Every dog Does have his day

National K9 Veterans Day, March 13, is a day set aside to honor commemorate the service and sacrifices of American military and working dogs throughout history. The Army began training for its new War Dog Program, also known as the "K-9 Corps" on this date in 1942, according to American Humane, marking the first time that dogs were officially a part of the U.S. Armed Forces.



The top canine hero of World War II was Chips, a German Shepherd who served with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Trained as a sentry dog, Chips broke away from his handlers and attacked an enemy machine gun nest in Italy, forcing the entire crew to surrender.


You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Spring is a week away!


It's Ken Day. Ken Day celebrates the Ken doll, whose full name is Kenneth Carson. There is some discrepancy as to if the Ken doll debuted on Saturday, March 11, 1961, or Monday, March 13, 1961.



Mattel, the maker of Barbie, claims it to have been March 11, but most other sites claim it was March 13, and that is why Ken Day is celebrated when it is. Ken debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Barbie had debuted two years earlier at the same fair.

But I'm sure you don't give a rat's ass.


March 13, 1949 -
Donald Fauntleroy Duck's birthday is officially recognized as June 9, 1934, the day his debut film was released, but in The Three Caballeros, his birthday is given as simply Friday the 13th. In Donald's Happy Birthday, the cartoon gives his birthday as March 13. (The best guess is this would be Donald's 106th birthday.)



Things that make you go hmmmm - Donald doesn’t wear pants but when he comes out of the shower, covers himself with a towel.


March 13, 1954 -
It's Rocky's third appearance in a Bugs Bunny cartoon (and the funniest) - Bugs and Thugs, premiered on this date.



Near the end of the film, Bugs' office has a sign that says - "Member- Detective Guild, Local 839". Local 839 of the IATSE was the Animation Guild, whose members made the cartoon.


March 13, 1956 -
One of John Ford's greatest westerns, The Searchers, starring John Wayne (giving his finest performance) premiered on this date.





While on the desert locale, John Ford was stung by a scorpion. Worried about his investment, financial backer C.V. Whitney asked John Wayne, "What if we lose him? What are we going to do?" Wayne offered to check in on the "stricken" director. A few minutes later he came out of Ford's trailer and said to Whitney, "It's OK. John's fine, it's the scorpion that died."


March 13, 1968 -
The Beatles release the single Lady Madonna in the UK on this date.



John Lennon and Paul McCartney took imitation to a high level, often going into character as some of their favorite musicians when they crafted songs. When McCartney started playing the boogie-woogie piano on this track, he thought of Fats Domino, specifically his 1956 song Blue Monday, and crafted the song in Domino's style.


March 13, 1993 -
Eric Clapton’s LP Unplugged hit No.1 on the Billboard charts — and stayed there — becoming the most successful and best-selling LIVE album of all time.



It was nominated for nine Grammy Awards in 1993 and won six, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.


March 12, 1999 -
Cher's single Believe hit No. #1 on the Billboard singles chart on this date and stayed there for four weeks, make Cher the oldest woman to top the Hot 100, (it's very rude to ask how old.)



The song reached No.1 in almost every country it charted, including the UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany and Italy.  The song was “auto-tuned”, made by audio processing software, a relatively new process that became known as the “Cher effect”.

Don't forget to tune in to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour today


Today in History:
March 13, 1781 -
Scottish astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus (which he named 'Georgium Sidus,' in honor of George III,) on this date, which he first mistook for a comet



It is the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and is named after the Greek god Uranus, who was a god of sky.

(Twice in one week, I've mentioned Uranus, feel free to guffaw like a small child.)


March 13, 1881 -
An anarchist Nikolai Rysakov, from the radical group People's Will threw a bomb which disrupts Czar Alexander II's motorcade. Startled but unharmed, Alexander thanked God for his deliverance, another anarchist Ignacy Hryniewiecki, yelled "It is too early to thank God" and throws a second bomb, causing severe injuries from which Alexander bled to death several hours later.



(Nicholas II, Alexander grandson, was one of the unfortunate witnesses to Czar's gruesome death.)


March 13, 1877 –
The first US Patent (#188,292) for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine on this date.

Think about this as you venture out during the winter.


March 13, 1911 -
Today is the birthday of L. Ron Hubbard (the "L" is for Lafayette.) Mr. Hubbard invented Dianetics, which eventually led to Scientology, causing Scientologists and Personality Tests.

Scientologists are easily distinguished from Jehovah's Witnesses in that they don't ask you subscribe to The Watchtower and they can often be seen in major motion pictures.


March 13, 1917 -
Today on Oh That Wacky Russian Revolution: The imperial guard, acting on the orders of the dissolved Duma, which had not been dissolved, took the Tsarina and her children (who had measles) into custody. A day later, England and France acknowledged the Executive Committee of the Duma as the official government of Russia.

Meanwhile, Nicholas II had taken a train to Pskov. He knew the revolutionaries would be unlikely to pursue him somewhere so difficult to pronounce.

That evening in St. Petersburg, the Executive Committee of the Duma met with the Petrograd Soviet and agreed that the Russian Cabinet should be dissolved, and also the Tsar.

They established a joint government, with Prince Grigori Lvov at its head, nicely countering the Czar's difficult pronunciation ploy. They put the Russian Cabinet in prison, next to the Russian Credenza.


March 13, 1964 -
A young woman, Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of multiple witnesses, all of whom fail to help her, in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the bystander effect. (This story have been proven a lie; many of her neighbors in fact did attempt to help. Only two people, who actually witnessed the attack did nothing.)



Winston Moseley was found guilty of Genovese’s murder. He was initially sentenced to death, but that was commuted several years later and changed to life in prison, where he died in 2016. At the time of his death, Moseley has spent more time in the New York prison system than any other prisoner.


Pope Francis has been on the job for eight years now.



So far, the Pope is still giving them a run for their money at the Vatican.


Hey, before you go, we lose an hour of sleep tonight - Daylight Saving Time (leave the last S off for saving) starts at 2 AM tomorrow morning, so don't forget to turn all those clocks, microwaves, DVD players, etc. ahead.



Please do this work yourself:



the time you save may be your own.



And so it goes.