The Daily Dose/December 28, 2019
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off will return after the first of the year.
Today At The Site
The Diary of a Nobody: Sparrow gets the latest on the damage to the VFW building from the fire that happened next door. Today’s Diary.
Bob from the post came by to visit, too, just to say howdy…We ended up talking about the VFW building downtown…There was a fire at a restaurant next door to it a few weeks ago and I didn’t really give it much thought but Bob said the smoke damage was significant and the VFW bar, which was leased out to Cheryl, has been closed ever since…Bob said it will late spring before it opens again and that is if everything goes right, which it won’t of course, and Bob said we might be able to have the 4th of July party there, or we may not.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life.
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On This Date
1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated by King Edward the Confessor, who had begun construction, a rebuilding of St Peter’s Abbey, in 1642. By chance, Edward would die the following week, the first monarch to be buried there. Westminster Abbey has been the site of the coronation of every British monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066. No longer a home for monks or a bishop’s seat, the church is now subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch.
In 1944 – Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens establishes a new NHL record for most points in a game with eight. Richard had five goals and three assists in a 9-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. Richard broke the record of seven that had been established by Joe Malone of Montreal in January, 1918 and later tied by Malone and several others. The NHL record for most points in a game is now ten by Darryl Sitler, who had six goals and four assists for the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 7, 1976.
In 1957 – Wake Up Little Susie by the Everly Brothers is at #1 on Billboard’s Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart – one of several predecessors to today’s country chart – for its only week. It was the second of four #1 country songs for the duo and earlier, the song had spent one week each at the top of Billboard’s pop and soul charts, making it one of six songs to go to #1 on all three major Billboard charts. Phil Everly died in 2014 and Don, 82, is still alive.
Quotebook
That is ignorance, I fear./No, not ignorance. Simply another kind of knowledge. – Gore Vidal, Creation
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
The only player besides Wayne Gretzky to score 100 points in a season in fewer than 40 games is Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who did it three times, in the 1988-89, 1992-93 and 1995-96 seasons.
Today’s Stumper
What are the five other songs that have gone to #1 on Billboard’s pop, soul and country charts? – Answer next time!
