Don't be a Luke tomorrow with 50 Easter eggs

Ain’t no tellin’ what’ll happen somewhere today but there’ll be something. Don’t believe that? Then read Major League stories almost every morning and you’ll learn a “first” in professional baseball happened the day before. Ricky Adams It’s purely amazing what today’s technology allows to be discovered, but so far, some stuff we learned in school in the middle of the last century still stands.

For example, on April 19, 1775: Wonder what those early American patriots would think about what we’ve let happen in this country? Wonder what educators who taught us about the American Revolutionary War would think? Obviously, some of today’s young’uns, like those recently arrested in Panama City for various unnecessary violations of laws and common sense, haven’t been tested in wartime. Fast forward to April 19, 1861, Abraham Lincoln ordered Southern ports blockaded by U.S.



Naval forces in the first stages of the War of Northern Aggression. In 1892, Charles Duryea test drove the first American-made car; he’s supposedly still stranded in traffic on I-65 near Birmingham. On April 19, 1897, John J.

McDermott won the first Boston Marathon in 2:55:10; Ethiopian Sisay Lemma won the 2024 event in 2:06:17. This year’s Boston event is Monday. On this date in 1900, the Phillies beat the Braves, 19-17, in the highest scoring MLB opening-day game .

.. so far.

April 19 continued featuring historical days in th 20th century, beginning in 1906, when the San Francisco earthquake killed 452 unsuspecting folks. In 1919, the French assembly adopted an 8-hour workday and in 1924, the “National Barn Dance” opened on WLS Radio. Actress Mae West was found guilty of “indecency and corrupting morals of youth” for New York stage play, “Sex” in 1927, five years later, Bonnie Parker was arrested during a hardware store robbery, went unindicted and was released months later.

Mae made movies; movies were made about Bonnie, including “Bonnie and Clyde,” a 1967 blockbuster that gave 1968 Enterprise High School’s class of Baby Boomers something to go with “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” and “Cool Hand Luke.” If, like Luke, you plan to eat 50 boiled eggs in an hour tomorrow, somebody’s gotta spend all their egg money. On April 19, 1932 – Herbert Hoover proposed 5-day work week.

1933 – FDR announced U.S. will leave gold standard 1939 – Connecticut adopted U.

S. Bill of Rights 140 years late. 1948 – ABC Television Network went on air.

1960 – MLB players began having names on jerseys. 1963 – Johnny Cash released “Ring of Fire.” 1967 – Beatles signed pact to remain together 10 more years.

Didn’t happen. 1971 – Charles Manson sentenced to life in prison for Sharon Tate murder. 1982 – Sally Ride became first American female astronaut.

1995 – Oklahoma federal building bombed killing 168 people, including 19 children. 2011 – Fidel Castro resigned in Cuba. 2020 – U.

S. death toll from COVID-19 passed 40,000. Enough news.

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