The Daily Dose/April 30, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has problems. Today’s Diary.
I’ll tell you something: with this current gaggle of women, it is going to take some skillful navigation to avoid going out on a date…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1803 – Representatives of the United States and France sign a treaty selling French territory in North America to the US, a transaction History records as the Louisiana Purchase. This despite the fact France didn’t actually possess the territory. Spain had ceded it back to France in 1800, but the transfer would not be completed until November, weeks before France transferred it to the US. President Thomas Jefferson had sent negotiators to Paris authorized to pay $10 million for New Orleans, though negotiators accepted the offer of $15 million – about 70 cents an acre in today’s money – for the entire territory.
In 1967 – The Baltimore Orioles tie the major league record for fewest hits allowed in a nine-inning loss in a 2-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader. The Orioles Steve Barber and Stu Miller combined to pitch a no-hitter in the loss, matching a feat first accomplished by Ken Johnson and the Houston Colt 45s in 1964. The feat has not been duplicated since, though there have been four eight-inning no-hit losses when the home team did not need to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning.
In 1994 – R. Kelly is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the fourth and final consecutive week with Bump n’ Grind. The song peaked at #8 in Great Britain and was in its tenth of twelve consecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, was Billboard’s 11th-biggest song of the year and their biggest soul song of 1994. It was the first of 13 Top 10 hits for Kelly and his first of two #1s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Wisdom came to him not by nature but by trials.
Will Durant
The Story of Civilization, Vol VII: The Reformation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
Adolf Hitler killed himself by shooting himself in the head, while Ava Braun bit into a cyanide capsule.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who was the French leader who authorized the Louisiana Purchase? – Answer next time!
