The Daily Dose/July 10, 2023
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around our human experience.
Leading Off will return.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow aims for productivity. Today’s Diary.
…our goal today was to spend the morning – and part of the afternoon, if necessary – reading, a mission was neither arduous nor unsuccessful.
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1985 – The ship Rainbow Warrior, owned by Greenpeace, is bombed in the harbor at Auckland, New Zealand by the French foreign intelligence service DGSE. The ship was in New Zealand waters to protest French nuclear testing in the South Pacific and two French agents were later arrested and imprisoned before being transferred to French custody with international arbitrators later awarded Greenpeace $8.1 million. The only fatality was Fernando Periera, a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer.
In 1877 – The first Wimbledon tennis tournament begins at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club outside of London. The tournament was organized to compensate for waning interest in croquet and stats showed that the server won two-thirds of the games, resulting in the target area for the server being reduced from 26 feet to 22 feet for the 1878 tournament. The tournament was later won by Spencer Gore and the 136th edition of the Wimbledon tournament, known in Great Britain as The Championships, is in progress.
In 1982 – The Human League is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the second of three consecutive weeks with Don’t You Want Me. It was the first of six chart singles for the group, their first of three Top 10 hits, and their first of two #1s (Human, one week, 1986). The song also went to #1 in seven other countries, including Israel, Norway, and Great Britain, and was Billboard’s 6th-biggest song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
History will hand out the medals. Our problem is to win the battle.
Jean-Francois Steiner
Treblinka
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The last team outside of the US to play in the Triple-A International League was the Ottawa Lynx in 2007. They are now the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Who has won the most combined Wimbledon titles? – Answer next time!
