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March 8, 1969 –Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary hits #2 on the Hot 100 on this date. It stayed at No. 2 for three weeks. John Fogerty wrote the lyrics based on three song title ideas: Proud Mary, Riverboat,  and  Rolling On A River.  He carried around a notebook with titles that he thought wouldContinue reading “Proud Mary premiered”

March 7, 1917 –Russia’s 1917 February Revolution began on March 7, which was then the middle of February, in the city of St. Petersburg, which was then Petrograd, in what was then Russia, but would soon be the Soviet Union. Tsar (or Czar) Nicholas II of the Romanov (or Romanoff) line had been away fromContinue reading “Another episode of The Crazy Mixed-Up Russian Revolution”

March 7, 1933 –Charles Darrow, for some reason claims that he invented The Monopoly board game on this date. Thank your rich Uncle Pennybags. (Quite truthfully, the history of the Monopoly game is so complicated, for legal reasons, just go with this date, don’t ask about Elizabeth Magie’s ‘The Landlord Game‘ and her patent ofContinue reading “Monopoly may or may not have been created today”

March 7, 1897 –Today is National Ceral Day. On this date in March of 1897, Dr. John Kellogg served corn flakes for the first time to his patients at his hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan. They wouldn’t be sold commercially until 1906. In honor of National Cereal Day remember to have the true Breakfast ofContinue reading “The average American eats 160 bowls of cereal each year.”

March 7, 1960 –After a month’s absence, Jack Paar had re-appeared as the host on The Tonight Show on this date. He had walked off in protest against censorship before returning to his position as host of this production. He had made a joke about a “water closet” (European bathroom), which most likely would haveContinue reading “Jack Paar returns to TV”

March 6, 1950 – Silly Putty was introduced as a toy by Peter Hodgson, a marketing consultant, who packaged one-ounce portions of the rubber-like material in plastic eggs, on this date. It could be stretched, rolled into a bouncing ball, or used to transfer colored ink from newsprint. The original discovery was made in 1943Continue reading “Silly Putty”

March 6, 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society on this date in a presentation entitled “The Dependence between the Properties of the Atomic Weights of the Elements.” He left gaps in his charts and predicted the addition of three more elements in the near future. Mendeleev’s predictionsContinue reading “The Periodic Table”

March 6, 1965 –I’m not a stooge, I’m a straight lady – the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man but never top him, never steal the laughs. Daisy Juliette Baker, Groucho’s favorite comic foil, died on this date. Groucho Marx continued to alternatelyContinue reading “Margaret Dumont”

March 6, 1970 –The Beatles released Let it Be in the UK on this date. Paul McCartney wrote this song supposedly after he had a dream about his mother who died when he was 14. Since Let It Be was The Beatles last album, it made an appropriate statement about leaving problems behind and movingContinue reading “Let It Be”

March 5, 1982 –John Belushi was found dead at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood from a cocaine and heroin overdose on this date. A sketchy woman, Cathy Smith, was later charged with administering the fatal injections. Sorry but there was really nothing funny about that – it was just a waste. And so it goes