<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Wiener Schnitzel Day'. . Breaded veal, deep fried in clarified
butter or lard.
- From Wikipedia (Wiener Schnitzel):
'Wiener Schnitzel, or Wienerschnitzel in Switzerland, meaning: Viennese
schnitzel is a very thin, breaded and pan fried cutlet made from veal.
It is one of the best known specialities of Viennese cuisine. The Wiener
Schnitzel is a national dish of Austria. >br /> The designation Wiener
Schnitzel first appeared in the end of the 19th century, with the first
known mention in a cookbook from 1831. In the popular southern German
cookbook by Katharina Prato, it was mentioned as eingebröselte
Kalbsschnitzchen.
According to a legend, field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz brought the
recipe from Italy to Vienna in 1857. In 2007, linguist Heinz Dieter Pohl
discovered that this story had been invented. According to Pohl, the dish
is first mentioned in connection with Radetzky in 1969 in an Italian
gastronomy book (Guida gastronomica d'Italia), which was published in
German in 1971 as Italien tafelt, and it is claimed that the story instead
concerned the cotoletta alla milanese. Before this time, the story was
unknown in Austria. The Radetzky legend is however based on this book,
which claims that a Count Attems, an adjutant to the emperor Franz Joseph I
of Austria gave a notice from Radetzky about the situation in Lombardy and
mentioned a tasty veal steak in a margin note. After Radetzky had returned,
the emperor personally requested the recipe from him.
The dish is prepared from veal slices, butterfly cut, about 4 mm thin and
lightly pounded flat, slightly salted, and rolled in flour, whipped eggs
and bread crumbs. The bread crumbs must not be pressed into the meat, so
that they stay dry and can be souffled Finally the Schnitzel is fried in a
good proportion of lard or clarified butter at a temperature from 160 to
170 °C until it is golden yellow. The Schnitzel must swim in the fat,
otherwise it will not cook evenly: the fat cools too much and intrudes into
the bread crumbs, moistening them. During the frying the Schnitzel is
repeatedly slightly tossed around the pan. Also during the frying, fat can
be scooped from the pan with a spoon and poured onto the meat. The
Schnitzel is done after it turns golden yellow or brown.
The dish is traditionally served in Austria with Kopfsalat (lettuce tossed
with a sweetened vinaigrette dressing, optionally with chopped chives or
onions), potato salad, cucumber salad, or parsley potatoes. Currently it is
also served with rice, french fries or roasted potatoes. It is common to
serve it with a slice of lemon, to give the bread crumbs more taste, and a
sprout of parsley. It has however become common in Northern Germany to
serve it with lemon, cucumber slices, sardines and capers, to achieve a
pleasant appearance'.
[The Hankster says] Yes, pleas, with a little sauerkraut and sum German fried potatoes.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Teddy Bear Day'.
[The Hankster says] Give the reassuring comfort of a Teddy Bear to a child who does not have one. Police and first res ponders have found these to be helpful to calm children during an emergency. Why not see if donations are acceptable in your area.
* 'Care Bears Share Your Care Day'.
Since 2015 by American Greetings Entertainment .
* 'Wonderful Weirdos Day'.
[The Hankster says] Yes, this is a proud day for me.
* 'Hug Your Boss Day'.
[The Hankster says] As I have said before: with today's idea of correctness in the work place, you may want to consider this, in concept, but not act.
* 'Bonza Bottler Day'.
Celebrated every month, when the month and day are the same, as with 9/9.
[The Hankster says] This is a freebee day. Go for it.
* 'Happy Tester’s Day!'.
Celebrates the day in 1945, that a real bug, a moth was found to be the
cause of a computer malfunction. See more in the history section.
[The Hankster says] As a programmer, I have been fighting them all my life. I did have a pretty good reputation at work for finding bugs, mined and others. One of the many handles I have was Raid, since I killed bugs dead.
* 'California Admission Day in United States'.
Local California celebration of it's admission as the 31st state in 1850.
See more in the history section.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder):
'Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are a group of conditions that
can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. Problems
may include an abnormal appearance, short height, low body weight, small
head size, poor coordination, low intelligence, behavior problems, and
problems with hearing or seeing. Those affected are more likely to have
trouble in school, legal problems, participate in high-risk behaviors, and
have trouble with alcohol or other drugs. The most severe form of the
condition is known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Other types include
partial fetal alcohol syndrome (pFAS), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental
disorder (ARND) and alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD).
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are caused by drinking alcohol during
pregnancy. Surveys from the United States have found about 10% of pregnant
women have drunk alcohol in the last month, and 20% to 30% drank at some
point during the pregnancy. About 4.7% of North American women who are
pregnant have alcoholism. The risk of problems depends on the amount
consumed and the frequency of consumption as well as when during pregnancy
the alcohol is consumed. Other risk factors include an older mother,
smoking, and poor diet. There is no known safe amount or safe time to drink
during pregnancy. While drinking small amounts of alcohol does not cause
abnormalities in the face, it may cause behavioral issues. Alcohol crosses
the blood brain barrier and both directly and indirectly affects a
developing baby. Diagnosis is based on signs and symptoms in the person.
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are preventable by avoiding alcohol.
Medical organizations recommend no alcohol during pregnancy for this
reason. While the condition is permanent, treatment can improve outcomes.
Interventions may include parent-child interaction therapy, efforts to
modify child behavior, and possibly medications.
FASD is estimated to affect between 2% and 5% of people in the United
States and Western Europe. FAS is believed to occur in between 0.2 and 9
per 1000 live births in the United States. In South Africa, some
populations have rates as high as 9%. The negative effects of alcohol have
been described since ancient times. The lifetime cost per child with FAS
was $2,000,000 in 2002. The term fetal alcohol syndrome was first used in
1973'.
o Other:
* 'White Balloon Day in Australia'. Friday during Child Protection Week.
- From Wikipedia (White Balloon Day):
'White Balloon Day is a symbol of support for survivors of child sexual
abuse. It first began after a public meeting in Belgium in October 1996,
when 300,000 people gathered with white balloons to show public sympathy
and support for the parents of girls who were sexually assaulted of a
previously convicted and then released paedophile. White Balloon Day is
also held annually during National Child Protection Week in Australia. Its
aim is to raise awareness of child sexual assault within the community.
The 2016 date is September 9'.
<> Historical events on September 9
* 'In 1791, Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named
after President George Washington. .
- From Wikipedia: 'On July 9, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act,
which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The
exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, who
signed the bill into law on July 16. Formed from land donated by the states
of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a
square measuring 10 miles (16 km) on each side, totaling 100 square miles
(259 km2).
Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory: the port of
Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, and the city of Alexandria,
Virginia, founded in 1749. During 1791–92, Andrew Ellicott and several
assistants, including a free African American astronomer named Benjamin
Banneker, surveyed the borders of the federal district and placed boundary
stones at every mile point. Many of the stones are still standing. Congress
held its first session in Washington on November 17, 1800'.
* 'In 1839, The first glass plate photograph was made by John Herschel, as
opposed to the Daguerreotype process popular at the time.. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS
(7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath, mathematician,
astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, who also did
valuable botanical work. He was the son of Mary Baldwin and astronomer
William Herschel, nephew of astronomer Caroline Herschel and the father of
twelve children.
Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy. He named
seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus. He made many contributions
to the science of photography, and investigated colour blindness and the
chemical power of ultraviolet rays his Preliminary Discourse (1831), which
advocated an inductive approach to scientific experiment and theory
building, was an important contribution to the philosophy of science.
Herschel made numerous important contributions to photography. He made
improvements in photographic processes, particularly in inventing the
cyanotype process and variations (such as the chrysotype), the precursors
of the modern blueprint process. In 1839, he made a photograph on glass,
which still exists, and experimented with some color reproduction, noting
that rays of different parts of the spectrum tended to impart their own
color to a photographic paper. Herschel made experiments using
photosensitive emulsions of vegetable juices, called phytotypes and
published his discoveries in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London in 1842. He collaborated in the early 1840s with Henry
Collen, portrait painter to Queen Victoria. Herschel originally discovered
the platinum process on the basis of the light sensitivity of platinum
salts, later developed by William Willis.
Herschel made numerous important contributions to photography. He made
improvements in photographic processes, particularly in inventing the
cyanotype process and variations (such as the chrysotype), the precursors
of the modern blueprint process. In 1839, he made a photograph on glass,
which still exists, and experimented with some color reproduction, noting
that rays of different parts of the spectrum tended to impart their own
color to a photographic paper. Herschel made experiments using
photosensitive emulsions of vegetable juices, called phytotypes and
published his discoveries in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London in 1842. He collaborated in the early 1840s with Henry
Collen, portrait painter to Queen Victoria. Herschel originally discovered
the platinum process on the basis of the light sensitivity of platinum
salts, later developed by William Willis.
Herschel coined the term photography in 1839.[19] He may, however, have been preceded by Brazilian Hércules Florence, who used the French equivalent, photographie, in private notes which one historian dates to 1834.[citation needed] Herschel was also the first to apply the terms negative and positive to photography.
He discovered sodium thiosulfate to be a solvent of silver halides in 1819,
and informed Talbot and Daguerre of his discovery that this hyposulphite of
soda (hypo) could be used as a photographic fixer, to fix pictures and make
them permanent, after experimentally applying it thus in early 1839. His
ground-breaking research on the subject was read at the Royal Society in
London in March 1839 and January 1840'.
* 'In 1850, The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed
territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government
assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate
bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused
a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding
the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War
(1846–48). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky
and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois,
reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave
provision. The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side
disliked specific provisions.
Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico, as well as its claims north
of the Missouri Compromise Line. It retained the Texas Panhandle and the
federal government took over the state's public debt. California was
admitted as a free state with its current boundaries. The South
prevented adoption of the Wilmot Proviso that would have outlawed slavery
in the new territories, and the new Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory
were allowed, under the principle of popular sovereignty, to decide whether
to allow slavery within their borders. In practice, these lands were
generally unsuited to plantation agriculture and their settlers were
uninterested in slavery. The slave trade (but not slavery altogether)
was banned in the District of Columbia. A more stringent Fugitive Slave
Law was enacted'.
* 'In 1850, Utah and New Mexico become territories, while California is
accepted as the 31st state. .
- From Wikipedia: 'California is the most populous state in the United
States. It is also the third most extensive by area. Los Angeles, in
Southern California, is the state's most populous city and the country's
second largest after New York City. California also includes the nation's
most populous county, Los Angeles County, and the largest county by area,
San Bernardino County. Geographically located in the western part of the
United States, California is bordered by the other United States states of
Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, and Arizona to the southeast.
California shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja
California to the south and the Pacific Ocean is on the state's western
coastline. The state capital is Sacramento, which is located in the
northern part of the state. A majority of California's cities are located
in either the San Francisco Bay Area or the Sacramento metropolitan area in
Northern California or the Los Angeles area, the Riverside-San
Bernardino-Inland Empire, or the San Diego metropolitan area in Southern
California.
What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes
before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th
and 17th centuries. It was then claimed by the Spanish Empire as part of
Alta California in the larger territory of New Spain. Alta California
became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its successful war for
independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the
Mexican–American War. The western portion of Alta California was organized
as the State of California, which was admitted as the 31st state on
September 9, 1850. The California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to
dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale immigration from
the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom'.
* 'In 1926, The National Broadcasting Company (radio) is formed as a
venture of RCA. The first TV broadcast was in 1939. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American
commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of
NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the
Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center
in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at
Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia
at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big
Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the Peacock
Network, in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally
created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's
official emblem in 1979.
Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), NBC is the
oldest major broadcast network in the United States. In 1986, control of
NBC passed to General Electric (GE) – which previously owned RCA and NBC
until 1930, when it was forced to sell the companies as a result of
antitrust charges – through its $6.4 billion purchase of RCA. Following the
acquisition by GE (which later liquidated RCA), ...
During a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio
manufacturer Radio Corporation of America (RCA) acquired New York City
radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T).
Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had a competing outlet in Newark, New
Jersey pioneer station WJZ (no relation to the radio and television station
in Baltimore currently using those call letters), which also served as the
flagship for a loosely structured network. This station was transferred
from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, and moved to New York City.
WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&T's manufacturing and supply outlet
Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The
Bell System, AT&T's telephone utility, was developing technologies to
transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, using
both wireless and wired methods. The 1922 creation of WEAF offered a
research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a
regular schedule of radio programs, including some of the first
commercially sponsored programs, and was an immediate success. In an early
example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet
Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island and with AT&T's station
in Washington, D.C., WCAP.
New parent RCA saw an advantage in sharing programming, and after getting a
license for radio station WRC in Washington, D.C., in 1923, attempted to
transmit audio between cities via low-quality telegraph lines. AT&T
refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early
effort fared poorly, since the uninsulated telegraph lines were susceptible
to atmospheric and other electrical interference.
In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its embryonic network were
incompatible with the company's primary goal of providing a telephone
service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included
the right to lease AT&T's phone lines for network transmission.
RCA spent $1 million to purchase WEAF and Washington sister station WCAP,
shut down the latter station, and merged its facilities with surviving
station WRC in late 1926, it subsequently announced the creation of a new
division known as the National Broadcasting Company. The division's
ownership was split among RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding
corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%) and Westinghouse (which
owned the remaining 20%). NBC officially started broadcasting on November
15, 1926.
WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated
side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On January 1, 1927,
NBC formally divided their respective marketing strategies: the Red Network
offered commercially sponsored entertainment and music programming the Blue
Network mostly carried sustaining – or non-sponsored – broadcasts,
especially news and cultural programs. Various histories of NBC suggest the
color designations for the two networks came from the color of the pushpins
NBC engineers used to designate affiliates of WEAF (red) and WJZ (blue), or
from the use of double-ended red and blue colored pencils'.
* 'In 1936, Jessie Owens earns four track and field gold medals in the same
Summer Olympics. .
- From Wikipedia: 'James Cleveland Jesse Owens (September 12, 1913 – March
31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic
gold medalist in the 1936 games.
Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in
his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and
field history His achievement of setting three world records and tying
another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, has been called the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport and has
never been equalled. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Owens
won international fame with four gold medals: 100 meters, 200 meters, long
jump, and 4 × 100 meter relay. He was the most successful athlete at the
games and as such has been credited with single-handedly crush Hitler's
myth of Aryan supremacy.
The Jesse Owens Award is USA Track and Field's highest accolade for the
year's best track and field athlete. Owens was ranked by ESPN as the sixth
greatest North American athlete of the twentieth century and the
highest-ranked in his sport'.
* 'In 1940, George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a
computer. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In November 1937, George Stibitz, then working at Bell
Labs, completed a relay-based calculator he later dubbed the Model K (for
kitchen table, on which he had assembled it), which calculated using binary
addition. Replicas of the Model K now reside in the Computer History
Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the William Howard Doane Library at
Denison University and the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana
where the George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Awards are
granted.
Bell Labs subsequently authorized a full research program in late 1938 with
Stibitz at the helm. Their Complex Number Computer, completed in November
1939, was able to do calculations on complex numbers. In a demonstration to
the American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College in
September 1940, Stibitz used a teletype to send commands to the Complex
Number Computer in New York over telegraph lines. It was the first
computing machine ever used remotely'.
* 'In 1942, A Japanese floatplane (launched from a submarine) drops
incendiary bombs on Oregon in an attempt to start a forest fire. The plan
fails due to weather conditions and fire watches. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Lookout Air Raids were minor but historic Japanese
air raids that occurred in the mountains of Oregon, several miles outside
Brookings during World War II. This was the only time during World War II
that the 48 contiguous United States suffered an air raid attack by enemy
forces.
On September 9, 1942, a Japanese Yokosuka E14Y Glen floatplane, launched
from a Japanese submarine, dropped two incendiary bombs with the intention
of starting a forest fire. However, with the efforts of a patrol of fire
lookouts and weather conditions not amenable to a fire, the damage done by
the attack was minor. The attack was the first time the 48 contiguous
United States was bombed by an enemy aircraft and the second time that the
mainland US was bombed by someone working for a foreign power, the first
being the bombing of Naco, Arizona by Patrick Murphy, although the Murphy
bombing inside the U.S. was an accident'.
* 'In. 1947, First case of a computer bug being found. It was a moth that
lodged in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The term bug to describe defects has been a part of
engineering jargon for many decades and predates computers and computer
software it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to
describe mechanical malfunctions. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the
following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:
It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an
intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise — this thing
gives out and then that Bugs — as such little faults and difficulties are
called — show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor
are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached.
The Middle English word bugge is the basis for the terms bugbear and
bugaboo, terms used for a monster. Baffle Ball, the first mechanical
pinball game, was advertised as being free of bugs in 1931. Problems with
military gear during World War II were referred to as bugs (or glitches).
In a book published in 1942, Louise Dickinson Rich, speaking of a powered
ice cutting machine, said, Ice sawing was suspended until the creator could
be brought in to take the bugs out of his darling.
The term bug was used in an account by computer pioneer Grace Hopper, who
publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical
computer. A typical version of the story is:
In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard
Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the
Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth
trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed
and taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call
errors or glitches in a program a bug.
Hopper did not find the bug, as she readily acknowledged. The date in the
log book was September 9, 1947. The operators who found it, including
William Bill Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren,
Virginia, were familiar with the engineering term and amusedly kept the
insect with the notation First actual case of bug being found. Hopper loved
to recount the story. This log book, complete with attached moth, is part
of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
The related term debug also appears to predate its usage in computing: the
Oxford English Dictionary's etymology of the word contains an attestation
from 1945, in the context of aircraft engines'.
* 'In 1956, Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show. His gyrations
create scandal. .
- From Wikipedia: 'On September 9, 1956, Presley made his first appearance
on The Ed Sullivan Show (after earlier appearances on shows hosted by the
Dorsey Brothers, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen), even though Sullivan had
previously vowed never to allow Presley on the show. According to
biographer Michael David Harris, Sullivan signed Presley when the host was
having an intense Sunday-night rivalry with Steve Allen. Allen had the
singer on July 1 and trounced Sullivan in the ratings. When asked to
comment, the CBS star said that he wouldn't consider presenting Presley
before a family audience. Less than two weeks later he changed his mind and
signed a contract. The newspapers asked him to explain his reversal. 'What
I said then was off the reports I'd heard. I hadn't even seen the guy.
Seeing the kinescopes, I don't know what the fuss was all about. For
instance, the business about rubbing the thighs. He rubbed one hand on his
hip to dry off the perspiration from playing his guitar.'
Sullivan's reaction to Presley's performance on the Milton Berle Show was,
I don't know why everybody picked on Presley, I thought the whole show was
dirty and vulgar.
Elvis mythology states that Sullivan censored Presley by only shooting him
from the waist up. Sullivan may have helped create the myth when he told TV
Guide, as for his gyrations, the whole thing can be controlled with camera
shots. In truth Presley's whole body was shown in the first and second
shows.
At the time, Presley was filming Love Me Tender, so Sullivan's producer,
Marlo Lewis, flew to Los Angeles to supervise the two segments telecast
that night from CBS Television City in Hollywood. Sullivan, however, was
not able to host his show in New York City because he was recovering from a
near fatal automobile accident. Charles Laughton guest-hosted in Sullivan's
place. Laughton appeared in front of plaques with gold records and stated,
These gold records, four of them... are a tribute to the fact that four of
his recordings have sold, each sold, more than a million copies. And this,
by the way, is the first time in record making history that a singer has
hit such a mark in such a short time. ... And now, away to Hollywood to
meet Elvis Presley.
However, according to Greil Marcus, Laughton was the main act of Sullivan's
show. Presley was the headliner, and a Sullivan headliner normally opened
the show, but Sullivan was burying him. Laughton had to make the moment
invisible: to act as if nobody was actually waiting for anything. He did it
instantly, with complete command, with the sort of television presence that
some have and some—Steve Allen, or Ed Sullivan himself—don't.
Host Laughton introduced the singer from New York. Once on camera, Elvis
cleared his throat and said, Thank you, Mr. Laughton, ladies and gentlemen.
Wow, and wiped his brow. This is probably the greatest honor I've ever had
in my life. Ah. There's not much I can say except, it really makes you feel
good. We want to thank you from the bottom of our heart. And now ... Don't
Be Cruel, which was, after a short introduction by Elvis, followed by Love
Me Tender According to Elaine Dundy, Presley sang Love Me Tender straight,
subdued and tender ... —a very different Elvis from the one on The Steve
Allen Show three months before
When the camera returned to Laughton, he stated, Well, well, well well
well. Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis Presley. And Mr. Presley, if you are
watching this in Hollywood, and I may address myself to you. It has been
many a year since any young performer has captured such a wide, and, as we
heard tonight, devoted audience'.
* 'In 1957, 'Diana' by Paul Anka reaches #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Diana is a song written and made famous by Paul Anka in
1957, recorded in May 1957 at Don Costa studio in New York. Reportedly
inspired by a high school friend of Anka's named Diana Ayoub, in an
interview with NPR's Terry Gross in 2005, Anka stated that it was inspired
by a girl at his church whom he hardly knew. Session musicians on the
record included Bucky Pizzarelli on Guitar, Irving Wexler on piano, Jerry
Bruno on bass, and Panama Francis on drums. The song was recorded in May
1957 at RCA studios. Backup singers included Artie Ripp (who later in his
career as a music industry executive was the first to sign and produce
Billy Joel as a solo artist after Michael Lang, who had given Joel a
monetary advance, passed Joel along to Ripp--while retaining rights to a
cut of profits from Joel's output--to focus his attentions elsewhere
instead.)
The original Paul Anka 1957 recording reached number one on the Billboard
Best Sellers In Stores chart (although it climbed no higher than number 2
on Billboard's composite Top 100 chart) and has reportedly sold over nine
million copies. Diana also hit number one on the R&B Best Sellers list
chart. It also reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart and sold 1.25
million copies in the UK.
After signing with RCA Records, Anka re-recorded Diana, along with many
other hits in 1963. All these versions were also published in Italian for a
special LP'.
* 'In 1965, The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
is established. It was to prevent urban blight, homelessness and housing
discrimination.
- From Wikipedia: 'The United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the
United States federal government. Although its beginnings were in the House
and Home Financing Agency, it was founded as a Cabinet department in 1965,
as part of the Great Society program of President Lyndon Johnson, to
develop and execute policies on housing and metropolises.
The department was established on September 9, 1965, when Lyndon B. Johnson
signed the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It
stipulated that the department was to be created no later than November 8,
sixty days following the date of enactment. The actual implementation was
postponed until January 13, 1966, following the completion of a special
study group report on the federal role in solving urban problems.
HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and
quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing
market to bolster the economy and protect consumers meet the need for
quality affordable rental homes utilize housing as a platform for improving
quality of life build inclusive and sustainable communities free from
discrimination and transform the way HUD does business'.
* 'In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the National Traffic and
Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Some of it's highlights were: seatbelts for every
passenger, self-sealing fuel tanks, shatter-resistant windshields,
impact-absorbing wheels, better road markers/signs, guardrails and center
dividers. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act was
enacted in the United States in 1966 to empower the federal government to
set and administer new safety standards for motor vehicles and road traffic
safety. The Act was the first mandatory federal safety standards for motor
vehicles. The Act created the National Highway Safety Bureau (now National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The Act was one of a number of
initiatives by the government in response to increasing number of cars and
associated fatalities and injuries on the road following a period when the
number of people killed on the road had increased 6-fold and the number of
vehicles was up 11-fold since 1925.
The reduction of the rate of death attributable to motor-vehicle crashes in
the United States represents the successful public health response to a
great technologic advance of the 20th century—the motorization of America.
Many changes in both vehicle and highway design followed this mandate.
Vehicles (agent of injury) were built with new safety features, including
head rests, energy-absorbing steering wheels, shatter-resistant
windshields, and safety belts Roads (environment) were improved by better
delineation of curves (edge and center line stripes and reflectors), use of
breakaway sign and utility poles, improved illumination, addition of
barriers separating oncoming traffic lanes, and guardrails. The results
were rapid. By 1970, motor-vehicle-related death rates were decreasing by
both the public health measure (deaths per 100,000 population) and the
traffic safety indicator (deaths per VMT)'.
* 'In 1967,- 'Soul Man', by Sam & Dave, was released. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Soul Man is a 1967 song written by Isaac Hayes and David
Porter, first successful as a number 2 hit single by Atlantic Records soul
duo Sam & Dave.
Co-author Isaac Hayes found the inspiration for Soul Man in the turmoil of
the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In July 1967, watching a television
newscast of the aftermath of the 12th Street riot in Detroit, Michigan,
Hayes noted that black residents had marked buildings that had not been
destroyed during the riots – mostly African-American owned and operated
institutions – with the word soul Relating this occurrence to the biblical
story of the Passover, Hayes and songwriting partner David Porter came up
with the idea, in Hayes' words, of a story about one's struggle to rise
above his present conditions. It's almost a tune kind of like boasting
'I'm a soul man'. It's a pride thing.
Sam sings the first verse, with Dave joining in the chorus. Dave sings the
second verse, with Sam joining in the chorus. Sam sings the third verse,
with Dave joining in the chorus. This is followed by a brief bridge section
by Dave and then a coda, in which both Sam and Dave repeat the title phrase
a half-step up, before the song's fade.
Issued on the Atlantic-distributed Stax label for which Hayes and Porter
worked, Sam and Dave's Soul Man was the most successful Stax single to date
upon its release. The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot
Black Singles chart, number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United
States during the autumn of 1967, and number two in Canada. Soul Man was
awarded the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance,
Vocal or Instrumental.
The exclamation Play it, Steve heard in the song refers to guitarist Steve
Cropper of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, the house band who provided the
instrumentation for this and many other Sam and Dave singles. Cropper
provided guitar for both the original Sam and Dave recording as well as the
live and studio covers by the Blues Brothers'.
No. 1 song
Top movie
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