Almanac for April 9th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 9th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-9-The-Battle-of-George-Washingtons-Big-Fat-Q5Q01DFYEB

Let us never forget the Battle of George Washington's Big Fat Head. Even though it definitely did not happen in real life.

April 9, 1925 El Dorado (Arkansas) Daily News

Beatles Trivia

April 9, 1965: The Beatles release “Ticket to Ride” as a single.

April 9, 1969: Bob Dylan releases his Nashville Skyline album, featuring Johnny Cash on “Girl From the North Country.” On the same day, Bruce McBroom photographs the Beatles in their second-to-last photo shoot as a group.

Bummer April 9th

April 9, 1945: Nazis execute Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer by hanging at Flossenbürg concentration camp.

© Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons

April 9, 2009: Los Angeles Angels at Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart is killed, along with the driver and two other passengers in an SUV, when a drunk driver runs a red light and strikes the SUV, propelling it into a telephone phone. Adenhart is 22 years old. The drunk driver is convicted and sentenced to 51 years to life in prison.

April 9, 2016: New Orleans Saints football player William Raymond Smith III, age 34, is shot and killed in a road rage incident by a driver who has rear-ended Smith’s Mercedes SUV. Smith’s wife Racquel is injured in the incident. 

April 9, 2017: 45 Egyptian (Coptic) Christians are killed in two coordinated bombings of Palm Sunday church services carried out by Islamist terrorists.

 

April 9, 2021: Earl Simmons, a.k.a. rapper DMX, dies of multiple organ failure. He has been in a persistent vegetative state since April 2nd, when he suffered a cocaine-induced heart attack. He had essentially died on the 2nd, but after half an hour of resuscitation attempts, he survived for another week on life support in a semi-comatose state. 

The Park County (WY) Herald, April 7, 1926

Almanac for February 26th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for February 26th: https://ko-fi.com/post/February-26-O5O7J0SFJ

Artist Birthday: Johnny Cash

Beatles Trivia

February 26
Sunday, February 26, 1995, South Bend: I went to the Morris Performing Arts Center and saw 1964: The Tribute, a Beatles tribute band. I recognized three people in the audience: a pair of sisters who went to the same grade school as me, and Mr. Thomas Gerencher.

February 26, 1997: At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden, The Beatles won a Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Grammy for “Free As a Bird.” Other winners included Tony Bennett, Tracy Chapman, Sheryl Crow, the Dave Matthews Band, and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Goddess Nut

Bummer February 26th

February 26, 1972: A coal slurry impound dam bursts in Logan County, West Virginia, sending 132 million gallons of coal-contaminated water into the Buffalo Creek Valley, where 16 coal mining towns housed a total of about 5,000 residents. An estimated 125 people were killed, more than a thousand were injured, and over 4,000 residents were left homeless. 

February 26, 2013: 19 tourists are killed in Luxor, Egypt, where balloons are often used to view the Nile River, when their hot air balloon crashes. A leak in the fuel system causes a fire on board. Seven of those who died had jumped from the balloon. Two men from the United Kingdom initially survive the accident, but one of them dies at the hospital five hours later. 

February 26, 1993: A terrorist bomb explodes in the underground parking garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring hundreds more.

February 26, 1994: Comedian Bill Hicks dies of pancreatic cancer at age 32. 

February 26, 2015: Australian author Jessica Ainscough, age 29, dies of a rare cancer, epithelioid sarcoma. In 2008, her doctors suggested amputating her affected left arm at the shoulder, which would have given her a greater than 50% chance of surviving for ten years or more. Ainscough chose to treat her cancer with alternative therapies rather than having the amputation. She used the alternative treatments for six years, only returning to conventional medical treatments near the end of her life when she developed a tumor that bled continuously for ten months.

What was Diane Meyer grateful for on February 26th, 2024?

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resilience and not giving up
strength and getting stronger
allowing myself to be so many things
I love my family
I love the things that I love
staying true to myself
respecting myself
respecting other people
I listen
I am thoughtful
putting myself first, but never losing sight of other people