The Daily Dose/April 30, 2020
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 continues to take notes for the morning Emergency Ops meeting. Today’s Diary.
The morning Emergency Ops meetings are getting shorter and shorter…I don’t understand this: we’re in the middle of the worst pandemic since the black plague and only two departments had updates and one of them was Public Affairs which could provide updates every-hour-on-the hour for a mild coughing fit…Come on people, not even Public Health had an update and the public’s health is the reason we’re in this fiasco in the first place.
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On This Date
History’s long march to today
In 1975 – Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, is taken by North Vietnamese forces. It marked the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the reunification as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Generally known as the Fall of Saigon in the West, it is known the Day of Liberating the South for National Reunification in Vietnam and Saigon was immediately renamed Ho Chi Minh City, the name it retains today. US combat troops had left the country two years earlier.
In 1996 – The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles establish a new major league record for the longest nine-inning game, a game won by the Yankees 13-10. The game took 4 hours and 21 minutes and featured ten pitchers, 28 hits and 14 walks. The record stood until Oct 5, 2001, when the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 11-10 in 4 hours 27 minutes and the record is now held by the Yankees and Boston Red Sox, who took 4 hours and 45 minutes on Aug 18, 2006, a game won by the Yankees 14-11.
In 1983 – Michael Jackson is at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three consecutive weeks with Beat It. The song went to #1 in four other countries, including Belgium and The Netherlands, and peaked at #3 in Great Britain. In May it would also spend a week at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart and was Billboard’s fifth-biggest song of the year. It was the fifth of 13 #1 songs on both the pop and soul charts for Jackson, though not the same songs hit #1 on both charts.
Quotebook
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
I remember what I was, and what I have yet to do. – Adolf Hitler
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
It’s not who you know, but what you know.
The major league record for most strikeouts in a game is 21, done by Tom Cheney of the Washington Senators on Sept 12, 1962, pitching all 16 innings in 2-1 win.
Today’s Stumper
Cheaper than Trivia Night at the bar.
How many #1 albums did Michael Jackson have on Billboard’s album chart, both as a solo act and with the Jackson 5/the Jacksons? – Answer next time!
