By ChiaLynn –
August 29, 2010Posted in: Etc..., Pop Culture, Pop Culture History 
Giving you the 7 day forecast for a bunch of things that have already happened.
August 29
29 or 30 – John the Baptist beheaded.
1769 – Edmund Hoyle, card game guru, dies.
1920 – Charlie “Bird” Parker is born.
1923 – Sir Richard Attenborough is born.
1925 – Babe Ruth staggers into batting practice late, after a night on the town. Miller Huggins suspends him, and fines him $5,000.
1958 – Michael Jackson is born.
1966 – The Beatles play their last public concert, at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.
1977 – Three people arrested in Memphis for trying to steal Elvis’s body. The King’s mortal remains now rest at Graceland.
1982 – Ingrid Bergman dies, on her 67th birthday.
1987 – Lee Marvin dies.
1996 – Isaac Hayes asks Bob Dole to stop using “Soul Man,” rewritten as “Dole Man,” as a campaign song.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast.
August 30
30 – Cleopatra asps herself to death.
1797 – Mary Shelley is born.
1838 – Mirror of Freedom, the first African-American magazine, begins publishing in New York City.
1884 – Jack Dempsey wins the middleweight title in a pair of new-fangled boxing gloves.
1928 – Dr. Ruth Westerheimer is born.
1938 – Max Factor (yes, there really was a Max Factor) dies.
1944 – Political humorist Molly Ivins is born.
1950 – John Landis is born.
1963 – Hotline installed between the White House and the Kremlin.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1968 – The Beatles record their first album (Hey, Jude) on their Apple label.
2003 – Charles Bronson dies.
August 31
12 – Caligula is born.
1535 – King Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Paul II.
1869 – Irish scientist Mary Ward becomes the first casualty of the motor car.
1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols, Jack the Ripper’s first victim, is discovered in Buck’s Road.
1945 – Van Morrison is born.
1955 – A judge in London fines Sidney Adams Turner three pounds, ten shillings for “creating an abominable noise” by playing Bill Haley & the Comets’ “Shake Rattle & Roll” at top volume for two hours, after threatening to drive his neighbors mad.
1965 – Lyndon B. Johnson signs a new federal law making it a crime to burn a draft card.
1994 – Gary Kasparov loses to Chess Genius 2.
1997 – Princess Di is killed in a car wreck in Paris.
September 1
69 – The Romans destroy Jerusalem. (“And what did the Romans ever do for us?”)
1666 – The Great Fire of London begins in Pudding Lane.
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs is born.
1878 – Emma Nutt, the first female telephone operator in the US, starts work in Boston.
1914 – Martha, the very last passenger pigeon, dies in captivity.
1933 – Conway Twitty is born.
1939 – Germany invades Poland.
1956 – Elvis buys his mama a pink Cadillac.
1957 – Gloria Estefan is born.
1971 – The Pittsburgh Pirates introduce the first African American starting lineup in major league baseball.
1975 – Gunsmoke goes off the air, after 20 seasons and 635 episodes.
1977 – Billy Idol’s former band, Generation X, releases its debut single, “Your Generation.” Sir Elton John reviews it as “really dreadful trash. The Ramones,” he says, “do this sort of thing so much better.”
September 2
490 BCE – Phidippides runs the first marathon, and promptly drops dead.
1941 – The Academy copyrights the Oscar statuette.
1944 – George H.W. Bush leaps from a burning plane.
1944 – Anne Frank is sent to Auschwitz.
1966 – Salma Hayek is born.
1973 – JRR Tolkien dies.
1986 – Cathy Evelyn Smith gets three years for the death of John Belushi.
September 3
1189 – Richard the Lionheart crowned at Westminster.
1971 – John Lennon leaves the UK for NYC, and never looks back.
1991 – Frank Capra dies.
1991 – Texan Wanda Hollaway is convicted of trying to hire a hitman to kill her neighbor, in a misguided attempt to improve her daughter’s chances at cheerleader tryouts.
2001 – The Australian government admits using the bones of 21,830 people in radiation tests between 1957 and 1978, without their families’ permission.
September 4
1639 – Drinking toasts becomes illegal in Massachusetts. The law is declared unenforceable and repealed in 1645.
1682 – Edmund Halley sees a comet. By a remarkable coincidence, he and the comet have the same name.
1781 – The city of Los Angeles is founded in The Valley of Smokes. It was smoggy even then.
1923 – Noel Coward’s first revue, London Calling, opens in London. The first act features stereoscopic shadowgram effects developed by the same guy who gave us the Hammond organ.
1954 – Peter Cortese deadlifts 370 pounds with one arm. That’s triple his bodyweight, plus an extra 22 pounds for good measure.
1957 – Ford Motor Company introduces the ill-fated Edsel.
1959 – WCBS radio in New York, responding to several recent incidents of knife-related violence in the city, including the stabbing death of a 17-year old, announces that it will no longer play the song “Mack the Knife.”
1996 – Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, ventures out into public for the first time in 18 years, to sign copies of his new album.
Have a classy week!
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Interesting and mixed historical week for the UK. Beatles begin the Apple era, but they lose Lennon to the States, and Diana to history. Plus the fire.
But hey…Caligula!