The Daily Dose/January 7, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: The Christmas tree is still up in the lobby of the hotel. Today’s Diary.
One thing I didn’t do was alert anyone to this fact…I learned that lesson years ago…You open your yap and say hey, why’s the Christmas tree still up and then someone says wow, ol’ Sparrow isn’t all that busy overnights while we’re slammed, so let’s have him get started on taking the tree down…Boo to that…One, I’ll screw it up because I can never get anything back in their boxes in an orderly fashion, and besides, I don’t want to do it anyway.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
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On This Date
In 1999 – The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the United States Senate. The first day had a rather light calendar, with the articles impeachment issued by the House of Representatives presented and all involved sworn in by the presiding judge, Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The prosecution began presenting its case on Jan. 14, the defense on Jan. 19 and Clinton was acquitted on both articles by wide margins.
In 1927 – The Harlem Globetrotters play their first game, a score History has chosen not to record, in Hinckley, Illinois. The Trotters, a traveling team, went 101-16 that first year and would not begin their now-famous on-court antics until 1939. They were inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and almost 750 players have played for them over the years.
In 1967 – The Monkees are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second of seven consecutive weeks with I’m a Believer. It was their second Top 40 hit and their second consecutive #1 (Last Train To Clarksville). The song also went to #1 in eleven other countries, including Norway and the United Kingdom and was Billboard’s 5th biggest song of the year. The song was written by Neil Diamond, who released it as a single in 1971, though it did not hit the Top 40.
Quotebook
If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame. – Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
The NBA record for most three-point field goals in a game is 14, by Klay Thompson of Golden State on Oct. 29, 2018. The team record is 27 by the Houston Rockets on Apr. 7, 2019.
Today’s Stumper
How many #1 albums did the Monkees have on Billboard’s album chart? – Answer next time!
