A Fourth Instance Out of State Lender Fined
 Auto/Truck Pre-Qualifying Lead Sources is Illegal

By Tom McCurnin
Leasing News Legal Editor

Licensed California Lending Used Unlicensed Web Site
 For Pre-Qualified Leads Which Leads to Small Fine

In re Open Road Lending Case Number 603-I315 (October 29, 2018)

It is illegal for lenders which are licensed by the California Department of Business Oversight to pay unlicensed brokers. Everyone knows that. Well, everyone except Open Road Lending out of Fort Worth, Texas. In today’s case, a lender used one of the prevalent web sites which offer “pre-qualification” services for borrowers and was ordered to pay a small fine of $2,500. He got off cheap. The facts follow.

Open Road Lending is a Texas LLC which loans money for auto and truck purchases. As part of its marketing program, it signed up for one of the prevalent web based lead generators, called a “pre-qualification” broker. The customer submits their credit information to the broker and the lenders submit their credit criteria to the broker. The broker matches the customers to the lenders based on the credit score appetite of the lender. 

Open Road used the service for about eight months, between 2016 -2017. funded 16 loans through the portal, and paid the broker $260 per funding. The broker was unlicensed but has since obtained a license. The issuance of the license does not, by the way, relate back and cure past illegal commissions. 

The DBO caught the illegal commissions during a routine audit. While it could have fined Open Road up to $2,500 per incident, it assessed a fine of only $2,500 with a promise not to compensate unlicensed brokers in the future. 

This short, simple case really only has one takeaway here—don’t pay unlicensed brokers if you are a California licensee. I think the DBO showed significant mercy by only fining the company $2,500, probably due to the fact that the company voluntarily disclosed the commissions in its annual report. 

Open Road Lending   (6 pages)
http://leasingnews.org/PDF/OpenRoadLending2019.pdf

Tom McCurnin is a partner at Barton, Klugman & Oetting in Los Angeles, California.

Tom McCurnin
Barton, Klugman & Oetting
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Suite 2200
Los Angeles, CA 90071
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Funders Taking "New" Broker Business List

BSB
Bankers Capital
C.H. Brown 
Forum Leasing
TimePayment

The following “funders” have informed Leasing News they will consider business from “new” third party originators.  Many companies require a
certain length of time in business and other requirements, such as a specific volume of business.  These “funders” will consider submissions from those new in the leasing and finance business: 

Leasing Industry Help Wanted

Credit Analyst Norwalk, Ct. Remote Location Considered 2 Years Min. Experience Collateral knowledge of over-the-road trucking assets, construction equipment, material handling, vocational units and machine tools is desired Call Maria Borges-Lopez: (203) 354-6090 or e-mail your resume to HumanResources@nmef.com Please click nmef.com/careers/ for more information www.nmef.com Providing small-ticket equipment financing for businesses across the country through our dedicated referral source network

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Celebrating the 30th World Wide Web Anniversary
1973 Map of the Extent of the Entire Internet

I remember trying to reach a University for information, using long numbers, not names, and how slow it was compared to today (It was faster than a Telex, once connected, perhaps the first business “teletype.”). On March 12, 1989, British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, working for Europe's physics lab CERN, proposed a decentralized system of information management. It signaled the birth of the World Wide Web that is now used by billions of people.

Berners-Lee built the world’s first website in 1991, using the same NeXT computer (built by Steve Jobs, after he left Apple, and designed for technical and scientific work) that would become the world’s first web server. to create a page simply titled “World Wide Web,” featuring links to additional pages with information on himself, his team of scientists and the history of their project, among other things.

The website’s landing page described the World Wide Web as “a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.” Today, we just call it “the web.”

AOL brought the internet into the mainstream. The launch of Windows 95 helped Microsoft enter the 'internet tidal wave.’ Netscape followed, as did others, with Google using a new software program to bring us to where we are today with Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Wikipedia, and many, many others that brought changes in business and our personal lifestyle.

It all started in the late 1960 by a branch of the U.S. Military called The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), with the original intent to allow researchers at different universities to use their limited computing resources more efficiently.

A Brief History of Arpanet
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/paper-map-early-internet/

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Leasing News Advisory Board Chairman
Robert “Bob” Teichman, CLFP

The Leasing News Advisory Board does not participate in editorial decisions, meaning reviewing or choosing stories or subjects. Their role is to participate with policy and business advice as well as participate in discussions on matters brought up by the publisher in a private internal blog.

Bob was appointed by Kit Menkin as chairman May 8, 2005, primarily to recognize him as our number one good will ambassador. Kit has known him for over forty-nine years since the early 1970's when he was President of Dividend Leasing, Santa Clara, California, and Bob was the champion salesman, just out of Crocker Bank Leasing. Later roles were reversed when Kit sold him deals at various funding companies he represented. He also tutored him to pass the Certified Leasing Professional test, but could never get Kit to run the HP calculator correctly.

Bob joined the Leasing News Advisory Board July 7, 2000. He was actually involved in the "perception" of the newsletter before this date, making many contributions before we went “online” as a website that also distributed a news edition.

He is the one readers call with the most complaints, or wanting the editor to print a press release or explain what was written. Perhaps he started to get the calls as at one time he wrote about all the leasing conferences for Leasing News, wrote many articles, "pal'd around" with Kit at conferences, where many learned he was a very close friend.

Many don't know Bob is quite a musician, a dancer, and choral singer.

Robert Teichman, CLFP
Teichman Financial Training
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 205 Sausalito, CA 94965
Tel: 415 331-6445
Fax: 415 331-6451
e-mail: BoTei@aol.com 

Bob Teichman, CLFP, was born in New York City. After attending the High School of Music & Art and the New York College of Music, he received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College. He pursued his graduate studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

“I studied music for a lot of years. I even played piano professionally while in college,“ he added. “I have kept up my interest in music by singing in a local chorus for the past 35 years. There are about 100 of us and we give concerts several times a year, mostly classical composers like Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.

"In 1956, when I was a graduate student in Geneva, I met my wife Patricia," he wrote. "She was working at the UN and she and I were members of a group of expatriates - Americans, British, Russians, Swedes, mid-Easterners -  who all hung around the same cafes.

"It was the late 1950's and Switzerland was affordable for students like me. The ski slopes were close and most of the rest of Europe was less than a day’s drive away.

"But sooner or later reality sets in. More than fifty years ago we married in New York and came to California; driving cross-country in a 1957 Bristol sedan my father had picked up on one of his many trips. The car had right-hand drive, so it was a real challenge maneuvering on the two-lane roads (yeah, they were paved; it was the middle of the 20th, not the 19th, century.) Still, it was an adventure when we had car trouble on a couple of occasions.

"Thanks for your friendship over all these years. After having been in the leasing business for over 50 years, I really appreciate all the wonderful people I have met, and the lasting friendships I have formed. I still enjoy the business immensely. There is always something new around the corner."
Bob started in automotive leasing in 1963 in sales, then moved into equipment leasing in the late 1960's. For over 20 years he provided funding for leasing companies as an officer of both bank and non-bank lenders.

