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Sunday, May 1, 2016

May! ~ Tucker's Game Day Smilebox ~ Zip Code Question ~ My Carwash ~ May Day


Good 38º  high foggy morning.

Yesterday was Tucker's little league game. I took a picture of Sami and then she wanted to use my camera. She took a gazillion photos, but I only put 13 of them on the Smilebox. Tucker's team, the Orioles, won. Great game!!!
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Here's a question for you... my home address was Los Angeles 32, California. That was a postal code an basically only used for large cities. When was the zip code first in place? **
My email pal Gator down in Florida sent me this picture and asked if this was my car. LOL
Of course it is!!!!

Shared by high school pal Ellen (Naugle)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Great_Fire_of_Rome 

Nero "obsessed with personal popularity" ~ Hmmmm... sound familiar?



Historically this date
1328 – Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton – theKingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.




1785 – Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.


1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.


1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.

1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named. 

1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City 

1945 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths.


1948 – The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.


1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.


1960 – Cold WarU-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.


1961 – The Prime Minister of CubaFidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.


1991 – Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers, when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own record.


2007 – The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.


2011 – Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was actually killed on May 2.




And births this date include...
1852 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (d. 1903)


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1916 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
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1925 – Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (d.2013)
     Darn! He was so cute when he was young!
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1967 – Tim McGraw, American singer and actor
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After Tucker's game I came home. Jen was taking Tucker and his pals to a movie. Sami was going to her friend's house. Brian was in hopes of going home and taking a nap! Probably not.
Dinner was wine and reruns, chair, TV. Ahhhhh.......
** Postal codes were first used across the country at the end of WWII. Zip codes went into effect in 1963.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Sunday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
May 1st
May Day

May Day, the first of May is celebrated around the world. It has a number of meanings. In many other countries it is a celebration of spring and the coming of summer. It is celebrated with many spring flowers, many of them blooming right in your own backyard. To communist and socialist countries, it is a celebration for the workers.

In many countries it is celebrated as part of a one to three day holiday. Of particular note, it is not a national holiday in the United States, except in Hawaii where it is known as "Lei Day".

4 comments:

Lydia said...

Happy May Day. Faded childhood memories of it are full of crepe paper streamers and flowers. It was a frolikcing celebration deserving resurrection here.

Make it part of a national obsession with beauty, kindness and joy.

Oregon Sue said...

Yes, the May Pole was certainly fun, L. We did that in grammar school. xo

Anonymous said...

I remember in the third grade in Arkansas making a May Day Basket. It had candy in it. On my way to leave it on the door step of a neighbor I ate most of the candy! :)

Today is the birthday of the late Glenn Ford. I know his son who is a member of the Los Angeles County Republican Party. His name is Peter Ford and the only child of Glenn's. He has created a FB page honoring his dad. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/glennpeter.ford .

Nice car wash but I hear they do a terrible job! My car sure does need a wash! I will keep going back until they get it right too! :)

XO Trisha

Oregon Sue said...

Thanks T, I had to send a friend request to see his page. Glad you feel the same about the car wash!!! xo