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Today is National Disc Jockey Day – The day is celebrated in remembrance of the death of Albert James “Alan” Freed, (AKA Moondog,) the man who coined the term “Rock ‘n’ Roll”. The first DJ, or Disc Jockey, was sixteen-year-old student Ray Newby, who played the first records over the airwaves at Herrold College ofContinue reading “I found out all I needed to know”

Jimmy Naismith was born in Ramsay township in Ontario, Canada in 1861. He grew up and eventually went to McGill University in Montreal. He became their Athletic Director and in 1891 he moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, to take a post at the YMCA Training School. It was there that he was confronted with the problemContinue reading “Where did he find those baskets during the winter?”

January 19, 1949 –I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect. Robert Palmer, blue-eyed soul singer, was born on this date.

January 19, 1952 – In the first match-up between Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny, Operation: Rabbit, directed by Chuck Jones, premiered on this date. This was the second cartoon to feature Wile E. Coyote (following 1949’s Fast and Furry-ous), and the first in which he is identified by his full name. It is alsoContinue reading “And remember, mud spelled backwoids is dum”

January 19, 1940 –Any resemblance between the characters in this picture and any persons, living or dead, is a miracle. The Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy! about the Nazis released on this date. Filmed in 1939, not released until 1940, the film was the first Hollywood film to spoof Adolf Hitler, released nine monthsContinue reading “You Nazty Spy! premiered”

January 19, 1953 –68% of all television sets in the United States were tuned in to I Love Lucy on this date to watch Lucy give birth to a baby boy – the same day Lucille Ball gave birth to her son, Desi Arnaz Junior. All the while they couldn’t say pregnant on TV orContinue reading “Ricky, it’s time.”

Blue Monday refers to the third Monday in January, dubbed the “most depressing day of the year” by a psychologist Cliff Arnall in 2004 for, Sky Travel, a UK travel company using a pseudoscientific formula to sell vacation packages, factoring in cold weather, debt, and post-Christmas slump. The PR stunt succeeded in generating media buzzContinue reading “Today is known as Blue Monday”

January 19, 1809 –It’s the birthday of the poet and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston on this date. He was the son of two actors, but since he was Edgar Allan Poe, both of his parents died of tuberculosis when he was just a boy. He was taken in by a wealthyContinue reading “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Today is Thesaurus Day. It celebrates the birthday of Peter Mark Roget and his famous work, volume, tome, manual, opus. You could spend all day perusing, studying, scanning, looking through, scuritying for fun. Well some people could.

January 18, 1973 – The third season finale of Monty Python, The British Showbiz Awards (aka Grandstand,), aired on the BBC on this date Eric Idle portrays “Dickie Attenborough,” a clear reference to Richard Attenborough, who also sometimes went by Dickie. His brother, David Attenborough, worked at the BBC and actually gave this series theContinue reading “How do you find the vicarage”