Welcome to the 63rd version or episode of the ramble, Stew for You, of Stew For Lunch. We bring you a entry from the He-Man and The Masters of The Universe Compendium book. Page 17.
So I had gotten myself ready to record earlier with some information content and was going to do some audio editing and the writing as well but issues with my shower washed those plans away.
I do tag the show with the call of Ernie Banks 500th Homerun.
1970 - Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs smacked home run number 500. He would get 12 more before his great career as first baseman (and shortstop) with the Cubbies came to a close in 1971.
1948 – The Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip made its debut. Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis, a psychiatrist from Scottsdale, Arizona, created the strip as an entertainment — and educational tool — to heighten the awareness of readers about the importance of modern medicine.
1960 – Around the world in 80 days … uh, make that 84 days. That’s how long it took the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Triton to circumnavigate the globe. The Triton was the largest, most powerful submarine in the world when it made its record underwater trip. Captain Edward L. Beach led the 7,750-ton sub on a 41,500 mile voyage, following a similar route taken by explorer Ferdinand Magellan some three centuries earlier (obviously on the water’s surface, not below). The Triton’s conning tower reached above the waves off Delaware, completing the voyage that began February 16 at Groton, Connecticut with 183 aboard. One objective of the Triton’s trip was to test the physical and psychological effects on humans when deprived of sunlight and fresh air for an extended length of time. Captain Beach (author of “Run Silent, Run Deep”) was thinking more of the sub’s test of power when he wrote in his log: “One can almost become lyrical thinking of the tremendous drive of the dual power plant of this great ship.â€
1963 – The Rolling Stones produced their very first recordings this day. The session included Come On and I Wanna Be Loved. The Stones would make it to the American pop music charts in August, 1964.
1977 – Actress Joan Crawforddied of pancreatic cancer in New York City. She was 69 years old.
1994 – Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at the Statesville Penitentiary near Joliet, IL. He had been convicted of killing 33 young men and boys during the 1970s.
1999 – Shel Silverstein, author of such acclaimed children’s books as A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, was found dead a heart attack at his home. He was 66. Silverstein’s output included songs, such as Sylvia’s Mother (recorded by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show) and Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who would not take the garbage out), plays, and adult humor. He was best known as an author of sophisticated, and at times macabre, children’s books. He was known to many children around the world, and was possibly the best-loved author of juvenile literature after Dr. Seuss.
1899 – Fred Astaire (Austerlitz) dancer, actor: Funny Face, Silk Stockings, Finian’s Rainbow, Daddy Long Legs, Easter Parade, Let’s Dance, That’s Entertainment, The Towering Inferno; died June 22, 1987; more
1941 – Ken (Allen Kent) Berry baseball: Chicago White Sox [all-star: 1967], California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians
1946 – Donovan (Leitch) singer: Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Atlantis; composer: film: If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, appeared in film: The Pied Piper of Hamlin, Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1948 – Meg Foster actress: Undercover, Lady in Waiting, To Catch a Killer, They Live, The Emerald Forest, Carny, James Dean, Adam at 6 a.m., Cagney & Lacey, Sunshine, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill
1955 – Chris Berman TV sportscaster: ESPN: SportsCenter, NFL Primetime, Sunday NFL Countdown, Baseball Tonight, US Open coverage; National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association’s National Sportscaster of the Year [1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001]
1960 – Bono (Paul Hewson) singer: group: U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Pride [In the Name of Love], With You or Without You
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Happy Cinco de Mayo, we made 55 of these little things. Huzzah.
Pete Rose, 1985. AP Images
It’s a look at events and birthdays of this day in history. (Funny voices oh my.)
Episode 55, 5-5-2021
1904 - Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox tossed a perfect game against the Philadelphia Americans. The final score was 3-0. No player on the Philadelphia team reached first base. It was the third perfect game ever thrown in the big leagues.
1945 – In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. The explosion killed Elsie Mitchell, the pregnant wife of minister Archie Mitchell, and five children who were on a picnic.
1961 – Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first U.S. space traveler as he rode a Redstone rocket on a 15-minute, suborbital flight that took him and his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule 116.5 miles high and 302 miles downrange from Cape Canaveral, FL.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds smacked his 3,000th major-league hit. Not many years later, `Charlie Hustle’ would break Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191 hits.
1818 – Karl Marx socialist writer: Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto; founder of communism; died Mar 14, 1883
1864 - Nelly Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) courageous journalist, writing about taboo subjects of her time: divorce, poverty, capital punishment, insanity; women’s rights advocate; died Jan 27, 1922
1914 - Tyrone Power (Tyrone Edmund Power Jr.) actor: Tom Brown of Culver, The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, This Above All, The Eddie Duchin Story, The Long Gray Line, Witness for the Prosecution; died Nov 15, 1958
1915 - Alice Faye (Alice Jeanne Leppert) actress: In Old Chicago, Lillian Russell, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, State Fair; died May 9, 1998; more
1926 - Ann B. Davis Emmy Award-winning actress: The Bob Cummings Show [1958, 1959]; The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Naked Gun 33?: The Final Insult, A Very Brady Christmas; died Jun 1, 2014
1927 - Pat Carroll Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Caesar’s Hour [1956], The Ted Knight Show, With Six You Get Eggroll, Brothers O’Toole
1940 - Lance Henriksen actor: Powder, Felony, Dead Man, Baja, Spitfire, Color of Night, The Criminal Mind, Delta Heat, Alien 3, The Last Samurai, Johnny Handsome, Near Dark, The Terminator, The Right Stuff, Prince of the City, Damien: Omen 2, Dog Day Afternoon
1942 – Tammy Wynette (Virginia Wynette Pugh) Grammy Award-winning country singer: I Don’t Wanna Play House [1967], Stand By Your Man [1969]; D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Near You, Apartment #9; died Apr 6, 1998
1943 - Michael Palin comedian, actor: Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Life of Brian, Brazil, A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends
1944 - John Rhys-Davies actor: Sliders, Lord of the Rings series, Helen of Troy, The Gold Cross, Au Pair, Marquis de Sade, The Untouchables, The Lost World, War and Remembrance, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1957 - Richard E. Grant actor: Jack and Sarah, Cold Light of Day, Ready to Wear, L.A. Story, The Age of Innocence, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Hudson Hawk, Henry and June; more
1979 - Vincent Kartheiser actor: Mad Men, Angel, Elektra Luxx, American Experience, Money, Rango, L.A. Noire, In Time, Fruit of Labor
1981 – Danielle Fishel actress: Boy Meets World, National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze, The Chosen One, Rocket’s Red Glare, Longshot
1982 – Randall Gay football [cornerback]: Louisiana State Univ; NFL: New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots
1983 – Henry Cavill actor: The Tudors, Hellraiser: Hellworld, Red Riding Hood, Tristan and Isolde, I Capture the Castle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Well Schooled in Murder, The Count of Monte Cristo, Laguna
1985 – Clark Duke actor: Greek, Hot Tub Time Machine, Kick-Ass, Sex Drive, A Thousand Words, Identity Thief, Hearts Afire, The Croods, Robot Chicken
1988 – Adele (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) Grammy Award-winning singer: Chasing Pavements, Make You Feel My Love, Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, Set Fire to the Rain, Skyfall; more
1989 – Chris Brown Grammy Award-winning singer: Run It!, Kiss Kiss, I Love U, Crawl, Superman, With You, Forever, Gimme That, Say Goodbye, Yo [Excuse Me Miss]
