[buddyjh]

69th day of 2010 - 296 remaining

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
SALVATION ARMY DAY


It had been two years after ‘General’ William Booth changed the name of the Christian Mission, the organization he had founded in London in 1865, to the Salvation Army.

Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers of Booth’s army landed in New York on this day in 1880 to officially put the Salvation Army to work in the United States.

The Salvation Army’s work consisted of providing food, shelter and clothing to the needy along with the spreading of the Gospel to the spiritually needy. Fresh-air camps, boys’ clubs, family welfare-work programs, aid to prisoners and their families, and low-cost housing for the poor continue to be everyday features of the working army of men and women. Wherever disaster strikes, the Salvation Army is there to help.

The Salvation Army is a worldwide organization, familiar to and accepted by most as the Christian religious organization that administers aid to all without question.

Events
March 10
1791 - John Stone patented the pile driver on this day. Let’s all go pound on some concrete to celebrate.

1849 - Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders. Lincoln received the patent in May, 1849. You thought he was just the President of the United States, didn’t you? Honest. Abe was an inventor, too!

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell sent the first clear telephone message -- into a nearby room -- to his assistant, Mr. Watson. “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you,” were the first words spoken into the invention that Bell had created.

1903 - Harry C. Gammeter of Cleveland, OH patented the multigraph duplicating machine. Why it wasn’t called the Gammeter is beyond our thought processes...

1913 - William Knox literally bowled ’em over at the American Bowling Congress tournament held in Toledo, OH. Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.

1922 - Variety magazine greeted readers with the front-page headline that read, “Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use.” Today, that very headline would have also said, “Be the Twelfth Caller and Win Free Movie Tickets!”

1935 - Nelson Eddy recorded Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life for Victor Records. The song came from the film, Naughty Marietta. Later, Eddy recorded the classic tune with Jeanette MacDonald.

1937 - An audience of 21,000 jitterbuggers jammed the Paramount Theatre in New York City to see a young clarinetist whom they would crown, ‘King of Swing’ on this night. The popular musician was Benny Goodman.

1938 - The day: the 10th of the month. The movies being celebrated were for the year 1937, whose numbers add up to 10 (1+9, 3+7); and it was the 10th Annual Academy Awards. We wonder if these winners were superstitious or had some reason to think that the number 10 was lucky. Two awards were won by The Life of Emile Zola, a Warner Bros. movie, produced by Henry Blanke, Best Picture honors and Best Actor in a Supporting Role to Joseph Schildkraut. Other lucky recipients of the coveted prize awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Los Angeles’ Biltmore Hotel were Leo McCarey as Best Director for The Awful Truth; Spencer Tracy for his Best Actor role (Manuel) in Captains Courageous; Luise Rainer for her Best Actress role (O-Lan) in The Good Earth; Alice Brady as the Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Molly O’Leary In Old Chicago) and Harry Owens for his Best Music/Song, Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding. We give them all a ‘10’.

1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would wear batting helmets during the 1941 baseball season. General Manager Larry MacPhail (he started the Dodger dynasty in the thirties) predicted that all baseball players would soon be wearing the new devices. He was right.

1955 - The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard on radio. It was said to be the last of the adventure stories on the air.

1956 - Julie Andrews was 19 years old this night when she made her American TV debut. She appeared with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson in the musical adaptation of Maxwell Anderson’s play, High Tor.

1959 - Sweet Bird of Youth, a play by Tennessee Williams, opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. The play starred Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Rip Torn and Diana Hyland. Critics called Page “fabulous” and about Newman, they said, “the perfect companion piece.”

1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in The Odd Couple, one of Neil Simon’s greatest theatrical triumphs. It would also become a hit on television, with Tony Randall playing the tidy Felix Ungar and Jack Klugman as slovenly sportswriter, Oscar Madison. The play opened at the Plymouth Theatre in New York City.

1985 - **** Motta of the Dallas Mavericks became the fourth coach in the National Basketball Association to win 700 games in a career as the Mavs defeated the New Jersey Nets 126-113. The three other winningest coaches in NBA history to that time were: Red Auerbach (938 games), Jack Ramsey (733 games) and Gene Shue (717).

1998 - The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) announced that food stamps were issued to nearly 26,000 dead people in 1995-1996; food stamps valued at $8.5 million were issued to 25,881 deceased people during that period. Who says you can’t take it with you?

Birthdays
March 10
1628 - Marcello Malpighi
physician: pioneer in working with the microscope; died Nov 30, 1694

1888 - Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields)
Academy Award-winning [supporting] actor: Going My Way [1944]; Bringing Up Baby, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man; died Jan 14, 1961

1892 - Arthur Honegger
composer: film scores: Crime and Punishment; died Nov 27, 1955

1903 - (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke
‘young man with a horn’: jazz cornetist: groups: Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet, Jazz Me Blues; Bix Beiderbecke and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues; Charlie Straight Orchestra; Breeze Blowers; Jean Goldkette Orchestra; Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra: Singin’ the Blues, Clarinet Marmalade, Clementine; Bix Beiderbecke and His Gang: At the Jazz Band Ball, Royal Garden Blues; Adrian Rollini and the New Yorkers; Paul Whiteman Orchestra: From Monday On, China Boy, Oh, Miss Hannah; jazz pianist: In A Mist, Candlelights, Flashes, In the Dark; died Aug 6, 1931

