Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—June 24, 2014: Fourth day of summer and the
holidays are rarer than a four leaf clover in a field of grazing goats. Hope
you are in full summer enjoyment mode and enjoy these questionable holidays,
factoids, and a quote by Jack Dempsey and repeated by Ronald Reagan with a
smile on your face and several pralines in your hand.
1. International Fairy Day—celebrating a day for fairies, magic, and wishes to
come true. For one day, put aside the cynicism of the modern world and embrace
the possibilities of the unknown, and believe in fairies, including the Tooth
Fairy and Tinkerbell.
2. Don’t
Count Me Out Day—honoring the birthday on this day in 1895 of heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey who in a
rematch with Gene Tunney to regain his heavyweight title from Tunney, knocked
him to the canvas but refused to move to a neutral corner, delaying the start
of the count. The additional time enabled Tunney to avoid being knocked out and
to win the match.
3. The
Honeymoon Is Over Day—mourning the
death on this day in 1987 of movie and TV actor Jackie Gleason, famous for his
role in the long running TV series The Honeymooners
and the overweight Southern sheriff chasing without success the Bandit in that
classic Smokey and the Bandit.
4. National
Pralines Day—following in the heels of National
Pecan Sandies Day yesterday and celebrating a great snack originally
created in France by coating almonds in caramelized sugar. The praline got its
name from French soldier and sugar industrialist, Marshal du Plessis-Praslin,
as it was his cook who invented it. The recipe evolved when French settlers
brought the recipe to Louisiana where chefs in New Orleans eventually
substituted pecans for almonds and added cream.
On this
day in:
a. 1916 Mary Pickford became the first female actress to sign a million dollar
movie contract (almost 23 million in 2014 dollars).
b. 1949 NBC aired the first of many TV Westerns, Hopalong Cassidy starring
William Boyd.
c. 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court in
the case of Roth v. the United States, ruled that obscenity was not
protected by the First Amendment.
We
now know the origin of a famous Reagan quote to his wife: “Honey I forgot to
duck.” Jack Dempsey after losing his championship to Gene Tunney on September 23,
1926 to his wife. Reagan repeated the same line to Nancy after being shot by
Hinckley
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2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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