Along the way, he started several successful leasing companies. His company, Teichman Financial Training, located in Sausalito, California, was founded in 1998 and provides lease education and consulting services to lessors, funders, brokers, government and international agencies, and other members of the financial community.

He is active in leasing associations, having served on the Board of Directors of the United Association of Equipment Leasing (UAEL) for four years. For three years he was the Chairman of their Education Committee with responsibility for the Certification Program and Educational Programs. He was also a member of other committees including the Standards Committee.

Bob is a frequent speaker at leasing industry events and has written articles for UAEL's Newsline and other industry publications, including Leasing News.. He is a co-author of the Certified Lease Professional's Handbook and a co-author of the World Bank’s Global Leasing Toolkit.

He served seven years on the Board of the Certified Lease and Finance Professional Foundation including two years as President and one year as Chairman. He is also a member of American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (AACFB.)

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After 2017 was declared the safest year in the history of commercial air travel, the number of people killed in air crashes increased sharply last year. 2018 saw 15 airliner accidents with 556 people losing their lives. That is up from 44 deaths in 2017, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Despite the increase, 2018 is still the third safest year on record for the number of fatal accidents and the ninth for the number of passenger fatalities. Currently, there are an estimated 37.8 million flights worldwide annually and there is an accident rate of one fatal accident per 2.5 million flights.

Enormous progress has been made in making commercial air travel safer and Aviation Safety Network CEO Harro Ranter said that if the accident rate was the same as ten years ago, 2018 would have seen 39 fatal accidents. Looking at 2000 rates, the fatal accident total would stand at 64. Over the past five years, Loss of Control accidents are a major safety concern and were responsible for at least 10 of the worst 25 accidents during that timeframe.

The worst civilian accident of 2018 involved a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 and resulted in the deaths of 189 people. Indonesian Air accident investigators later concluded that the aircraft was not airworthy and should have been grounded. Other deadly accidents last year include the crash of another 737 in Cuba with 112 deaths and the crash of a turboprop ATR 72 in Iran’s Zagros mountains that killed all 66 people onboard.
                  By Niall McCarthy, Statista

https://www.statista.com/chart/12393/2017-was-the-safest-year-in-the-history-of-air-travel/

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Element Reports Fourth Quarter and 2018 Results;
Client-Focused Transformation Ahead of Plan

• Q4 adjusted operating income of $99.2 million for core Fleet Management business; $3.8
• million greater than in Q4 2017
• Transformation work identified and actioned $58 million of run-rate profit improvements in 2018; $18 million ahead of plan
• Encouraging evidence of improved client retention and organic growth, with year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter increases to core net earning assets and new originations
• Consolidated net income of $41.2 million in Q4 2018 up from a consolidated net loss of $1.5 million in Q4 2017

TORONTO, ON, - Element Fleet Management Corp. (TSX: EFN) (“Element” or the “Company”), a leading global provider of fleet management services, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and 12 months ended December 31, 2018 and reported accelerated progress on the Company’s transformation work.

Element’s market-leading fleet platform generated adjusted operating income of $99.2 million from its core business in Q4, an increase of $3.8 million over Q4 2017. On a consolidated basis, the Company reported net income of $41.2 million or $0.07 per share for Q4 2018, compared to a net loss of $1.5 million or $(0.03) per share in Q4 2017.

For 2018 as a whole, the core Fleet Management business was essentially flat, with net revenue down 1.3% year-over-year while net earning assets and new originations grew 2.0% and 4.8% respectively.  Net revenue from non-core assets declined 88.8% year-over-year as the Company wound down or sold off these non-strategic assets, reducing the Company’s consolidated net revenue from $952.0 million in 2017 to $873.5 million in 2018.

Element’s transformation under its strategic plan is ahead of schedule, with the Company identifying    and initiating $58 million of run-rate profit improvements in 2018; $18 million more than the targeted $40 million previously announced.

Element also continues to prioritize strengthening its balance sheet and reducing leverage. The Company has sold real estate, successfully repositioned the non-core 19th Capital business for run-off  or potential sale, and will refinance materially less than the $345 million of convertible debentures maturing on June 30, 2019, settling the balance in cash.

Jay Forbes, President and Chief Executive Officer of Element, commented, “Element’s client-centric transformation is producing results. Our team took action on 30% more service improvement and profitability enhancement projects than we initially thought achievable in 2018, strengthening our business while consistently delivering a superior client experience.

 “The Company’s focus on what matters most to our clients is paying off. We see strong signs of significantly improved client retention, and evidence of organic earnings growth from our market-leading platform.”

“I am thrilled with our 2018 progress and continued momentum in 2019 as we go ‘Back to Basics’ with our transformation efforts. While change is never without challenges, I’m confident we will achieve our strategic goals and fulfill Element’s incredible potential to be the leading fleet management company in our industry,” Mr. Forbes added.

Full Report with Financial Statements:
https://www.elementfleet.com/news/news-releases/element-reports-fourth-quarter-and-2018-results

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C.H. Brown Co, LLC Promotes
Bradon Marshall to President

WHEATLAND, Wyoming – C.H. Brown Co, LLC (CHB) announced the promotion of Bradon R. Marshall to president. CHB is headquartered in Wheatland, Wyoming and Marshall will continue to be based in that location.

CHB has been in operation for more than four decades under the careful leadership of its founder and former president, Chuck H. Brown. Brown and his wife, Kate, opened C. H. Brown Co. in 1968 as an equipment retailer. The company then moved into equipment financing in 1995 and later joined Platte Valley Companies in 2008. He will continue to have a strong association with the company with the day-to-day operations becoming Marshall’s responsibility.

Marshall began his career with CHB in June 2015. His previous responsibilities include equipment lender, sales, marketing and most recently, chief operating officer. As president, Marshall will continue to seek strategic equipment referral partners to ensure customers and other business associates are being served effectively.  In addition, he will continue to monitor the company’s technology partners to advance system integrations, driving productivity and efficiency. 

Cultivating customer and dealer relationships have always been a top priority at CHB. The company’s core values of fairness, honesty and personal service will continue under Marshall’s leadership. CHB has the ability to finance a wide array of equipment, which includes the agricultural, industrial, transportation, and construction industries.

CHB provides competitive fixed loans and leases and has the ability to operate in 49 states.  It is part of Platte Valley Financial Service Companies, Inc. which in addition to C.H. Brown Co. LLC., Wheatland, Wyoming also consist of Platte Valley Bank in Scottsbluff, Gering, Bridgeport, Minatare, Morrill, and Sidney Nebraska; Platte Valley Bank in Casper, Torrington, Cheyenne and Wheatland, Wyoming; Mountain Valley Bank in Walden, Steamboat Springs, Hayden, and Meeker, Colorado; J.G. Elliott Insurance Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Casper, Torrington and Wheatland, Wyoming.

A -Accepts Broker Business | B -Requires Broker be Licensed
| C -Sub-Broker Program | D -"Private label Program" | E - Also "in house" salesmen

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Italian Greyhound Cross/Spaniel - Small Dog
Novato, California Adopt a Dog

Chato.

