Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Chicken!

Today is National Fried Chicken Day. I can taste it now…Fried Chicken double breaded, gently fried, tender and juicy with the crispiest of crusts….with a side of potato salad, corn on the cob, crisp green lettuces, ripe tomatoes from the vine, with a cool honey mustard dressing.

In…
1976, The first female midshipmen (81 of them) were admitted into the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
1957, Althea Gibson won Wimbledon, the first African American to do so.
1944, In Hartford, CT,a fire at the circus spread through the big top killing 167 and injuring 682. The fast moving fire was out within 10 minutes.
 1933, The American League won the first All-Star baseball game over the National League.

Bornd on this day in…
1946, Sylvester Stallone, Rocky…1946, George W. Bush, Politican…1945, Burt Ward, Robin…1937, Ned Beatty, character actor…1935, Tenzin Gyatso, aka Dalai Lama…1931, Della Reese,  Tess…1927, Janet Lee, a favorite Hitchcock actress…1925, Merv Griffin, talker and game show inventor…1923, Nancy Reagan, first lady…1747, John Paul Jones, father of US Navy.

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