JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson was the third singer to die on 03 February 1959, The Day the Music Died.
On 3 February 1112, Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona married Dulcia of Rouergue, the Heiress of Provence, and became Ramon Berenguer I of Provence, ruling a vast territory. His son married the Heiress of Aragon and ruled an even vaster territory.
Dulcia was Ramon’s 3rd wife. His 1st wife was María Rodríguez de Vivar, daughter of the great Spanish hero known simply as El Cid.
There are two official languages of Canada’s Yukon Territory, English and French. No surprise there. But Northwest Territories has eleven official languages. According to WP.
When Nunavut, the largest but least populated of Canada’s political divisions, was split off from the Northwest Territories in 1999, the remaining section of NWT held a vote to decide if it should keep the name. Although retaining “NWT” won, a strong runner-up was “Bob”.
Until 2002, Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, had no street addresses. There were only house numbers. Houses were numbered in the order they were built, so House 204 might have been next to House 1602.
You cannot drive to Iqaluit. You must fly. There are no roads to Nunavut.
Juneau, the capital of Alaska, cannot be accessed by the driven car (but can be, by ferry). Juneau is the only US state capital that cannot be driven to.
Montpelier, Vermont is allegedly the only state capital in the US that lacks a McDonald’s.
Brazil beat in Germany in the final of the 2002 World Cup. In the process, the German coach, Rudi Voeller became the second man to lose a World Cup final as both a player and a coach.
ETA, this was in response to post 24000 above.
Even though the San Francisco Giants have recently established a mini dynasty by winning three World Series Championships in five years, their loss to the California Angels in 2002 still hurts Giants fans fiercely. Especially Game 6 when the Giants led the Series 3 games to 2 and were leading that game 5-0 in the 7th inning, only 8 outs away from winning the Series. When Giants manager Dusty Baker pulled starter Russ Ortiz and then gave him the “game ball” (a poor move flaunted in the face of the baseball gods), it all came tumbling down. The Angels came back to win Game 6, and went on to win Game 7 and the Series.
It must be the baseball gods, not wanting someone like Barry Bonds to have a championship.
I can accept that, although it still hurts.
A World Series game was last played in Cleveland, Ohio in 1948. The Indians beat the Boston Braves, four games to two. It was the first World Series to be nationally televised.
The Indians won the 1948 pennant, preventing an all-Boston World Series for the only time ever, by winning a playoff game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Sox fans have never forgiven manager Joe McCarthy for calling upon the highly-ordinary Denny Galehouse to pitch, despite Mel Parnell and Ellis Kinder both being rested and ready.
Peanuts cartoonist and San Francisco Giants fan Charles M. Schulz never saw the Giants win a championship in San Francisco. He died in 2000. In the 1962 World Series, even though the Giants out scored the New York Yankees in the Series 21-20, the Yankees won in 7 games. The Game 7 score at Candlestick Park was 1-0 Yankees, and in the bottom of the 9th with two outs and Giants runners Matty Alou at third and Willie Mays at second, Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry elected to pitch to Willie McCovey instead of intentionally walking him and pitching to Orlando Cepeda with the bases loaded.
With what McCovey would later claim was the hardest ball he ever hit, his laser line drive found the glove of well-positioned second baseman Bobby Richardson for the final out. Heart break for San Francisco.
With a lineup featuring Mays, McCovey, Cepeda and Alou, Giants fans thought they would eventually get their championship in San Francisco. Alas, it would not come until 48 years later.
For the 22 December 1962 Peanuts comic strip, Charles M. Schulz depicted Charlie Brown lamenting to Linus:
“Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?”
Bobby Richardson lost his campaign for Congress in South Carolina in 1976, despite campaign appearances by a literal All-Star cast of supporters, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, and Wilmer “Vinegar Bend” Mizell among others. Richardson’s old friend, Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek, declined to campaign for him because Kubek was a Democrat.
The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, was released by Seymour Cray’s Cray Research in January of 1976.
January is the warmest month in Sydney, with an average maximum temperature of 25.9C, marginally higher than that of February (25.8C).
For this year’s Spring Training, the San Francisco Giants had pitchers and catchers first report on February 18. Their first workout was on February 19. Position players reported on February 23, and the first complete workout was on February 24.
In the Gregorian calendar an additional day is added to February in ordinary years divisible by 4 and in century years divisible by 400. The technical term for this leap day is the *bissextile *day.
The name is derived from the fact that in the Roman calendar the extra day was inserted before 24 February, which, according to the Roman calendrical counting method, was termed “the sixth (sextum) day before the Kalends of March” (ante diem VI Kalendas Martias). Thus 24 February effectively occured twice (‘bis’).
It was not until the late Middle Ages, when days in the month came to be numbered in consecutive day order, that the leap day was considered to be the last day in February i.e. 29 February.
Roman writers attributed the original Roman calendar to Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome around 753 BC. The Romulus calendar had ten months with the spring equinox in the first month. The ten months were named Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December.
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 25 such leap seconds have been inserted. The most recent one happened on June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC.
A leap second will again be inserted at the end of June 30, 2015 at 23:59:60 UTC.
John Adams’ opera Doctor Atomic, with libretto by his regular partner Peter Sellars, depicts the emotions felt by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, his wife Kitty, Edward Teller, and Gen. Leslie Groves at the Manhattan Project and the Trinity test.