Rantings Diversified

April 20
20th of April
20 April
The 110th or the 111th day of year
Depending on the year
I got nothing
I mean serious full on block-O-matic
Grandad wrote about his father
And
That got me thinking about my Dad
Thousands of memories like a super ball bouncing
Nothing comes to the fingers
Maybe I’ll talk about Nana
She came from County Mayo…….
Nothing……
Soon I’ll do it
So
I’m gonna’ leave yous’ guys’ with
Some more completely
Useless facts and figures
Today is 20 April, 2007
And you can find me on my Triumph
In the wind

Birthdays
121 Marcus Aurelius 16th Roman emperor (161-80), philosopher
1889 Adolf Hitler Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)
1893 Joan Miró Spain, painter/sculptor (Dog Barking at the Moon)
1920 John Paul Stevens Chicago IL, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
1940 George Takei Los Angeles CA, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
1941 Ryan O’Neal Los Angeles CA, actor (Peyton Place, Paper Moon, Love Story)
1949 Jessica Lange Cloquet MN, actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
1961 Don “Hitman” Mattingly Evansville IN, New York Yankee 1st baseman (MVP 1985)

Stuff that happened on this date
295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1653 Cromwell routes English parliament to house
1657 Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 Napoleon I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1836 Territory of Wisconsin created
1841 1st detective story (Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”) published
1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1861 Battle of Norfolk VA
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood SD opens
1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1910 Halley’s Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1912 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow CO
1916 1st National League game at Weeghman Park (Wrigley Field) in Chicago opens, Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 7-6
1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia “Free land of world”)
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1920 Phillies manager Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3-run homer and beats New York Giants 3-0
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across the Atlantic
1939 New York World’s Fair opens
1939 Ted Williams’ 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia PA
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1943 Boston Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1944 NFL legalizes coaching from the bench
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th Army & allied forces capture Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur “Mickey” McBride
1946 1st televised baseball broadcast , St Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs
1950 Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium opens – Orioles of International League
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll
1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during the Vietnam War
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1967 New York Mets’ Tom Seaver’s 1st victory, beats Chicago Cubs, 6-1
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada’s PM
1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 Apollo 16′s Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1974 Paul McCartney releases “Band on the Run”
1976 George Harrison sings the lumberjack song with Monty Python
1977 Woody Allen’s film “Annie Hall” premieres
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1983 President Ronald Reagan signs a $165 billion bail-out for Social Security
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghánistán
1986 Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1988 New York Yankees homerun 9,999 (Dave Winfield) 10,000 (Claudell Washington) 10,001 (Jack Clark)
1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1988 My son Jimmy is born
1990 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of the Oakland A’s is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (this occurs once every 171 years)
1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, St Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Padres in doubleheader
1997 Chicago Cubs beat New York Mets ending National League worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to homerun on Tiger Field left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
1999 Columbine

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