Today is I Forgot Day and oh, geez, I forgot….Oh, I didn’t forget, I ALMOST forgot. It is World UFO Day. This day was created in honor of the first “known and recorded” “landing” of a UFO. It really wasn’t a landing, although I have heard that any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Does “walking away from” also mean being taken out of the crashed UFO in total secrecy on a gurney into a super secret, not so secret anymore, military base in the dark of night and kept prisoner for the rest of your life count as walking away? Anyway, welcome to Earth!
HAPPY HISTORY
2002- Millionaire, Steve Fossett, finished his solo, non-stop flight around the world in a balloon.
1982- Larry Walters, a California truck driver, took off from his backyard in a lawn chair below 45-helium filled weather balloons.
1964- The Civil Rights Act was signed by President Johnson.
1955- Lawrence Welk started playing in our homes with champagne, bubbles and his orchestra and the famous Lawrence Welk Singers.
1937- Amelia Earhart and her navigator disappeared in the Pacific Ocean while searching for Howland Island during their around the world flight attempt.
1900- The first zeppelin took flight at Lake Constance in Germany
1839- The Cuban ship Amistad became the victim of mutany. Slaves heading for a sugar plantation at Puerto Principe, Cuba. They killed/captured the owners and crew ordering a return to Africa. Apparently they were unwise to direction and the ship ended up off the coast of Long Island where it was siezed. And everyone aboard arrested pending investigation.
1850- Benjamin J Lane pateneted the Self-Contained Gas Mask.
1881- President Garfield was shot. No, not assassinated, for he wouldn’t be officially assassinated until the middle of September. Sadly, his death was long and painful including a punctured liver (thanks doc), blood poisoning, a bullet playing hide and seek, fevers, streptococcus (probably), pnemonia. He died of either (great docs, huh?) a heart attack or a ruptured Splenic Artery Aneurysm.
1776- Today is the day that the Second Continental Congress voted to proclaim independence from England. July 4th, the day we celebrate is actually the celebration of the adoption of the piece of paper known as The Declaration of Independence.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY-
1986- Lindsay Lohan, actress now most known for the trouble she causes instead of her roles in The remakes, The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday.
1964- Jose Canseco, baseball outfielder who admitted to using steroids, which ended his baseball career.
1937- Ron Silver, actor most known as Brenda’s boyfriend on Rhoda.
1937- Richard Petty, famous NASCAR racer (Go 43)
1932- Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s restaurant chain and proponant of adoption.
1922- Dan Rowan, comedian who hit it big in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In.
1908- Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice.
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