On This Day In History (April 20th)

[Bill Schenley]

According to the Roman historian Varro, Romulus founded the
city of Rome (-735).

http://www.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/romans9.html

Marcus Aurelius, the 16th Roman emperor and a philosopher,
was born (0121).

http://www.roman-emperors.org/marcaur.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aurelius.htm

http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

Elizabeth Barton, the "Nun of Kent," and a British prophet,
was executed (1534).

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02319b.htm

Pontiac, inventor of the GTO and Indian chief to the Ottawa,
was murdered (1769).

http://www.virtualology.com/virtualpubliclibrary/halloffounders/automotivefounders/OTTAWACHIEFPONTIAC.COM/

http://www.pontiac.com/pontiacjsp/gto/launch/

http://www.greatoldcars.com/pontiac_gto_photo_archive.htm

The British began their siege of Boston (1775).

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dagjones/captdavidperry/chapter07.html

The fourth vice-president of the United States and the king
of funkadelic, George Clinton, died (1812). He was the
first vice-president to die while in office. It would be
190-years before another VP would die in office, but strange
as it may seem, the latter's rotting corpse had a previous
deal with the devil, so while his body is fed a continuous
transfusion of Western Asia's oil . his breathe still stains
and scorches the earth.

http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0097710-00&templatename=/article/article.html

http://www.georgeclinton.com/

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/1472

The first detective story of modern times was published
(1841). Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue."

http://www.poemuseum.org/

http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/poe2dex.htm

The town of Shively, Kentucky rejoices (1879). The first
"mobile home" (horse drawn) was built. It was used for a
journey between London and Cyprus.

http://mytrailerpark.com/

Adolf Hitler, business partner of Prescott Bush and mentor
to the Bush family, was born (1889).

http://www.remember.org/guide/Facts.root.hitler.html

http://www.tupbiosystems.com/articles/bush_nazi.html

http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm

Joan Miró, painter/sculptor, was born (1893).

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/miro.html#images

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/miro_joan.html

The United States Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota
opened (1898).

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/

http://www.cityofdeadwood.com/ (includes a spoiler)

The New York Highlanders, who would later be re-named the
Yankees, played their first baseball game (1903). Jack
Chesbro lost 3-1 to Al Orth and the Washington Nationals.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1903.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chesbja01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/orthal01.shtml

http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/al/nyyanks/yankees.html

Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (the first baseball
journalist), died (1908). Chadwick developed the . box
score.

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/chadwick_henry.htm

http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cis/wp/malmgren/coursework/philosophyofsport/henrychadwick.html

Bram Stoker, author ("Dracula"), died (1912).

http://www.literature.org/authors/stoker-bram/dracula/

http://www.online-literature.com/stoker/

http://www.lugosi.com/

In Ludlow, Colorado, the National Guard and company police
massacred striking miners and their families (1914). At
least 12 children and seven adults were murdered as their
homes were being burned.

http://www.spunk.org/library/places/us/sp000937.txt

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/co/ludlow.html

Anarchist Emma Goldman was convicted for presenting a
lecture on birth control (1916). She refused to pay a
$100.00 fine and was subsequently sent to the Workhouse at
Queens County Penitentiary for fifteen days.

Man Ray, surrealist/photographer and anarchist signed the
constitution of "Société Anonyme Inc.," with Marcel Duchamp
and Katherine Dreier, to promote the work of the
international avant-garde (1920).

http://www.variant.randomstate.org/14texts/William_Clark.html

http://www.artnet.com/library/07/0794/T079468.ASP

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/man_ray.html

http://www.icp.org/exhibitions/man_ray/mr_bio.html

Boston Red Sox OFer Ted Williams, got his first hit (1939).
His double came at the expense of New York Yankee pitcher
Red Ruffing.

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/williams_ted.htm

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/ruffing_red.htm

In Poland, Germans Nazi troops massacred the Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto (1943).

http://www.socialismtoday.org/75/warsaw43.html

"Desilu Playhouse on CBS-TV" presented a two-part show
starring Robert Stack (1959). Stack became a major
television star when the show became a weekly network series
later that fall.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/U/htmlU/untouchables/untouchables.htm

A 13-year-old girl released her first single, "Puppy Love,"
on the Gold Band label (1959). Not much of song . but her
"puppies" and singing and songwriting didn't end with that
song.

http://www.sonynashville.com/DollyParton/

http://www.dolly.net/

Don Mattingly, former New York Yankee first baseman, was
born (1961).

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mattido01.shtml

The New Orleans Citizens Company gave a free one-way bus
ticket to any African American who would move north (1962).

Six American pacifists, including Barbara Deming and
82-year-old A.J. Muste, were deported back to the United
States from Saigon, South Vietnam for anti-war protests
(1966).

http://homepage.mac.com/dmccabe/deming.html

http://www.ecapc.org/articles/WestmoW_2002.09.08.asp

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1777/muste.htm

http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/A/A.-J.-Muste.htm

The Los Angeles Free Festival in Venice, California ended in
violence before it began (1969). Many were hurt and 117
were arrested. The trouble started when police chased a
young man through a crowd on the beach. When they cuffed
him, the crowd starts chanting "Pig, pig, pig!" A riot would
ensue and none of the scheduled bands would appear.

[I included the above, only because I remember that night so
well. LAPD and Santa Monica PD were chasing a friend of
mine when he jumped out of a second story window in an
effort to evade them. A photographer from the Santa Monica
Evening Outlook captured the jump on camera, and the next
day . the front page of the Outlook had a huge picture of my
buddy ... in mid air. He immediately returned to
Pennsylvania.

Two years ago my wife and I were attending some School
District function when I saw my old friend. He was the
principal at a local school. We laughed about that night.
About a week later, after rummaging through old boxes to
find the SMEO front page, I stopped by his school to show
him the old newspaper. I joked with him about showing his
students . we went into his office . and hanging on the wall
was the newspaper and a signed-by-the-photographer copy of
the original B&W photo . framed and matted.]

John Phillips, formerly of the Mamas and the Papas, was
jailed for drug (heroin) possession (1981).

http://oh.essortment.com/biographyjohnp_rekl.htm

Archibald MacLeish, poet/playwright, died (1982).

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/macleish/macleish.htm

Three New York Yankees hit homeruns #9,999, 10,000 and
10,001 (1988). They were Dave Winfield, Claudell Washington
and Jack Clark, respectively.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/winfida01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/washicl01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/clarkja01.shtml

Octavio Paz, Mexico's greatest poet/writer/critic and winner
of 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature, died (1998). Paz, a
prolific writer, was best known for the book-length essay
"The Labyrinth of Solitude" and the poem "Sun Stone."

http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1990a.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/opaz.htm

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed thirteen fellow
students at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado
(1999). They wounded twenty-three others.

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/1327/school.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

" Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves,
however content, will never know. "

[Hyfler/Rosner]

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>
> http://mytrailerpark.com/

Hilarious.

>
> Adolf Hitler, business partner of Prescott Bush and mentor
> to the Bush family, was born (1889).
>

What's this I hear about Tom Ridge wanting a private
security force to keep us safe?

[Bill Schenley]

> > http://mytrailerpark.com/

> Hilarious.

Well, why not? These private security forces have always
worked so well in the past. I mean, don't you remember the
Geheime Staatspolizei? They kept the *Fatherland* safe ...
So why not one to keep the *Homeland* safe?

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Gestapo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo