TUESDAY APRIL 30TH, 2013

MORNIN' EVERYBODY....It's time for April's Swan Song and it's looking pretty nice as I kick off this blog. It's about 10 Celsius as we get ready to kick into May's Maze of Days. It will be be good to get rid of April 2013 because it's been a very trying month as far as weather is concerned, but many in the past have been much the same. It was very warm in 1990 with 10 days in a row of very warm weather and of course last year as well.  It was back in 84 we had a high of 22, but a big wind STORM with winds up to 120 km per hour came up and blew things all over the place and even the Blue Jays game had to be halted for 30 minutes because of it.
We did have some blue sky and sunshine but that has now evaporated.
 By the way today is Income Tax deadline day so many Happy Returns to you.

In 1789 George Washington was sworn in as the first U.S. President.
1803 saw Napoleon selling Louisiana to the U.S. for $15,000,000.00.  They had a look during Open House Sunday and liked what they saw.  Plus it was a big lot which included all the land between the Mississippi and the Rockies, so it pretty well added another third to the countries size. 

This map shows the purchase in Green and it even included a little bit of land in the northern part which eventually included a bit of land in the  southern part of  Alberta and Saskatchewan. The territory actually worked out at less than 3 cents per acre, so Napoleon wasn't the greatest real estate salesperson to ever live.

In 1808, an Italian named Pelligrini Turri finished the first practical Typewriter was finished on this date. I wonder if he used the QWERTY (which spells TREW backwards by the way). He made it for his Blind Girlfriend.

Pelligrini also invented Carbon Paper in 1806, again to help the blind write. He had started on the Typewriter in 1801.
On April 30th, 1900 Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughn Mississippi, while try to make up time on the "Cannonball Express". He was immortalized in song and even got his own TV show much later on.



In 1903 Emily Stowe died.  She was the first female Doctor to practise medicine  in Canada.  She had to go to the U.S. to get her Licence however and even then it took a long time before they would let her practise.

1939 saw Lou Gehrig played his last baseball game for the Yankee's.  He set a record of 13 years without missing a game and he ended up with a .340 lifetime average in 17 seasons with the Yanks. He died 2 years later from the ALS which is now referred to as Lou Gherig's Disease.

In 1942 The Toronto Stock exchange hit an all time Low of 84.8 on news of German Victories.

In 1945, The Soviets fought their way into Berlin and Hitler and Eva Braun died in a double suicide just a day after they got married.

In 1981 It was Wintario Day in Elmvale...so that led to a big Buff-Fay dance,  The previous draw held been held in Wasaga Beach.

In 1983, one of the truly great Blues singers, Muddy Waters died on this date.  He influenced many including of course the Rolling Stones.  As a matter of fact they recorded one of his songs.

The Last council meeting was held on this date in 1985 at Old City Hall in Barrie.

In 1988 The Toronto Maple Leafs finished Dead Last in the NHL Season that year and they picked Scott Pearson, Tie Domi and Dean Anderson in the Draft.  When was the last time they Picked Number 1.  It was in 1985 and the player of course was Wendel Clark.  By the way congrats to the Barrie Colts and their Coaches etc. for winning their latest series last night.  Their coach of course is dale Hawerchuk who was the Number one Pick in 1981 (By Winnipeg).

On April 30th, 1993 The World Wide Web was Born at CERN in Switzerland and has been a Growing Con-CERN ever since.

Cloris Leachman is 87, Bobby Vee is 70 and unfortunately has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, William Randolph Hurst was born in 1863 and was the so called developer of "Yellow Journalism , Johnny Horton (North to Alaska etc) (1929-1960)., Dianna Agron (Quinn on Glee) is 27, Kirston Dunst is 31, Our Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Actor Paul Gross were born on the same  day 54 years ago. Canadian singer/songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 42, Al Lewis who played grandpa on the Munsters (1923-2006), Eve Arden (Our Miss Brooks) was born in 1908-1990.  and Kunak Nayyar is 31 and plays Rajesh on "The Big Bang Theory" (or is that the NRA's Motto).



and Finally.
I met a man playing "Dancing Queen" on a Didgeridoo. I thought to myself, "That's ABORIGINAL"  

lets gather round the May Pole tomorrow...Mornin' everybody Mornin' .