FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. The museum opened on August 17, 2002, two years after Schulz died, and is in Santa Rosa, California. The museum is home to many of […]
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Daily Almanac for Tuesday, August 16, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954. It is owned by Authentic Brands Group and licensed to The Arena Group (formerly “The Maven”), which operates the publication.[4] It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine […]
Movie and Television World mourn loss of actress Anne Heche at 53
Anne Celeste Heche (/heɪtʃ/ HAYTCH; May 25, 1969 – August 2022)[a] was an American actress. She first came to recognition portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), winning her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She achieved greater prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, August 15, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Anastasia Valeryevna Liukina (/ˈljuːkɪn/; Russian: Анастасия Валерьевна Люкина [ˈlʲʉkʲɪnə]; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian-born American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic All-Around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 world champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 world champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, August 14, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS HER LEGACY AND HONORS Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan “natural resource” in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The National Academy of Recording Arts and […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, August 13, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Samuel Leeds Allen (May 5, 1841 – March 28, 1918) was the founder of S.L. Allen & Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the Flexible Flyer sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment. For over one hundred […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, August 12, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible de facto standard. Released on August 12, 1981, it was created by a team of engineers and designers […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, August 11, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾas] “the gannet”) or The Rock was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States, the site of a fort since the 1850s; the main prison building was built in 1910–1912 […]
Music and Movie fans mourn death of Dame Olivia Newton-John, age 73
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress, and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Award winner whose music career included five number one hits and another ten Top Ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, and two Billboard 200 number one albums, If You […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, August 10, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Pub.L. 100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 904, 50a U.S.C. § 1989b et seq.) is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been interned by the United States government during World War II. The act was sponsored by California Democratic congressman and former internee Norman Mineta, Wyoming Republican senator Alan K. Simpson (who had met Mineta […]
Daily Almanac for Tuesday, August 9, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS James Cleveland “Jesse” Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as “perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track […]
Hollywood mourns the death of TV, Film actor/director Clu Gulager
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS William Martin Gulager (/ˈɡuːləɡər/; November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022), better known as Clu Gulager, was an American television and film actor and director born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He first became known for his work in television, appearing in the co-starring role of William […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, August 8, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, August 7, 2022
FROM WICKIPEDIA COMMONS Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. She has won six Olympic individual gold medals and 14 world championship individual gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. Ledecky is the world record holder in the women’s 800-, and 1500-meter […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, August 6, 2022
ON THIS DATE IN 1997, Microsoft and Apple agreed to share technology TODAY’S ALMANAC Question of the Day I’d like to start some pansies by seed. When is the best time to do that? Do it now! August is a great time to sow pansies for next […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, August 4, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS U.S. energy crisis On April 18, 1977, Carter delivered a televised speech declaring that the U.S. energy crisis during the 1970s was the “moral equivalent of war”. He encouraged energy conservation by all U.S. citizens and installed solar water heating panels on the […]
Megasportsnews.com! remembers Staff Photographer Osvaldo Figueroa, Jr. who has passed away
FROM THE FIGUEROA FAMILY: Hello! We will be celebrating the life of my father this coming Saturday, August 6th, 2022. L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home 1951 McGuffey Road Youngstown, OH 44505 Visitation 9 AM Funeral Service To follow at 10 AM Interment Tod […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, August 3, 2022
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The American Canoe Association (ACA) is the oldest and largest paddle sports organization in the United States, promoting canoeing, kayaking, and rafting. The ACA sponsors more than seven hundred events each year, along with safety education, instructor certification, waterway conservation and public information campaigns. There are more than […]
Staff & Management of Megasportsnews.com mourns the loss of our Columbus Crew Photographer, Osvaldo Figueroa, Jr.
FROM THE FIGUEROA FAMILY Hello! We will be celebrating the life of my father this coming Saturday, August 6th, 2022. L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home 1951 McGuffey Road Youngstown, OH 44505 Visitation 9 AM Funeral Service To follow at 10 AM Interment Tod […]
Brighter Days Foundation News: Seven-time GRAMMY award-winner Charles Kelley of multi-Platinum trio Lady A set to headline Benefit Concert at the eighth annual Brighter Days Invitational presented by Madera Residential
July 21, 2022 Concert event benefits Stowe Mission of Central Ohio, Habitat MidOhio, Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, and Blessings in a Backpack on behalf of the Brighter Days Foundation Columbus, Ohio – Representatives from the Brighter Days Foundation announced […]