Reply #26: WOW! Sid vicious died..... DAMN!

[Texasgal]

Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, or Candlemas Day. All the candles used in church are blessed on this day. The English universities name their terms after certain holy days. The spring term began about this time, so it was called the Candlemas term. (The fall is the Michaelmas Term.)
On this day in 1536, Pedro de Mendoza of Spain founded the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On this day in 1556, as many as 830,000 people died in an earthquake in the Chinese provinces Shaaxi and Henan.
The greatest of Renaissance Italian sacred composers, Giovanni de Palestrina, died on this day in 1594. When I began collecting music in 1966, Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass was one of the first recordings I owned.
Shakespeare's twins, Hamnet and Judith, were baptized on this day in 1585. The former lived only 11 years.
On this day in 1602, John Donne wrote to appease his father-in-law Sir George More concerning his unapproved marriage to Anne More. When Donne was put under virtual house arrest for marrying the girl, he used a diamond to write on a windowpane, "John Donne, Anne Donne, undone."
King Charles II's mistress Nell Gwin was born on this day in 1650. He is reputed to have said, "Let not poor Nellie starve" on his deathbed. When a London mob was railing against her carriage on a London street, she is said to have stepped out and defended herself by saying, "I am a good English whore, not a French whore." Her royal benefactor Charles II died on the same day in 1685.
On this day in 1653, New Amsterdam (later New York) was incorporated.
On this day in 1709, British sailor Alexander Selkirk was rescued after being marooned on a desert island for five years, his story inspiring Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe.
The popular English novelist Hannah Moore was born on this day in 1745. Her 1808 novel Coelebs in Search for a Wife was immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic.
Georgia jurist and signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Walton died on this day in 1804/ he was born in 1741.
The French diplomat and premier Charles-Maurice, duke of Talleyrand-Périgord was born on this day in 1754. He was also a bishop. He played a significant role in the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The French keyboard composer Armand-Louis Couperin died on this day in 1798. He was organist at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Ciivl war General Albert Sidney Johnston of the Confederate Army, mortally wounded at Shiloh in 1862, was born on this day in 1803. He is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin, under a statue by Elisabet Ney.
Delaware's signer of the Declaration of Independence Caesar Rodney died on this day in 1804.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, concluded between the United Syayes and Mexico on this day in 1848, ended the Mexican War and gave the Southwest to the United States for a modicum of payment.
On this day in 1852, Alexandre Dumas fils play La Dame aux Camélias, premiered in Paris. • Abdülhak Hâmid, Turkish poet and playwright, was born the same day. • On the same day, the first public toilet is inaugurated, located at 95 Fleet Street in London, by the Society of Arts.
Pioneer American sexologist Havelock Ellis (The Psychology of Sex) was born on this day in 1859.
On this day in 1862, Samuel Clemens, a journalist, published his first report in the Virginia City Enterprise. He used a pseudonym: Mark Twain.
On this day in 1867, President Andrew Johnson signed the Second Reconstruction Act, which divided the South into military districts.
On this day in 1870, Mark Twain, 34, married Olivia Langdon in Elmira, N.Y. She exercised a censoring hand on his work as much as possible. Twain once said about her swearing: "She knew all the words, but she couldn't get the tune right."
Violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler was born on this day in Vienna in 1875. On the same day in 1901, another maestro of the violin, Jascha Heifitz, was born in Vilna, Lithuania.
James Joyce, the great Irish writer of this century, was born on this day in 1882. Sylvia Beach, the American expatriate bibliophile, published his Ulysses on his 40th birthday. It was not allowed into the United States for a decade.
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter patented the bottle cap with a cork sealer on this day in Baltimore in 1892. Without it the modern soft drink would not have been possible.
Russian-American author Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead), was born on this day in 1905. I read several of her books in my senior year of high school and would not read another for money.
The originator of the chemical periodic table Dmitri Mendeleyev died on this day in 1907. • On the same day, in a letter written to American statesman William Jennings Bryan, Christian Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy counseled: "'The most important thing is to know the will of God concerning one's life, i.e., to know what he wishes us to do and fulfill it."
New York City's Grand Central Station opened on this day in 1913.
The novelist and poet James Dickey, most famous for Deliverance, was born on this day in 1923.
James Dickey was born this day in 1925. Some people have read his novel Deliverance (I did), but because of the film, virtually everyone knows the theme music and the phrase "Squeal like a pig!" As with Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, most people will remember only the grossest aspect of a work.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (1974-81), was born on this day in 1926. He was president of France when I was there in the summer of 1979. • The Broadway version of The Great Gatsby opened on the same day.
On this day in 1932, Al Capone was sent to prison.
On this day in 1933, two days after the German people elected Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor, he ordered the dissolution of the German Parliament, signaling the creation of a long and repressive regime that presided over a world war and the brutal killing of millions of Jews and others.
