TUESDAY APRIL 23RD, 2013

IT'S HOWDY DUTY TIME....SO HOWDY AGAIN.  Lets look at the weather for the first 5 years of the 1980's....we only had one nice day out of the 5, that was in 1985 when it got up to a high of 30 C and a low of 12.  A couple of the days were simply Cold. WoW it is three nice days in a row for weather.  Lets enjoy TODAY to its fullest.

In 1597 Shakespeare's MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (not to be confused with The housewives of Vancouver) was first performed .  Queen Elizabeth I, was in attendance.  I presume all the actors were men.

In 1851 Sanford Fleming designed Canada's first Stamp.  It was called the 3 pence Beaver Stamp.  It of course was Fleming who came up with the idea of worldwide standard time zones as well and helped transform the face of the industrial world. 

This Beaver stamp is not to be confused with the other "Bieber Stamp" which of course is a picture of Justin Bieber stamping his foot when he doesn't get his own Way.

In 1906 The Alberta Legislature set the Provinces speed limits to 10 mph in the towns and cities and 20 mph on the country roads.

In 1924 Canadians heard a radio Broadcast of the voice of King George V opening the Empire Exhibition at Wembley.

In 1933 The Gestapo was established .  Although it is generally associated with SS leader Heinrich Himmler it was actually founded by Herman Goring.

In 1945 The Soviet Army fought its way into Berlin.

In 1950 Chaing evacuated Hainan, leaving Mainland China to Mao and the communists.

Hank Aaron the the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run on this date in history. "Hammerin' Hank broke Babe Ruth's Home run record and set his own record of 755 which I still prefer to think of as the record rather than Bobby Bonds tainted record.

Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy on this date but of course he never was and now there is a witness who has said she will witness for the defence that there were shots from more than Sirhan.  The lady now lives near Vancouver.  The U.S. District Court in L.A. is set to rule on a request by Sirhan, now 68, that he be released, retried or granted a  hearing on new evidence. She says the FBI got her testimony twisted. This picture was taken 2 years before and it is the lady on the right who is the witness involved. She is willing to testify there were bullets fired from another direction.

IN 1972, The Apollo 16 Astronauts explored the Moon's surface as to it's make-up as part of their flight and of course one of the most asked questions was "Who Cut the Cheese"

Speaking of the Moon, it was on this date in 1988 that Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album finally fell off the Billboard 200 Chart after spending over 14 years on that chart.

There are a lot of Birthday Peeps today, including former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson or "Mike".  he was born on this date in 1897 and died in 1972.  

Here he is, with 3 of his Cabinet cronies who went on to become Prime Ministers as well.

"Mike" won the Nobel Peace Prize before becoming Prime Minister and he passed a lot of very important legislation while he leading  the country for 5 years with a Minority Government. He was our 13th Prime Minister and in my opinion  its was a LUCKY Number 13 Canada had.

Goalie Tony Esposito is 70 years old today (won or shared in 3 Vezina Trophies), One of my all-time favourite Singers Roy Orbison was born on this day in Vernon Texas in 1936.  He died in 1988 but his SOARING VOICE will go on forever, luckily for us. I include my favourite here.

Ray Petterson (Tell Laura I love her) was born 3 years later to the day, Shirley Temple is 85 years old today. She was a child star of course and apparently Some of the movies she did would be classified as inappropriate now. Sandra Dee was born on this date (1942-2005), Lee Majors (6 Mil Man) is 74, Joyce de Witt is 64, Michael Moore is 59 , Baseballs' Warren Spaun (1921-2003), Melina Kanakaredes is 47 (CSI New York) and the beautiful Model from Kincardine, Jessica Stam is 27 today.

Oh yes I must not forget William Shakespeare (1564-1616) we started and must finish with The Bard. (he was baptized the 26th and some use that date.

finally

..It is Shakespeare's birthday today....known as the Greatest English writer of all, but he had his little idiosyncrasies ...for instance, he use to drive around his little Hamlet's roads BACKWARDS  in his RED "TUDOR PORTIA" but then he would get back to work with the words..."PARKING is such sweet sorrow."   Hope this Post is "as you Like It"








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