1914 - Chandler Harper
golf champion: PGA [1950], 20 PGA Tour victories in 1940s and 1950s; PGA Seniors Championship [1968]; died Nov 8, 2004

1916 - Pamela Mason (Ostrer)
writer; actress: Charade, Navy vs. the Night Monsters; died June 29, 1996

1918 - Heywood Hale Broun
sportscaster: ABC Sports; son of U.S. journalist Heywoood Broun [1888-1939]; died Sep 5, 2001

1920 - Jethro (Kenneth C. Burns)
entertainer, musician: mandolin, banjo: Homer & Jethro: The Battle of Kookamonga, Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs; died Feb 4, 1989

1923 - Don Abney
jazz pianist, studio musician; died Jan 20, 2000

1940 - Leroy Ellis
basketball: St. John’s, Baltimore Bullets, Portland Trail Blazers, LA Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers

1940 - David Rabe
playwright: Streamers, Casualties of War, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can

1940 - Dean Torrence
singer: group: Jan & Dean: The Little Old Lady [From Pasadena], Dead Man’s Curve, Surf City, Honolulu Lulu

1940 - Chuck Norris (Carlos Ray Norris )
karate champion, actor: Code of Silence, Delta Force, Forced Vengeance, Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action, Walker, Texas Ranger

1941 - Sandra Palmer
golf champion: U.S. Open [1975]

1942 - Bob Berry
football: Minnesota Vikings quarter back: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI

1944 - Johnny (John Edward) Briggs
baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins

1945 - Katharine Houghton (Grant)
actress: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Billy Bathgate, The Night We Never Met; niece of actress Katharine Hepburn

1947 - Tom Scholz
musician: guitar, keyboards, singer: group: Boston: More than a Feeling, Long Time, Peace of Mind, Don’t Look Back, Man I’ll Never Be, Amanda

1948 - Austin Carr
basketball: Notre Dame All-American Guard and Player of the Year [1971]; Cleveland Cavaliers

1948 - Wayne (Lee) Twitchell
baseball: pitcher: Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1973], Montreal Expos, NY Mets, Seattle Mariners

1958 - Sharon Stone
actress: Last Dance, Casino, The Specialist, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, War & Remembrance series, Above the Law, Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold, King Solomon’s Mines, Calendar Girl Murders, Deadly Blessing, The Bay City Blues

1964 - Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson)
songwriter, rap singer: groups: Rip Rig + Panic, The Slits; solo: Buffalo Stance, LPs: Homebrew, Nearly God, Raw Like Sushi, Man, Woman; British Music Awards: Best Single, Best Female Vocalist [1990], Best Video [Woman: 1996]; World Music Awards: Best African Single [7 Seconds: 1995]

1964 - Prince Edward (Edward Antony Richard Louis)
royalty: Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn: son and youngest child of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh

1964 - Jasmine Guy
actress: A Different World, America’s Dream, A Century of Women, Runaway, Harlem Nights, School Daze

ABA Birthdays Today

railjob2 (60) , nToxEk8d (48) , marcusn_2001 (48) , big55 (48) , tigre5000i (46) , Quy Huynh (44) , Bobby.B (42) , mooner5 (41) , joey913 (40) , blueboy33a (40) , redriver (40) , eolin007 (40) , tom1234 (40) , mirelaavdic83 (27)

Chart Toppers
March 10
1949Far Away Places - Margaret Whiting
Powder Your Face with Sunshine - Evelyn Knight
Galway Bay - Bing Crosby
Don’t Rob Another Man’s Castle - Eddy Arnold

1957Young Love - Tab Hunter
Young Love - Sonny James
Round and Round - Perry Como
There You Go - Johnny Cash

1965My Girl - The Temptations
The Jolly Green Giant - The Kingsmen
Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail - Buck Owens

1973Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack
Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Love Train - O’Jays
’Till I Get It Right - Tammy Wynette

1981I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Do You Love as Good as You Look - The Bellamy Brothers

1989Lost in Your Eyes - Debbie Gibson
The Lover in Me - Sheena Easton
The Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
I Still Believe in You - The Desert Rose Band

Chart Topper March 10th, 1989...The Lover in Me - Sheena Easton

[steven charles]

thanks buddy for this great and interesting piece of history,and thanks for sharing it with everyone....

[unclepaul]

Thanks buddy,always a great read,Sharon Stone's birthday,wow i love that women,lol.have a great day brother.

[peggy13]

Beautiful picture of Sheena Easton. Thanks for the great information Buddy. Have a super Wednesday!

[yipitsme]

Good Morning Buddy, great information today (as always) thank you
and welcome to HUMPDAY!!.

[Victor Hugo]

Thanks For the Information Buddy.

[snakebite]

thank you buddy for the info.

[pulpworker]

Thanks Buddyjh learning new things everyday.

[just4ufolks]

WOW
Some of 'em songs will never
die
1989
The Lover in Me
Sheena Easton
1981
I Love a Rainy Night
Eddie Rabbitt


MY
FRIEND

for all you do and for your untiring
effort
to bring this thread on daily basis
keep going

UR
appreciated & admired

Thx again

[marty napier]

thanks buddy i like johnny cash songs!

[Crystal Dragon]

As Always, a great post!!!
I am always marveling at the bygone era of the US.

Good song too!!

Thanks Buddy!!

[lilherc]

Thanx, Buddy. Excellent post