[buddyjh]

289th day of 2009 - 76 remaining

Friday, October 16, 2009
POPULATION CONTROL DAY

If you think that Planned Parenthood and other such organizations are unique to today’s society, think again.

Long before most of us were born, three women, Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell and Ethel Burne, all from New York, decided that the poor should have some help in controlling the size of their families. They felt they could help if they opened a birth control clinic because “no social progress is possible, especially where poverty is a factor, unless the size of families is limited.” Talk about being way ahead of your time...

They opened the doors of the first such clinic in the United States, right smack in the middle of Brooklyn at 46 Amboy Street on this day in 1916. Ms. Sanger served 30 days in jail for her bold action. A year earlier she had been indicted for using the U.S. mail to disseminate birth control information in three languages throughout the United States.

A public nurse, Margaret Sanger went on to become the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation in 1953.


Events
October 16
1829 - The Tremont House (now known as the Tremont Hotel) opened in Boston, MA. It was called the first modern hotel in America. Each of the Tremont’s 170 luxurious rooms went for $2 a day and included four meals...

Eat your heart out, Tom Bodett! The Tremont Hotel opened in Boston. It was called the first modern hotel in America. Each of the Tremont’s luxurious 170 rooms went for $2 a day and included four meals! We’ll leave the light on...

1846 - The painkiller, >ether, was demonstrated successfully for the first time -- in Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital. The drug was administered by William T.G. Morton, a ‘dentist’ (he never attended dental or medical school), of Charlestown, MA.

1909 - The first seesaw World Series ended , after each team -- Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Detroit Tigers -- had won alternately until game seven. Pittsburgh pitcher Babe Adams came through with a 6-hit, 8-0 win over Detroit. It was his third complete-game victory and gave the Pirates their first world championship.

1912 - It was the day for game eight of the World Series. What? Game eight? Yes, it seems game two was called for darkness with the score tied, and did not count. Anyway, back to game eight, between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants: Boston won, 3-2, in ten innings. Talk about even-steven baseball...

1928 - The frosted electric light bulb was patented. No, it wasn’t the work of Thomas Edison, Westinghouse, General Electric, or any of his army, either. It was one Marvin Pipkin who lit up at receiving this patent.

1939 - Radio listeners welcomed The Right to Happiness on the NBC Blue network. The 15-minute radio drama turned out to be one of the longest-running radio shows of its kind. It moved over to CBS in 1941, then back to NBC in 1942. Fourteen years later Right to Happiness returned to CBS where it stayed until its last days in 1960. The show had a theme song, Song of the Soul, and what seemed like a cast of thousands. It just took a lot of different radio actors to play the continuing roles over a 21-year period.

1941 - Fry Me Cookie, with a Can of Lard was recorded by the Will Bradley Orchestra on Columbia. Ray McKinley was featured.

1944 - The Robe, by Lloyd Douglas, was published this day. Nine years later the novel was made into a movie and captured three Oscars. It is seen annually (around the Easter holiday) on TV.

1945 - Barry Fitzgerald starred as Judge Barnard Fitz in His Honor, the Barber, which debuted on NBC radio.

1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer made news. She replaced Ruth Crowley as a columnist in 26 newspapers. Mrs. Crowley, a writer of advice to the lovelorn, had died in July of 1955 and was replaced by the woman whose advice column was seen in hundreds of newspapers. She wrote under the famous pen name, Ann Landers. ‘Eppie’ Lederer, who died June 22, 2002, was also the twin sister of another advice columnist, Abigail Van Buren.

1962 - World Series time again: The New York Yankees scored the game’s only run in the fourth inning. In the ninth, San Francisco Giants’ Willie Mays ripped a double to right off pitcher Ralph Terry, but great fielding by Roger Maris kept Matty Alou from scoring. Willie McCovey hit a liner toward right, but second-baseman Bobby Richardson grabbed it, giving the Yankees their second straight world championship. Terry was named Series MVP.

1969 - The once-lowly New York Mets won their first World Series baseball championship. The ‘Miracle Mets’ were 100-to-1 long shots at the beginning of the season. Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner were at the mike on radio for one of the most exciting finishes in baseball history.

