The Daily Dose/June 19, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
Leading Off will return tomorrow. Promise.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow turns the heater on at The Shire. Today’s Diary.
It was chilly today and when turned in, with the windows open, the temperature inside the cabin was only 61°…It wasn’t going to get a whole hell of a lot warmer outside, so we shut the windows and turned on the heater…It fired right up, and we set the thermostat to 68°…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1865 – US Army troops led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informs slaves in Galveston, Texas they are free. The Emancipation Proclamation had freed slaves in the rebel states two years earlier, but Texas officials neglected to inform their slaves. The day is now celebrated as Juneteenth, with celebrations starting in Texas the following year and spreading throughout the South. Slavery in the US officially ended in the United States the following December when the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished it in Kentucky and Rhode Island.
In 1867 – The first Belmont Stakes is run, with Ruthless defeating De Courcey by a head at Jerome Park Racetrack, then in Westchester County, now part of the Bronx. The winning jockey was Gilbert W Patrick and the winning purse was $1,850, about $31,000 in today’s money. Jerome Park was the first of five sites of the Belmont, followed by Morris Park, Belmont Park, Aqueduct, and this year at Saratoga.
In 1993 – Janet Jackson is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the sixth of eight consecutive weeks with That’s the Way Love Goes. The song went to #1 in four other countries, peaked at #2 in Great Britain, earlier spent four weeks at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, was their 4th-biggest song of the year, their 17th-biggest of the decade, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. It remains the most weeks spent at #1 for a song by any member of the Jackson family and was her sixth of ten #1s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Why are you doing this?/I want to./Is that all?/I should think that that was everything.
Gore Vidal
Empire
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The American, man or woman, with the most time in outer space is Peggy Whitson with 665 days.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
What was the largest margin of victory in the Belmont Stakes? – Answer next time!
