Dog Day Afternoon
Yes, Mr. Frogurt is a withered 35 years old today.Like last year, it's fun for me to see what else happened on this day. And it's interesting that many important hostorical events took place on 11/4.
A correction from last year, the occassion of Loretta Swit's birth has moved into the "evil" category based on her campaign to ban foie gras from Chicago restaurants. Dimwit.
Here's a few more events of this day:
In 1928 famous gambler, casino owner, crook, and fixer of the 1919 World Series where the Chicago White Sox and shoeless Joe disgraced baseball for all time was shot to death in a poker game in NYC.
In 1842, after a stormy three-year courtship marked by a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln marries Lexington-born, hen-pecking, potato-throwing Mary Todd. Even the great ones make mistakes.
In 1948 T.S Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in literature. Coincidentally, I'm reading Murder in the Cathedral after finishing Some Clouds.
In 1978, Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran University.
In 1939, the 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) was exhibited in Chicago, Ill.
Here's a shocker: In 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected as 1st US female governor (Wyoming).
And finally, Art Carney was born in Mount Vernon NY in 1918.
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