Celebrate Eight-Track Tape Day, Barbershop Quartet Day, & National Submarine Day
Eight-Track Tape Day honors an entertainment icon. We no longer use 8-track tape and, unlike LPs and other vinyl recordings, we will never go back to them. The whole "great thing" about 8-track was that you never had to flip your tape like cassettes, there were no commercials and you never 'lost the song in the middle' like on the radio. ByeBye 8-track, have fun at the Smithsonian!
If you have never heard Barbershop Quartets you are missing out. Granted I don't think I could listen to them exclusivly, well, maybe, but I love the sound!
National Submarine Day honors the 1900 establishment of the US Submarine Force. Our first submarine was christened the USS Holland. We purchased the 3-year old 'tin can' Holland IV from Holland Torpedo Boat company (later General Dynamics). We have been swimming successfully underwater ever since.
HISTORY:
- 1803-During tense and long-running negotiations for control over the port of New Orleans, Napoleon's French Foreign Minister, Tallyrand, offered to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States with the interesting question, "What will you give for the whole?".
- 1814-Napoleon abdicated his throne and was exiled to Elba Island. (Don't worry, he escapes to reign again).
- 1931-Dorothy Parker resigned as the drama critic at The New Yorker.
- 1951-Truman relieved MacArthur of his duties in Korea leading him to a speech in front of Congress including the line "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
- 1970-Apollo 13 departed Earth for a mission on the moon.
BIRTHDAYS:
1913- Oleg Cassini. Do you think his Countess Marguerite Cassini and Count Alexander Loiewski believed their little Oleg would become one of the greatest designers of all time. I do. Marguerite became a fashion designer in Italy after the Russian Revolution.
1928- Ethel Skakel. Married Robert F. Kennedy and had eleven, yes I said ELEVEN! children in 17 years!!!! Happy Birthday Mrs. Kennedy!
1932- Joel Grey. Not only famous for having a daughter named Jennifer, he also is known as a dancer, singer and actor in his own right. He originated the Master of Ceremonies role in the musical Cabaret.
1939- Lousie Lasser. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Ahead of its time (ahem) evening soap opera.
1947- Meshach Taylor. Actor on Designing Women. How would you like to be a guy starring on a show called Designing Women???
1950- Bill Irwin. Many online places note Mr. Irwin as an actor and choreographer. One of my favorite credits of his is as a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown School Alumnus.
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