It’s an easy way out: Research the Internet and find out what happened on this date in other years. It’s instant fodder for a blog without much creativity involved. I don’t resort to it very often. Today I did. Here’s what I learned . . .
In 2005, Lance Armstrong retired after winning his seventh straight Tour de France. The thing is, he’s back at it again this year. Retirement has a short shelf life.
In 1993, actor Richard Moll of Night Court wed Susan Brown. Don’t really know him; don’t know her at all. What are the odds they’re still married? I wasn’t interested enough to Google® the answer.
In 1979, Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hit his four hundredth home run; a year before that Pete Rose tied the National League hitting streak of thirty-seven games in a row and Billy Martin resigned as Yankee manager in a political war of words. Not much has changed in baseball, except George Steinbrenner is no longer with us.
In 1969, Apollo 11 returned to Earth and Mohammad Ali was convicted for refusing induction into the U.S. Army.
In 1944, three hundred Allied bombers dropped fire bombs on Allied/German positions while Soviet forces liberated the concentration camp at Majdanek. This same year I was born, although it isn’t recorded in any Internet history chronology. Not that I care. I’m still here and many people whose dossiers are far more impressive than mine have gone to the great Google® in the sky.
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