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?
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.
1707 – The Act of
Union joins
the Kingdom of
England and Kingdom of
Scotland to form
the Kingdom of
Great Britain.
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
War: U-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 Cuba, Fidel
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)
1916 – Glenn
Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
1925
– Scott
Carpenter, American astronaut (d.2013)
Darn! He
was so cute when he was young!
1967 – Tim
McGraw, American singer and actor
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".