1972 - John C. Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival called it a career ... and the group disbanded. Fogerty would continue in a solo career with big hits including, Centerfield and The Old Man Down the Road.

1976 - Memphis, TN disc jockey Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots made it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with the immortal Disco Duck (Part 1). Dees is still around, but not as a recording artist. He’s a DJ in Los Angeles and is hosting several varieties of the Weekly Top 40 show, syndicated around the world.

1976 - Stevie Wonder’s album, Songs in the Key of Life wound up at number one in the U.S. It turned out to be no fluke. With greats, such as Sir Duke, Isn’t She Lovely and I Wish, the double-album stayed at #1 for 14 weeks. Other tracks: Love’s in Need of Love Today, Have a Talk with God, Village Ghetto Land, Contusion, Knocks Me Off My Feet, Pastime Paradise, Summer Soft, Ordinary Pain, Saturn, Ebony Eyes, Joy Inside My Tears, Black Man, Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am S inging, If It’s Magic, As, Another Star, All Day Sucker, Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call).

1978 - Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th Pope: His Holiness John Paul II.

1983 - The Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in the World Series. The Orioles featured Cal Ripken, Eddie Murray, a stingy pitching staff and clutch performances by other great players. The Phillies were led by Mike Schmidt and a group of veterans nicknamed The Wheeze Kids: Pete Rose (age 42), Joe Morgan (40), Tony Perez (41) and Steve Carlton (38). After losing the Series opener in Baltimore, the Orioles won the next four games. In the fifth game, Murray hit two home runs and MVP Rick Dempsey another, giving the Orioles their third World Series championship.

1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.”

1986 - Chuck Berry celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert in his home town of St. Louis, Missouri (at the Fox Theatre). The show was organized by Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) and the concert was used in a documentary titled, Hail! Hail! Rock ’N’ Roll, an overview of Berry’s career.

1987 - WBA, WBC & IBF undisputed, as they say, World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson stopped Tyrell Biggs (TKO) in the seventh round at Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, NJ.

1992 - Sinead O’Connor was booed off the stage at a show honoring Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden (famous for booing folks off the stage), New York. The crowd was acting in disapproval of O’Connor’s tearing up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live October 3, 1992.

1998 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: Beloved, with Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Thandie Newton; Bride of Chucky, starring Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif and Katherine Heigl; and Practical Magic, with Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing.


Birthdays
October 16
1758 - Noah Webster
author, lexicographer: Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language; died May 28, 1843

1854 - Oscar (O’Flahertie Fingal Wills) Wilde
playwright: The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray; died Nov 30, 1900

1886 - David Ben-Gurion
Israel’s first prime minister; died in Dec 1, 1973

1888 - Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill
Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Ice Man Cometh [1946]; Long Day’s Journey into Night; died Nov 27, 1953

1898 - William O. Douglas
jurist: U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1939-1975]; died Jan 19, 1980

1900 - Goose (Leon Allen) Goslin
Baseball Hall of Famer: Washington Nationals [World Series: 1924, 1925, 1933], St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers [World Series: 1934, 1935/all-star: 1936]; drove in 100 or more runs on eleven occasions, hit .300 or better eleven times; career: .316 average, 2735 hits, 37 more in World Series competition; died May 15, 1971

1906 - George Lott
International Tennis Hall of Famer [enshrined 1964]; U.S. Open Tennis Mixed Doubles Champion [w/Betty Nuthall - 1929 & 1931] [w/Helen Jacobs - 1934]; author [w/Jeffrey Bairstow]: How to Play Winning Doubles [1979]; died Dec 2, 1991

1923 - Bert Kaempfert
musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three O’Clock in the Morning; died June 21, 1980

1924 - Linda Darnell
actress: Dakota Incident, Blackbeard the Pirate, Anna and the King of Siam, Forever Amber, Buffalo Bill, The Mark of Zorro; died Apr 10, 1965

1925 - Angela Lansbury
Tony Award-winning actress: Mame [1966], Dear World [1969], Gypsy [1975], Sweeney Todd [1979]; Murder, She Wrote, Death on the Nile, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Harlow, Blue Hawaii, The Manchurian Candidate, The Long Hot Summer, The World of Henry Orient, The Harvey Girls, Picture of Dorian Gray, National Velvet; voice: teapot: Beauty and the Beast

