Ode to Rachel

Sorry this is a day late. I haven't had any time to post. Stupid work.
Anyway, yesterday was my good friend Rachel's birthday. We celebrated at the Sand Bar where apparently Rach's tongue got stuck.......somewhere. It was a great time, though I left before the wildness really commenced.

Here is what happened yesterday in history on the day that Rachel was born.
On this day...
608 St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1620 Mayflower departs from Plymouth, England with 102 pilgrims 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during the Revolution 1789 Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed the Dept of State 1821 Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ 1830 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England) 1853 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1862 Stonewall Jackson takes Harpers Ferry 1887 Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution 1894 Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang 1898 National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY 1904 Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight 1912 Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins 1913 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY 1914 Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I 1915 Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1 1916 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France 1917 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky 1921 WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions 1928 Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6 1930 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England 1931 British naval force mutinies at Invergordon over pay 1935 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship & makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany 1937 WPA extends the L-Taraval streetcar to the SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd) 1938 British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden 1938 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 1938 Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts) 1940 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2) 1940 Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher) 1940 Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe 1941 Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania 1946 Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats 1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1947 Yanks clinch pennant #15 1948 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1080 kph 1948 WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WMGM 1949 The Lone Ranger premiers on ABC-TV 1950 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in the south 1950 Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19 1950 Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 homers (6th time he has done that) 1952 UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia 1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner) 1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premiers 1957 SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game 1958 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ 1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ) 1959 Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins) 1962 KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk 1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham 1963 SF Giants play outfield of Felipe, Matty & Jesus Alou 1965 "Lost in Space" premiers 1966 Gemini XI returns to Earth 1968 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV 1968 Launch of Zond 5, the 1st lunar flyaround with Earth reentry. Probable test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) 1969 Phillies Steve Carlton sets record by stiking out 19 NY Mets in a game 1970 Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million 1973 "Star Trek-Animated" premiers on TV 1976 Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days 1978 Muhammad Ali beats WBA heavyweight champion Leon Spinks 1978 Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2« games 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for the cycle in AL & NL (Astros) 1980 Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary" 1981 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor 1982 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc 1982 Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut 1984 Morocco Showcase opens 1985 European team beats US team for golf's Ryders Cup (1st since 1957) 1988 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics 1990 Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 1990 France announce it will send 4,000 troops to the Persian Gulf 1991 "The Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show 1991 NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly 1991 SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds

Born on this day:
53 Trajan 13th Roman emperor (98-117), conqueror of Ctesiphon
1613 Francois duc de la Rochefoucald Paris France, writer (Memoires)
1789 James Fenimore Cooper 1st major American novelist (Prairie)
1830 Porfirio D¡az soldier, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1857 William Howard Taft Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1876 Bruno Walter (B.W. Schlesinger), Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876 Frank E Gannett Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1881 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1889 Robert Benchley author (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
1890 Dame Agatha Christie mystery writer (Murder on the Orient Express)
1890 Frank Martin Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1894 Jean Renoir cin‚aste (Grand Illusion)
1899 Milton S Eisenhower Dwight's brother/Pennsylvania State president
19-- Francine Tacker Flushing NY, actress (Elizabeth-Paper Chase, Dallas)
1903 Roy Acuff Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 Tom Conway Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 Umberto II king of Italy (1946)
1906 Kathryn Murray Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 Penny Singleton Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 Fay Wray Alberta, actress (King Kong)
1907 Jack Bailey Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1913 Henry Dreyfus Brant Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1913 John Mitchell Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1914 Creighton Abrams US, army general (Vietnam War)
1915 John Conte Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1916 Margaret Lockwood actress (Lady Vanishes)
1921 Jackie Cooper LA Calif, actor/director (Hennesey, People's Choice)
1924 Bobby Short singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1925 Forrest Compton Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
1927 Norm Crosby Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
1928 Cannonball Adderley singer (Black Messiah, Beginnings)
1929 Murray Gell-Mann physicist who predicted quarks
1933 Henry Darrow NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1933 Rafael Frbeck de Burgos Burgos, Spain, conductor (World of Song)
1938 Gaylord Perry baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
1940 Merlin Olsen UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father Murphy)
1941 Miroslaw Hermaszewski 1st Polish space traveler (Soyuz 30)
1946 Oliver Stone NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 Tommy Lee Jones actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday)
1953 Jerry Page golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
1956 Jaki Graham British personality
1956 Tawny Schneider Portland Me, newscaster (Eye on Hollywood)
1960 Scott Thompson Baker Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
1961 Dan Marino NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 Wendie Jo Sperber Glendale Calif, actress (Amy-Bossom Buddies)
1967 Jerry Dixon heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 Danny Nucci actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
1984 Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales, 3rd in British sucession

The thought for the day:
Thought for the day :" Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. "