A bunch of goofiness from yours truly. Some day of history and birthdays plus a general feeling after my 2nd shot.
1851 - Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola FL, patented the mechanical refrigerator.
1915 - Babe Ruth hit his first major-league home run. He was playing for the Boston Red Sox at the time. ‘The Sultan of Swat’ went on to smash 714 round-trippers before he retired, as a New York Yankee, in 1935.
1937 – A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC radio‘s Herbert Morrison. “Oh, the humanity!†Morrison‘s emotion-filled historic broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst, NJ, became the first recorded coast-to-coast broadcast as it was carried on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.
1941 - Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia And how did he become premier? He just grabbed the title for himself.
1946 – The New York Yankees announced that they were to be the first major-league baseball team to travel by airplane during the entire 1946 season.
1950 – Liz Taylor was married for the first time — to Conrad Hilton Jr. The marriage (the first of eight for Taylor) would last until Jan 29, 1951.
1952 – Italian physician and educationist Maria Montessori died. She was 81 years old. Montessori put into practice her theory that children have a natural ‘tendency towards elevation,’ and she created an environment for self-education and self-realization — with great success. She became internationally famous and schools all over the world use the ‘Montessori Method’.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners became the 15th pitcher in the major leagues to win 300 career victories. Perry, known for his spitball as well as a variety of other pitches, led the Mariners past the New York Yankees 7-3.
1992 – Actress Marlene Dietrich died in Paris at age 90. Born Maria Magdalene Dietrich (on December 27, 1901, in in Shoeneburg, Germany), Dietrich became popular in her native country as a cabaret singer and then a film star. She was known as the toast of Berlin, but her 1929 film The Blue Angel was a scandalous international success, and she moved to Hollywood soon after. Her interpretation of the melancholy song Lili Marlene is one of the most remembered songs of World War II. Dietrich not only sang for the U.S. Army, but recorded songs containing coded messages for American spy teams.
1758 – Maximilian Robespierre
French revolutionary; executed [guillotine] July 28, 1794
1856 – Sigmund Freud
psychiatrist, originated psychoanalysis; died Sep 23, 1939
1895 - Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina)
actor;Â died Aug 23, 1926; see Valentino Day [above]
1907 – (Wilbur Charles) Weeb Ewbank
Pro Football Hall of Famer: head coach: Baltimore Colts [2-time world champions: 1958-1959], NY Jets [Super Bowl III]; coached 130 career wins; died Nov 17, 1998
1915 – (George) Orson Welles
actor: War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, The Mercury Radio Theatre of the Air, The Long Hot Summer, A Man for All Seasons, MacBeth, Moby Dick, Casino Royale, Catch-22; died Oct 10, 1985
1920 – Marguerite Piazza (Luft)
soprano: regular on TV‘s Your Show of Shows; died Aug 2, 2012
1931 – Willie Mays
Baseball Hall of Famer: ‘The Say Hey Kid’: NY Giants [World Series: 1951, 1954/all-star: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957], SF Giants [World Series: 1962/all-star: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971], NY Mets [World Series: 1973/all-star: 1972, 1973]
1937 – Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter
boxer: welterweight/middleweight fighter [1961-1966]; convicted [1967, 1976] for the murder of three people at the Lafayette Grill in June 1966; released from prison in 1985 after a judge ruled that he had been wrongly convicted; autobiography: The 16th Round; subject of film: The Hurricane [1999]; died Apr 20, 2014
1945 – Bob Seger
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer: musician, singer: Night Moves, Travelin‘ Man, Ramblin‘ Gamblin‘ Man, Against the Wind, Fire Lake; more
1954 – Kathleen Kennedy
film producer: Emma‘s War, Jurassic Park series, War of the Worlds [2005], Munich, Seabiscuit, Signs, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Sixth Sense
1961 – George (Timothy) Clooney
Academy Award-winning actor: Syriana [2005]; The Facts of Life, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Roseanne, Sunset Beat, Red Surf, Sisters, Baby Talk, Bodies of Evidence, ER, From Dusk Till Dawn, Batman & Robin, The Peacemaker, The Thin Red Line, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Perfect Storm, Solaris, Ocean‘s Eleven, Ocean‘s Twelve, Good Night, and Good Luck; son of broadcast journalist Nick Clooney; nephew of singer Rosemary Clooney
1972Â -Â Martin Brodeur
hockey [goalie]: New Jersey Devils
1982 – Jason Witten
football [tight end]: Univ of Tennessee: NFL: Dallas Cowboys [2003-2017, 2019]; Las Vegas Raiders [2020]; records: 18 receptions in a game by a tight end, 110 receptions in a single season by a tight end; third all time in career receptions by a tight end
1983 – Adrianne Palicki
actress: The Orville, Friday Night Lights, Legion, Red Dawn, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
1983 – Gabourey Sidibe
actress: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Yelling to the Sky, The Big C, Saturday Night Live, American Horror Story, Empire
1990 РJos̩ Altuve
baseball [2nd base]: Houston Astros [2011– ]: 2017 World Series champs