Male
Black/White
12.8 lbs.
Neutered
3 Years, 6 months

My health has been checked.
My vaccinations are up to date.
My worming is up to date.
I have been microchipped.
Animal Identification
Animal ID: 240296
Please take note of the Animal ID before contacting us

Where can you find me?
I am at the Marin Humane location.
You can contact me by

Phone (415) 506-6225
Fax (415) 382-1349
Address 171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd. Novato

A Little Bit About Me

Chato is likely partly Italian Greyhound. In fact, he looks like a Miniature Silken Windhound, but they are pretty rare. Other ideas are spaniel and terrier. He has a quiet personality (most of the time), and enjoys toys and tugs to play with.

He can take a little while to warm up to new people. Right now he appears to be searching for his previous home, but that will decrease once he is comfortable in his new home. He was worried when left alone for a short time, although his previous family reported that he was okay being alone for six hours.

Playful and smart, Chato will be great to hang out with. His hormone level will decrease as he was recently neutered, which should take care of his marking indoors. Until then it will be to your benefit to take him out where he is to potty, reward him with treats and attention afterwards, before going back indoors. As he becomes more attached to his new family, you will likely see more of his more excited personality emerge.

Having lived with older teenagers, he's experienced with some children. Sometimes frightened by sudden noises and movements, Chato's family kids should be able to read his reactions and act accordingly. And his long thin legs can be delicate, so need gentle handling.

One way to bond more closely and quickly is to take classes together. Small Dog Classes will teach you how to work with him on daily manners and behaviors. You both would enjoy the Introduction to Nose Work Classes, where you learn to work together on scenting, of course with his nose in the lead.

Chato was so interested in other dogs that he pulled and vocalized in frustration when he saw them. Up close and personal with dogs, he is more friendly. Though not so playful now, he'll be more so when his hormones reduce. He appropriately corrected a young but weighty puppy who insisted on jumping onto him. His correction was too mild for this puppy, but he showed us that he is not into the rough stuff.

Chato is a great dog to be around. He is more attentive and sweet as he gets to know you. He appears to be housetrained aside from marking. He is said to enjoy being brushed and massaged to keep his superb coat healthy. His unusual looks will draw people to him and you. You can both be proud to walk together.

To Find a Specific Breed near where you live,
 from more than 17,000 animal shelters & rescues:
https://www.adoptapet.com/

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Storytelling Sales Expert Kindra Hall to Keynote
New York City Broker Fair 2019

If you want to learn to sell differently and use the power of storytelling, her keynote is something you won’t want to miss!

Date is May 6th, the Roosevelt Hotel

Two Leasing News Advisors will speak on equipment leasing:


Phil Dushey
Global Financial Services

Edward P. Kaye, Esq.
Access Commercial Capital, LLC
President of Directors
the National Vehicle Leasing Association.

List of Speakers
https://brokerfair.org/2019-featured-speakers/

Register Information
https://brokerfair.org/register/

News Briefs----

Competition Steps Up: Canadian Small Business Lending Market
    By: Todd Stone. deBanked
https://debanked.com/2019/03/competition-steps-up-in-canadian-small-business-lending-market/

PayPal users can now transfer funds instantly
   to their bank accounts
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/12/venmo-users-can-now-transfer-funds-instantly-to-their-bank-accounts.html

Federal Reserve Board permanently bars two former employees
 of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from the banking industry
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/enforcement20190312a.htm
 

Working Capital from $10,000 to $250,000                           ChannelPartnersCapital.com

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The Sizeable Exports are Recyclable Materials
Mostly Waste Materials, Particularly to China
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-import-export-companies-us/

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Rain, rain, go away,
Come again some other day,
Little Johnny wants to play.
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again.

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Sports Briefs---

College Admissions Scandal: Actresses,
 Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admissions-cheating-scandal.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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California Nuts Briefs---

Mall plan dead at SF’s Candlestick Point,
   former home of Giants and 49ers
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Mall-plan-dead-at-SF-s-Candlestick-Point-13683207.php

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“Gimme that Wine”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJnQoi8DSE8

Berger on wine: Wine business growing more difficult
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/9276793-181/berger-on-wine-wine-business

Maryland wine industry growing
  as consumers focus on the local
https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/03/10/maryland-wine-industry-growing-as-consumers-focus.html

Fetzer Vineyards picks Peachey to lead new fine-wine division
https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/northbay/mendocinocounty/9377039-181/fetzer-wine-stephanie-peachey

This Mexican winery is rescuing heritage grapevines
  and revolutionizing 'naked' wines on the border
https://www.dallasnews.com/life/wine-spirits/2019/03/11/mexican-winery-rescuing-heritage-grapevines-revolutionizing-naked-wines

Al Gore tells wine industry to act on
   ‘global emergency’ of climate change
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/al-gore-global-emergency-wine-climate-change-conference-410330/

Napa County Planning Commission Approves
   20,000-gallon Winery Near Calistoga
Napa County Planning Commission Approves 20,000-gallon Winery Near Calistoga 

Dunne on Wine: Randy Caparoso gets to the root
   of what distinguishes Lodi
https://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/wine/dunne-on-wine/article227208304.html

Château Lafite Rothschild brings to auction
  largest public offering of direct from château wines
https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataId=210845

Free Wine App
https://www.nataliemaclean.com/mobileapp/

Wine Prices by vintage
http://www.winezap.com
http://www.wine-searcher.com/

US/International Wine Events
http://www.localwineevents.com/

Leasing News Wine & Spirits Page
http://two.leasingnews.org/Recommendations/wnensprts.htm

