Here's a little poem you can remember to help on this Earth Day -
If it's yellow, let it mellow,
If it's brown, flush it down,
And if it's blue, seek medical attention.
April 22, 1950 -
Peter Frampton, musician, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, was born on this date.
If you were a teenager in the mid 70's, you were issued your standard copy of "Frampton Comes Alive" to face your 'awkward' years.
Here's your Today in History -
April 22, , 1451 -
Isabella I, Queen of Castille, was born. She also became Queen of Aragon in 1479.
She was Christopher Columbus's patron, and must therefore share some of the responsibility for the many thousands of casinos across America.
April 22, 1870
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born on this date He later became Lenin, invented the Communist Party in Russia, and made himself first Head Bastard of the Soviet Union.
It's interesting that Alexander Kerensky, the leader of Russia's provisional revolutionary government in 1917 until overthrown by Lenin, was born on the same day as Lenin, only eleven years later.
Well, it's interesting to some people.
April 22, 1904 -
Robert Oppenheimer was born on this date. Mr. Oppenheimer is known as the father of the atomic bomb.
The bomb's mother has never been identified to anyone's satisfaction, which only underscores the lax security at Los Alamos.
April 22, 1923 -
Kinky center fold model Bettie Mae Page born in Nashville, Tennessee.
As she describes herself, "I was never the girl next door."
April 22, 1946 -
John Waters, famed indie film director, was born on this date.
Waters announced that the production of his newest proposed film, Fruitcake, a children's Christmas film starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey, had been cancelled. "I can't get it made...I thought it would do well, but it's not. In this economy, I'm going to have to do a puppet show."
It's a sad day in America when John Waters can't get a movie financed.
April 22, 1954 -
Porn star and onetime Ivory Snow model Marilyn Chambers is born in Westport, Connecticut,
behind a rather ordinary hospital white door. Marilyn died unexpectedly about two weeks ago.
April 22, 1964 -
President Johnson opened the New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York .
The Fair also is remembered as the vehicle Walt Disney utilized to design and perfect the system of "audio-animatronics," in which a combination of sound and computers[citation needed] control the movement of life-like robots to act out scenes. In the "It's a Small World" attraction at the Pepsi pavilion, animated dolls and animals frolicked in a spirit of international unity on a boat-ride around the world.
Once the fair was over, Walt feverishly pushed his 'imagineers' to build him an 'actual' President. Historians argue that this was the beginning of Ronald Reagan campaign for the Presidency.
April 22, 1994 -
Richard M. Nixon suffers a fatal stroke. His body is laid to rest on the grounds of his Presidential Library.
Wooden stakes were driven through his heart to make sure he is dead.
And on a personal note, I was remiss not to wish a Happy Anniversary to Sharon and George yesterday.
And so it goes
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