Tens of thousands of poor souls will gather in rainy and mild conditions for the 83rd annual Christmas tree lighting at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. Remember to bring a polo mallet with you, if you unfortunately, find yourself in midtown
This year, Sting, Mary J. Blige, and Andrea Bocelli and a plethora of others, as well as, the refugees from overbooked ancient hotels in the holy land are involved this year.
Exert extreme caution!
December 2, 1972 -
Carly Simon released her hit, You're So Vain, with background harmonies supplied by Mick Jagger (who just happened to be in an adjoining studio at the time,) on this date.
In anticipation of the release of her memior, Boys in the Trees, Carly Simon finally revealed who was the song was about, sort of. Simon admitted that the second verse of the song is definitely about Warren Beatty. According to an interview in People Magazine, Carly joked, "Warren thinks the whole thing is about him!"
December 2, 1988 -
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! premiered on this date.
While impersonating an umpire, the batter swings back and hits Frank in the face. This joke was suggested by Mel Brooks.
Today's Christmas theme (on our other channel) - Wishing all the warmth two woolen socks can bring.
Today in History:
December 2, 1763 -
The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island was dedicated on this date.
Touro is the only surviving synagogue from the colonial era in the US and has operated more or less continually since its dedication.
December 2, 1814 -
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade, died in a lunatic asylum at Charenton on this date.
The Marquis must have been a panic at parties - talk about getting carried away at orgies.
The Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed on this day in 1823.
The doctrine set forth the principle that meddling European bastards should keep their meddling goddam hands out of the Americas.
December 2, 1859 -
At Charlestown in Western Virginia, abolitionist John Brown was hanged for treason on this date.
His body is still moulding in the grave.
December 2, 1908 -
John Baxter Taylor Jr. was an American track and field athlete and member of the Irish American Athletic Club (yes, they were integrated) notable as the first African American to win an Olympic gold medal.
According to the Winged Fist Website: Less than five months after returning from the Olympic Games in London, Taylor died of typhoid fever on this date, at the age of 26. In his obituary, The New York Times called him "the world's greatest negro runner."
December 2, 1939 -
New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago landed at 12:01 a.m. on this date.
December 2, 1942 -
On the squash court underneath a football stadium of the University of Chicago, at 3:45 p.m., control rods were removed from the "nuclear pile" of uranium and graphite, revealing that neutrons from fissioning uranium split other atoms, which in turn split others in a chain reaction. The Atomic Age was born when scientists, led by Enrico Fermi, demonstrated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
The reaction was part of the Manhattan Project, the United States' top-secret plan to develop an atomic bomb. This little event led to nuclear power and nuclear weapons and had an incalculable effect on geopolitics, the economy, and art.
December 2, 1954 -
The US Senate voted 67-22 to condemned Joseph R. McCarthy (Sen-R-WI) for misconduct after his ruthless investigations of thousands of suspected communists, for 'conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute.'
This followed the McCarthy investigation of the Army. Roy Cohn was McCarthy's aide and Joseph Welch was the attorney for the army.
December 2, 1956 -
George P. Metesky, better known as The Mad Bomber, struck again. Angry and resentful about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier, Metesky plants yet another bomber at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater, injuring seven, on this date.
Metesky was finally arrested in January of 1957. After undergoing extensive psychiatric examinations, for the time, he was found to be legally insane and incompetent to stand trial.
December 2, 1986 -
Desi Arnaz died from lung cancer, on this date.
Although recognized as a great innovator of television, I guess he might have had second thoughts about that Philip Morris sponsorship of the I Love Lucy show.
And so it goes
There are 23 days until Christmas.
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