Coronado Island, San Diego, California – September 8, 2010
One year ago today, while visiting my friends Lynne and George, we spotted this lively fellow. I whipped out my macro lens and took these photographs.
This Day in History (September 8 )
1994 MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley
1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President R Nixon of all federal crimes
1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most home runs in 1 league (709)
1968 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1967 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10
1966 Star Trek premieres on NBC-TV
1966 "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV
1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida
1956 Harry Belafonte’s album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1952 Ernest Hemmingway’s "Old Man and Sea" published
1947 British government sails "Exodus" with fugitives from Nazis
1945 U.S. invades Japanese-held Korea
1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1943 General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II
1930 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"
1930 Richard Drew creates Scotch tape
1921 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington D.C.)
1920 U.S. Air Mail service begins (New York City to San Francisco)
1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1883 Northern Pacific RR’s last spike driven at Independence Creek, Mont
1858 Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people
1565 1st permanent settlement in U.S. forms (St. Augustine, Florida)
1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st circumnavigation of globe, expedition
begins under Ferdinand Magellan
Today’s Birthdays
1981 Jonathan Taylor Thomas, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, actor, Randy-Home Improvement
1979 Pink, American Musician
1972 David Arquette, actor, Scream, Scream 2, Kiss and Tell
1971 Henry Thomas, born in San Antonio, Texas, actor, ET
1971 Brooke Burke, American Model
1957 Heather Thomas, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever
1954 Clayton Norcross, actor, Bold and Beautiful, Colbys, Santa Barbara
1950 Will Lee, rock guitarist, Late Show with David Letterman
1932 Patsy Cline, born in Winchester, Virginia, country singer, Crazy
1925 Peter Sellers, born in England, actor, not now, Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther
1922 Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate, 1980
1922 Sid Caesar, Yonkers, New York, comedian, Your Show of Shows
1915 Frank Cady, actor, Mr Drucker-Green Acres
1914 Hillary Brooke, Abbott and Costello’s neighbor, Hillary
1907 Gavin Muir, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Hollister-Betty Hutton Show
1907 Sid Tomack, actor, Life of Riley
1905 Henry Wilcoxon, actor, Cleopatra, Jericho, 10 Commandments
1900 Claude Pepper, born in Dudleyville, Alabama, Representative-D-Florida 1963 – 1989, Senator-D-Florida 1936 – 1951
1889 Robert Taft, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Senator-R-Ohio 1939 – 1953, Taft-Hartley Act
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