This Day in History

     1565 - Smoking of tobacco was introduced to England by John Hawkins. Hawkins was primarily a slave trader, carrying Africans to the West Indies. Most of his dealings were with the Spanish in the West Indies, but during his second trip to the region visited the small French colony in Florida and learned to smoke tobacco from the colonists, who had learned from the Indians. Hawkins returned to Eng­land with a shipload of tobacco. He described the Indian use of the plant this way: “The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who with a cane and an earthen cap in the end, with fire, and dried herbs put together, doe sucke thorow the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hun­ger, and therwith they live foure or five days without meat or drinke, and this all the Frenchmen used for this purpose.”
    1639 - New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.
    1687 - Father Eusebio Kino, 42, an Italian-born Jesuit in the service of Spain, began missionary labors in the American Southwest. In all, Kino established 25 Indian missions in the area now divided between northern Mexico and Arizona.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/azhistory/02086kino0210.html
http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/april/papr/du_kino.html
http://www.nps.gov/tuma/Father_Kino.html
http://discoverseaz.com/History/Kino.html
    1781 - The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
    1789 - Young Enoch Brooks inscribed his name in this children's Bible in Princeton, New Jersey. Now a rare artifact of Americana, Brooks' book is one of four extant copies of “A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible.” With nearly five hundred woodcuts by American artists, this Bible was the most ambitious woodcut volume produced in America up to that time. He was not only a prolific printer of children’s books but at one time owned more than 20 book stores in the Boston, MA area. 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/mar13.html
    1791 - Thomas Paine's “The Rights of Man” was published in London.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/paine/ROM/rofmxx.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/thomas_paine/rights_of_man/part1.html
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dino55/rightsofman.htm
    1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin, allegedly based on the ideas and concept of a Black slave on a plantation he was visiting. Whether he, the black slave, or Katherine Greene, the owner of the plantation he was visiting, came up with the concept of wire cleaning the cotton balls is a matter of historic controversy. Whitney's cotton gin was capable of maintaining a daily output of 50 lb. of cleaned cotton and its effect was far-reaching, making southern cotton a profitable crop for the first time. Whitney, however, failed to profit from his invention. Numerous imitations appeared, and his 1794 patent was not validated until 1807. This made cotton a major crop in the South where slaves were “imported” to meet the demand, and who could be utilized for other crops due to this invention. “By the early 1800's, more than 700,000 slaves lived in the South. They accounted for about a third of the region's people. By 1860, the slave states had about 4 million slaves. Slaves outnumbered whites in South Carolina and made up over half the population in both Maryland and Virginia. Slavery began to develop even deeper roots in the South after Eli Whitney of Massachusetts invented his cotton gin in 1793. This machine removed the seeds from cotton as fast as 50 people working by hand and probably contributed more to the growth of slavery than any other development. Whitney's gin enabled farmers to meet the rapidly rising demand for cotton. As a result, the Southern cotton industry expanded, and cotton became the chief crop in the region. The planters needed more and more workers to pick and bale the cotton, which led to large increases in the slave population. The thriving sugar cane plantations of Louisiana also used many slaves during the first half of the 1800's. By 1860, about 4 million slaves lived in the South.” It is stated that in 1860, one in three people in the South were slaves.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h1522.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/whitney.html
http://www.eliwhitney.org/main.htm
http://www.csusm.edu/Black_Excellence/documents/pg-c-gin.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3narr6.html
http://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?feature=aajourney
&page=html/bh112.html&direct=yes
http://ia.thebostonchannel.com/blackhistory/1947088/detail.html
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/cotton_gin_patent/cotton_gin_patent.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsR-Z/whitney.html
    1798 - Birthday of Abigail Fillmore (d. 1853), first wife of Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the US, was born at Stillwater, NY. It is said that the White House was without any books until Abigail Fillmore, formerly a teacher, made a room on the second floor into a library. Within a year, Congress appropriated $250 for the president to spend on books for the White House. 
    1804 – Absalom Jones was a lay minister at the interracial congregation of St. George’s Methodist Church. Together with Richard Allen, he was one of the first African Americans licensed to preach by the Methodist Church.  As 1791 began, Jones wanted to establish a black congregation independent of white control, while remaining part of the Church. After a successful petition, the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, the first black church in Philadelphia, opened its doors on July 17, 1794.  Jones was ordained as a deacon in 1795 and as a priest on March 13, 1804, becoming the first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church. 
http://www.ube.org/abjones.htm
http://www.justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/98.html
http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Absalom_Jones.htm
http://www.io.com/~kellywp/LesserFF/Feb/AbsJones.html
http://david-alexander.tripod.com/id117.htm
    1813 - Lorenzo Delmonico (d. 1881) was born in Marengo, Switzerland and was invited to join his uncles in their successful pastry shop and catering business in New York in 1831. He soon transformed the business into one of the first, best, most elegant and famous restaurants in the country, Delmonico’s. Lorenzo was not a chef, but he purchased the food and created the very extensive menu. He helped make the concept of the 'restaurant' an acceptable and successful one. After many moves the final Delmonico’s restaurant was forced to close in 1923, a victim of Prohibition.
http://www.cbbqa.com/delmonico/Filippini.html
http://www.cbbqa.com/delmonico/Steak.html
http://www.cbbqa.com/delmonico/Potatoes.html
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/foodnames.html
    1836 - Houston retreats from Santa Anna's army. Less than a week after the disastrous defeat of Texas rebels at the Alamo, the newly commissioned Texas General Sam Houston begins a series of strategic retreats to buy time to train his ill-prepared army. Revolutionary Texans had only formally announced their independence from Mexico 11 days earlier. On March 6, 1836, the separatists chose Sam Houston to be the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army. Houston immediately departed for Gonzales, Texas, where the main force of the revolutionary army was stationed. When he arrived, he found that the Texas army consisted of 374 poorly dressed and ill-equipped men. Most had no guns or military experience, and they had only two days of rations. Houston had little time to dwell on the situation, because he learned that the Mexican general Santa Anna was staging a siege of the Alamo in San Antonio. Before Houston could prepare his troops to rush to aid the defenders, however, word arrived that Santa Anna had wiped them out on March 6. Scouts reported that Santa Anna's troops were heading east toward Gonzales. Unprepared to confront the Mexican army with his poorly trained force, Houston began a series of strategic retreats designed to give him enough time to whip his army into fighting shape. Houston's decision to retreat won him little but scorn from the Texas rebels. His troops and officers were eager to engage the Mexicans, and they chafed at Houston's insistence on learning proper field maneuvers. Houston wisely continued to organize, train, and equip his troops so they would be prepared to meet Santa Anna's army. Finally, after nearly a month of falling back, Houston ordered his men to turn around and head south to meet Santa Anna's forces. On April 21, Houston led his 783 troops in an attack on Santa Anna's force of nearly twice that number near the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River. With the famous cry, "Remember the Alamo," the Texans stormed the surprised Mexican forces. After a brief attempt at defense, the Mexican soldiers broke into a disorganized retreat, allowing the Texans to isolate and slaughter them. In a stunning victory, Houston's army succeeded in killing or capturing nearly the entire Mexican force, including General Santa Anna, who was taken prisoner. Only two Texans were killed and 30 wounded. Fearful of execution, Santa Anna signed an order calling for the immediate withdrawal of all Mexican troops from Texas soil. The Mexicans never again seriously threatened the independence of the Lone Star Republic.
