On this date in:
1533 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was crowned Queen Consort of England.
1792 Kentucky became the 15th state.
1796 Tennessee became the 16th state.
1801 Mormon leader Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt.
1813 The Navy gained its motto when the mortally wounded commander of the frigate Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, said "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with a British frigate.
1868 James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States, died near Lancaster, Pa., at age 77.
1925 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig's streak of playing in 2,130 consecutive games began when he entered a game as a pinch hitter for the New York Yankees.
1926 Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortensen in Los Angeles.
1944 The BBC broadcast a coded message to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1958 Charles de Gaulle became premier of France.
1967 The album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles was released.
1977 The Soviet Union charged Jewish human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason.
1980 CNN made its debut.
2005 Dutch voters rejected the European Union constitution.
2007 Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison after serving eight years for ending the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.
2009 Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of everyone on board.
2009 General Motors filed for Chapter 11, becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.
2009 Conan O'Brien debuted as host of NBC's "Tonight Show." (He stepped down in January after a dispute with the network.)
Good morning. Tis a fair day with lots to do. Y'all don't be concerned. I will be fine and here later today.
@edgarblythe,
Good morning WA2K radio.
edgar, I did not understand Bat for Lashes, but I know that I have to be speedy before all my equipment falls apart.
Pat Boone's birthday so here he is doing something for me with a mouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIFgouHdlro&feature=related
Hope all get better later, y'all
Speedy Gonzales -
I liked Pat Boone when he was a hit maker and never abandoned him when others did. I think he has a marvelous voice.
@edgarblythe,
Strange, edgar, I did not used to like Pat but have come to do so. Love Beyond the Sunset as my mom always sang that as she played on our upright Kimball. That, too, is gone now.
It appears that today is Ron Wood's birthday. Don't know much about him, but I found this quick blurb.
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.
Here's a medley by the man, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yAUQR3wHA&feature=related
Ron Wood's all right. I like him with the Stones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ
Here's Willie and Ray
@edgarblythe,
Couldn't get Alan to play, edgar, but I love Willie and Ray and those Spanish angels.
You set me searching again, so here is Alan with a salute to 5 o'clock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU
Perfect timing, y'all, 'cause it just turned five o'clock here
edgar is busy, our Brit is still with us, just saw the squirrel, and our mooseman is waiting for a call from Oklahoma.
Wondering where our Izzie is, however.
This is dedicated to all of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ichO7gAeOGE&feature=related
Goodnight,
From Letty with love
It's alive. It's alive. Installed a new coil on my air conditioner. Magnificent. But now it's nearly 11 PM, so, good night peoples.
Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K peeps.
For Izzie,on Friday....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTc9sDD_64
Seal - Fly Like A (B)Eagle
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Good morning, radiofolk. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
On this date in:
1851 Maine became the first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1886 President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a White House ceremony.
1897 Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration."
1924 Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
1941 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig died at age 37 of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1946 The Italian monarchy was abolished in favor of a republic.
1966 The U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
1979 Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1987 President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
1995 A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later.
1997 Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
1998 Voters in California passed Proposition 227, requiring that all schoolchildren be taught in English.
2008 Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll, died at age 79.
Know how many million sellers Bo Diddley recorded?
Zero.
@edgarblythe,
Thanks, Brit for Fly Like and Eagle. Now we know why that was for Izzie.
edgar, once again thanks for the dates in history.
I need to be quick again while my isp is behaving.
Today is Charlie Watts' birthday and what a surprise to find out that the former drummer of the Stones formed a jazz quartet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoSp3eRk7Kc
Back later if that giant corp will allow it
Didn't know that about Charlie Watts.
Here is Faron Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1M5LwNg_Yc&feature=related
@edgarblythe,
edgar, I'll have to be quick again, but I love that Faron Young song. "Live Fast-Love Hard-Die Young".
Today is Marvin Hamlisch's birthday, and loved what I found out about the man.
Here's a trio featuring him and two other notables. Anyone remember Ray Bolger?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biry6aakO9Y&feature=related
Another oops, will listen to The Platters in a minute if I am able.
