2009: Day 172The LP was unveiled 61 years ago today, providing a format which could deliver over 20 minutes of music per side, unwittingly providing the format for Iron Butterfly to find their claim to fame roughly 20 years later...
Much beating of Irishmen today. In 1798 the British Army defeats Irish rebels at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Then in 1877 ten of the Molly Maguires met the hangman in Schuykill and Carbon Counties, here in Pennsylvania.
From the I Did Not Know That Department, this day back in 1942 a Japanese submarine surfaced near the Compumbia River in Oregon and fired 17 shells at Fort Stevens. O' the little nippers! Apparently only the backstop for the post's baseball field was damaged in the attack.
This day in 1973 saw the U.S. Supreme Court bringing us the Miller Test for determining obscenity. Let's be reasonable...
In 1982, June 21 saw John Hinkley found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. I'm getting a feeling of a Catch 22 at work here, probably due to finding myself retroactively pulling for Hinkley's attempt.
Five years ago today, Space Ship One became the first private, human-bearing spacecraft to successfully take flight with two suborbital flights in a two-week period.
Nils Lofgren turns 58 today, while The Kinks' Ray Davies becomes 65.
Second City's Joe Flaherty turns 68. (These days he's teaching comedy writing at Humber College, btw.)
Mariette Hartley reaches 69 today. Keep it in your pants, Spock.
Give your best Tarzan yell for Ron Ely today, too, as he turns 71. (Yes, yes... Doc Savage, too, you geek.)
Finally, genuine, once upon a time sex symbol Jane Russell turns 88 today.
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