The Daily Dose/March 28, 2020
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience…
Leading Off is taking some time off. It will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Read Free Fortnight rolls on! Enjoy today’s entry with Sparrow’s compliments.
The Diary of a Nobody: To celebrate being forced to stay at home, Sparrow is growing a beard. Today’s Diary.
I’ve taken to growing a beard…I haven’t shaved since, I think, Tuesday night before heading into the hotel, so I got a pretty good head start…No human being – except a woman, perhaps – looks worse in a beard than I do but, as shown by my walk yesterday, unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures…
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On This Date
Great moments in us.
In 1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Several minor equipment failures that were not handled properly, as well as other factors, resulted in a partial meltdown of the core of Unit 2. The facility’s containment vessel held, though, and only trace amounts of radiation escaped into the atmosphere. Cleanup took eleven years and cost $1 billion and the incident remains the worst accident in the history of American commercial nuclear power.
In 1967 – Stan Mikita of the Chicago Blackhawks establishes a new NHL record most assists in a season in a 7-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings. Mikita had one assist – and a goal – in the game, giving him 60 assists on the season, breaking the record of 59 he had established in 1964-65. Mikita would finish the season with 62 assists. His record would be broken by Phil Esposito who had 77 assists in 1968-69 and the record is now held by Wayne Gretzky, who had 163 assists in 1985-86.
In 1964 – The Beatles are at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with She Loves You. The song also went to #1 in five other countries including Norway and Great Britain, was Billboard’s second biggest song of the year, their 31st biggest of the decade and came in at #288 on their 60th anniversary Hot 100. It was the ninth consecutive week the group had spent at #1 as they replaced themselves after I Want To Hold Your Hand had spent seven weeks at the top, the first time an act had replaced themselves at #1 on the Hot 100.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Talent is nothing but long patience. – Gustave Flaubert (1821-80), French novelist
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup were the Montreal Canadiens, who defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4 games to 1 in 1993.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
Who was the first act to replace themselves at #1 on a Billboard singles chart? – Answer next time!
