[buddyjh]

40th day of 2010 - 325 remaining

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
WEATHER BUREAU DAY

In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. We think people always just sat around and talked about the weather, but it took an act of Congress to do something about it! The weather bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS) and is a department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The National Weather Service protects the life and property of U.S. citizens by issuing forecasts and warnings for natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and severe weather conditions. NWS communicates this information to the populace through an intricate and varied network. The NOAA Weather Wire Service or NWWS is the primary satellite communications system for NWS transmission. Warnings and other services are delivered in this manner to newspapers, radio and TV stations and emergency agencies. More than 6400 individual products are transmitted every day.

NWS also generates data to be delivered to the public over a nationwide network of FM radio transmitter sites. Most of the U.S. including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa can receive these broadcasts. Cable TV weather channels and AM radio channels also broadcast this information.

No matter how you learn the weather forecast, the age old question still seems to be, “So how’s the weather?”

Events
February 9
1895 - The first college basketball game was played as Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated the Porkers of Hamline College, 9-3. That was basketball at its finest, folks...

1932 - America entered the 2-man bobsled competition for the first time at the Olympic Winter Games held at Lake Placid, NY.

1960 - A verbal agreement was reached between representatives of the American and National Football Leagues. Both agreed not to tamper with player contracts.

1963 - The very first Boeing 727 took off. It became the world’s most popular way to fly. 1,832 of the aircraft were built before production stopped in 1984.

1964 - Several days after their arrival in the U.S., the Beatles made the first of three record-breaking appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. The audience viewing the Fab Four was estimated at 73,700,000 people in TV land. The Beatles sang She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand. One could barely hear the songs above the screams of the girls in the audience.

1966 - Liza Minnelli brought her night club act to the Big Apple. She opened in grand style at the Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel in New York.

1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight this day. The milestone ushered in the age of the jumbo jet.

1970 - Sly and The Family Stone received a gold record for the single, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). Sly (Sylvester) Stewart was a DJ in Oakland, CA.

1981 - Bill Haley died on this day in Harlingen, TX. He was 55. Haley, with his Comets, recorded what became known as the anthem of rock and roll: Rock Around the Clock, from the movie, Blackboard Jungle. The song turned into a multimillion dollar hit and one of many hits Haley and the Comets had, including: Dim Dim the Lights, Razzle Dazzle, Crazy Man Crazy, Rock the Joint, See You Later Alligator and Shake Rattle & Roll. Bill Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

1987 - Twenty years after the first woman was admitted to the New York Stock Exchange, the Exchange Luncheon Club decided to install a ladies rest room! Wow! What did those women do for twenty years? Walk across Wall Street? No, actually, the women had to walk down a flight of stairs.

1996 - Broken Arrow opened in the U.S. The thriller stars John Travolta and Christian Slater in a “a no-holds-barred race to recover a lost nuclear weapon -- a broken arrow.”

1997 - The Simpsons became the longest-running prime-time animated series. The record was previously held by "The Flintstones".

2001 - These movies debuted in the U.S.: Hannibal, with Anthony Hopkins and Julianne Moore, continues the story begun in The Silence of the Lambs; and Saving Silverman, starring Steve Zahn and Jack Black as buddies conspiring to save their best friend, Darren Silverman (played by Jason Biggs), from marrying the wrong woman.

2001 - A collision between the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Greeneville and the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru sank the fishing boat in a matter of minutes. Nine of the 35 persons aboard the Japanese vessel were killed in the collision. The Pearl Harbor-based nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarine, was surfacing when it struck the Japanese ship.

Birthdays
February 9
1773 - William Henry Harrison
9th U.S. President [1841]; caught a cold on inaguration day and died 30 days later [died April 4, 1841]; served shortest term of any U.S. president

1866 - George Ade
journalist: Chicago Morning News/Record; playwright: The Sultan of Sulu, Peggy from Paris, The College Widow; humorist: Fables in Slang; died May 16, 1944

1874 - Amy Lowell
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: What’s O’Clock [1926]; Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds; died May 12, 1925

1891 - Ronald (Charles) Colman
actor: Lost Horizon, Prisoner of Zenda, Around the World in 80 Days, Romola; died May 19, 1958

1901 - (Waldo) Brian Donlevy
actor: Destry Rides Again, Wake Island, Arizona Bushwackers, Five Golden Dragons, Jesse James, Dangerous Assignment; died Apr 5, 1972

1909 - Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha)
‘Brazilian Bombshell’: singer: Mama Eu Quero, The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat; dancer, actress: Copacabana, Springtime in the Rockies, Down Argentine Way; Chiquita Banana; died Aug 5, 1955

1909 - (David) Dean Rusk
U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; died Dec 20, 1994

1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick)
actress, dancer, stripper: You Can’t Have Everything, The Trouble with Angels, The Stripper, My Lucky Star; subject of Broadway show & film: Gypsy; sister of actress, June Havoc; died Apr 26, 1970

1914 - Ernest Tubb
Country Music Hall of Famer: Walking the Floor Over You; headlined 1st country music show at Carnegie Hall; died Sep 6, 1984