    1846 - In San Francisco, Colonel Castro issued a proclamation that declared John Frémont and his party to be a band of highwaymen.
    1852 - "Uncle Sam" made his debut as a cartoon character in the New York Lantern. 
    1855 – Percival Lowell (d. 1916) was born in Boston.  Businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
    1865 - Slaves were assigned to military duty in the Confederate Army by a bill signed by President Jefferson Davis. During the Civil War, blacks not only had related jobs, but also were uniformed soldiers and officers. CSA General Patrick Cleburne had suggested enlisting slaves a year before, but few in the Confederate leadership considered the proposal, since slavery was the foundation of southern society. One politician asked, "What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?" Another suggested, "If slaves will make good soldiers, our whole theory of slavery is wrong." General Lee weighed in on the issue and asked the Confederate government for help. "We must decide whether slavery shall be extinguished by our enemies and the slaves be used against us, or use them ourselves." Lee asked that the slaves be freed as a condition of fighting, but the bill that passed the Confederate Congress on March 13 did not stipulate freedom for those who served. The measure did nothing to stop the destruction of the Confederacy. Several thousand blacks were enlisted in the Rebel cause, but they could not begin to balance out the nearly 200,000 blacks that fought for the Union.
http://www.rebelgray.com/BlackSoldiers.htm
http://www.nps.gov/apco/blacks.htm
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/022199/met_confeds.shtml
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/burke_cw.htm
http://www.africana.com/archive/dailyarticles/index_20010410.asp
http://www2.netdoor.com/~jgh/mobile.html http://www.theonlinedispatch.com/dans/_disc2/00000142.htm
    1868 - The US Senate began its trial to impeach President Andrew Johnson. For the first time in the nation’s history, a president was impeached. Pres. Johnson was accused by Congress of having violated the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 which forbade the president to discharge any federal officer holder appointed “by and with the consent of the Senate.” Johnson tested the act by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton on February 21. The impeachment was brought largely because the radical Republicans bitterly opposed Johnson’s plans for Reconstruction. Johnson’s firing of Stanton gave them the opportunity they had been seeking. On February 24, the House of Representatives voted to impeach. The US Senate trial began on this date. Sworn in as president after Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, President Johnson enacted a lenient Reconstruction policy for the defeated South, including almost total amnesty to ex-Confederates, a program of rapid restoration of U.S. state status for the seceded states, and the approval of new, local Southern governments, which were able to legislate "black codes" that preserved the system of slavery in all but name. The Republican-dominated Congress greatly opposed Johnson's Reconstruction program and passed the "Radical Reconstruction" by repeatedly overriding the president's vetoes. Under the Radical Reconstruction, local Southern governments gave way to federal military rule, and African-American men in the South were granted the constitutional right to vote. In March 1867, in order further to weaken Johnson's authority, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act over his veto. The act prohibited the president from removing federal office holders, including Cabinet members, who had been confirmed by the Senate, without the consent of the Senate. It was designed to shield members of Johnson's Cabinet like Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who was appointed during the Lincoln administration and was a leading ally of the so-called Radical Republicans in Congress. In the fall of 1867, Johnson attempted to test the constitutionality of the act by replacing Stanton with General Ulysses S. Grant. However, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on the case and Grant turned the office back to Stanton after the Senate passed a measure in protest of the dismissal. On February 21, 1868, Johnson decided to rid himself of Stanton once and for all and appointed General Lorenzo Thomas, an individual far less favorable to the Congress than Grant, as Secretary of War. Stanton refused to yield, barricading himself in his office, and the House of Representatives, which had already discussed impeachment after Johnson's first dismissal of Stanton, initiated formal impeachment proceedings against the president. On February 24, the House voted 11 impeachment articles against President Johnson. Nine of the articles cited his violations of the Tenure of Office Act; one cited his opposition to the Army Appropriations Act of 1867, designed to deprive the president of his constitutional position as commander in chief of the U.S. Army, and one accused Johnson of bringing "into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States" through certain controversial speeches. On March 13, according to the rules set out in Section 3 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the impeachment trial of President Johnson began in the Senate. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presided over the proceedings, which were described as theatrical. On May 16 and again on May 26, the Senate voted on the charges brought against President Johnson. Both times the vote was 35 for conviction and 19 for acquittal, with seven moderate Republicans joining 12 Democrats in voting against what was a weak case for impeachment. Because both votes fell short--by one vote--of the two-thirds majority needed to convict Johnson, he was judged not guilty and remained in office. Nevertheless, he chose not to actively seek reelection on the Democratic ticket. In November, Ulysses S. Grant, who supported the Republicans' Radical Reconstruction policies, was elected President of the United States. In 1875, after two failed bids, Johnson won reelection to Congress as a U.S. senator from Tennessee. He died less than four months after taking office at the age of 66. Fifty-one years later, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Tenure of Office Act unconstitutional in its ruling in Myers v. United States.
    1868 - Birth of Charles E. Cowman (d. 1924), Toulon, IL. American missionary pioneer. In 1901, he sailed to Japan with his wife Lettie (who later authored "Streams in the Desert"), where, in 1910, they founded the Oriental Missionary Society.
http://www.backtothebible.org/devotions/bio_cowman.htm
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=6249X&p=1014019
    1873 – P.B.S. Pinchback, first Black state governor, is denied his senate seat by the Senate. Senators were elected at this time by the state legislature. In January, 1873, the Louisiana legislature elected Pinchback to the U.S. Senate which was also contested by another rival, W.L. McMillen. Though McMillen eventually acknowledged Pinchback's claim to the seat, Senators uncovered evidence that Pinchback had paid $10,000 to obtain it. The Senate denied Pinchback his seat by a vote of 32 to 29.
http://www.theblackmale.com/black-men/History/pinchback.htm
http://www.fact-index.com/p/p_/p__b__s__pinchback.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/p_b_s_pinchback.html
    1884 - Standard Time was adopted throughout the United States.
    1886 – Frank Baker (d. 1963) was born in Trappe, MD.  A left-hand-hitting 3B, he led the Philadelphia A’s to three World Series championships.  During the 1911 World Series he earned the nickname “Home Run” by hitting the go-ahead homer off Rube Marquard in Game 2 against the New York Giants, and the 9th inning, game tying HR of Christy Mathewson in Game 3.  He led the American League in home runs for four consecutive seasons, twice led the league in RBIs, and batted .363 in six Series. Baker earned Baseball Hall of Fame honors in 1955.
    1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine received a patent for earmuffs. 
    1906 - Clarinet/sax player Frank Teschemacher (d. 1932) born Kansas City MO.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/tesch.html
http://wwwp.musicmatch.com/artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=600112
    1911 - Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (d. 1986), science fiction writer, recluse and founder of the Church of Scientology, born at Tilden, NE. His best-known book was “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.” 
