August 6, 2016 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Hirorshima Peace Memorial Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For August 6, 2016 Only 94  days to go for Trump to pivot before we elect a new president and 245 days since Hillary has held a formal press conference (although she has finally did meet informally with a group of black and Hispanic journalists to admit she may have “short circuited” her responses (whatever that means) but continued  to push the lies that the FBI did not find her untruthful and scolded the press for not holding Trump accountable (any hypocrisy here you think?); finally Trump has stopped the distractions by endorsing Ayotte, McCain and Ryan and has indicated he will focus on Hillary; another jihadist in Belgium bought a one way ticket to a Paradise for his that will not exist after attacking to female police officers in Belgium with a machete; in Rio, police exploded an unattended bag near the finish line of an Olympics cycling event; in a Annie Oakley moment Virginia Thrasher of Team U.S.A. won a gold in the 10 meter air rifle event while the U.S. Archery Team picked up a silver today; in a blind leading the blind moment in New Mexico a thirteen year old grandson of Sanjuana Mercado-Mendez age 52 who was in the back seat and was arrested for DUI and the intoxicated grandmother arrested for child endangerment.

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       As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s meager holidays and observances, a music link to the Herman's heHermits, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from John Hershey, while looking forward to enjoying some apple turnovers, blessed with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or  anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem  at a great price  tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details

       Going to www.lyingcrookedhillary.com is a great way to start your day along of course with www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com

       As always, I hope  you enjoy today’s meager holidays and observances, a music link to Hermans Hermits, factoids of interest, a relevant quote from John Hersey, while looking forward to sipping on a root beer float, with a positive attitude and  secure in  the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like birthdays, weddings, or  anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem  at a great price  tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.

1. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony—commemorating the dropping of the first atomic bomb on human beings at Hiroshima, Japan on this day in 1945.

2. Corporate Baby Name Day—celebrating the drive and desire of most Americans to be creative in generating new sources of in income from putting an advertisement on one’s car to paying a producer or director to place their product on screen or on stage or perhaps selling baby naming rights to a corporation which is what this day commemorates.   

3. 1965 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1965 on a brief run of one week in that position “I’m Henry VIII I Am” by Herman’s Hermits. Here is a link to the very young Herman’s Hermits performing “I’m Henry VIII I Am” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OS17lqHiE

4. National Root Beer Float Day—celebrating another classic drink to beat the summer heat.   
5. Never Reason Why?—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1809 of one of Britain’s greatest Victorian Age poets Lord Alfred Tennyson, famous for such poems as Charge of the Light Brigade.       

On this day in:

a. 1890 murderer William Klemmler at Auburn Prison in New York had the dubious distinction of being the first person executed by the electric chair and endured the distinction of it being botched and having to be repeated after the first attempt it was noted proclamation of death notwithstanding Klemmer was still breathing.

b. 1912 the Bull Moose Party led by Teddy Roosevelt met for its convention in Chicago; although it won eight states its appearance on the ballot doomed the election chances of  Taft and assured Wilson the election. en 1890 murderer William Klemmler at Auburn Prison in New York had the dubious distinction of being the first person executed by the electric chair and endured the distinction of it being botched and having to be repeated after the first attempt it was noted proclamation of death notwithstanding Klemmer was still breathing.  

c. 1960 Fidel Castro nationalized all American businesses and property in Cuba.

d. 1990 the UN Security Council announced a worldwide global embargo of all trade with Iraq in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.    

e. 1991 Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore) released files describing the World Wide Web. WWW  debuts as a publicly available service on the internet.     

Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: “What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.” John Hersey, author of Hiroshima   If he is right and I suspect he is then countless thousands who died and were horribly scarred at Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not die in vain. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day In History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.

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