1914 - Bill Veeck
Baseball Hall of Fame owner: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Chicago White Sox; promoter: outrageous door prizes, ingenious promotional schemes [Bat Day, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, player names on backs of uniforms]; signed AL’s first black player [Larry Doby: 1947] and oldest rookie [42-year-old Satchel Paige: 1948]; died Jan 2, 1986

1922 - Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Hednick)
actress: Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat, The Kissing Bandit, It Happened in Brooklyn, Anchors Aweigh

1923 - Brendan Behan
Irish dramatist: The Quare Fellow [prison drama: 1956], The Hostage [1958], Borstal Boy [autobiography: Borstal Boy: 1958], Brendan Behan’s Island [1962], Hold Your Hour and Have Another [1964], The Scarperer [1964]; jailed for Irish Republican Army activities; died Mar 20, 1964

1925 - Vic (Victor Woodrow) Wertz
baseball: Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1949, 1951, 1952], St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians [World Series: 1954/all-star: 1957], Boston Red Sox, Minnesota Twins; died July 7, 1983

1928 - Roger Mudd
newsman: CBS News, NBC News, PBS

1931 - Robert Morris
sculptor: Observatory, Transcendence, The Fallen and the Saved, Kansas City’s Bull Wall at the American Royal Arena

1933 - Jo Ann Prentice
golf: Nabisco/Colgate Dinah Shore Champion [1974]

1939 - Barry Mann
songwriter: with Cynthia Weil on dozens of ’60s & ’70s ‘Brill Building’ hits; singer: Who Put the Bomp [in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp]

1939 - Janet Suzman
actress: Nicholas and Alexandra, A Dry White Season, Voyage of the ****ed, The House on Garibaldi Street

1940 - Brian Bennett
musician: drums: group: The Shadows: Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

1942 - Carole King (Klein)
songwriter, singer: Loco-motion, It Might as Well Rain Until September, It’s Too Late, Jazzman

1943 - Joe Pesci
Academy Award-winning actor: Goodfellas [1990]; Raging Bull, My Cousin Vinny, Hey, Let’s Twist!, Star Time Kids, Half Nelson

1944 - Barbara Lewis
singer: Make Me Your Baby, Hello Stranger, Baby I’m Yours

1944 - Alice Walker
author: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Meridian

1945 - Bill Bergey
football: Philadelphia Eagles linebacker: Super Bowl XV

1945 - Mia Farrow (Maria de Lourdes Villers)
actress: Peyton Place, Hannah and Her Sisters, Rosemary’s Baby; ex-Mrs. Frank Sinatra; ex-Mrs. Woody Allen

1949 - Judith Light
actress: One Life to Live, Who’s the Boss, Phenom

1955 - Charles Shaughnessy
actor: The Nanny

1963 - (James) Travis Tritt
Grammy Award-winnning singer: vocal collaboration w/Marty Stuart [1993]; Anymore, Can I Trust You with My Heart, Help Me Hold On; appeared in: Rio Diablo, The Cowboy Way, Sgt. Bilko, Tales From The Crypt, half-time show at 1993’s Super Bowl

ABA Birthdays Today
tonguyen , learnnow , whipper (55) , sadiesheba (52) , panman (49) , 3phaseman (47) , kitimat1964 (46) , Jaguar77 (43) , cavalierkid (42) , ycandey (42) , corvetteman (39) , wyd (38) , DJ-sergio (38) , hay102 (38) , HANY10001 (38) , keith (38) , jjtrigger (37) , geno875 (36) , tfunk (34) , sgumucio (31) , Duc007 (30) , express4u (30)


Chart Toppers
February 9
1944My Heart Tells Me - The Glen Gray Orchestra (vocal: Eugenie Baird)
Shoo, Shoo, Baby - The Andrews Sisters
No Love, No Nothin’ - Ella Mae Morse
Pistol Packin’ Mama - Al Dexter

1952Slowpoke - Pee Wee King
Cry - Johnnie Ray
Anytime - Eddie Fisher
Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell

1960Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
Where or When - Dion & The Belmonts
Handy Man - Jimmy Jones
He’ll Have to Go - Jim Reeves

1968Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers
Spooky - Classics IV
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Skip a Rope - Henson Cargill

197650 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Sometimes - Bill Anderson & Mary Lou Turner

1984Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Joanna - Kool & The Gang
Running with the Night - Lionel Richie
Show Her - Ronnie Milsap


Chart Topper February 8th, 1968...Spooky - Classics IV

[unclepaul]

Thanks for the history buddy,have a super day.



CHEERS

[steven charles]

thank you buddy for this great historic information...

[snakebite]

great post yet again ,thanks buddy.

[Victor Hugo]

Thanks Buddy Great Information.

[jc7257]

Keep up all you do Buddy. We all much appreciate it...

[slowboy]

thanks for the great info

[dt8350]

Great Post Buddy!
Hope You Have A Great Day!

[just4ufolks]

MY
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for all you do and for your untiring
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to bring this thread on daily basis
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Thx again

[Crystal Dragon]

Awesome Stuff!!!
Thanks Buddy!!!

[yipitsme]

No matter what you Think you know, You always learn something new reading your posts Buddy, Thank you and have a good day.

[marty napier]

thank you buddy have a good day!

[ccelectro]

Thanks Buddy, fine ready, keep' em coming.