Yelling at the Juggler

Today is National Hollerin’ Contest Day  and World Juggler’s Day.

A busy day in history…

1999- Stephen King was hit by a minivan, the driver fled the scene leaving him looking like something he writes about in his books.

1978- Garfield, the comic strip, was born.

1964- Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved.

1954- The Tasmanian Devil, of Warner Brothers cartoon fame, is “born” in the Bugs Bunny short, “Devil May Hare.”

1953- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of spying for Soviets, were executed for their crimes.

1912- The US adopted an 8-hour work day.

1905- Happy Birthday, Nickelodeon! No, not the television station, the actual picture viewing machine! “Put another nickle in, in the nickelodeon…”

1893- She is officially “NOT GUILTY”.  (comment if you know the answer-a prize to the first responder).

1892- Early science of fingerprinting was used to identify the murderer of two children, 6 & 4. It was not the man the children’s mother accused, a man she said was upset because she wasn’t interested in him “that way” (BTW-he never confessed even after ‘rather painful interrogation techinques’ for a week, including being bound to the corpses over night. Turns out, the mommy did it!!! Thanks fingerprinting.

1870- The CSA is officially disbanded when all of the southern states are readmitted to the USA.

1865- Galveston, TX: slaves were informed that they were free according to the adoption of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1963. Juneteenth is forever celebrated on this day in Texas for this reason.

1846- In Hoboken NJ, the first baseball game under ‘modern’ rules was played.

1767- “The Big Bad Wolf” was slain by Jean Chastel . France became ‘overrun’ by large wolves, several were killed. Some were reportedly killed by ‘silver bullets’. Sounds like a story brewing to me.

  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:

Dancer/choreographer, Paula Abdul (1962); Actress, Kathleen Turner (1954); Author, Salman Rushdie (1947); Actor/singer. Louis Jourdan (1919); Athlete, Lou Gehrig (1903); Bandleader, Guy Lombardo (1902); Three Stooges actor, Moe Howard (1897); Philosopher/physicist, Blaise Pascal (1623) philosopher and physicist