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Please accept my apologies for not updating the daily blog. This website is undergoing some backend work at this time, and I am hoping to have it completed by the middle of next week. In the meantime, to listen to

AUGUST 14 – 1961 New york Times: “East German Troops Seal Border With West Berlin”; 1959 Explorer 6 snaps the first Earth selfie; 12016 David Ortiz becomes oldest MLB player to hit 30 home runs in one season AUGUST 14

JULY 9 — Happy Birthday Theresa! You make my world go round!; 1755 Braddock and Washington soundly defeated by French and Indian forces at Monongahela; 1896 Bryan Delivers Cross of Gold Speech;1872 Blondell invents doughnut hole JULY 9– Happy Birthday

AUGUST 24 – 1814 British sack White House; 1983 Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745; 1995 Windows 95 debuts AUGUST 24 1814 – British sack the White House. …What does Great Britain and Al Qaeda have in

AUGUST 21 – 1959 Hawaii becomes 50th state; 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates; 2001 New York’s original transit cars get dumped in Atlantic Ocean; 1931 Babe Ruth hits 600th Home Run AUGUST 21 1959 – Hawaii becomes America’s 50th State. America has

JANUARY 1 — 1863 Emancipation Proclamation takes effect; 1896 R.I.P. Alfred Beach (subway prototype); 1958 Merle Haggard hears Johnny Cash play at San Quentin; NCAA: 1988 Miami beats Oklahoma, 1983 Penn State beats Georgia, 1902 Michigan beats Stanford in 1st

JANUARY 2 — 1811 Pickering becomes 1st U.S. Senator to be censored; 1980 Detente between U.S. and U.S.S.R. ends; 1788 Georgia ratifies U.S. Constitution; 1973 Tex Ritter, father of actor John Ritter, dies bailing friend out of jail; 2007 Isaac

JULY 26 — 1797 Happy Anniversary John Quincy and Louisa Adams; 1799 HB Isaac Babbit (improved engine bearings); 1775 Congress establishes Post Office; 1858 Happy Birthday Col. House; 2011 KneeHi of Grainesville, FL  gets award for world’s smallest donkey JULY

JULY 14 — Happy Birthday Gerald Ford; 1993 Happy Birthday MP3; 1876 News Hits the East Coast about Little Big Horn JULY 14 1913 – Happy birthday Junie. …Gerald Ford, #38 had been the first Vice President chosen under the

MAY 9 — 1887 Buffalo Bill takes Wild West to British Queen; 2001 – UFOlogist Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, assembles witnesses; 1973 Johnny Bench hits three homers off Carlton, again; 1949 Happy Birthday Billy Joel (QUIZ!!!)