FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS saac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and producer. He has been one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a […]

Mon, Aug 9, 2021 NEW YORK (August 9, 2021) – Grammy-winning Haitian-Canadian producer and DJ Kaytranada, and Grammy-winning rapper, producer and songwriter Big Boi, will co-headline the MLS All-Star Concert presented by Heineken ® on Tuesday, August 24 in Los Angeles at The Torch, located at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. […]

1590s BORN 1593: IZAAK WALTON (WRITER) 1840s 1842: THE WEBSTER-ASHBURTON TREATY WAS SIGNED, DELIMITING THE EASTERN SECTION OF THE CANADIAN-AMERICAN BORDER. THE TREATY ESTABLISHED THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE ST. CROIX AND CONNECTICUT RIVERS, BETWEEN LAKE SUPERIOR AND THE LAKE OF THE WOODS, AND BETWEEN LAKES […]

1860s 1864: PERFORMER SIGNOR GUILLERMO FARINI’S STILTS GOT CAUGHT AS HE WALKED THE RAPIDS ABOVE NIAGARA FALLS BORN 1866: MATTHEW HENSON (EXPLORER) 1870s 1876: THOMAS EDISON RECEIVED A PATENT FOR HIS MIMEOGRAPH (AN EARLY PAPER COPYING MACHINE) 1900s BORN 1907: BENNY CARTER (MUSICIAN) 1910s 1911: […]

1670s 1679: LA SALLE’S LE GRIFFON, FIRST SHIP TO SAIL UPPER GREAT LAKES, ENTERED LAKE ERIE 1770s BORN 1779: CARL RITTER (GEOGRAPHER) 1780s 1782: GEORGE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHED THE BADGE OF MILITARY MERIT FOR U.S. SOLDIERS INJURED IN ACTION. IT LATER BECAME KNOWN AS THE PURPLE […]

1620s DIED 1623: ANNE HATHAWAY (SHAKESPEARE’S WIFE) 1800s BORN 1809: ALFRED LORD TENNYSON (POET) 1840s BORN 1845: THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, MARQUESS OF LORNE(CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL 1878 – 1883) 1860s BORN 1861: EDITH KERMIT CAROW ROOSEVELT (U.S. FIRST LADY) 1880s BORN 1881: ALEXANDER FLEMING (SCOTTISH […]

880s DIED 882: KING LOUIS III OF FRANCE 1540s BORN 1540: JOSEPH JUSTUS SCALIGER (HISTORIAN) 1580s 1583: SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT ESTABLISHED THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY IN NORTH AMERICA, WHAT IS NOW ST JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND 1740s BORN 1749: THOMAS LYNCH (SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) […]

1060s DIED 1060: KING HENRY I OF FRANCE 1730s 1735: IN A TRIUMPH FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, NEWSPAPERMAN JOHN PETER ZENGER WAS ACQUITTED OF THE CHARGE OF SEDITIOUS LIBEL 1750s 1753: GEORGE WASHINGTON BECAME A MASTER MASON 1760s 1769: WHAT IS NOW PRINCE EDWARD […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. It is the […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. and abbreviated as WB) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of AT&T‘s WarnerMedia through its Studios & Networks division. Founded in 1923 by four brothers Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Colorado (/ˌkɒləˈrædoʊ, -ˈrɑːdoʊ/ (listen), other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is the eighth most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in 1930s pulp novels and later in a variety of media. Its title character has been featured on the radio, in a long-running pulp magazine series, in American comic books, comic strips, television, serials, video games, and at least five feature […]

1510s BORN 1511: GIORGIO VASARI (ARTIST) 1610s 1610: ITALIAN ASTRONOMER GALILEO GALILEI WAS FIRST TO OBSERVE WHAT WE NOW KNOW ARE SATURN’S RINGS 1619: FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY IN AMERICA, THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES, CONVENED AT JAMESTOWN, VA 1730s 1739: CASPAR WISTAR BEGAN OPERATION OF THE […]

Every Year RAIN DAY (WAYNESBURG, PENNSYLVANIA) 1580s 1588: THE SPANISH ARMADA WAS DEFEATED BY AN ENGLISH NAVAL FORCE OFF THE COAST OF GRAVELINES, FRANCE 1780s 1786: THE PITTSBURGH GAZETTE BECAME THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WEST OF THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS 1820s BORN 1828: JOHN SARGENT PILLSBURY […]

1490s 1493: GREAT FIRE IN MOSCOW 1540s 1540: THOMAS CROMWELL WAS EXECUTED ON ORDER FROM KING HENRY VIII ON CHARGES OF TREASON 1540: HENRY VIII MARRIED HIS FIFTH WIFE, CATHERINE HOWARD 1750s DIED 1750: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (COMPOSER) 1790s 1794: MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE WAS GUILLOTINED, ENDING […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though a similar character first appeared in the […]

Every Year BORN : BERT (CHARACTER ON SESAME STREET) 1770s 1775: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BECAME THE FIRST POSTMASTER GENERAL 1780s 1788: NEW YORK RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION AND BECAME THE 11TH STATE 1850s BORN 1856: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (PLAYWRIGHT) 1860s DIED 1863: SAM HOUSTON (PRESIDENT OF TEXAS, […]

1770s BORN 1775: ANNA TUTHILL SYMMES HARRISON (U.S. FIRST LADY) 1830s DIED 1834: SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (POET) 1840s BORN 1844: THOMAS EAKINS (ARTIST) 1850s 1854: WALTER HUNT WAS GRANTED A PATENT FOR A PAPER SHIRT COLLAR 1860s 1866: ULYSSES S. GRANT RECEIVED THE RANK OF […]

PIONEER DAY (UTAH) Pioneer Day commemorates the day in 1847 when Brigham Young led his “pioneer band” of Mormons into the Salt Lake valley to establish a settlement–their new Zion. The Mormons had been driven from New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois and had spent […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS George Lee “Sparky” Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League‘s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Anderson was the first manager to win the World Series in […]