http://www.lronhubbard.org
    1912 - The Chamber of Commerce of the United Sates was founded by approximately 500 representatives of commercial organizations, trade associations, and individual establishments, who were invited to participate in a series of discussions by President William Howard Taft and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel. The headquarters of the chamber of Commerce of the United States was dedicated on May 20, 1925.
    1912 – Mystery writer Bill S. Ballinger (d. 1980), aka Frederic Freyer, B.X. Sanborn, was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. American thriller writer who specialized from the early 1950's in a multi-level kind of narration or divided narration. Received Edgar Allan Poe Award from Mystery Writers of America in 1960 for his TV work.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ballinge.htm
    1913 - Guitarist Lightin’ Slim (d. 1994) was born Otis V. Hicks, St. Louis, Mo.
http://mathrisc1.lunet.edu/blues/Louisiana.html#O_Hicks
http://www.luckymojo.com/blueshoodoolightninslim.html
    1913 - Sammy Kaye (d. 1987), one of the most successful bandleaders of all time, was born Samuel Zarnocay, Jr.,  in Lakewood, Ohio. Although the syrupy sweet romantic sounds were denounced by critics and music purists, the "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye" formula was so successful that his orchestra stayed together long after the big band era had ended. His hit records in the 1940's included "Daddy," "Harbor Lights" and "It Isn't Fair."
http://www.sammykayeorchestra.com/ 
http://data.sonicnet.com/artists/az/kaye_sammy/bio.jhtml
   1914 - Base player Bob Haggart (d. 1999) was born New York City.
http://www.riverwalk.org/profiles/haggart.htm
http://jazzbymail.com/artists/haggart.html
http://www.52ndstreet.com/justjazz/Haggart_birthday.html
http://www.atlantajazzparty.com/ajp10.html
http://pudbrown.hypermart.net/haggart.htm
    1922 - Drummer Willie “Rough Dried” Williams (d. 1988) born Lake Village, AR
    1923 - A great improvement in radio receivers was advertised. The new models had a concealed speaker and eliminated the need for headphones, which were considered a nuisance because they were so heavy to wear and messed up hairdos. The new radios were also said to have a ‘foolproof’ design. 
    1924 - Pianist Dick Katz (d. 2009) born Baltimore MD
http://www.jazzcanadiana.on.ca/_KATZ.HTM
http://www.theiceberg.com/artist.html?artist_id=24371
    1925 - Legislation prohibiting the teaching of evolution within the state's public school system was passed by Tennessee State Assembly. A celebrated violation of this law led to the famous July Scopes Monkey Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/tennstat.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
    1925 - Guitarist Bob “Poor” Woodfork (d. 1988) born Lake Village, AR
    1926 – Drummer Roy Haynes birthday, Boston, MA.  Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 70 years has played in a wide range of styles. He has a highly expressive, personal style ("Snap Crackle" was a nickname given him in the 1950s) and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates.   
http://www.ejn.it/mus/haynes.htm
http://www.dreyfusrecords.com/artists/RoyHaynes.shtml
    1929 - Helen Candaele Saint Aubin (d. 1992), known as Helen Callaghan during her baseball days, was born at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Saint Aubin and her sister, Margaret Maxwell, were recruited for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which flourished in the 1940s when many Major Leaguers were off fighting World War II. She first played at age 15 for the Minneapolis Millerettes, an expansion team that moved to Indiana and became the Fort Wayne Daisies. For the 1945 season the left-handed outfielder led the league with a .299 average and 24 extra base hits. In 1946, she stole 114 bases in 111 games. Her son Kelly Candaele's documentary on the women's baseball league inspired the film “A League of Their Own.” Saint Aubin was known as the "Ted Williams of women's baseball."
    1930 - Trumpeter Blue Mitchell (d. 1929) born Miami, FL.
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/mitchell_blue/bio.jhtml
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/blue.html 
    1932 - Country singer Jan Howard was born Lula Grace Johnson in West Plains, Missouri. Howard first hit the charts in 1960 with "The One You Slip Around With." She is best known for her duets with Bill Anderson, which included "For Loving You," a country chart-topper from 1967. Howard was also successful on her own, with such country hits as "Evil on Your Mind" and "My Son," a tribute to her son, Jim, who died in Vietnam two weeks after the song was recorded in 1968. 
http://www.janhoward.com/bio.php
    1932 - With six million unemployed, chaos in Berlin, starvation and ruin, the threat of Marxism and a very uncertain future, the German people turn to Hitler by the millions. In the presidential election, Hitler receives over eleven million votes (11,339,446) or 30% of the total. Hindenburg receives 18,651,497 votes or 49%. Since Hindenburg does not get the majority, a run-off election is held. In the campaign that follows, Hitler crisscrosses Germany in an airplane, descending from the clouds into the arms of growing numbers of fanatics, at ever larger rallies. He gives them a positive message, promising something for everyone, then ascends back into the clouds. "In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband!" - Hitler once promises.
    1932 – Hunger marches were taking place throughout the country.  The Bonus marchers are expelled from Washington. President Herbert Hoover sends a secret message to Congress advising it not to cut the pay of Army or Navy personnel because they may be need to put down the marchers whose numbers seem to be growing. He believes they are communist inspired as are the hunger marches in England and Germany. The economy is not as bad as the newspapers report, he adds.
http://www.weisbord.org/ThreeOne.htm
http://www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php
    1939 - Singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York. Sedaka began writing songs with his lifelong musical partner, Howard Greenfield, at age 13, and, in 1958, sold his first song, "Stupid Cupid," which became a hit for Connie Francis. The following year, Sedaka began his own recording career.  His first single for RCA Victor, "The Diary," was inspired by Francis, while the three were taking a temporary break during their idea-making for a new song. Francis was writing in her diary, Sedaka asked if he could read it, and Connie promptly replied with a "no." After Little Anthony and The Imperials passed on the song, Sedaka recorded it himself and his debut single hit the Top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 14 in 1958. He then scored hits with such songs as "Oh Carol," written for Carole King, "Calendar Girl" and "Breaking Up is Hard to Do," which went to number one in 1962.  For much of the 1960's, Sedaka concentrated on songwriting, composing chart successes such as "Working on a Groovy Thing" for the Fifth Dimension and "Puppet Man" for Tom Jones. In 1975, Elton John helped Sedaka get back on the charts by having him record an LP for his Rocket label. From "The Hungry Years" came the number-one hit single "Laughter in the Rain." Sedaka topped the charts for a second time that year with "Bad Blood."  He was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1983, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was an October 2006 inductee of the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. On November 15, 2013, Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters in Los Angeles gave him their Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award.  Somehow, given his massive contributions to the genre, he is NOT a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
http://www.history-of-rock.com/neil_sedaka.htm
http://www.neilsedaka.info/
    1940 - “The Road to Singapore,” starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, opened. The comedy was the first of seven Road pictures, which brought fame and fortune to its actors.
    1941 - The Benny Goodman Sextet cuts “Air Mail Special”
    1943 - The Major Leagues approved a new official baseball manufactured by the Spalding Company for the upcoming season. Instead of the usual combination of cork and rubber, the inside of the ball is made up of recycled cork and balata, materials not needed in the war effort. Officials insist the ball will have the resiliency of the 1939 ball, but the players will express dismay that they cannot drive the new ball and point out the dearth of runs and homers in 1942 even with the old ball.
    1944 - Top Hits
“Mairzy Doats” - The Merry Macs
“Besame Mucho” - The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (vocal: Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen
“No Love, No Nothin’ “- Ella Mae Morse
“Rosalita” - Al Dexter
