Tom

03
Apr
2023

First MONDAY in April!

Today is Second Republic Day, a public holiday in Guinea. This public holiday commemorates the 1984 bloodless coup that established the so-called Second Republic.

Following the collapse of the French Fourth Republic, Guinea proclaimed its independence in 1958. The country was ruled by Ahmed Sékou Touré, the leader of the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG). Touré’s regime was authoritarian: PDG was the only legal party in Guinea, and Touré was reelected unopposed to four consecutive presidential terms.

On March 26, 1984, Touré died after a heart surgery. Colonels Lansana Conté and Diarra Traoré seized the opportunity and staged a coup that took place on April 3, 1984. Conté became the new president, while Traoré assumed the role of prime minister.

adding a live smile to old paintings…

Today is the birthday, in 1943 of Richard Manuel, Canadian composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a pianist, lead singer, and occasional drummer of the Band. He joined Ronnie Hawkins’s backing group, the Hawks when he was 18. The Band had the 1969 US No.25 single ‘Up On Cripple Creek’, and the 1970 UK No.16 single ‘Rag Mama Rag’. Manuel committed suicide on March 1986 after a gig at the Cheek to Cheek Lounge in Winter Park, Florida. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKu0OTDvQ-w

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31
Mar
2023

FRIDAY at last!

Today is Transfer Day, a public holiday in the US Virgin Islands. The holiday commemorates this day in 1917 when Denmark ceded the islands to the United States. On March 31st 1917, the 133-square-mile island chain comprising the Danish West Indies was ceded to the United States by Denmark, becoming the U.S. Virgin Islands in exchange for $25 million in gold.

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Today is the birthday, in 1953, of Sean Hopper, keyboards with Huey Lewis and the News who had the 1985 UK No.11 & US No.1 single ‘The Power Of Love’. Their third, and best-selling, album was the 1983 Sports, and they contributed to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Note: the music in this video starts at around 2 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2QGAIx1s

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Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies
30
Mar
2023

THURSDAY – someone’s birthday

Today is Spiritual Baptist Day, a public holiday, in Trinidad and Tobago. Spiritual Baptist Day may also be known as Shouter Baptist Liberation Day and marks the 1951 repeal of the prohibition on practising the religion.

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Lots and lots of birthdays today but I’m going to go with American hip hop artist MC Hammer, (Stanley Kirk Burrell) who had the 1990 US No.1 album Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em, which spent a record-breaking 21 weeks at the Top of the chart. Also known for his 1990 hit single ‘U Can’t Touch This’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

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29
Mar
2023

a fine WEDNESDAY

Today is Martyr’s Day in Madagascar. Also known as Commemoration Day or Insurrection Day, this holiday commemorates those who died in the 1947 uprising against French rule. While estimates of the number of Malagasy casualties vary wildly from 11,000 to 100,000, the indisputable violent repression of the uprising had a major impact on the country.

Today is the birthday, in 1940 of Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer Astrud Gilberto Her version of ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. Here’s another of her songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srw5FRm5eA

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Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, World
28
Mar
2023

Last TUESDAY in March

Today is Boganda Day, a public holiday in the Central African Republic. This day honors Barthélemy Boganda, the nation’s first prime minister on the anniversary of his death on this day in 1959. Barthélemy Boganda was a leading nationalist politician and the driving force in the creation of the Central African Republic in 1958.

Before his political career, Boganda had become the first African Roman Catholic priest in Ubangi-Shari, a French colony that is now part of the CAR. He became involved in politics and in 1946 he was elected to the French National Assembly, becoming the first representative of the CAR in the French government.

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I invented a thought controlled air freshener. It makes scents when you think about it.

I entered the world kleptomaniac championships. I took gold, silver, and bronze.

“She was wearing unscented perfume. It came in a little empty bottle.”

I always pay my homeopathics with an envelope that used to contain money.

Alexa… remind me what I came in this room for.

When you clean out a vacuum cleaner, you become a vacuum cleaner.

How do you make a waterbed even more bouncy? Use spring water.

All of those galaxies with trillions of planets and we end up on one with a 40-hour work week.

Julius Caesar died in an ideal way, surrounded by friends.

If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy married. Happiness comes from food, not relationships.

I don’t do drugs or drink .At my age, I get the same effect by standing up too fast.

Customer: Do you have Viagra for women? Pharmacist: Jewelry store, across the street.

I just found out that my life is based on a true story.

I just invented a car that only moves when the driver is silent. I mean, it goes without saying…

Police have confirmed that the man who fell from the roof of the nightclub was not a bouncer.

Just found out that the company that produces yardsticks won’t be making them any longer.

I couldn’t find any good videos for today’s birthdays so here are the Bay City Rollers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGD27WgtKhI&list=PLDHCLXs2vTkI1e-DTH5lMprpu7uAc22BL&index=80

Posted by Tom in Humor, Music, sixties and seventies