THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MARTINI'S "TODAY IN HISTORY"

Monday, September 6, 2010

1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.

1876 - The Southern Pacific rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was completed.

1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.

1909 -  American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier.

1916 - The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.

1920 - Jack Dempsey KOs Billy Miske in 3 for heavyweight boxing title 1st radio broadcast of a prizefight

1937 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Sugar Foot Stomp."

1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League baseball game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.

1952 - In Montreal, Canadian television began broadcasting.

1957 - The first flexi-disc record was produced and used in a promotion for a Nestle chocolate bar.

1959 - The first Barbie Doll was sold by Mattel Toy Corporation.

1972 - John and Yoko appeared on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.

1976 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were reunited by Frank Sinatra -- after 20 years of going their separate ways. The former comedy team warmly met each other again during a surprise visit by Martin to Lewis’s annual "Labor Day Telethon" for Muscular Dystrophy.

2006 - A man named Paul van Valkenburgh from Florida died of lung cancer. An obituary published in a local paper was picked up by the Associated Press, which ran a short obituary of the dead man but giving him the wrong name. The real Paul Vance, who was alive and well and living in Coral Springs, Florida, contacted local media after viewing a report of his death on local TV. He announced that he was still alive and was able to prove this with a stack of royalty cheques from ASCAP from his biggest hit ‘Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini.’ He told a reporter for the New York Times that his relatives and friends, shocked by the AP report, had called to check on him after the media reports.

2006 - MartiniInTheMorning.com begins streaming The Greatest Songs Ever Written around the clock and around the world on the internet.

Born on this Day

1860 - Jane Addams was born. She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy (U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; father of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy) He owned the Chicago Merchandise Mart and made his fortune in real estate, liquor and movies. Died Nov 18, 1969

1902 - Morgan Beatty (reporter, journalist: Associated Press, radio: ABC, TV: Du Mont; died July 4, 1975)

1904 - ‘Slapsie’ Maxie Rosenbloom (boxer, actor: I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops, Here Comes Kelly, Cooking Up Trouble; died Mar 6, 1976)

1937 - Jo Anne Worley (comedienne: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares)

1947 - Jane Curtin actress "3rd Rock from the Sun," Original castmemver of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live

Passed on this Day

2007 - Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.

Top of the Charts

1948
A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic - Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’ - Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1956
Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
Canadian Sunset - Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Tonight You Belong to Me - Patience & Prudence
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash

Today in Music History Compiled by Research Lizard Tom Chinnici, Allentown, PA