    1945 - CRAIN, MORRIS E., Medal of Honor
Rank and organization: Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company E, 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. Place and date: Haguenau, France, 13 March 1945. Entered service at: Paducah, Ky. Birth: Bandana, Ky. G.O. No.: 18, 13 February 1946. Citation: He led his platoon against powerful German forces during the struggle to enlarge the bridgehead across the Moder River. With great daring and aggressiveness, he spearheaded the platoon in killing 10 enemy soldiers, capturing 12 more and securing its objective near an important road junction. Although heavy concentrations of artillery, mortar, and self-propelled gunfire raked the area, he moved about among his men during the day, exhorting them to great efforts and encouraging them to stand firm. He carried ammunition and maintained contact with the company command post, exposing himself to deadly enemy fire. At nightfall the enemy barrage became more intense and tanks entered the fray to cover foot troops while they bombarded our positions with grenades and rockets. As buildings were blasted by the Germans, the Americans fell back from house to house. T/Sgt. Crain deployed another platoon which had been sent to his support and then rushed through murderous tank and small-arms fire to the foremost house, which was being defended by 5 of his men. With the enemy attacking from an adjoining room and a tank firing pointblank at the house, he ordered the men to withdraw while he remained in the face of almost certain death to hold the position. Although shells were crashing through the walls and bullets were hitting all around him, he held his ground and with accurate fire from his submachine gun killed 3 Germans. He was killed when the building was destroyed by the enemy. T/Sgt. Crain's outstanding valor and intrepid leadership enabled his platoon to organize a new defense, repel the attack and preserve the hard-won bridgehead. 
    1946 - The first Medal of Honor awarded, posthumously, to a soldier of Japanese ancestry was conferred upon Private First Class Sadao S. Munemori of Company A,100th Infantry Battalion, 442dn Combat Team to his mother, Mrs. Nawa Munemori.  He was recognized for action near Seravezza, Italy, on April 5, 1945, when he knocked out two machine guns with grenades and saved the livers of two of his companions by diving on an exploding grenade.
    1947 - "The Best Years of Our Lives," produced by Samuel Goldwyn, was a big favorite winning the Best Picture prize at the 19th Academy Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Actor/producer/comedian Jack Benny hosted the glittering gala. "The Best Years of Our Lives" won Oscars for Best Director (William Wyler); Actor (Fredric March); Supporting Actor (Harold Russell); Film Editing (Daniel Mandell); Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood); and a shared award with "The Jolson Story" for Best Score. Other awards for the best of 1946: Actress: Olivia de Havilland in "To Each His Own", and Actress in a Supporting Role: Anne Baxter in "The Razor’s Edge". The Best Song was "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (from "The Harvey Girls") by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. Foreign-made films showed up in these Oscars, bringing an end to Hollywood’s then exclusive rights to the coveted awards. Of the foreign movies nominated, three were British ("Henry V" - producer, Laurence Olivier; "Brief Encounter" starring Celia Johnson; "Perfect Strangers" which won the Oscar for Best Writing/Original Story [Clemence Dane]), one was French ("Les Enfants du paradis", an original screenplay by Jacques Prévert) and one Italian ("Roma, città aperta", screenplay written by Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini).
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0148339.html 
    1951 - The comic strip, "Dennis the Menace," appeared for the first time in 18 newspapers across the U.S. The strip became an international favorite in thousands of newspapers and spawned a CBS-TV program that starred Jay North as Dennis. The series lasted for several seasons and is still seen in syndicated re-runs. A somewhat popular movie starring Walter Matthau as Mr. Wilson and Christopher Lloyd as the bad guy was released in 1993. 
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/dennis/about.htm
    1951 - The state of Iowa experienced a record snowstorm. The storm buried Iowa City under 27 inches of snow. 
    1952 - Top Hits
“Slowpoke” - Pee Wee King
“Tell Me Why” - The Four Aces
“Please, Mr. Sun” - Johnnie Ray
“Wondering” - Webb Pierce
    1953 – After decades of relative quiet regarding franchise shifts, owner Lou Perini requested permission from the National league to move his Boston Braves to Milwaukee.  After the 1953 season, the St. Louis Browns relocated to Baltimore to become the Orioles.
    1954 – The beat goes on!  1951 playoff hero of ‘The Shot Heard ‘round the World,’ Bobby Thomson, broke his ankle while in spring training with the Milwaukee Braves.  His replacement?  A promising prospect named Henry Aaron. Thomson was out until July 14th.  His career was never the same after that.
    1956 - In a rally in Birmingham, Alabama, Asa Carter, the executive secretary of the north Alabama White Citizen's Council, charged that rock and roll was introduced to white teenagers by the N.A.A.C.P. and other pro-integration forces. He initiated a campaign to pressure radio stations to bar what he termed "immoral music."
    1956 - Elvis Presley's first album is released by RCA. The self-titled disc would sell over a million copies and become The King's first Gold record.
    1958 - “The Long Hot Summer,” starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Orson Welles, opens in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Newman, who won the Cannes Film Festival award as Best Actor for his performance in the film, married Woodward the same year-the pairing is one of Hollywood's longest lasting marriages.
    1958 - The Quarry Men, with both John Lennon and Paul McCartney playing guitar, perform at the Morgue Skiffle Cellar in Oakhill Park.
    1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launches its Gold Award Program to honor artists with outstanding sales. One million units sold of a single 45 rpm record earned Gold status; in 1976, the Platinum Award was introduced for singles which moved two million units. Today, the single awards are given at the half-million (gold) and million (platinum) level of sales or downloads, with the same award qualifications for album-length releases. The Diamond Award (album sales of over 10 million) was introduced in 1999. 
    1960 - Top Hits
The Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith
“Wild One” - Bobby Rydell
“Baby” (“You’ve Got What It Takes”) - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton
“He’ll Have to Go” - Jim Reeves
    1960 - National Football League owners voted to allow the Chicago Cardinals to move to St. Louis. The Cardinals are generally regarded as the oldest continuing operation in pro football, having been founded as the Morgan Athletic Club, a neighborhood team, in 1899. The Cardinals remained in St. Louis through the 1987 season after which owner Bill Bidwill transferred the team to Phoenix, AZ.
    1960 – The Chicago White Sox unveiled an important uniform innovation. The Sox's road uniforms feature players' names on the backs of the jerseys, marking the first time that players' names will appear on major league uniforms. The innovation will make it easier for fans watching games on television to identify the players on the field. The idea is yet another creation of colorful White Sox owner and innovator Bill Veeck.  With few exceptions – New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants – all teams now have names on their jerseys both home and road uniforms.
    1961 - President John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961kennedy-afp1.html
    1962 - Trumpeter Terence Blanchard born New Orleans LA
http://www.terenceblanchard.com/
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1TERENCE|BLANCHARD
http://www.offbeat.com/ob2004/backtalk.html
    1962 - Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental US
at the time.
http://www.wingluke.org/wing_luke1.htm
http://www.wingluke.org/
    1964 - Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home. The case came to be a symbol of urban apathy, though initial reports that 38 neighbors ignored Genovese's calls for help have been disputed.
    1964 - Motown Records released Mary Wells's "My Guy," written and produced by Smokey Robinson. It was the Supremes’ co-founder only number-one hit as a single.
http://www.marywilson.com/
    1964 - According to Billboard, over 60 percent of all US singles currently sold are Beatles records. 
