Posts Tagged ‘History’

1722 – Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. On a related note, this weekend I discovered a restaurant in Laconia called Christmas Island.

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1926 – Director Roger Corman is born. Film credits include Attack of the Crab Monsters, She Gods of Shark Reef, Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, and Teenage Cave Man just to name a few. Seriously, these are actual movies.

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1997- Allen Ginsberg beat poet, dies at 80. The Beat no longer goes on.

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And lastly, Happy National Deep Dish Pizza Day!

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239 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet. Natives think the world is ending; proved wrong once again.

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1867 – US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 paying 2 cents/acre. The Russians become the laughing stock of the real esate world. 118 years later, the Russians get even by producing uber-boxer Ivan Drago who kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition boxing match. Rocky Balboa vows revenge. No one born after 1990 gets this reference.

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1953 – Einstein announces revised unified field theory. Most people were content with the original unified field theory, but Einstein wants to be “that guy” who is always changing things.

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1962 - MC Hammer is born. Nearly 30 years later, Mr. Brough becomes 2 Legit 2 Quit.

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