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Trivia Today, March 6, 2011 |
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• Today is Southern Drawl Day, marking the TV debut of "In the Heat of the Night" on this day in 1988. The series starred Carroll O’Connor as Chief Bill Gillespie, Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs, and Alan Autry as Lt. Bubba Skinner. The 1967 movie, on which the series was based, starred Sidney Poitier as Tibbs and Rod Steiger as Gillespie.
• Today is Headache Relief Day, marking the patenting of aspirin on this date in 1899. On the same day, the Bayer Company trademarked the name aspirin for the medicine developed by German chemist Friedrich Hoffman. Aspirin is also known as acetylsalicylic acid. • Today is Bob Wills Day, marking his birth on March 6, 1905, near Kosse, Texas. With his Texas Playboys, he was the "King of Western Swing" with such hits as "San Antonio Rose," "Faded Love," and "Stay A Little Longer." • Today is National Chocolate Cheesecake Day
On this date in . . . 1948: Florence Hubbard of Chicago won $22,000 in prizes for identifying Jack Benny as "The Walking Man." The l0-week radio promotion raised $1.5-million for the American Heart Association. 1955: A new comedienne made her San Francisco debut at the Purple Onion club. Phyllis Diller was 37 years old. 1959: The Drifters recorded "There Goes My Baby." 1960: The U.S. announced that it would send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. 1964: The Elvis Presley film "Kissin' Cousins" premiered. 1967: Singer Nelson Eddy died in Miami Beach after suffering a stroke on stage at the Sans Souci Hotel. He made 19 movies including "Naughty Marietta," "I Married An Angel," and the 1943 "Phantom of the Opera." 1976: Britain's EMI Records re-released all 22 Beatles singles plus "Yesterday," which had never been released on a 45 in Britain. All 23 singles entered the British music charts at the same time. 1978: In London the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences paid $10,505 for the skull of philosopher-theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, who died in 1772. It’s history’s most expensive skull (Guinness). 1982: Willie Nelson's "Always On My Mind" entered the pop chart at #88, went on to #5, and won a Grammy as Country Song of the Year. It had been recorded ten years earlier by Elvis Presley. 1986: Hollywood’s Timothy Hutton and Debra Winger were married. 1992: The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired after eight seasons. 1993: In Maidstone, England, 33 cows were accidentally electrocuted by a faulty milking machine. 1997: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II launched the first official royal Web site: royal.gov.uk/ 1999: Police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, arrested a man they say robbed a bank with a taxi waiting outside. The cab driver became suspicious after the man was inside the bank only about a minute, then gave the driver a $50 bill for the $8.00 fare and told him to keep the change. 2002: Brazilian weight-training instructor Edmar Freitas finished sweating his way through 111,000 sit-ups in 24 hours to claim a world record. The previous record, 103,000 sit-ups in 24 hours, was by American Bill Evans. Freitas, who carried out the feat on a stage mounted along a busy street in Curitiba, ate an energy bar and drank coconut milk every hour and was allowed a five minute break every four hours. He averaged about 77 sit-ups a minute. Birthdays:
Q: Did D.L. Hughley get
his start after entering a stand-up comedy contest at the insistence of: (a) his wife; (b)
a fellow gang member; or (c) his barber? Q: Was Ed
McMahon’s first regular network TV show: (a) "Who Do You Trust?;" (b)
"Big Top;" or (c) "Concentration"? Bug Truth: Some insects can live for months without their heads. Stuff Observation: You don’t need 95% of everything you own until you throw it away. 19 years ago today:
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