Biden laying the groundwork
for a run in 2024 released the results of his medical examination which labeled
him “vigorous” and “healthy” but Fox News was quick to point out the report was
devoid of any mention of cognitive ability or impairment. In a woke attack the
great-great grandson is filing suit against the University of Richmond for
wanting to rename its T.S. Williams School of law since T.S. Williams Smith who
contributed $10,000 in 1988 to restablish the law school and another law $25,000
on is death in 1989 while his descendants over the years have continued to
donate to the Law School was recently found to be a slave owner of less than 50
slaves. Despite concerns over his health due to a stroke, Fetterman prevailed
against Red Doctor Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race but now finds himself checking
into a hospital for depression creating more questions as to his fitness as a
U.S. Senator. 85 year old Jane Fonda whose net worth is estimated at $200
million agreed to a date with Austrian billionaire Richard Lugner to the Vienna
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Ridley’s Believe It Or Not February 16, 2023
Noted Holidays: National Fat
Thursday: Celebrating a Christian feast holiday celebrated on the Thursday
before Ash Wednesday and celebrated by enjoying servings of Some foods you could enjoy today include pączki, berliners, angel wings, souvlaki,
bizcochos, bunyols, and botifarra.
Word of the Day: The word of the day is “agoraphobia”
which is a fear of open spaces which probably describes many urban dwellers in densely
populated cities.
Number 1 Song: The number 1
song on this day in 1957 was “Young Love” by Tab Hunter on a run of 6 weeks to
share with 15 other songs that achieved number one status. Here is Tab Hunter
performing “Young Love”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJAIHzVg10
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February 16 Famous
Birthdays: Lisa Loring, a successful
child actress born on February 16, 1958 on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshal
Islands and best known for playing
Wednesday on The Addams Family who
had other child rolls but struggled to advance beyond B rated slasher movies to
suffer 4 marriages and an early death of her mother who died from alcoholism
and could not escape hypertension and smoking and died of a stroke on January, 28,
2023 at age 64.
February 16 Notable Events
1. 1804—In perhaps one of the most daring
raids in the history of the USN Captain Stephen Decatur on a captured Barbary
Pirate ship with a crew of 83 to sail
into under the nose of the cannon protecting Tripoli harbor board and kill that
Tripolitans on board the captured frigate the USS Philadelphia and burn
it to the water line and escape.
2. 1959—Fidel
Castro assumes the title President of Cuba and the overthrow and flight of the
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and 40 of his supporters and family members to
the Dominican Republic.
3. 1978—The first computer bulletin board
system (CBBS Chicago) a computer program was created by created by Ward
Christensen and Randy Suess to permit them and other computer hobbyists to
exchange information between each other.
4. 1986— The MS Mikhail Lermontov, a Soviet cruise ship ran into a
reef some 5 meters below the surface near Cape Jackson with 372 passengers and
a crew of 348 and began to take on sea water and began to list and sink
completely 20 minutes after the last passenger was rescued. Only one fatality a
crew member who was an engineer. Given the shallow depth of the wreck the ship
is a very popular diving site.
5. 2005—The
lockout that the NHL instituted on September 16, 2004 on day after the
expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement resulted in the
cancellation of the remaining games scheduled to be play in 2005. The lockout
ended on July 13, 2005 to end the lockout and enter an 8 year collective
bargaining agreement on July 22, 2005. Many of the NHL players migrated to Europe
to continue playing during the lockout which marked the first time in major
professional sports an entire season has been cancelled due to a labor dispute.
Famous Quote on Notable Events Or
Persons: Carlos Alberto Montaner, noted Cuban exiled journalist for his
opposition to Fidel Castro: “Batista does not finish Fidel out
of greed... His is a government of thieves. To have this small guerrilla band
in the mountains is to his advantage, so that he can order special defense
expenditures that they can steal.”
Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet
ww.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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