Beheadings, Surrenders and Mark Harmon

Hispanic Heritage Month

VJ Day – The official end of WWII occurred upon the USS Missouri during a surrender ceremony.

National Beheading Day – Although named a “national” holiday, it really isn’t, in fact, there really won’t be any beheadings today, I hope.

HISTORY

1973 – John Ronald Reuel Tolkien died in Bournemouth, Dorset, England of a bleeding ulcer and a chest infection. He currently resides with the hobbits in Middle Earth.

1969 – Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, NY installed the first ATM. 40 years later, there are over a million machines across the globe.

1959 – The Ford Falcon was introduced by Henry Ford II as a 90 –horsepower 30mpg compact car.

1789 – Happy Birthday to the US Treasury, headed by Alexander Hamilton.

1666 – The Great Fire of London was started in a baker on Pudding Lane owned by Thomas Farriner. It finally was put out on September 5^th destroying the homes of 70,000 (out of 80,000) residents and an untolled number of deaths.

BIRTHDAYS:

1968 – Salma Hayek, actress, has appeared in films such as The Faculty, The Hunchback, Traffic, Frida and Spy Kids 3.

1964 – Keanu Reeves, actor starring in films beginning in 1985’s Letting Go as Stereo Teen #1 to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure to Little Buddha to A Walk in the Clouds to Speed, to 2011’s Jekyll. Pretty to look at…

1955 – Linda Purl, actress, known as being Fonzie’s steady girlfriend on Happy Days and as Ben Matlock’s lawyer daughter, Charlene on Matlock.

1952 – Jimmy Connors, athlete, considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

1951 – Mark Harmon, actor/hunny-bunny, Love watching him every week on NCIS. I won’t forget him on St. Elsewhere; as the Coors Beer spokesman; as serial killer, Ted Bundy in The Deliberate Stranger.  In the movies, check him out in Prince of Bel Air, Summer School , Freaky Friday (2003), and The Presidio.

1948 – Christa McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut. Wanting to teach about the experience of space travel. The school teacher signed up to fly into space upon the Space Shuttle Challenger. She would be unable to fulfill her dreams when the Challenger was destroyed upon take off in January, 1986.

1948 – Terry Bradshaw, athlete, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback turned football analyst.

1937 – Peter Ueberroth, executive. Was the 6^th commissioner of Major League Baseball in the United States.

1917 – Marge Champion, dancer/actress, best known for her dance work with her husband Gower Champion. She still teaches and is a choreographer in NYC and occasionally appears on television and on Broadway.