1927 - Günter (Wilhelm) Grass
novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum; won 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature

1931 - Chuck (Charles) Colson
government: Watergate co-conspirator

1940 - Barry Corbin
actor: Northern Exposure, Boone, The Chase, Urban Cowboy, Who’s Harry Crumb

1941 - Mel Counts
basketball: Oregon State Univ.; U.S. Olympic Basketbal Gold Medal Winner [1964]; Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers

1941 - Tim (James Timothy) McCarver
baseball: catcher: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1964, 1967, 1968/all-star: 1966, 1967], Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox; broadcaster: NY Mets, ABC Sports

1942 - Dave Lovelady
musician: drums: group: The Fourmost: Hello Little Girl, I’m in Love, A Little Loving, Baby I Need Your Loving

1943 - C.F. (Fred) Turner
musician: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin’ Care of Business, Let It Ride, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Looking Out for Number One, Hey You

1945 - D.D. (Dwight Douglas) Lewis
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII

1946 - Suzanne Somers (Mahoney)
actress: Three’s Company, She’s the Sheriff, Step by Step, American Graffiti, Seduced by Evil

1947 - Bob Weir (Hall)
musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grateful Dead: Touch of Grey, Truckin’; solo: LP: Ace, Heaven Help the Fool

1947 - David Zucker
director: Airplane!, Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, Top Secret!, Police Squad!, Help Wanted!

1948 - Richard Caster
football: Washington Redskins tight end: Super Bowl XVII

1949 - Bob Collyard
hockey: NHL: St. Louis Blues

1952 - Cal Peterson
football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X

1953 - Tony Carey
musician: keyboards: group: Rainbow: LPs: Rainbow Rising, Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll

1953 - Mike Sojourner
basketball: Univ. of Utah; Atlanta Hawks

1958 - Tim Robbins
Academy Award-winning actor: Mystic River [2003]; The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, Short Cuts, Hudsucker Proxy; director: Dead Man Walking, Cradle Will Rock, Queens Supreme

1959 - Gary Kemp
musician: guitar: group: Spandau Ballet: To Cut a Long Story Short, The Freeze, Musclebound, Chant No. 1, True, Gold, Only When You Leave; brother of musician Martin Kemp

1962 - Flea (Michael Balzary)
musician: bass guitar: group: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: LPs: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Freaky Styley, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, Mother’s Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute

1969 - Wendy Wilson
singer: group: Wilson Phillips: Hold On, Release Me; daughter of Beach Boys singer, Brian Wilson

1975 - Kellie Martin
actress: Matinee, Troop Beverly Hills, Life Goes On, Christy

Chart Toppers
October 16
1948A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue - Gordon MacRae
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long, Long Way) - Eddy Arnold

1956Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett
Just Walking in the Rain - Johnnie Ray
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

1964Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Dancing in the Street - Martha & The Vandellas
I Guess I’m Crazy - Jim Reeves

1972Ben - Michael Jackson
Use Me - Bill Withers
Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
Funny Face - Donna Fargo

1980Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Woman in Love - Barbra Streisand
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Loving Up a Storm - Razzy Bailey

1988Red Red Wine - UB40
Groovy Kind of Love - Phil Collins
What’s on Your Mind (Pure Energy) - Information Society
Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens

Happy Birthday C.F. (Fred) Turner of Bachman-Turner Overdrive

[slowboy]

thanks for the great info

[peggy13]

Thank you Buddy! Wow, I just glanced at the days left!! 76 days!! Where did the time go??? lol I'm not ready for 2010 yet!

[Victor Hugo]

Thanks Buddy for the excellent job.

[Crystal Dragon]

Takin Care of Business and Practical Magic all in one day... Wonderful!!!
Thanks Buddy!!

[dal bilkoski]

thanks buddy

[dt8350]

Thanks for the great post Buddy!

[cadood]

thank you for the history!

[just4ufolks]

THANKS

AGAIN MY FRIEND

SO MUCH TO ABSORB
IT'S JUST AMAZING THAT YOU LEARN THIS
IN A SINGLE DAY EVERYDAY
THX AGAIN BUD