Monday, May 21, 2018

Monday, May, 21, 2018

oppugn \uh-PYOON\ verb
  1. to fight against
  2. to call in question
Deuce of Spades
  • An unusually black and tarry load of feces. Extension of drop a deuce. Origination: Deuce = "#2"; Spades = a suit of 13 cards in a standard 52-card deck
Matt dropped a deuce of spades that was so black and sticky, the highway department could've paved over that pothole on Elm Street with it.

History
  • Clara Barton: founded the American Red Cross (1881)
  • Pagliacci: Leoncavallo's opera debuted in Milan (1892)
  • Leopold and Loeb: two teenagers attempt to commit the perfect crime when they murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924)
  • The Spirit of St. Louis: one-seater plane touched down as Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight (1927); Amelia Earhart became the first woman to perform the same feat (1932)
  • Hydrogen bomb: first aerial detonation took place over Bikini atoll (1956)
  • Rajiv Gandhi: former Indian prime minister was assassinated while running for reelection (1991)
  • Susan Lucci: won her first Daytime Emmy award for Best Actress in the 19th consecutive year she was nominated (1999)
Birthdays
  • Plato 427 B.C.
  • Albrecht Durer 1471
  • Philip II (Spain) 1527
  • Alexander Pope 1688
  • Glenn Hammond Curtiss 1878
  • Armand Hammer 1898
  • Horace Heidt 1901
  • Fats Waller 1904
  • Robert Montgomery 1904
  • Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel 1909
  • Harold Robbins 1916
  • Dennis Day 1917
  • Raymond Burr 1917
  • Anthony Steel 1920
  • Andrei Sakharov 1921 - Soviet physicist, he came to be regarded as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Soviet antiwar activist
  • Ara Parseghian 1923
  • Peggy Cass 1924
  • Ed Fitz Gerald 1924 
  • Robert Creeley 1926
  • Rick Jason 1926
  • Tommy Bryant 1930
  • David Groh 1939
  • Heinz Holliger 1939
  • Ronald Isley (The Isley Brothers) 1941
  • Hilton Valentine (The Animals) 1943
  • Janet Daily 1944
  • Marcie Blane 1944
  • Richard Hatch 1946
  • Bill Champlin (Chicago) 1947
  • Leo Sayer 1948
  • Carol Potter 1948
  • Mr. T (Lawrence Tero Tureaud) 1952
  • Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) 1955
  • Judge Reinhold 1957
  • Lisa Edelstein 1968 - Actress
  • Christian McBride 1972
  • Notiorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace) 1972
  • Fairuza Balk 1974
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