Today is Red Rose Day. Red Roses, Red Roses, send Suzie right over…Ring around the Rosie, Pocket full of roses, ashes, ashes, we all fall down…Roses are Red, Violets are Purple, Sugar is Sweet, and so is Urkel. A Rose is a Rose is a Rose. I think that I have never seen, a Rose as pretty as a Bean…???
IN HISTORY
2004- A 1.3kg (2.89lbs) meteorite fell in Ellerslie, New Zealind, hitting a house causing damages, no injuries.
1987- Ronald Regan to Mikhail Gorbachev: “Tear down that wall.” Referring to the Berlin Wall.
1979- Bryan Allen flew over the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross, a man powered aircraft.
1963- Medgar Evers was assissinated by Byron de la Beckwith.
1942- Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
1939- Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was deidcated in Cooperstown, NY. First honorees were Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnsonand Christy M.athewson.
1885- During a murder trial in France, the roof collapsed and killed 30 people. Wonder if the accused was one of them.
1880- John Lee Richmond pitched the first Perfect Game…
1859- The Comstock Lode was discovered near Virginia City, NV.
BORN TODAY
1943- Marv Albert, sportscaster, “The Voice of Basketball”
1933- Jim Nabors, actor/singer, “Well, golleey!” Not only can he be seen on The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off, Gomer Pyle, USMC, you can see him in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Stroker Ace and Cannonball Run II.
1932- Rona Jaffe, novelist: The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters, Mr. Right is Dead, Family Secrets.
1929- Anne Frank, diarist
1928- VitoRocco Farinola, singer aka Vic Damone: You’re Breaking My Heart, On the Street Where You Live.
1924- George Bush (the first one), politician.
1916- Irwin Allen, film producer. TV Series: Land of the Lost, Swiss Family Robinson, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; Films: The Big Circus, The Lost World, The Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, The Swarm.
1915- David Rockefeller, banker and youngest son of John D Rockefeller, Jr.
1827- Johanna Spyri, author of Toni, the Little Woodcarver, What Sami Sings with the Birds and Heidi.
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