Think it’s just another Wednesday? Consider this . . .
On this date in:
1831 James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was born. (It just so happens that Pepper Martin mystery #6 might feature this president who was assassinated just three months after taking office and is buried in Cleveland.)
1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. He was in Gettysburg, PA to dedicate the national cemetery there. If you’ve never visited the battlefield at Gettysburg, put it on your to-do list. It is an awesome and eerie experience.
1959 Ford Motor Co. announced that it was stopping production of the Edsel
1969 Charles “Pete” Conrad and Alan Bean made the second landing on the moon
1990 And I know we all have this one marked in our scrapbooks…pop duo Milli Vanilli is stripped of its Grammy Award after it was revealed that they lip-synced their songs
Lots of birthdays today, too, including Jodie Foster, Indira Gandhi, Larry King, Dick Cavett, Ted Turner, Calvin Klein, Charles I of England, Savion Glover, Tommy Dorsey and Roy Campanella.
However you celebrate all these historic events, make it a good one!
James A. Garfield, Pepper’s ghost?
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To go through death with one line to identify your life.
James Garfield. Shot by disappointed office seeker.
by Don
on November 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am
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Wow, this is an important day. Seems like we should celebrate it, if only for the Gettysburg address! Let’s see…what can we do to make the date historically important in 2008…
by Judy
on November 19th, 2008 at 7:40 am
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Free Day…..to celebrate a death of someone.
While in high school, there was a brother, former teacher, that was so old we alway refered to him as “there goes the walking free day”!
He could never hear us….but if one of his fellow brothers or a lay teachers did it was big time detention for anyone and everyone near by.
Zz
by Zorro
on November 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am
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So, Zorro, did you ever get that free day?
As for JA Garfield, from what I’ve read, it wasn’t actually being shot that killed him, it was the medical care he got after. Took the poor man 80 days to die.
by Casey
on November 19th, 2008 at 8:38 am
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Nope, no free day for brother walking free day.
I think the guy lasted another 12 years after we graduated. And once he did die, Brother Othmar Miller took over as the new walking free day. I had him for typing class (now called keyboarding). This guy got around on crutches….opened up each class period with a Dick Goddard type weather report and if you were not the perfect little student, out of the blue you would get wacked with one of his crutches.
By the way, Dick Goddard is a weather reporter on one of the Cleveland TV stations….he should have retired 20 yrs ago and died 25 year ago….yep, he’s that old!
Zz
by Zorro
on November 19th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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I was an extra in the movie Teachers. There was a running gag about a teacher named Mr. Ditto. He read his paper all day while the kids handed in their dittos. One day he’s sitting with the paper and all day the kids come and go in his classroom until someone figures out he’s really dead.
I was third kid going in. It was a fun set to work on.
by Orroz
on November 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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So, Orroz, if we watched the movie, and watch for the third kid in the room . . . we’ll get a look at you?
by Casey
on November 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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It was a number of years ago. I think it was number 3 as we all paraded in. I’d have to see it again. I had longer hair and was much younger. Had two books published by then, but not much else.
by Orroz
on November 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
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My secret sin — I liked Milli and Vanilli. Blame on the rain?
by Jeff
on November 20th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
