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Thursday, June 25, 2009
KEWPIE DAY
How many of you remember ... or ever heard of ... the Kewpie Doll? Are we dating you? The Kewpie Doll was created by Rose O’Neill, who was born on this day in 1874. Rose was raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and had a rather successful career as an illustrator and author. In fact, her paintings, drawings, and sculptures of, what Rose called her “Sweet Monsters” (mythical creatures such as centaurs, fauns, satyrs), were exhibited in New York and Paris. But then, she began to design dolls, specifically, the Kewpie Doll.
A 1909 issue of Ladies Home Journal printed a full page of Ms. O’Neill’s doll designs catapulting the Kewpie Doll into a marketing success in the toy industry for over three decades.
The Kewpie Doll was a small, cupid-like, plump figure with a top-knot and was made of plaster or celluloid.
Events
June 25
1788 - The Virginia colony including Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, entered the United States of America as the tenth state. The state, also known as Old Dominion, was named after the "Virgin Queen", Elizabeth I of England. The Commonwealth of Virginia and its capital, Richmond, have played major roles in American history. Like West Virginia, it names the cardinal as the state bird. The official state flower of Virginia is the flowering dogwood.
1844 - John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1876 - Indian Chief Crazy Horse won the two-hour Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, wiping out the army of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer, who led the battle against the Sioux Indian encampment, was among the 200+ casualties. Ironically, the only survivor of Custer’s forces was a horse, Comanche.
1886 - Nineteen-year-old Arturo Toscanini moved from the cello section to the conductor’s stand of the Rio de Janeiro Orchestra. The maestro conducted Aida this day.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1937 - Ed ‘Strangler’ Lewis was a little angry. He denounced the idea of lady wrestlers in the ring. Lewis said that women ’rasslers threatened to turn the sport of professional wrestling into a burlesque show.
1942 - The first broadcast of It Pays to Be Ignorant was aired on WOR Radio and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
1948 - Joe Louis KO’d Jersey Joe Walcott to keep the world heavyweight boxing crown.
1951 - The first commercial color TV program was seen. It was a four-hour-long show presented on CBS and carried in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Arthur Godfrey, Faye Emerson, Sam Levenson and Ed Sullivan starred in the TV milestone. An interesting side note to this event is that the public didn’t own any color TVs at the time and CBS, itself, owned only about three dozen sets.
1961 - Pat Boone spent this day at number one for one last time with Moody River. Boone, a teen heart-throb in the 1950s, had previously walked his way up the music charts, wearing white buck shoes, of course, with these other hits: Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don’t Forbid Me, Love Letters in the Sand and April Love.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5 to 4) that prayers in public schools violated the First Amendment to the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state.
1968 - Bobby Bonds of the San Francisco Giants started on the road to superstardom. Bonds connected for a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He became the first baseball player in the majors to debut in such an exciting way.
1969 - The Guess Who from Canada received a gold record for their hit single, These Eyes.
1980 - Miami Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese announced his retirement from professional football after 14 years in South Florida. Griese had some impressive statistics: 193 touchdown passes, 25,200 yards passing and the winner of two (out of three) Super Bowls.
1985 - ABC-TV’s Monday Night Football announcer lineup: Frank Gifford and O.J. Simpson were joined by Joe Namath. The trio was out to regain some of the show’s sagging ratings after Howard Cosell and Don Meredith exited the broadcast.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The 5-4 ruling upholding the right to die was made in the Cruzan vs. Missouri case.
1993 - Kim Campbell became Canada’s 19th prime minister -- and its first woman prime minister. Campbell governed until October 25, 1993 when the Progressive-Conservative party was royally defeated. (Her term actually expired November 4, 1993.)
1998 - Windows 98 was released. Microsoft used the slogan, “Works better. Plays better.” The company said the new operating system would bring an “increased computer experience by providing a rich feature set for a wider variety of users than ever before.” Interest in the new release was also increased by the publicity generated by the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust suit against Microsoft.
1999 - Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy debuted at theatres across the U.S. Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, who tries to get custody of his best friend’s son. Sappy? You betcha! Successful? You betcha: $41.54 million the first weekend.
1999 - The San Antonio Spurs earned their first NBA (National Basketball Association) title in their 26-year history by beating the New York Knicks 78-to-77. That gave the Spurs the series 4 games to 1.
