Creamsicles...mmmm!

National Creamsicle Day!!! Just so there is no mistake. Creamsicles ROCK! A little vanilla ice cream surrounded by an awesome orange sherbet/ice milk concoction frozen on a stick. Can’t get a creamsicle where you are? Try vanilla ice cream floating in a glass of OJ or Orange Crush Soda. Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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VJ Day. VJ is the acronym of the term Victory in Japan. Some celebrate this VJ Day on the 15^th, others on the 14^th. This discrepancy is do to the fact of the time difference and slow communications to US from Japan.

2003 – The 50 million people in the NE US and SE Canada were affected by a blackout. Some people were out of power for over 24 hours and still, nobody knows why!

1994 – Illich Ramirex Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, was captured. He was affiliated with many terrorist organizations and linked to attacks between 1973 and 1992.

1985 – Michael Jackson out bid Paul McCartney for publishing rights to most of the musical catalog of the Beatles. Do you think he got his $47,000,000.00 worth?

1980 – Poland went on strike. It began with workers seizing control of the Lenin Shipyard. This movement gave rise to Solidarity and Lech Walesa.

1953 – Whiffle Ball was patented by David Mullany. How did it get its name? A slang term his son used for a strike out... "whiff".

1945 – Japan surrendered ending WWII.

1935 – The Social Security Act was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. Did you know it was originally designed to combat unemployment?

1908 – The first (known) beauty pageant was held in Folkestone, England

1885 – The inventor of rust proof paint received Japan’s first patent.

1846 – A meteorite crashed near the town of Cape Girardeau, MO. I wonder if it was part of the Perseid Meteor Shower.

1751 – Francis Blandy is found dead. His daughter, Mary, was accused of poisoning him over a period of months using arsenic because he refused to allow her to ‘see’ a married man.  She was tried, convicted and hung.

1040 – King Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle. The rival army was lead by his cousin (and successor)…Macbeth.

BIRTHDAYS…

Executive Decision actress, Halle Berry (1968);  The Brady Bunch actress, Susan Olsen (1961);  Cats singer/actress, Sarah Brightman (1960);  Athlete, Ervin “Magic” Johnson (1959);  The Far Side cartoonist, Gary Larson (1950); Romance novelist, Danielle Steel (1947);  Kate & Allie actress, Susan St. James (1946);  Starsky and Hutch actor, Antonio Fargas (1946);  Comedian, actor, neighbor, Steve Martin (1945);  Jockey, Robyn Smith (1944);  Crosby, Stills Nash & Young singer, David Crosby (1941); Seals and Crofts singer, Dash Crofts (1940);  The Forsyte Saga novelist, John Galsworthy (1867);  Casey at the Bat poet, Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863); Gunfighter, Doc Holliday (1851);  Historical novelist, Sir Walter Scott (1771).