Good morning. Today is the 302nd day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1859) of Charles Ebbets, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers during the early 20th century. He sold 50 percent of the team to build Ebbets Field, {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 301st day of the year. On this day in 1950, The Jack Benny Show, an adaptation of an earlier radio show, came to TV. Among Benny’s guest stars were Frank Sinatra, Claudette Colbert, Marilyn Monroe, {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 300th day of the year. On this day in 1787, the first of the 85 Federalist Papers appeared in a New York City newspaper. These essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 299th day of the year. It is the anniversary of the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., in 1881. The three Earp brothers (Deputy Marshals Wyatt and Morgan Earp and Marshal Virgil {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 296th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1925) of Johnny Carson, famed TV talk-show host. He became host of “The Tonight Show” in 1962 and held that position for more than 30 {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 295th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1903) of Bensonhurst-born comedian Jerome “Curly” Howard, one of the Three Stooges during their heyday. Curly was the brother of Moe, the “head stooge,” and {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 294th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1917) of jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie. Dizzy got his start by playing in Cab Calloway’s orchestra, then started jamming with {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 293rd day of the year. It is the birth anniversary (1935) of Jerry Orbach, best known as Det. Lenny Briscoe on “Law and Order,” a role he played from 1998 until his death in 2004. {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 292nd day of the year. It is the anniversary of end of the Revolutionary War. On this day in 1781, more than 7,000 British and Hessian troops, led by British general Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 289th day of the year. On this day in 1853, the Crimean War began when the Turkish Empire declared war on Russia to stem Russian expansionist policies. Britain, France and some of the Italian states {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 288th day of the year. On this day in 1783, Jean de Rozier and Francois Laurent became the first people to fly when they ascended in a hot-air balloon in Paris.
Good morning. Today is the 287th day of the year. It is the anniversary (1066) of the Battle of Hastings, when the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror formally defeated the Saxon forces that had been occupying England. William {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 286th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of comedian Lenny Bruce, originally Leonard Alfred Schneider (1925). Bruce came to fame because of his willingness to tackle such serious subjects as politics, race {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 281st day of the year. It is the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It began, according to legend, when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern in her barn on DeKoven Street. {read more...}
Good morning. Today is the 280th day of the year. On this day in 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was born when Dow Jones began reporting an average of the prices of 12 industrial stocks. In 1928 the company {read more...}
