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Monday mornings are maligned as mostly meaningless days mired down with myriad mundane minutiae. Here are a few things to ponder and, in the words of Newsvine - learn something.
Births:
1861 - William Mayo, American physician and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1901 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1919 - Slim Pickens, American actor (d. 1983)
1936 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
1947 - Richard Lewis, American Comedian
1971 - Kaitlyn Ashley, American pornographic actress
Deaths:
1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (b. 1806)
1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1995 - Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach (b. 1954)
Events:
1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1786 - Alexander Macdonnell and over five hundred Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1838: To mark Queen Victoria's coronation the day before, the British newspaper The Sun published its entire issue with gold ink.
1863 - George Armstrong Custer is appointed as a U.S. Union brevet brigadier general.
1905 - Moonlight Graham makes his only Major League Baseball appearance, in a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Superbas but gets no at-bat.
1933 - Italian boxer Primo Carnera knocked out American Jack Sharkey to become the heavyweight champion of the world.
1956 - Marilyn Monroe marries American playwright Arthur Miller.
1983: Prince Mongo of the uncharted planet of Zambodia, accused of tampering with an electric meter in Memphis, was sentenced to 10 days for contempt when he appeared in court wearing green body paint, a fur loincloth, gold goggles, and carrying a skull under one arm. Later that year Prince Mongo ran for mayor of Memphis and got 2,650 votes
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1986: In Louisville, Kentucky a man arrested for drunk driving claimed to be legally blind and that the car was actually being driven by his dog, Sir Anheuser Busch II. He served 30 days in jail.
1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
2000 - Vandals break into the tombs of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines.
Also…
Today is Remote Control Day, a favorite observance of couch potatoes everywhere.
Today is Elvis Presley Boulevard Day. The City of Memphis voted to name a 12-mile portion of the street that passes Graceland in honor of Elvis. Street signs disappeared immediately.
Today is Waffle Iron Day.
Top song 1935 - On the Good Ship Lollipop - Shirley Temple
Top song 1958 - Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Top song 1969 - Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Top song 1999 - Smooth - Santana f/ Rob Thomas
Top song 2006 - When You Were Young - The Killers
Number One in Television:
1950 - The Texaco Star Theatre
1972 - All in the Family
1983 - Dallas
1997 - Seinfeld
2006 - Grey's Anatomy
