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October 3, 1964 –According to noted food historian, Calvin Trilling, the first buffalo wings were served on this date. The wings were reported to have first been made in Buffalo, New York, by the Bellissimo family at the Anchor Bar. They were served with blue cheese dressing and given away for free. The bar nowContinue reading “Truly finger lickin’ good”

October 3, 1942 –An A4-rocket (a modified V-2) developed under the direction of Werner von Braun “Good Nazi“, was successfully launched from the Test Stand VII in Peenemünde, Germany. The 13-ton, 46-foot long V2 rocket flies perfectly over the course of 118 miles to an altitude of 53 miles (85km). While it is generally seenContinue reading “A man whose allegiance, is ruled by expedience.”

October 3, 1961 –The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered on this date. The show wasn’t an immediate success but became a hit. Carl Reiner asked network censors for permission to show Laura and Rob sleeping in one large bed together, reasoning (quite sensibly) that he and his wife did so in real life. The permissionContinue reading “The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered”

October 3, 1960 – Let grab down our fishin’ poles and head down to the fishin’ hole, The Andy Griffith Show premiered on this date. They never mention what happened to Opie’s mother. Opie was said to be just “a speck of a boy” when she died. Her first name is never given, her pictureContinue reading “The Andy Griffith Show premiered”

October 3, 1953 – The final installment of the Looney Tunes “Hunting Trilogy“, Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, premiered on this date. Bugs Bunny stuck out four signs to lead Elmer Fudd to shoot Daffy Duck. In order they are:1st GOAT SEASON OPEN;2nd, DIRTY SKUNK SEASON;3rd, PIGEON SEASON;4th and last, MONGOOSE SEASON.

Three of the past century’s finest comedians were born on October 2: Groucho Marx (1890), Bud Abbott (1895), and Mahatma Gandhi (1869). Groucho and Abbott were funny enough, but they pale beside the towering comic greatness of Gandhi. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have alwaysContinue reading “A Plethora of Birthdays”

October 2, 1925 –Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image: the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy nicknamed Stooky Bill on this date. (“Stooky” being slang for someone who moves woodenly and a colloquial term for the plaster cast used to immobilize bone fractures.) Almost immediately, Logie BairdContinue reading “First TV image transmitted”

October 2, 1982 –John Cougar’s (John Mellencamp) single Jack And Diane, a little ditty about two American kids growin’ up in the heartland, becomes his first and only #1 hit in America, on this date. Jack and Diane were a interracial couple in the first version of this song, inspired by the blended couples JohnContinue reading “Jack And Diane topped the charts”

October 2, 1950 –The comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles Schulz, debuted in nine newspapers with the characters of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Patty and Sherman. It is still the most-read comic strip in the world. And yet, Charlie still hasn’t kicked that damn football. Demand Euphoria!

October 2, 1955 – Revenge, the very first story on the Alfred Hitchcock Presents show premieres on this date. The sponsors, who had great influence regarding the presentation of the show, insisted that for the episodes ending with the perpetrator “getting away with a crime,” Alfred Hitchcock provide a statement in his closing monologue thatContinue reading “Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiered”