<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Chewing Gum Day'. . Early peoples chewed the resin of certain
trees. In 1848, John B. Curtis developed and sold the first commercial
chewing gum, named 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.
- From Wikipedia (Chewing gum):
'hewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without
being swallowed. Humans have used chewing gum in some form for at least
100,000 years. Modern chewing gum today is made from butadiene-based
synthetic rubber. Most chewing gums are considered polymers. Longer
polymers can produce larger bubbles due to increased intermolecular forces.
Chewing gum in many forms has existed since the Neolithic period.
6,000-year-old chewing gum made from birch bark tar, with tooth imprints,
has been found in Kierikki in Finland. The tar from which the gums were
made is believed to have antiseptic properties and other medicinal
benefits. The ancient Aztecs used chicle, a natural tree gum, as a base for
making a gum-like substance and to stick objects together in everyday use.
Forms of chewing gums were also chewed in Ancient Greece. The Ancient
Greeks chewed mastic gum, made from the resin of the mastic tree. Many
other cultures have chewed gum-like substances made from plants, grasses,
and resins.
The American Indians chewed resin made from the sap of spruce trees. The
New England settlers picked up this practice, and in 1848, John B. Curtis
developed and sold the first commercial chewing gum called The State of
Maine Pure Spruce Gum. Around 1850 a gum made from paraffin wax was
developed and soon exceeded the spruce gum in popularity. William Semple
filed an early patent on chewing gum, patent number 98,304, on December 28,
1869.
The first flavored chewing gum was created in the 1860s by John Colgan, a
Louisville, Kentucky pharmacist. Colgan mixed with powdered sugar the
aromatic flavoring tolu, a powder obtained from an extract of the balsam
tree (Myroxylon), creating small sticks of flavored chewing gum he named
Taffy Tolu Colgan also lead the way in the manufacturing and packaging of
chicle-based chewing gum, derived from Manilkara chicle, a tropical
evergreen tree. He licensed a patent for automatically cutting chips of
chewing gum from larger sticks: US 966,160 Chewing Gum Chip Forming Machine
August 2, 1910 and a patent for automatically cutting wrappers for sticks
of chewing gum: US 913,352 Web-cutting attachment for wrapping-machines
February 23, 1909 from Louisville, Kentucky inventor James Henry Brady, an
employee of the Colgan Gum Company.
Modern chewing gum was first developed in the 1860s when chicle was brought
from Mexico by the former President, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna,
to New York, where he gave it to Thomas Adams for use as a rubber
substitute. Chicle did not succeed as a replacement for rubber, but as a
gum, which was cut into strips and marketed as Adams New York Chewing Gum
in 1871. Black Jack (1884) and Chiclets (1899), it soon dominated the
market. Synthetic gums were first introduced to the U.S. after chicle no
longer satisfied the needs of making good chewing gum. The hydrocarbon
polymers approved to be in chewing gum are styrene-butadiene rubber,
isobutylene, isoprene copolymer, paraffin wax, and petroleum wax. By the
1960s, US manufacturers had switched to butadiene-based synthetic rubber,
as it was cheaper to manufacture'.
[The Hankster says] Yes, my chewing gum lost it's flavor on the bed post overnight.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Mud Pack Day'.
[The Hankster says] Will the person who said I look better with the mud pack on, please stand up.
* 'International Sandsculpting Championship'.
September 30-Oct 6, Virginia Beach Oceanfront .
- From Wikipedia (Sand festival):
'Sand festivals or festivals of sand sculpture are exhibitions of
sculptures made of sand carried out in various places around the world.
These events usually include a competition.
Traditional sand sculptures are sandcastles. However, at sand festivals one
may see virtually any kinds of sculptures you would expect to see in stone,
bronze or wood'.
[The Hankster says] My castles looked like they belonged to the slums of fairyland.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'International Translation Day'. Since 1991 by the International
Federation of Translators.
- From Wikipedia (International Translation D):
'International Translation Day is celebrated every year on 30 September on
the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator who is considered the patron
saint of translators. The celebrations have been promoted by FIT (the
International Federation of Translators) ever since it was set up in 1953.
In 1991 FIT launched the idea of an officially recognised International
Translation Day to show solidarity of the worldwide translation community
in an effort to promote the translation profession in different countries
(not necessarily only in Christian ones). This is an opportunity to display
pride in a profession that is becoming increasingly essential in the era of
progressing globalisation'.
* 'Blasphemy Day'. Since 2009 by Center for Inquiry. The theme is
encouraging people to freely express criticism of religion and blasphemy
laws that exist in some countries.
<> Historical events on September 30
* 'In 1882, Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant
(later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox
River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Vulcan Street Plant was the first Edison
hydroelectric central station. The plant was built on the Fox River in
Appleton, Wisconsin and put into operation on September 30, 1882. According
to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Vulcan Street plant is
considered to be the first hydro-electric central station to serve a system
of private and commercial customers in North America. It is a National
Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark and an IEEE milestone.
The Vulcan Street Plant was housed in the Appleton Paper and Pulp Company
building, which burned to the ground in 1891. A replica of the Vulcan
Street Plant was later built on South Oneida Street'.
* 'In 1846, Anesthetic ether is used for the first time. . By American
dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth .
- From Wikipedia: 'William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15,
1868) was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of
inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. The promotion of his
questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an
obsession for the rest of his life.
On September 30, 1846, Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after
administering ether to a patient. Upon reading a favorable newspaper
account of this event, Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow arranged for a
now-famous demonstration of ether on October 16, 1846 at the operating
theater of the Massachusetts General Hospital, or MGH. At this
demonstration Dr. John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumor from the
neck of a Mr. Edward Gilbert Abbott. News of this use of ether spread
rapidly around the world, and the first recorded use of ether outside the
USA was in London, England, by the dentist James Robinson in a tooth
extraction at the home of Dr. Francis Boote, an American doctor who had
heard of Morton's and Bigelow's demonstrations. The MGH theatre came to be
known as the Ether Dome and has been preserved as a monument to this
historic event. Following the demonstration, Morton tried to hide the
identity of the substance Abbott had inhaled, by referring to it as
Letheon, but it soon was found to be ether'.
* 'In 1927, Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs
in a season. .
- From Wikipedia: 'George Herman Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16,
1948), better known as Babe Ruth, was an American professional baseball
player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from
1914 through 1935. Nicknamed The Bambino and The Sultan of Swat, he began
his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but
achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York
Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records,
including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on
balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS)
(1.164) the latter two still stand today. Ruth is regarded as one of the
greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be
the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into
the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five inaugural members.
The 1927 New York Yankees team is considered one of the greatest squads
that ever took the field. Known as Murderer's Row because of the power of
its lineup, the team won a then-AL-record 110 games, and took the AL
pennant by 19 games, clinching first place on Labor Day. With little
suspense as to the pennant race, the nation's attention turned to Ruth's
pursuit of his own single-season home run record of 59. He was not alone in
this chase: Gehrig proved to be a slugger capable of challenging Ruth for
his home run crown, tying Ruth with 24 home runs late in June. Through July
and August, they were never separated by more than two home runs. Gehrig
took the lead, 45–44, in the first game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park
early in September Ruth responded with two of his own to take the lead, as
it proved permanently—Gehrig finished with 47. Even so, as of September 6,
Ruth was still several games off his 1921 pace, and going into the final
series against the Senators, had only 57. He hit two in the first game of
the series, including one off of Paul Hopkins, facing his first major
league batter, to tie the record. The following day, September 30, he broke
it with his 60th homer, in the eighth inning off Tom Zachary to break a 2–2
tie. Sixty! Let's see some son of a bitch try to top that one, Ruth exulted
after the game. In addition to his career-high 60 home runs, Ruth batted
.356, drove in 164 runs and slugged .772. In the 1927 World Series, the
Yankees swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in four games the National Leaguers
were disheartened after watching the Yankees take batting practice before
Game One, with ball after ball leaving Forbes Field. According to Appel,
The 1927 New York Yankees. Even today, the words inspire awe ... all
baseball success is measured against the '27 team.'.
* 'In 1929, The first manned 'rocket plane' flight, is made. Made by Fritz
von Opel. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Fritz Adam Hermann von Opel (before 1918 Opel) (4 May
1899 – 8 April 1971), was the only child of Wilhelm von Opel and a grandson
of Adam Opel, founder of the Opel company. He is remembered mostly for his
spectacular demonstrations of rocket propulsion that earned him the
nickname Rocket Fritz
Opel was born in Rüsselsheim and educated at the technical university of
Darmstadt. After graduation, he was made director of testing for the Opel
company and also put in charge of publicity. In the 1920s, he became
interested in using rockets in publicity stunts for the company and sought
advice from Max Valier of the newly formed Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR -
Spaceflight Society) and Friedrich Sander, a pyrotechnics manufacturer from
Bremerhaven.
On 15 March 1928 Opel tested his first rocket-powered car, the RAK.1, and
achieved a top speed of 75 km/h (47 mph) in it, proving the feasibility of
the concept of rocket propulsion. Less than two months later, he reached a
speed of 230 km/h (143 mph) in the RAK.2, driven by 24 solid-fuel rockets.
Later that same year, he purchased a sailplane named the Lippisch Ente
(Ente is duck in German) from Alexander Lippisch and attached rocket motors
to it, creating the world's first rocket plane on 11 June. The aircraft
exploded on its second test flight, before Opel had had a chance to pilot
it himself, so he commissioned a new aircraft, also called the RAK.1, from
Julius Hatry, and flew it at Frankfurt-am-Main on 30 September 1929. In the
meantime, another mishap had claimed the RAK.3, a rocket-powered railway
car powered by 30 solid-fuel rockets which had reached a speed of 254 km/h
(157 mph).
Also in 1928, Opel built and test ran a rocket-powered motorcycle called
the Monster'.
* 'In 1935, The Hoover Dam, is dedicated. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete
arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border
between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between
1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September
30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the
result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over
one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named after President
Herbert Hoover.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been
investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control
floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928,
Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was
submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began
construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had
never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The
torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented
difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the dam to the
federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States
by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada,
a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction
project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's
generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada,
Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction nearly a
million people tour the dam each year. The heavily travelled U.S. 93 ran
along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass
opened'.
* 'In 1935, The radio show 'The Adventures of Dick Tracey' debuted on
Mutual Radio Network. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick
Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police
detective created by Chester Gould. The strip made its debut on October 4,
1931 in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New
York News Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977. Since that
time, various artists and writers have continued the strip, which still
runs in newspapers today. Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of
films, notably one in which Warren Beatty played the crime fighter in 1990.
Dick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England
stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy
in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry
Thomson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute
episodes.
On CBS, with Sterling Products as sponsor, the serial aired four times a
week from February 4, 1935 to July 11, 1935, moving to Mutual from
September 30, 1935 to March 24, 1937 with Bill McClintock doing the sound
effects. NBC's weekday afternoon run from January 3, 1938 to April 28, 1939
had sound effects by Keene Crockett and was sponsored by Quaker Oats, which
brought Dick Tracy into primetime (Saturdays at 7 pm and, briefly, Mondays
at 8 pm) with 30-minute episodes from April 29, 1939 to September 30, 1939.
The series returned to 15-minute episodes on the ABC Blue Network from
March 15, 1943 to July 16, 1948, sponsored by Tootsie Roll, which used the
music theme of Toot Toot, Tootsie for its 30-minute Saturday ABC series
from October 6, 1945 to June 1, 1946. Sound effects on ABC were supplied by
Walt McDonough and Al Finelli.
On February 15, 1945, Command Performance broadcast the musical comedy Dick
Tracy in B-Flat with Bing Crosby as Tracy, Bob Hope as Flattop, Dinah Shore
as Tess Trueheart, among the cast. Dick Tracy's wedding is repeatedly
interrupted as Tracy chases after one villain after another. In the strip,
his marriage wasn't until 1950 and his honeymoon was disrupted by his going
after Wormy'.
* 'In 1939, NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game. .
Between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the
game 34-7. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The 1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game was a
college football game between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow
Jackets played on September 30, 1939. The game was played at Triborough
Stadium on New York City's Randall's Island. Fordham won the game 34–7.
Broadcast by NBC, the contest was the first American football game ever
televised'.
* 'In 1947, The World Series, is televised for the first time. Televised to
a limited service area by coaxial cable. Featuring the New York Yankees and
the Brooklyn Dodgers. .
- From Wikipedia: 'When the World Series was first broadcast on television
in 1947, it was only televised to a few surrounding areas via coaxial
inter-connected stations: New York City Philadelphia Schenectady, New York
Washington, D.C. and environs surrounding these cities. In 1948, games in
Boston were only seen in the Northeast. Meanwhile, games in Cleveland were
only seen in the Midwest and Pittsburgh. The games were open to all
channels with a network affiliation. In all, the 1948 World Series was
televised to fans in seven Midwestern cities: Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit,
Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Toledo. By 1949, World Series games could now be
seen east of the Mississippi River. The games were open to all channels
with a network affiliation. By 1950, World Series games could be seen in
most of the country, but not all. 1951 marked the first time that the World
Series was televised coast to coast. Meanwhile, 1955 marked the first time
that the World Series was televised in color'.
* 'In 1949, The Berlin airlift comes to an end. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one
of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the
multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union
blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors
of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade
if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West
Berlin.
In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry
supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the city's
population. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal
Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force,
the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force:338 flew
over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to
8,893 tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food. The Soviets did
not disrupt the airlift for fear this might lead to open conflict.
By the spring of 1949, the airlift was clearly succeeding, and by April it
was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the
city by rail. On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin.
The Berlin Blockade served to highlight the competing ideological and
economic visions for postwar Europe'.
* 'In 1951, The TV variety show 'The Red Skelton Show' hosted by Red
Skelton debuted on NBC-TV. It ran for 20 seasons for 62 ep. from September
30, 1951 – August 1, 1971.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that
was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second
to Gunsmoke (1955–1975) and third to The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) in
the ratings during that time. The host of the show, Richard Bernard Red
Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several
motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely
associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it
actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three
Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy
show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961. In
1959 Skelton also received a Golden Globe for Best TV Show'.
* 'In 1954, The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned. It is the
world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel. .
- From Wikipedia: 'USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational
nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel was the first submarine to complete a
submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Sharing names with
Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea, and named after another USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served
with distinction in World War II, Nautilus was authorized in 1951 and
launched in 1954. Because her nuclear propulsion allowed her to remain
submerged far longer than diesel-electric submarines, she broke many
records in her first years of operation, and traveled to locations
previously beyond the limits of submarines. In operation, she revealed a
number of limitations in her design and construction. This information was
used to improve subsequent submarines.
Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and designated a National Historic
Landmark in 1982. The submarine has been preserved as a submarine museum in
Groton, Connecticut, where the vessel receives some 250,000 visitors a
year'.
* 'In 1960, The TV show the 'The Flintstones' premieres. The voices were
Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Don
Messick, John Stephenson. It ran for 6 seasons for 166 ep. from September
30, 1960 – April 1, 1966 It was the first prime time animation show. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Flintstones is the first animated primetime American
television series. It was broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1,
1966 on ABC. The show, produced by Hanna-Barbera, fancifully depicts the
lives of a working-class Stone Age man, his next-door neighbor/best friend,
and their families.
The show's continuing popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of
modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the
most financially successful network animated franchise for three decades,
until The Simpsons debuted decades later. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The
Flintstones the second Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time (after The
Simpsons).
show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock. In this fantasy version of
the past, dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen,
saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths. Like their mid-20th century
counterparts, these cavemen listen to records, live in split-level homes,
and eat at restaurants, yet their technology is made entirely from
preindustrial materials and powered primarily through the use of animals.
For example, the cars are made out of stone, wood, and animal skins, and
powered by the passengers' feet.
Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws
its humor in part from creative uses of anachronisms. The main one is the
placing of a modern, 20th-century society in prehistory. This society takes
inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of
the postwar period. This society has modern home appliances, but they work
by employing animals. They have automobiles, but they hardly resemble the
cars of the 20th century. These cars are large wooden structures and burn
no fuel. They are powered by people who run while inside them. Finally, the
stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into
typical neighborhoods'.
* 'In 1968, The Boeing 747 is shown to the public for the first time. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Boeing 747 is an American wide-body commercial jet
airliner and cargo aircraft, often referred to by its original nickname,
Jumbo Jet, or Queen of the Skies. Its distinctive hump upper deck along the
forward part of the aircraft makes it among the world's most recognizable
aircraft, and it was the first wide-body produced. Manufactured by Boeing's
Commercial Airplane unit in the United States, the original version of the
747 was envisioned to have 150 percent greater capacity than the Boeing
707, one of the common large commercial aircraft of the 1960s. First flown
commercially in 1970, the 747 held the passenger capacity record for 37
years.
The four-engine 747 uses a double deck configuration for part of its
length. It is available in passenger, freighter and other versions. Boeing
designed the 747's hump-like upper deck to serve as a first class lounge or
extra seating, and to allow the aircraft to be easily converted to a cargo
carrier by removing seats and installing a front cargo door. Boeing did so
because the company expected supersonic airliners (development of which was
announced in the early 1960s) to render the 747 and other subsonic
airliners obsolete, while the demand for subsonic cargo aircraft would be
robust well into the future. The 747 was expected to become obsolete after
400 were sold, but it exceeded critics' expectations with production
passing the 1,000 mark in 1993. By July 2016, 1,523 aircraft had been
built, with 20 of the 747-8 variants remaining on order.
The 747-400, the most common passenger version in service, has a
high-subsonic cruise speed of Mach 0.85–0.855 (up to 570 mph or 920 km/h)
with an intercontinental range of 7,260 nautical miles (8,350 mi or 13,450
km). The 747-400 passenger version can accommodate 416 passengers in a
typical three-class layout, 524 passengers in a typical two-class layout,
or 660 passengers in a high density one-class configuration. The newest
version of the aircraft, the 747-8, is in production and received
certification in 2011. Deliveries of the 747-8F freighter version to launch
customer Cargolux began in October 2011 deliveries of the 747-8I passenger
version to Lufthansa began in May 2012'.
* 'In 1975, The Hughes AH-64 Apache makes it's first flight. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American four-blade,
twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear
arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a
nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems.
It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 chain gun carried between the main
landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints
mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114
Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of
systems redundancy to improve combat survivability.
The Apache originally started as the Model 77 developed by Hughes
Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program
to replace the AH-1 Cobra. The prototype YAH-64 was first flown on 30
September 1975. The U.S. Army selected the YAH-64 over the Bell YAH-63 in
1976, and later approved full production in 1982. After purchasing Hughes
Helicopters in 1984, McDonnell Douglas continued AH-64 production and
development. The helicopter was introduced to U.S. Army service in April
1986. The first production AH-64D Apache Longbow, an upgraded Apache
variant, was delivered to the Army in March 1997. Production has been
continued by Boeing Defense, Space and Security over 2,000 AH-64s have
been produced to date.
The U.S. Army is the primary operator of the AH-64 it has also become the
primary attack helicopter of multiple nations, including Greece, Japan,
Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates as well as
being produced under license in the United Kingdom as the AgustaWestland
Apache. American AH-64s have served in conflicts in Panama, the Persian
Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Israel used the Apache in its military
conflicts in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip British and Dutch Apaches have seen
deployments in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq'.
* 'In 1982, The TV comedy 'Cheers' began on NBC-TV. It starred Ted Danson,
Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt John
Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer Kirstie Alley, Bebe Neuwirth.
It ran for 11 seasons 270 ep. from September 30, 1982 – May 20, 1993.
- From Wikipedia: 'Cheers is an American sitcom that ran for eleven seasons
between 1982 and 1993. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles
Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC and
created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The
show is set in a bar named Cheers (named after its real life counterpart)
in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and
socialize. The show's main theme song, written and performed by Gary
Portnoy lent its famous refrain Where Everybody Knows Your Name as the
show's tagline.
After premiering on September 30, 1982, it was nearly canceled during its
first season when it ranked almost last in ratings for its premiere (74th
out of 77 shows). Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated
television show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during eight
of its eleven seasons, including one season at number one. The show spent
most of its run on NBC's Thursday night Must See TV lineup. Its widely
watched series finale was broadcast on May 20, 1993, and the show's 270
episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide. Nominated for
Outstanding Comedy Series for all eleven of its seasons on the air, it
earned 28 Primetime Emmy Awards from a record of 117 nominations. The
character Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) was featured in his eponymous
spin-off show, which aired until 2004 and included guest appearances by
virtually all of the major and minor Cheers characters.
During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series of all time
and has received critical acclaim. In 1997, the episodes Thanksgiving
Orphans and Home Is the Sailor, aired originally in 1987, were respectively
ranked No. 7 and No. 45 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In
2002, Cheers was ranked No. 18 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All
Time. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it as the eighth best
written TV series and TV Guide ranked it #11 on their list of the 60
Greatest Shows of All Time'.
* 'In 1984, The TV show 'Murder She Wrote' premieres on CBS. It starred
Angela Lansbury, William Windom, Tom Bosley, Ron Masak. It ran for 12
seasons for 265 ep. from September 30, 1984 – May 16, 1996 .
- From Wikipedia: 'Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television
series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective
Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons with 264 episodes from
1984 to 1996 on the CBS network. It was followed by four TV films and an
unsuccessful spin-off series was produced in 1987, The Law and Harry
McGraw. It is one of the most successful and longest-running television
shows in history, averaging close to 26 million viewers per week in its
prime, and was a staple of the CBS Sunday night lineup for a decade. In
syndication, the series is still highly successful throughout the world.
Lansbury was nominated for a total of ten Golden Globes, and 12 Emmy Awards
for her work on Murder, She Wrote. She holds the record for the most Golden
Globe nominations and wins for Best Actress in a television drama series
and the most Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama
Series for Murder, She Wrote, with those nominations netting her four
Golden Globe awards. The series received three nominations but no wins in
the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys. It was nominated for a
Golden Globe in the same category six times and won twice.
Since the series ended in 1996, a series of four TV movies was released
between 1997 and 2003. In 2009, a point-and-click video game was released
for the PC platform, followed in 2012 by a sequel. A spin-off book series,
written by Donald Bain, continues publication at present'.
* 'In 1987, Roy Orbison recorded 'A Black And White Night Live' at the
Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, CA. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night is a
1988 Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988,
starring Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Roy Orbison. The special was filmed
entirely in black and white. A live album was released following the
broadcast.
The special consisted of a performance of many of Orbison's hits at the
then Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, filmed on
September 30, 1987, approximately fourteen months before his death. Three
songs, Blue Bayou, Claudette, and Blue Angel, were filmed but not included
in the original broadcast due to time constraints.
Other celebrity admirers of Orbison were in the audience, including Billy
Idol, Patrick Swayze, Sandra Bernhard and Kris Kristofferson. The backing
band was the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his
death in 1977: Glen D. Hardin on piano, James Burton on lead guitar, Jerry
Scheff on bass, and Ronnie Tutt on drums. Male background vocalists, some
of whom also joined in on guitar, were Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis
Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther and Steven Soles. The female
background vocalists were k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt.
During the end credits, several of the band members are shown talking about
how Orbison influenced them.
The audio from this special was released as an album by Virgin Records in
1989, titled A Black and White Night Live'.
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