The Daily Bleed has even more to say. I think it's John Lennon's birthday, so that colors everything they put up. It's also the birthday of Peter Tosh and Jackson Browne, and the death-day of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Jacques Brel.
Among their (many) entries for this day:
-- Leif Erikson reaches Vinland (perhaps New England). http://www.mnc.net/norway/Leif.htm
1776 -- San Francisco de Assisi mission started at present site of San Francisco, California. Probably corner of Haight-Ashbury.
1916 -- Babe Ruth pitches & wins longest World Series baseball game (14 innings) 2-1.
1936 -- US: During a lettuce strike in Salinas, Ca, red flags appeared around town, specifically at intersections & on power poles. Fearing communists, the local authorities took down the flags, only to discover later that they were "part of a traffic check being made by the state highway division."
1967 -- Bolivia: Revolutionist Ernesto "Che" Guevara captured & summarily executed, age 39, in the Bolivian highlands (by troops trained in US). Argentine doctor, who rejected both capitalism & orthodox communism.
1969 -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young opened at Fillmore West, San Francisco.
It's also the day James Watts resigned during the Reagan years. |
