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MARCH 27 — Happy Birthday Dad!; Happy Anniversary Joey and Theresa!; 1978 Hunt Bros. Lose It All on Silver Thursday; 1998 FDA approves Viagra; 1964 Good Friday Earthquake strikes Alaska; 1865 Abraham Lincoln meets with Grant and Sherman; 1965 Happy Birthday Deb Hoffman, owner of world’s largest Winnie the Pooh collectino
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MARCH 27
1999 – Happy Anniversary Theresa! Thanks for putting up with me spending long hours doing this show. Also, happy birthday Dad!
1998 – The FDA approves Viagra.
Originally it was synthesized and studied to treat hypertension and high bloodpressure ans well as angine pectoris, which is a form of cardiovascular disease. But when chemists at the Pfizer pharmaceutical company that it’s great for erectile dysfunction…well hey! The FDA got right on that! In its first year, the $9 viagra pill sold about a billion dollars in sales. If it’s good enough for ex-presidential candidate Bob Dole, it’s good enough for every man out there, right? Today, over 20 million American men enjoy the benefits of Viagra, and even men in their 30s and 40s are using it.
1964 Good Friday Earthquake strikes Alaska.
Amassing 9.2 on the Richter scale, this was the second biggest in recorded history, behind 1960’s Valdivia Earthquake near Chile. A 600 mile fault line moved up around 50 feet in some areas, destroying much of Anchorage, Alaska’s biggest city. Meanwhile on the coasts of California and Oregon, dozens of people were killed, and dozens more at the Valdez city harbor near the Prince Williams Sound. Half of the population in the tiny town of Chenoa, 23 out of the town population of 68 people outran the 27’ tsunami and made it up to higher elevations as the wave swept over the town, killing everyone who didn’t make it. In addition to Alaska and the American west coast, damage was also reported in Hawaii and even as far as Japan.
1829-President Andy Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war…
And next thing you know the Old Hickory just started himself a scandal. Why was this a problem? Because John Eaton was married to a “Gorgeous Hussy.” Margaret Peggy Eaton was already married to a Navy sailor, and when he was at sea, she was hanging around Eaton publicly, it looked bad, sent the wrong message, and it looked like they were definitely having an affair, which John and Margarat denied. Then the sailor husband mysteriously dies, and John and Margarat told everyone it was a suicide. Yeah, right. Look, Andy Jackson could sympathize with Eaton’s position, seeing as that his first wife Rachel was also married to another man when they got married. Supposedly however, the Hero of New Orleans didn’t know this, when he married her. Supposedly.
The scandal was real bad for Jackson’s cabinet reputation. Martin Van Buren was cool with the whole thing and sided with Eaton, but John Calhoun’s wife did not, and led Washington’s elite in snubbing the Eatons at social gatherings. For the remainder of King Mob Jackson’s first term, his opponents used the Eaton Affair, or Petticoat Affair as it was known, to attack the president’s moral judgement and by extension, his administration’s policies and appointees.
1865-Abe Lincoln met with Union generals Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman at City Point, Virginia, to plot the final stages of the Civil War. By the way, Lincoln had never met General Sherman in person up to this point. At that time, Grant was getting ready to attack General Lee’s lines around Petersburg and Richmond, and Sherman’s forces were flattening north through the Carolinas.
The war appeared to be almost over. But, Lincoln was concerned that Confederate General Robert E. Lee might escape Petersburg and flee to North Carolina, where he could join forces with Joseph Johnston to forge a new Confederate army and keep the war going. But the generals assured the president that that wouldn’t happen, and the Union is about to finish winning this war. Honest Abe made clear that the surrender must include emancipation and a pledge of equality for the freed slaves. Less than for weeks later, Grant and Sherman had secured the surrender of the Confederacy.
1973-Maron Brando wins the Academy Award for best Actor for his performance in the Godfather. Best actor! Most actors would go up on stage and receive it! But not But Mr Mumbles, as Frank Sinatra used to call him, wouldn’t have any part of that.
Instead, he sent Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather to get the award, and when Roger “James Bond” Moore tried to give her the award, she rejected it and read a piece from Brando, saying “The motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil.” You tell em Bud!
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