The Daily Dose/June 26, 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 makes some coffee. Today’s Diary.
So D4 got coffee that Juan Valdez himself would’ve had a tuff time topping for freshness…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1974 – The Universal Product Code (UPC) – that bar-and-number code on things bought in stores – is used for the first time, at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product bought, shortly after their 8 am opening, was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum for 67¢, about $4.45 in today’s money. The year before, grocery representatives had solicited ideas for a standard UPC and eventually approved a proposal by IBM.
In 1911 – John McDermott establishes a new US Open record for the youngest winner, defeating Mike Brady and George Simpson of Scotland by two strokes in an 18-hole playoff at the Chicago Golf Club. McDermott was 19 years old, besting the mark set by 21-year-old Horace Rawlins in 1895, and the record still stands. The Chicago Golf Club, founded in 1892, is the oldest 18-hole golf course in the US, and this was the third and final US Open it hosted.
In 1954 – Big Joe Turner is at #1 on Billboard’s Most Played in Juke Boxes soul chart – a predecessor to today’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart – for the third and final consecutive week with Shake, Rattle and Roll. Later in the year, a version by Bill Haley & His Comets peaked at #7 on Billboard’s Best Sellers in Stores pop chart. It remains the only #1 single for Turner in a career that began as a singing bartender in Kansas City in the 1920s and continued until the 1980s.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
He was content to wait for history, and the rest of the Continental Congress, to catch up with him.
Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The last major league pitcher to win two complete games in a doubleheader was Dutch Levsen of the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Red Sox on August 28, 1926.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When did Billboard’s first unified soul chart appear? – Answer next time!