    1968 - The Byrds received a gold record for the album, "Greatest Hits", which featured "Turn! Turn! Turn!", written by Pete Seeger (excerpted from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible); "Eight Miles High"; "Mr. Spaceman"; "Mr. Tambourine Man"; "All I Really Want To Do"; and "My Back Pages". The group consisted of Jim McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke. Kevin Kelly, Gram Parsons, Clarence White, John York and Gene Parsons were also members of the group through the years. The Byrds were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. 
    1969 - “The Love Bug” was released by Walt Disney studio. Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film starred "Herbie," a loveable Volkswagen bug with a personality. Abused by the evil racecar driver "Thorndyke" (David Thomlinson), Herbie is rescued by the young good-guy racecar driver "Jim" (Dean Jones). Grateful for his rescue, Herbie rewards the hapless Jim by winning one race after another on his driver’s behalf. The excitement begins when the ruthless Thorndyke plots to get Herbie back by any means necessary. Based on a story by Gordon Buford, “The Love Bug” inspired two sequels, “Herbie Rides Again” and “Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo.” 
    1968 - Top Hits
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
(Theme From) Valley of the Dolls - Dionne Warwick
(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Take Me to Your World - Tammy Wynette
    1970 - An extremely popular cover of "LIFE" magazine was issued, showing the current fashion battle over long versus miniskirts.
http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1970/cv031370.html
    1971 - The Allman Brothers Band records its breakthrough album, "Live at the Fillmore East."
http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery
&file=index&do=showpic&pid=1616&orderby=
    1972 - "The Merv Griffin Show," starring game show and late-night television host, Merv Griffin, started its syndicated debut for Metromedia Television. Joining Merv were Arthur Treacher and Mort Lindsey and his orchestra. In the 1940s, Griffin had a number one song with the Freddy Martin Orchestra, "I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts," which launched him to fame. He had his own radio show at KFRC in San Francisco in the late 1940’s, branching into early local television. Griffin battled Johnny Carson on CBS-TV late night, and lost. He also fought ABC-TV's Joey Bishop, and again lost. He did win in the Metro media show and in ownership of stations such as WPIX-TV 11 in New York and WPOP Radio in Hartford, Connecticut. Later, he came up with "Wheel of Fortune" and the formula for "Jeopardy," which he also owns; making him one of the world's richest entertainment moguls. Griffin also owns several hotels in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Beverly Hills.  His estate is managing these assets very nicely, thank you since Griffin passed on in 2007.
    1972 - Author Clifford Irving pleads guilty to a charge that the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes on which he supposedly collaborated was a hoax.
http://www.who2.com/cliffordirving.html
    1974 - The Arab Oil Embargo was lifted. It would take several weeks before long gasoline lines disappeared here. The oil-producing Arab countries agreed to lift their five-month embargo on petroleum sales to the US. During the embargo prices went up 330 percent and a ban was imposed on Sunday gasoline sales. The embargo was in retaliation for US support of Israel during the October 1973 Middle-East War.
    1976 - Top Hits
December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
All by Myself - Eric Carmen
Take It to the Limit - Eagles
The Roots of My Raising - Merle Haggard
    1976 - The Four Seasons, featuring Frankie Valli, returned to the pop charts after an absence of 10 years. The group's "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" became the top song in the United States. Valli’s real name is Castelluccio and with him were Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito. Joe Long and Charlie Callelo were members in the 1960s, when Gaudio focused on producing for the group and DeVito left. The original producer was Bob Crewe. The name, The Four Seasons, was taken from a bowling alley in New Jersey. The group charted a total of 30 songs, plus Valli had nine solo hits. In 1990, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  The Broadway hit and subsequent movie “Jersey Guys” is a portrayal of the group origins and success.
    1976 - Johnny Taylor's "Disco Lady" begins a six week stay at the top of the Billboard R&B chart. It is the first number one song to contain the word "disco" in the title.
    1980 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" goes platinum a few weeks into its 15 week stay at Number One. The two-record set is largely the brainchild of bass player Roger Waters, who now emerges as the group's creative head. 
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    1983 - Radio talk show host Larry King brought his topical interview program to syndicated TV. Using a telephone hook-up, viewers called in to speak to particular guests. King appeared on CNN 1985-2010, interviewing a variety of newsmakers and celebrities.  In 2012, King launched his own web series, “Larry King Now,” that is in the same vein as his TV talk show on CNN. The web series is available on Ora TV, Hulu, and RT (Russia Today).
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    1983 - Randy Smith’s NBA consecutive-game streak came to an end as he played in his 906th straight game. Smith played for Buffalo, San Diego, Cleveland, New York, and San Diego (again.)
    1984 - Top Hits
“Jump” - Van Halen
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” - Cyndi Lauper
“Somebody’s Watching Me” - Rockwell
“Going, Going, Gone” - Lee Greenwood
    1985 - National Football League owners met in Phoenix, AZ and tabled a proposal that would have allowed transmitters and receivers in football helmets. The idea was to allow quarterbacks to talk with players in noisy stadiums. The idea did become a reality, but a minor one. Players complained of too much interference and static.  With those bugs eliminated, the QB and the defensive captain each have such transmitters today.
    1986 - Susan Butcher wins the Iditarod dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, in the record time of 11 days, 15 hours, almost seven days faster than the time in 1985 when Libby Riddles was the first woman to win the race. Butcher again wins the race in 1987 in what is called a new era in the dogsled competition
    1990 - Thunderstorms produced severe weather from northwest Texas to Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska during the day, and into the night. Severe thunderstorms spawned 59 tornadoes, including twenty-six strong or violent tornadoes, and there were about two hundred reports of large hail or damaging winds. There were forty-eight tornadoes in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, and some of the tornadoes in those three states were the strongest of record for so early in the season, and for so far northwest in the United States. The most powerful tornado of the day was one which tore through the central Kansas community of Hesston. The tornado killed two persons, injured sixty others, and caused 22 million dollars along its 67-mile path. The tornado had a life span of two hours. Another tornado tracked 124 miles across southeastern Nebraska injuring eight persons and causing more than $5 million damage. 
    1993 - "Informer" by Toronto rapper Snow reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. It would remain in the top spot for seven weeks, making it one of the most successful Canadian songs ever on the US chart. Snow's debut album, "12 Inches of Snow," also was a million-seller.
    1994 - Prodigy puts newspaper online--the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. One of the earliest online newspapers, the Journal-Constitution listed local information, including Little League scores, lunch menus, and crime reports, as well as local advertising. The news service was available as a subscription service, with additional fees for bulletin board usage. Other early online newspapers included the St. Louis Dispatch and Florida Today. 
    1998 - Candice Bergen and the cast of “Murphy Brown” filmed the 245th and final episode of the award-winning and sometimes controversial CBS sitcom. The hour-long finale featured appearances by Julia Roberts, Bette Midler, and George Clooney, as well as Bergen's real mother, Frances.
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    1999 - It had been nearly fifteen years since Cher led the US hit parade with "Dark Lady," but she was back on top with her fourth solo number one, "Believe." It was also #1 in the UK.
    2006 – Legendary Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Feller says that controversial Barry Bonds should be kept out of the exclusive club, having admitted using the banned ‘cream’ and ‘clear.’
    2012 - A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications.
    2015 – Scientists concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.  The discovery was made using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon’s poles.