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Two and a Half Men can be entertaining - some hotties fer sure
but by then I was mostly done watching TV

Birthdays
Ho Chi Minh
Malcolm X
Nora Ephron
André the Giant
Pete Townsend

Events
1536 Anne Boleyn, second wife of English King Henry VIII, is beheaded at the Tower of London on charges of adultery, incest and treason

1749 British King George II of England grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley in America

1780 At about midday, near-total darkness descends on New England, now known to be caused by forest fires in Canada

1883 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody opens Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska

1884 Ringling Brothers circus premieres in Baraboo, Wisconsin

1896 1st automobile made by Karl Benz, arrives in Netherlands from Germany

1897 Playwright Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol

1912 AL President Ban Johnson tells Detroit Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball

1928 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather coal mine, Pennsylvania, killing 195 of 273 miners

1929 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium, crushes 2 people to death

1935 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936

1960 Alan Freed & eight other radio DJs accused of taking radio payola (bribes from record companies)

1960 SF Giants rookie Juan Marichal beats Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0 on debut at Candlestick Park; first National League hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter

1962 Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to JFK before 15,000 attendees, accompanied by jazz pianist Hank Jones, at Madison Square Garden, NYC

1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431

1964 US diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy

1984 Pat LaFontaine scores two goals in 22 seconds in an NHL playoff game

1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches

1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from Mount Sinai

2007 "Sicko" a documentary on the US health care system, directed by Michael Moore has its premiere at the Cannes Film festival.

2018 American actress Meghan Markle marries Prince Harry at a ceremony in Windsor Castle, making her a member of the British royal family

2020 Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when world was in lockdown, according to a in study published in "Nature Climate Change"

2021 New York City begins re-opening after 423 days (March 2020) with the COVID-19 death toll at 33,000

2025 Police in Paris, France, recover the memorial bust of American 'The Doors' singer, Jim Morrison, that was stolen from his grave in 1988

According to AI

Quanah Parker successfully transitioned from a warrior to a wealthy businessman, widely considered the wealthiest Native American in the United States during his lifetime.

Cattle Ranching: He leased reservation grazing land to large-scale cattle operations.

Investments: He held roughly $40,000 in stock in the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway.

Real Estate: He invested heavily in regional real estate.

Sharp Dude - if you can't beat 'em join 'em - maybe I should learn that lesson

In 1830, alcohol consumption in the United States reached remarkably high levels. The average American consumed the equivalent of roughly 1.7 bottles of regular-strength whiskey every week.

Historians commonly estimate that during the 1830s, Americans consumed around 7 to 8 gallons of pure alcohol per person each year, an amount that translates into extremely heavy weekly drinking when measured in spirits such as whiskey. Depending on bottle size and alcohol content, that equals roughly 1 to 2 bottles of whiskey per person every week.

One major reason for these levels was that distilled liquor, especially whiskey, was inexpensive, easy to produce, and in many places considered safer than contaminated drinking water. On the frontier, whiskey was even used as a form of currency, helping fuel both its trade and consumption. This era marked one of the highest points of alcohol use in American history and played a major role in the growth of the temperance movement during the 1820s and 1830s, which later shaped broader cultural and legal attitudes toward drinking.

I would have fit right in.

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Birthdays
1908 James Stewart
1940 Stan Makita
1944 Joe Cocker
1946 CHER

Events
325 First Council of Nicaea - 1st ecumenical council of Christian bishops at Nicaea, Asia Minor

526 Possible date of the Antioch earthquake in the Byzantine Empire (present-day Syria), which kills 200,000 people

1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence from Great Britain

1830 Douglass Hyde receives the first US patent for a fountain pen

1835 Otto is named the first modern king of Greece 

1927 At 7:40 AM, Charles Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

1948 Cleveland Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4). That's the last year they won the World Series,0-4 since 

1954 Decca Records releases Bill Haley & His Comets' hit single "Rock Around the Clock"

1979 Elton John is the first Western pop star to tour the Soviet Union (don't remember that)

1985 FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR

1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top

1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on The Tonight Show

2013 25 people are killed and over 200 injured by a EF-5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

2015 David Letterman hosts the "Late Show with David Letterman" for the last time, ending 33 years in late night television

2025 Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen plays to a draw against an online team of 143,000 players from around the world