27 Apr 07 - Friday
SPC Butler (home havin’ a beer)
1737 Edward Gibbon England, historian (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
1822 [Hiram] Ulysses S[impson] Grant Point Pleasant OH, 18th US President
(1869-77, Republican)
1840 Edward Whymper 1st to climb Matterhorn (1865)
1900 Walter Lantz animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator)
1922 Jack Klugman Philadelphia PA, actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy,
Goodbye Columbus)
1932 Casey Kasem Detroit MI, radio personality (American Top 40)
1939 Judy Carne Northhampton England, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange)
1939 Jerry Mercer Montréal Québec Canada, rock drummer (April Wine)
1944 Cuba Gooding US singer (Everybody Plays the Fool)
1947 Pete Ham Swansea South Wales, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger)
1949 Yoshiaki Fujiwara wrestler (NJPW/PWF/UWF)
1951 Ace Frehley Bronx NY, heavy metal rocker (Kiss, Frehley's Comet)
1959 Sheena [Shirley Orr] Easton Belshill Scotland, singer (Morning Train,
For Your Eyes Only)
4977 -BC- Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe
1521 Ferdinand Magellan world traveler, killed by Filipino natives at 50
1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (eventually leads to Boston Tea Party
on December 16)
1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
1813 Zebulon M Pike US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in battle at 34
1859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
1860 Thomas J Jackson is assigned to command Harpers Ferry
1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
1865 1450 of 2000 paroled Union POWs on their way home are killed when river steamer "Sultana" explodes on the Mississippi River
1870 Heinrich Schliemann discovers Troi
1877 President Rutherford Hayes removes Federal troops from Louisiana,
Reconstruction ends
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1932 Harold "Heart" Crane US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at 32
1937 US Social Security system makes its 1st benefit payment
1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US
1953 Wrestler Freddie Blassie coins the term "Pencil neck geek"
1957 Mario A Gianini creator of the maraschino cherry, dies
1959 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies
1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US
1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
1972 Phil King rock (Blue Oyster Cult), shot in head at 24 while gambling
1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsay appeals that John Lennon not be deported
1978 Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, Charleston WV, kills 51
1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, begins
1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't.
Ulysses S. Grant
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