, TV producer, actor, and singer
1969
Sofia Milos, American actress
1972
Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

September 26 - Out to Lunch





Out to Lunch


2012-09-22 15.15.26



This Day In History
1580
Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1789
Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General,
1810
A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1908
Ed Reulbach becomes the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day.
1934
RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1960
In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1973
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
2008
Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.


Famous Birthdays
1774
Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)
1849
Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1936)
1867
Winsor McCay, American animator (d. 1934)
1872
Max Ehrmann, American poet (Desiderata) (d. 1945)
1877
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
1888
T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1889
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
1895
George Raft, American actor (d. 1980)
1897
Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)
1898
George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907
Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1927
Robert Cade, American physician and beverage inventor (d. 2007)
1942
Kent McCord, American actor
1948
Olivia Newton-John, English-born Australian singer and actress
1956
Linda Hamilton, American actress
1985
Talulah Riley, English actress

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

September 25 - Boxing





Boxing




This Day In History
1066
The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1513
Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1690
Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1789
The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights.
1890
The U.S. Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1906
In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the remote control.
1929
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1956
TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1972
In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
2002
The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.


Famous Birthdays
1525
Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1644
Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1725
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
1758
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
1764
Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1897
William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
1903
Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (d. 1970)
1917
Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1925
Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (d. 2007)
1930
Shel Silverstein, American humorist, singer-songwriter and author (d. 1999)
1944
Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1947
Cheryl Tiegs, American model
1951
Mark Hamill, American actor
1952
Christopher Reeve, American actor (d. 2004)
1965
Scottie Pippen, American basketball player
1966
Jason Flemyng, English actor
1968
Will Smith, American actor and rapper
1969
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1977
Clea DuVall, American actress
1991
Emmy Clarke, American actress

Sunday, September 23, 2012

September 24 - Pilot





Pilot





This Day In History
1664
The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1852
The first practical airship (powered by a steam engine), created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles from Paris to Trappes.
1906
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1948
The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1960
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1979
Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
1990
Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.


Famous Birthdays
1564
William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1725
Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1802
Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1883
Franklin Clarence Mars, Founder of Mars, Incorporated (d. 1934)
1884
Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1917
Arthur W. Lehman, American euphonium soloist (d. 2009)
1920
Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1930
John W. Young, American astronaut
1936
Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1941
Linda McCartney, American singer and photographer (d. 1998)
1945
John Rutter, British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer
1946
"Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
1962
Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1965
Robert Irvine, English celebrity chef
1969
Megan Ward, American actress
1982

Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
Paul Hamm, American gymnast

September 23 - Comment Card




Comment Card






This Day In History
1338
The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.
1641
The Merchant Royal, carrying 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion USD in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver (another 1 million) and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all time, is lost at sea off Land's End.
1806
Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1846
Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1889
Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1909
The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1962
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1986
Jim Deshaies of the Houston Astros sets a major-league record by striking out the first eight batters of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2002
The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.


Famous Birthdays
480 BC
Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)
1215
Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)
1791
Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (d. 1865)
1861
Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942)
1899
Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (d. 1988)
1912
Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
1920
Mickey Rooney, American actor
1926
John Coltrane, American saxophonist (d. 1967)
1930
Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1939
Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (d. 1988)
1949
Bruce Springsteen, American singer-songwriter
1956
Peter David, American writer
1959
Jason Alexander, American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian
1961
Chi McBride, American actor

Saturday, September 22, 2012

September 22 - Happy Birthday, Daddy





Happy Birthday, Daddy


Bog River


Family Events
Daddy's birthday!
Grandma Popcorn's birthday!
Aunt Mary & Uncle Greg's anniversary!


This Day In History
1499
Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1598
English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1776
Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1869
Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1888
The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1910
The Duke of York's Picture House, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain, opens in Brighton.
1979
The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1991
The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.


Famous Birthdays
S.Y. 1290
Bilbo Baggins
1515
Anne of Cleves, English noblewoman (d. 1557)
1791
Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
1895
Paul Muni, Polish-born actor (d. 1967)
1908
Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American children's author (d. 2002)
1924
Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1927
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
1943
Toni Basil, American singer
1948
Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
1957
Nick Cave, Australian musician
1958
Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
Joan Jett, American singer
1959
Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
1970
Rupert Penry-Jones, British actor
1971
Elizabeth Bear, American author
1982
Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1987
Tom Felton, English actor

Friday, September 21, 2012

September 21 - Shivering Timbers





Shivering Timbers





This Day In History
1780
Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
1784
Penns Packet & General Advertiser becomes the first daily newspaper in America.
1897
The "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial is published in the New York Sun.
1937
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
1961
Maiden flight of the CH-47 Chinook transportation helicopter.
2003
The Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure.


Famous Birthdays
1411
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (d. 1460)
1452
Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
1645
Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700)
1756
John MacAdam, Scottish engineer and road-builder (d. 1836)
1866
H. G. Wells, English writer (d. 1946)
1874
Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
1912
Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
1934
Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and songwriter
1947

Stephen King, American author
Don Felder, American guitarist (The Eagles)
1950
Bill Murray, American comedian and actor
1957
Ethan Coen, American film director
1960
David James Elliott, Canadian actor
1962
Rob Morrow, American actor
1963
Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor
1965

Cheryl Hines, American actress
David Wenham, Australian actor
1967
Faith Hill, American singer
1990
Allison Scagliotti, American actress

Thursday, September 20, 2012

September 20 - Nap Time





Nap Time





Happy Anniversary Auntie Andrea & Uncle Joe!


This Day In History
480 BC
Greeks defeat Persians in the Battle of Salamis
1519
Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
1848
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
1893
Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1906
Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1967
Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1973
Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas.


Famous Birthdays
1486
Prince Arthur Tudor, son of King Henry VII of England (d. 1502)
1778
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian naval officer and explorer (d. 1852)
1853
Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (d. 1910)
1878
Upton Sinclair, American writer (d. 1968)
1885
Jelly Roll Morton, American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
1929
Anne Meara, American comic and actress
1934
Sophia Loren, Italian actress
1948
George R. R. Martin, American screenwriter and author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
1950
James P. Blaylock, American fantasy author
1956
Gary Cole, American actor
1975
Moon Bloodgood, American actress
1986
Aldis Hodge, American actor

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September 19 - Talk Like a Pirate Day





Talk Like a Pirate Day


Arrrr!

IMG_3763

Arr.

Family Birthdays
Cousin Alex Krewson


Overheard
[At snacktime]
D: I should have put a bib on your brother.
E [shakes head]: No, he doesn't get 'thusiastic about the blueberries.


This Day In History
1796
George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1846
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
1946
The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1961
Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
1982
Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
1991
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.


Famous Birthdays
1754
John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
1774
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian hyperpolyglot (d. 1849)
1799
René Caillié,  French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu (d. 1838)
1910
Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d. 2009)
1922
Damon Knight, American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan (d. 2002)
1926
James Lipton, American actor, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio
1928
Adam West, American actor
1933
David McCallum, Scottish actor
1940
Bill Medley, American singer and songwriter (The Righteous Brothers)
1945
Randolph Mantooth, American actor
1948
Jeremy Irons, English actor
1949
Twiggy, English model
1955
Rex Smith, American singer and actor
1958
Lita Ford, British-born, American-raised rock guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter
1960
Mario Batali, American chef and restaurateur
1964
Trisha Yearwood, American singer