Today is Eat Your Vegetables Day. Okay, I promise today is the last day for a while about eating crap, I mean good for you food.
16 years ago today, most of the US was (were?) glued to their television sets watching a high speed chase in Los Angeles which really wasn’t a high speed chase since the white Ford Bronco frequently traveled the Interstate at only 35 miles per hour. Inside was a ‘suicidal’ ex-football star/actor/sports commentator. Why was he suicidal? The police had arrived at his home to arrest him for the murder of his ex-wife and one of her friends.
Do the names James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Vigilio Gonzalez and Eugenio Martinez mean anything to you? How about “Burglary at the Democratic National Committed headquarters at the Watergate”? The arrest of these five men was the beginning of the end for President Richard Nixon.
Welcome to your new home Lady Liberty! 1885, in order to commemorate the alliance between France and America during the American Revolution, “The People of France” gifted the 151-foot ‘Colossus” to America. It took 16 months to reassemble her after her long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
Birthdays Today:
1980- Venus Williams, tennis player; 1965- Dan Jansen, speed skater; 1951- Joe Piscopo, comedian/actor/MN Senator; 1948- Phylicia Rashad, actress; 1946- Barry Manilow, singer; Newt Gingrich, politician; 1917- Dean Martin, actor/singer.
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