Eat Your Veggies

October is National Vegetarian  and Eat Country Ham Month. Which came first: Country ham or Vegetarians?   Today is World Vegetarian Day.

On October 1:

1971 – The Happiest Place on Earth, Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL, opened its gates for the very first time. Nearly six years later, I would visit the park with my Girl Scout Troop. Hi Pam, Vanessa and everyone else I can’t remember your names of right now!!!

1963 – Mark McGwire, MLB Baseball player who was also embroiled in a steroids scandal.

1962 – The Tonight Show introduced a new host Johnny Carson after its most recent host, Jack Paar, had quit on the air and returned a month later and then quit again within the month.

1950 – Randy Quaid, character actor seen in the “Vacation” series of films as well as the blockbuster hit Independence Day.

1959 – Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone premiered with an episode called “Where is Everybody?” starring Earl Holliman.

1935 – Julie Andrews, the woman everyone wanted as their nanny, governess and ‘queen mum’. Along with Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and The Princess Diaries and the “Shrek” films she has appeared in other films such as Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Victor/Victoria.

1928 – George Peppard, actor who started out in westerns and military films. His fifth movie was Breakfast at Tiffany’s. He will be best remembered as Hannibal Smith on the 80’s action series, The A-Team (now a major motion picture).

1927 – Tom Bosley, Mr. C, Happy Days; Sherrif Tupper, Murder, She Wrote; Father Dowling, Father Dowling Mysteries.

1924 – William Rehnquist, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard Nixon in 1972 and remained on the court until 2005. He served as Chief Justice 1986-2005.

1924 – Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer and 39^th President of the United States.

1921 – James Whitmore, actor who started his career in The Undercover Man (1949). Can also be seen in Asphalt Jungle, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma, Planet of the Apes, The Shawshank Redemption and The Majestic.

1920 – Walter Matthau, actor. Atomic Attack (1950), King Creole, The Odd Couple (1968), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Earthquake, Little Miss Marker, Grumpy Old Men, Hanging Up (2000)…and that is only a few of his films…Don’t get me started on the stage and television shows.

1908 – Ford produced the first Model T. It was so successful it was produced until 1927, What a ride!

1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, classical pianist. His first solo recital in 1920 and he worked up until his death in 1989.

1890 – Yosemite National Park was “born” thanks to congress and President Harrison.

1856 – The first segment of the novel, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, was published in the Revue de Paris. Later, he was acquitted of obscenity charges and the book became a smash.