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May 7, 2008 • The Great American Grump Out is today. Smilemania asks America to go 24 hours without being grumpy, crabby, or rude. • Today is National School Nurse Day. • Today is National Roast Leg of Lamb Day. • Today is Mother Ocean Day, a time to celebrate the wonder of the ocean. • Today is National Nuzzling Day. • Today is Experience the Awesome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day. • Today is Day of the Soldier in El Salvador. On this date in . . . 1839: Elisha Hoffman was born. The American clergyman composed "I Must Tell Jesus," Are You Washed in the Blood?" "Glory to His Name," and "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." 1927: Deejay Jim Lowe was born in Springfield, Ohio. At New York’s WNEW he was the "King of Trivia." He had one hit record, "The Green Door," which hit #1 in 1956. He played piano and recorded the song at his apartment. (Not to be confused with Dallas morning radio great "Ole" Jim Lowe, the voice of Big Tex, who died in 2002 at age 73.) 1941: Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA Victor. 1949: Hank Williams made #1 on the country charts with his biggest hit, "Lovesick Blues." 1959: Some 93,103 baseball fans honored former star catcher Roy Campanella at a Dodger-Yankee exhibition game in the L.A. Coliseum. Campanella had been crippled by an auto accident two years earlier. The largest ever major-league crowd saw Sandy Koufax beat the Yankees 6-2. 1969: The Oakland Oaks won the ABA Championship, beating the Indiana Pacers four games to one. 1969: The Canadian Broadcasting Company stopped advertising tobacco products. 1985: The first pig racing season began in Tulsa, to culminate 10 weeks later with the Arnold Ziffel Sweepstakes. First-year favorites included Marvin Hogler and Bruce Pigsteen. 1986: Joan Rivers began a late-night TV talk show on the Fox Network. It flopped. 1991: A bandit tried to hold up a Jacksonville, Florida, supermarket wearing a paper bag over his head with eyeholes cut so he could see. But when he moved, the bag shifted and he couldn’t see. While he adjusted the bag it tore, exposing his face. Which a checker recognized as one of the store’s regular customers. 1998: The parent company of Mercedes-Benz agreed to buy Chrysler Corporation for more than $37 billion. 1998: A Pasadena, California, couple returned from vacation to find over a thousand birds inside their home. The flock of small migratory swifts had flown down the chimney. Firemen helped the couple clear the birds out in about two hours, but cleaning up the mess took a lot longer. 2000: Mike Hennessy of West Springrfield,
Massachusetts, celebrated his 50th birthday by jumping out of an airplane 50 times.
Hennessy had logged more 2002: Triple Crown winner "Seattle Slew" died at age 28. It was 25 years to the day after his victory in the Kentucky Derby. 2003: A man wanted for trafficking and possession of cocaine was arrested when his parole officer spotted him kissing his girlfriend in a live crowd shot displayed on the scoreboard at a Cincinnati Reds game. The suspect and his parole officer attended the same game when the smooching couple were caught by the "Kiss Cam" at Great American Ball Park. The parole officer and a police officer arrested the 24-year-old man in his front row seat. Birthdays:
Q: Which major-league
pitcher once struck out five batters in one inning: (a) Joe Niekro; (b) Phil Niekro; or
(c) Charlie Hough? Q: You suffer from
ergasiophobia. Do you have an abnormal fear: (a) of Mexican food; (b) of service stations;
or (c) of work. Q: What do hog farmers say
is giving pigs a bad name: (a) the cops on "Law & Order;" (b) turkey bacon; or (c) that
little piece of fat in pork and beans? 41 years ago today:
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