Almanac for September 27th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for September 27th: https://ko-fi.com/post/September-27-Rosetta-Stone-V7V713OABL

Beatles Trivia: September 27, 1967: George Martin oversees the recording of the orchestral score of The Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” The Mike Sammes Singers record their backing vocals for the track.

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Bummer September 27th

September 27, 1986: Metallica bassist Clifford (Cliff) Burton dies in a tour bus accident in Sweden. The bus skids off the road while members of the band are sleeping in their bunks. Burton is thrown out of his bunk and through the window; the bus falls on top of him.

September 27, 2010: Sally Menke, a film editor who often collaborated with Quentin Tarantino, dies of a heat-related illness while walking her dog in 113 °F weather in Los Angeles. Menke is 56 years old. Her body is found the next day with the dog, unharmed, sitting beside it.

Tarantino (with Diane Kruger) in 2010. Public domain image by Sgt. Michael Connors

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Sept. 27, 2025: I upload this video about Sandy Allen, an Indiana native who was once the tallest woman in the world.

Almanac for June 18th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 18th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-18-Paul-McCartney-Richard-Nixon-P5P31HQ6E0

Beatles Trivia

June 18, 1942: Paul McCartney and Roger Ebert are born.

June 18, 1968: London’s Old Vic theatre performs the stage adaptation of John Lennon’s first book, In His Own Write. Lennon attends with Yoko Ono, but the audience is horrible to her and shouts racist insults at her.

June 18, 1973: John Lennon-Ono and Yoko Ono-Lennon attend the Watergate court hearings and hear John Dean testify. They sit beside Nixon adviser Elvin Bell in the second row, behind Dean’s wife Maureen.

Sandy Allen was born on June 18, 1955.

Bummer June 18th

June 18, 1982: A postal clerk crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge in London finds the body of “God’s Banker” Roberto Calvi hanging underneath the bridge. Calvi has about $14,000 and five bricks in his pockets. He had recently lost his job at Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano and was under indictment for embezzling the bank’s funds. The death was officially ruled a suicide, but Calvi’s family suspects murder. 

June 18, 1984: Jewish talk show host Alan Berg is gunned down by two members of a white supremacist terror group in Denver. He is 50 years old.

June 18, 2023: Five people die aboard the submersible craft Titan when the underwater vehicle’s pressure barrier fails on a voyage to see the wreck of the Titanic. The Titan’s designer, billionaire Stockton Rush, had the submersible’s hull made of carbon fiber and titanium, materials which are not typically used for deep sea submersibles. It was not subject to the safety regulations of any nation since it operated in international waters.

Rush is one of those killed when the submersible implodes. Also killed are the voyage’s guide, deep sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and three paying passengers: English billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani-English billionaire Shahzada Dawood, and Dawood’s 19-year-old son Suleman.

33 Short Films About Shelbyville

Scenes from my visit to Shelbyville, Indiana, on Sept. 25, 2025, spiced up with a few Simpsons quotes about the fictional Shelbyville, Springfield's rival city.  

Highlight: Capone's Downtown Speakeasy in the town square.

~Sandy Allen's Wikipedia page~

My husband, Tit Elingtin, didn't especially care for my Shelbyville video. 

Said husband, a full foot and a half shorter than Sandy

He said Sandy Allen was the most interesting thing about it. So I made a 1-minute video with smoother narration, focusing on Allen.

Second photo by John Margolies, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. See the John Margolies "Roadside America" collection at the Library of Congress: https://guides.loc.gov/roadside-america-photographs?loclr=blogloc

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Edna Ruth Parker on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Parker