Birthdays
June 25
1874 - Rose O’Neill
illustrator, author, doll designer; died Apr 6, 1944; see Kewpie Day [above]
1886 - Henry ‘Hap’ Arnold
military: U.S. General and commander of the Army Air Force: WWII; 1st five-star general of the U.S. Army Air Force; died Jan 15,1950
1887 - George Abbott
director: **** Yankees, The Pajama Game, Too Many Girls; died Jan 31, 1995
1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
author: Animal Farm, 1984; died Jan 21, 1950
1903 - Anne Revere
Tony Award-winning actress: Toys in the Attic [1960]; Academy Award winner [1944]: National Velvet; A Place in the Sun, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Forever Amber, The Song of Bernadette, The Howards of Virginia; died Dec 18, 1990
1906 - Roger Livesey
actor: Of Human Bondage, The Entertainer; died Feb 4, 1976
1912 - Milton Shapp
governor of Pennsylvania; died November 24, 1988
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes (Joseph Conrad Lind)
actor: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Zis Boom Bah!, Peter Loves Mary [w/wife, Mary Healy]; died Apr 21, 1998
1922 - Johnny Smith
jazz musician: guitar: Moonlight in Vermont
1923 - Dorothy Gilman
author: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Incident at Madamya
1924 - Sidney Lumet
director: Twelve Angry Men, Serpico, Deathtrap, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Pawnbroker, Family Business, Playhouse 90, Gloria
1925 - June Lockhart
actress: Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, Deadly Games, The Big Picture, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis
1935 - Eddie Floyd
singer: group: Falcons: You’re So Fine; solo: Bring It on Home to Me, Knock on Wood, I’ve Never Found a Girl [To Love Me like You Do]
1940 - Clint Warwick (Eccles)
musician: bass: The Moody Blues: Go Now, LP: The Magnificent Moodies
1942 - Willis Reed
basketball: New York Knicks center and captain; NBA MVP: [1970]
1944 - Al Beauchamp
football: Cincinnati Bengals
1945 - Carly Simon
Grammy Award-winning [Best New Artist, 1971] singer: Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird [w/husband James Taylor], Nobody Does It Better, You Belong to Me, Coming Around Again; Academy Award-winning song: Let the River Run [1988]; author of children’s books
1946 - Allen Lanier
musician: guitar, keyboards: group: Blue Oyster Cult: Don’t Fear the Reaper, LPs: Revolution by Night, Fire of Unknown Origin, Cultosaurus Erectus, Spectres, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, ETI, Some Enchanted Evening, On Your Feet or on Your Knees
1946 - Ian McDonald
musician: instrumentalist: group: Foreigner: Feels like the First Time, Cold as Ice, Long Long Way from Home, Double Vision, Hot Blooded, Blue Morning Blue Day
1947 - Jimmie Walker
actor, comedian: Good Times, B.A.D. Cats, Airplane!, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1948 - Clay (Clayton Laws) Kirby
baseball: pitcher: SD Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos; died Oct 11, 1991
1949 - Phyllis George (Brown)
Miss America [1971]; TV host: The NFL Today, The CBS Morning News
1952 - Tim Finn (Te Awamutu)
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Split Enz
1954 - David Paich
musician: keyboards, singer: group: Toto: Hold the Line, Make Believe, Roseanna, Africa
1963 - Doug Gilmour
hockey: NHL: SL Blues, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, NJ Devils, Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres
1963 - George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou)
singer: duo: Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year Award [1985]; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo
basketball
: Georgetown Univ; Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets, NY Knicks, Houston Rockets; Dikembe Mutombo Foundation [helping people in the Congo]
1975 - Linda Cardellini
actress: Good Burger, Scooby-Doo, La La Wood, Legally Blonde, Dying to Live, Dead Man on Campus
Chart Toppers
June 25
1944I’ll Be Seing You - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Frank Sinatra)
I’ll Get By - The Harry James Orchestra (vocal: **** Haymes)
Swinging on a Star/Going My Way - Bing Crosby
Straighten Up and Fly Right - King Cole Trio
1952Kiss of Fire - Georgia Gibbs
I’m Yours - Don Cornell
Be Anything - Eddy Howard
The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson
1960Cathy’s Clown - The Everly Brothers
Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool - Connie Francis
Swingin’ School - Bobby Rydell
Please Help Me, I’m Falling - Hank Lockin
1968This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
The Look of Love - Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
1976Silly Love Songs - Wings
Get Up and Boogie (That’s Right) - Silver Convention
Misty Blue - Dorthy Moore
El Paso City - Marty Robbins
1984The Reflex - Duran Duran
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Self Control - Laura Branigan
When We Make Love - Alabama
Chart Topper June 25th, 1968...The Look Of Love-Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66
Guapo Vic.
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