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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 1/30/14

Interrogatories

Have you ever been to a rodeo? Polo match? Other equestrian events?

How about car races, rallies, etc.? Ever drag race?

What bumper stickers do you have on your car?

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On This Day

In 1649, King Charles I of England was beheaded.

In 1661, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, was ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I, the monarch he deposed. Can you say “overkill?”

In 1847, Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco, though it is said you can still buy good herb there.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.

In 1956, the home of Martin Luther King Jr. was bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

In 1969, the Beatles made what proved to be their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The police broke it up (bastards!).

In 1972, thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

In 2003, Richard Reid, a British citizen and al-Qaida follower, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Boston for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner with explosives hidden in his shoes.

In 2007, Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, also known as “F—ing Vista,” went on sale.

Born on This Day

1814 – Jérome Thompson, U.S. painter (d. 1886)

1841 – Carl Sundt-Hansen, Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1907)

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1845 – Bernard Blommers, Dutch painter (d. 1914)

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1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French seascape painter (d. 1939)

1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)

1890 – Bruno Kastner, German actor (d. 1932)

1899 – Martita Hunt, English actress (d. 1969)

1902 – Elise Cavanna, American actress (d. 1963)

1906 – Greta Nissen, Norwegian actress (d. 1988)

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1909 – Saul David Alinsky, radical (d. 1972)

1911 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)

1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)

1914 – John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)

1914 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)

1915 – Dorothy Dell, American actress (d. 1934)

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1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)

1920 – Delbert Mann, American film director (d. 2007)

1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)

1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress

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1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor

1935 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)

1936 – Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)

1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

1941 – Dick Cheney, evil personified and former Vice President of the United States

1942 – Marty Balin, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and KBC Band, Grootna, Bodacious DF)

1947 – Steve Marriott, English musician (Humble Pie and The Small Faces) (d. 1991)

1951 – Phil Collins, English musician (Genesis and Brand X)

1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor

1959 – Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)

1959 – Jody Watley, American singer (Shalamar)

1974 – Christian Bale, English actor

Died on This Day

1584 – Pieter Pourbus, Flemish painter (b. 1523)

1652 – Georges de la Tour, French painter (b. 1593)

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1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)

1881 – Felice Schiavoni, Italian painter (b. 1803)

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1891 – Charles Joshua Chaplin, French academic painter (b. 1825)

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1905 – Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, Italian painter (b. 1844)

1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)

1929 – La Goulue, French dancer (b. 1866)

1941 – Heinrich von Zügel, German livestock painter (b. 1850)

1948 – Orville Wright, American aviator (b. 1871)

1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)

1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)

1961 – John Duncan Fergusson, Scottish painter (b. 1874)

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1976 – Mance Lipscomb, blues musician (b. 1895)

1980 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)

1982 – Lightnin’ Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)

1984 – Luke Kelly, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1940)

1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)

1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)

2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist; widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)

Today is

National Croissant Day

Escape Day

Inane Answering Message Day

School Day of Non-violence and Peace


5 comments

  1. Gee

    set to soar to the astronomical heights of 30!  Nice day, really.

    Have you ever been to a rodeo? Polo match? Other equestrian events?

    How about car races, rallies, etc.? Ever drag race?

    What bumper stickers do you have on your car?

    I’ve been to a horse show, and I’ve been to the Preakness.

    No car races.  Some of my high school friends got their first band gigs playing the infields of racetracks, so I’m surprised, in retrospect, that I never went.  Never drag raced.  I was a good boy.

    No bumper stickers at this time.  Had an ACLU sticker on a window, but it didn’t want to stay stuck.

  2. Floja Roja

    or are there?

    Rodeos and polo matches never interested me. I’ve never even been to horse races, which I might have enjoyed. Now they are closing Hollywood Park, and it will probably be demolished to build more luxury housing which will go unsold because the top 85 people already have enough houses.

    I once attended the very short-lived L.A. Grand Prix, a street racing event that died after NASCAR took it over. I had a friend who was an amateur racer, so he took us behind the scenes and we got to talk to all these very colorful characters who like to race cars. That was the interesting part, the race was kind of boring.

    I don’t have a car, but if I did I’d cover it with all kinds of bumper stickers, mostly funny ones with a pointed liberal message. I saw a really funny one the other day, but now I have completely forgotten it. I do recall one that was along the lines of, “Without guns, how would conservatives win arguments?”

  3. Gee

    1841 – Carl Sundt-Hansen, Norwegian-Danish painter (d. 1907)

    “Podgy and Jasper were huddled around the unlit fire….”

  4. princesspat

    Rodeo…..competing on or with animals was a family affair….Dad was a team and calf roper, my brothers and various male cousins rode bucking horses and bulls, my sister and I were barrel racers, Mom was an official rodeo queen ( I still have her very cool embroidered western shirt), and I won blue ribbons at the Nevada State Fair with my favorite horse…..princesspat! That was another lifetime long gone.

    Car races…..our son (cornbread) follows Formula One car races

    Bumper stickers…..none for me.  

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