If Montreal has a pride and joy who does NOT play in the NHL, it's soul singer and 80s porn star look alike Gino Vanelli, born in that beautiful city on this date, 1952.
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On this date in 1944, 14-year old African American boy George Stinny was wrongly executed for the killing of two white girls by the state of South Carolina, becoming the youngest person killed by the state.
On this date in 1884, people screamed on a roller coaster for the first time, when the LaMarcus Thompson built Switchback Railway, the first rollercoaster, opened on Coney Island.
Vance: What's interesting about President Trump is that he doesn't wear it on his sleeve, but he is a person of faith. He thinks about these very deep questions: where did we come from? Where are we going?
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on this date, 1946, one of the progenitors of funk and songwriter of what some call the National Anthem of New Orleans, guitarist for the Meters, Leo Nocentelli.
The Meters belong in the Rock and Roll HOF.
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The Houston Astros had their only home rainout during their tenure at the Astrodome on this date, 1976. It came before a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates when street flooding prevented the umpires from making it to the game.
On this date in 1215, King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede. It limited royal authority and established the precedent that the king and the government are not above the law. Hear that, Birthday Boy?
My phone keeps showing me ads that say 'instead of going to work, make 1 pdf and sell it 200 times for $25. That's $5000' which is kind of like advising me to crap platinum.
June 14th 1997
Star Lake
I had just started in Radio in Pittsburgh
(WYDD),
When this new guy named
John Cougar released his KILLER:
"I Need A Lover."
John Cougar Mellencamp would go on to be an American Rock Legend w/a gazillion hit songs & a co-founder of Farm Aid.
R&R HOF.
Born this date, 1953, Miami, Florida, David Thomas, musician, frontman and songwriter for the idiosyncratic band Pete Ubu. I was never a huge fan, but my running partner @LordNeil50 is, so I must call them out. That's jazz great David Sanborn sitting in.
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Trump's entire admin is in a competition for who is the biggest sycophant. Top prizes are performing unspeakable sex acts that were previously reserved for underage girls.
#TrumpAdmin#Sycophants#Burgum#Trump
Burgum on wind turbines: We have a report from Hegseth that it’s a national security threat. You could launch an attack on the US in with a bunch of drones coming through a wind tower field, it would undetectable until it was came through because the radar interference