Daily Archives: 7/30/2017
Today in History – July 30
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. Being all white, they’re under investigation by the Holder ‘Justice Department’.
1866 – New Orleans’s Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. Republicans in New Orleans today wouldn’t fare much better.
1898 – Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes.
1916 – Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ was an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the materials from being used by the Allies in World War I. Today we have the anti-American Left happy to thwart war efforts on our enemies’ behalf.
1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen. Sharks play a major role, as recounted in Jaws.
1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto. Then in 1965 US President Lyndon B. (Lyin’ B*stard) Johnson says, “Why fret over all that “god” stuff? We’re the government and WE’LL take care of you”, and he signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid, giving us a taste of how well the government can handle health care.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon, adding tire tracks to the American footprints.
1974 – Six Royal Canadian Army Cadets killed and fifty-four injured in an accidental grenade blast at CFB Valcartier Cadet Camp. Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is NOT your friend.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. I have looked inside Chrissy’s purse. His body could be in there and nobody’d ever know…
1984 – Alvenus, a British tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil. This, then the BP thing, that’s the Brits trying to get even for that Battle of New Orleans thing.
2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line. Ferdinand Porsche’s pre-WW II design was quite successful as the first foreign compact car to gain wide acceptance in America. I owned a couple myself.
2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.
The Name Game #487
Nailed the ‘eighty by eight’ thing this morning. It was eighty degrees at 0800, but it was pleasant when I walked out to pick up the paper. We had a rare ‘cool’ front move through to the Gulf Coast. In July they’re not so much cool as dry, so the humidity, in stead of being near saturation, was only in the low seventy percent range.
Opening the paper over breakfast, we find that the big hospital across the river reports twenty-nine new babies from between July 11 and July 17. Of those, seventeen are to unwed parents and there’s one new mommy who doesn’t name a baby daddy because he’s a double-naught spy doing undercover work in defense of our nation.
Let’s just peek into the brambles:
Kendrick A. & Shayla(!) V. show that they know their geography by naming their daughter Malaysia Louise.
Anthony P. & ShaTonya(!!)B. tag a son with Sha’Qad Kamar.
Stephen B. & Serenity(!) V. do their son with Xander James, leading him to a life of explaining that it’s pronounced ‘Zander’ and not ‘Ex-sander’. Or maybe not.
Christopher Albelo & Cid Diaz show their son Christopher Yahir. “Hey, Christopher!” “Yeah?” “Yahir?” “Smartass!”
Michael F. & Amber H. triple up on their daughter Ella-Kate Marie. Another triple shows up when James & Kawana(!) Y. do their daughter up with Paisley-Belle Evangeline, and yet another appears as Dory J. & Brandy K. do their daughter with Mahlih Nowa Piper.
Morone(!) W. Jr. & Adrieanna(!) F. apostrophicate their little girl, Avah Mone’.
Miss D’Andra(!) W. names her son Daylin Jackson. Baby daddy? Nope.
Frederick L. III & Khala H. know that ‘k’ and ‘y’ are immensely more sophisticated than ‘c’ and plain ol’ vowels, so their daughter is Kamryn Nichole.
And thus endeth the list for this week.