Thursday, June 10, 2010

Iced Tea Anyone?

Today is Iced Tea Day. I will be making a pitcher or two, why don’t you come on over and get a glass. BYOL.

In 2001, second First Daughter, Sasha Obama, was born.

Olympic champion figure skater, Tara Lupinski, was born in 1982.

In 1944, Jo Nuxhall pitched only 2/3 of the ninth inning for the Cincinnati Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals. He pitched one wild pitch, allowed 5 runs on 5 walks and two hits. He was 15 years old, the youngest person to ever play Major League Baseball.  

In 1935, two anonymous men (one a broker, one a doctor) founded Alcoholics Anonymous.

F. Lee Bailey, attorney to the stars, was born in 1933.

In 1928, children’s author, Maurice Sendak, was born. Thanks Mr. Sendak for giving us Wild Things and giving faces to Little Bear, Zlateh the Goat and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.

In 1922, Frances Ethel Gumm was born. You may remember her as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz! Happy Birthday (aka) Judy Garland.

Frederick Loewe,  collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner, was born in 1901. The two worked on My Fair Lady and Camelot.
Benjamin Franklin, 46, flew a kite in the rain on this day in 1752. Luckily for him the kite was struck by lightning and proved its electrical potential. If it were not for him we also would not have the terms battery, conducter and electrician. Thanks Ben.

In 1692, Bridget Bishop, resident of Salem Town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was hanged after being found guilty of witchcraft, the first colonist to be tried, convicted and had her sentence carried out.  She was 60 years old. She may have been confused with another woman in Salem Village.

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