On this day in 1935, the first application of a polygraph machine—commonly referred to as the lie detector—was conducted by Leonard Keeler.
Democratic Vice-Presidential 2000 candidate Joseph Leiberman was born on this day in 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, three days after his opponent Dick Cheney was born.
On this day in 1943, the German Army surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad. It was a turning point of World War II.
Newswoman and anchor Jessica Savitch was born on this day in 1948. An untimely death ended her short career.
The first Presidential news conference was shown on network TV on this day in 1955, with President Eisenhower.
English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970 at 98. He wrote in his Autobiography, "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
On this day in 1971, one of the most reviled dictators in modern times, Idi Amin, assumed power as the premier of Uganda following a military coup that ousted President Obote. Idi Amin presided over a burtal and repressive regime that saw thousands executed for political crimes. Idi Amin was himself ousted in 1979.
On this day in 1995, Space Shuttle Discovery took off on a historic mission, piloted by the first woman ever to command the ship -- Eileen Collins. Discovery later kept its appointed rendezvous with the Russian space station MIR
Sports and entertainment:
Baseball's National League was formed on this day in 1876, with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.
The longest boxing match under modern rules took place on this day in 1892. It went 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois, between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby.
Professional football pioneer George "Papa Bear" Halas, co-founder of the NFL, was born on this day in 1895.
Gale Gordon was born on this day in 1906 (he died in 1995). He was one of the geniuses of Golden-Age TV. He played Madison High principal Mr. Conklin in Our Miss Brooks. But most of you remember him as Mr. Mooney on the later Lucy shows, although he did appear in many of the original I Love Lucy series.
Boxing champion John L. Sullivan died on this day in 1918.
The Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opened at Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in New York on this day in 1927.
Born on this day in 1923 were Bonita Granville, B-movie actress of the 1940s (I knew her son Chris slightly when I was in graduate school in Austin, because he was a friend's student), and Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, (in Fort Worth) gossip columnist.
Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz was born on this day in 1927.
TV comedian Tommy Smothers was born in New York City on this day in 1937. I learned in a biography of Barbra Streisand that she had a fling with him when they were young. He and his brother were considered radical in the summer of 1968, when their comedy hour ran on CBS-TV.
On this day in 1940, Frank Sinatra had his national singing debut in Indianapolis with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. His songs with the Dorsey band are some of the best of his recordings.
Rock artist Graham Nash was born on this day in 1942. He recorded with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.
TV performer Farah Fawcett was born on this day in 1946.
The first broadcast of What's My Line on CBS-TV came on this day in 1950. A panel of blindfolded celebrities guessed a person's occupation. John Daly was the first host and last mystery guest in the show's run.
Christie Brinkley, model and actress, was born on this day in 1954.
Actress Holly Hunter was born on this day in 1958 in Conyers, Georgia.
According to Don McLean, the music died on this day in 1959 when Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of their airplane American Pie crash in Iowa. Waylon Jennings was supposed to have been on the plane, but didn't go. Holly's band was the Crickets. The Beatles fashioned their name after that band.
Garth Brooks was born on this day in 1962 (his birth first-name is Troyal, which is one of those white-trash made-up names, the Bible and the saints lists not being enough for the Oklahoma Brookses.) Garth Brooks is in my estimation a prime example of what went wrong with country music. His vocal stylings lack any of the character or integrity of true traditional music. On the Letterman show, I saw him perform with the punk band Kiss. Brooks figured out that he couldn't make the megabucks in rock, his true love, so he put on this country persona to trick the rubes. It seems to have worked. Writer Kinky Friedman called him the Anti-Hank.
Pebbles Flintstone on the animated show of that name was born on this day in 1963. Her parents were Fred and Wilma.
On this day in 1964, while singing the National Anthem at the Ali-Liston fight, Robert Goulet forgot some of the words. Elvis Presley had an irrational hatred of Robert Goulet and once shot a TV set on which Goulet was singing. • GI Joe debuted as a popular toy on the same day.
Boris Karloff, the British actor who played the creature in Universal's 1931 version of Frankenstein died on this day in 1969. Some comic once said that the best word to say in doing a Karloff imitation was antipasto.
Sid Vicious , bassist for the band Sex Pistols, died of a heroin overdose at 31 on this day in 1979. He stood trial fort murder.
US actor John Cassavetes died on this day in 1989. he directed Rosemary's Baby.
Bert Parks , TV host of the Miss America Pageant, died on this day in 1992.
Donald Pleasance, English actor, died on this day in 1995.
Gene Kelly, actor and dancer most famous for his role in Singing in the Rain, died at 83 died on this day in 1996. He did a creditable job playing Hornbeck (the stand-in for H.L. Mencken) in Inherit the Wind.