January 19, 2011
January 19 is … National Popcorn Day
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
Regis Philbin is retiring later this year, the 79 year old announced yesterday. I remember when he co-hosted a late night talk show with Joey Bishop in the sixties/seventies. He was a hanger onner of the Rat Pack at the time. He has been around for quite some time. Good luck Regis.
Someone in Detroit has a New Year’s Resolution they apparently want to keep. Detroit police are hunting for serial rapists they say has preyed on eight women since Jan. 1. The Police have released three sketches of a suspect they hope will lead to an arrest. Eight attacks since January 1, 2011 is a lot of attacks, even for Detroit standards. Not including the sketches, I would bet the Police have a picture of the rapist already.
Don Kirshner, Legendary Music Publisher, who had an office in the famous Brill Building in New York City, is dead at 76. He was instrumental in many music careers. He helped launch the Monkees and their Television show. After he split from them, as a joke, he helped form the cartoon band, The Archies. We all remember Sugar Sugar.
Sargent Shriver died Tuesday at the age of 95. Shriver's wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died in 2009 at the age of 88. She was a member of the Kennedy clan, the sister of President John F. Kennedy. Sargent Shriver was the father of former newswoman and former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver. Sargent Shriver had a unique perspective on the world and tried to improve it even though his personal world was rather comfortable.
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It costs $4.99 per month but you can try it for free. It offers a wide range of music including plenty of indie bands and artists. Give it a try. It’s free to try.
200 cows have been found dead in Wisconsin. This fits with the trend of mass animal die-offs in early 2011. The farmer that found his dead cattle dead has a legitimate explanation, he hopes; infectious bovine rhinotracheitis.
England is seemingly as uncaring as America can seem. Thieves apparently stole a handbag from a woman as she lay dying in the street, police in Britain say. Lindsay Plumb, 47, collapsed early Friday after leaving a pub near her home in Sale, near Manchester, England. Her husband had left the pub to go for fish and chips. When he returned and found that his wife had left, he went looking for her and found her lying in the street, Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. Plumb was taken Wythenshawe Hospital, where she died hours later. Her husband later realized that her purse, silver Nokia phone and other personal items were missing, police said.
According to information released by the police, closed-circuit television images taken by a security camera show that two people riding bicycles saw the collapsed woman on the ground and approached her around 12:35 a.m.
According to information released by the police, closed-circuit television images taken by a security camera show that two people riding bicycles saw the collapsed woman on the ground and approached her around 12:35 a.m.
Important births on this date throughout history;
0570 Mohammed Islamic prophet (Koran)
1200 Dogen Kigen Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto
1200 Dogen Kigen Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto
These are a couple of peas in a pod.
Music at the top of the charts on this date throughout history;
1947
1955 Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes
1963 Go Away Little Girl - Steve Lawrence
1971 My Sweet Lord/Isn’t It a Pity - George Harrison
1979 Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
1987 Shake You Down - Gregory Abbott
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