Although Texas A&M’s Corps of Cadets carries no military obligation, the Corps of Cadets consistently commissions more officers than any institution other than the US service academies.
The King’s School in Parramatta in Sydney and Newington College in Stanmore in Sydney vie for the honour of having the oldest Cadet Corps in Australia, with both having established embryonic corps in the late 1860s.
In 1980, Arnold Schwarzenegger won his final Mr. Olympia body building title in the Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall.
ETA: The Concert Hall seats 2,700 and is the largest of seven venues at the Opera House. The smallest venue seats 200.
As one who sings regularly in the Concert Hall, I note that it has the worst acoustic of any major concert hall in Australia.
In play: On the night of 31 May – 1 June 1942, three Ko-hyotekiclass midget submarines, each with a two-member crew, entered Sydney Harbour, avoided the partially constructed Sydney Harbour anti-submarine boom net, and attempted to sink Allied warships. Two of the midget submarines were detected and attacked before they could successfully engage any Allied vessels, and the crews scuttled their boats and committed suicide. These submarines were later recovered by the Allies. The third submarine attempted to torpedo the heavy cruiser USS Chicago, but instead sank the converted ferry HMAS Kuttabul, killing 21 sailors. This midget submarine’s fate was unknown until 2006, when amateur scuba divers discovered the wreck off Sydney’s northern beaches.
The Red October was the main Russian submarine in author Tom Clancy’s debut 1984 book. Red October refers to the pivotal month of the Russian Revolution of 1917. This led to the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
When the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, ten days were deleted to correct for the drift caused by the errors in the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar day Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday 15 October 1582. The month of October was chosen for the change because it had relatively few important religious feasts.
The full name of John Lennon’s oldest son, Julian Lennon, is John Charles Julian Lennon. Julian had always been close with Paul McCartney, but they had somewhat of a public falling out in 2011 when Lennon was not invited to McCartney’s wedding to Nancy Shevell. That wedding was on 09 October, the same day as John Lennon’s birthday.
The Beatles song “Hey Jude” evolved from “Hey Jules”, a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon’s son, Julian, during John’s divorce from Cynthia Lennon over his involvement with Yoko Ono. It was the first single released by Apple Records, and, at over seven minutes, was then the longest song ever to reach #1 on the British charts.
John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono to honor his second wife.
Hey Jude, about Lennon’s divorce, spent nine weeks at number one in the United States, the longest for any Beatles single. “Hey Jude” tied the “all-time” record, at the time, for the longest run at the top of the US charts. That was for Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife in 1959.
Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General in the Cabinet of his brother John F. Kennedy, kept a badly-dented U.S. Marshal’s helmet in his office to remember the Fall 1962 anti-integration riots at Ole Miss.
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Brothers Fred and Al Key pioneered in-flight refueling techniques and equipment in preparing for their successful 1935 aircraft endurance record. Their Curtiss Robin, Ole Miss, took off from Meridian, Mississippi on June 4 and didn’t land there until July 1. Ole Miss is permanently displayed in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C… As a highly decorated B-24 pilot in the Eighth Air Force, Al Key named each of his airplanes Ole Miss as well.
Father and son Archie and Eli Manning played quarterback for Ole Miss. Father Archie Manning was the second overall draft pick in the 1971 NFL draft, a draft where quarterbacks were drafted in the top three overall picks. Jim Plunkett, Stanford was drafted first overall by the Boston Patriots, then Archie Manning, Ole Miss was drafted second overall by the New Orleans Saints, and then Dan Pastorini, Santa Clara was drafted third overall by the Houston Oilers.
The Patriots changed their name to New England two months after the draft.
The 1971 NFL draft is the only draft where quarterbacks were taken 1st, 2nd and 3rd overall.
Archie’s son Eli was drafted in 2004. He was the first overall draft pick that year, and he taken by the San Diego Chargers. He was then traded to the NY Giants.
Before using his birth surname as a mononym, Wladziu Valentino Liberace went by the stage names Walter Buster Keys, Walter Busterkeys, and Wally Key.
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The Canadian actor Walter Pidgeon is probably best known for his role opposite Greer Garson in the WWII film Mrs Miniver.
Rusty Lisch was the starting quarterback for Notre Dame in 1977, but he soon was pulled and replaced by Joe Montana. Rusty Lisch was the starting quarterback in 1984, but he played so poorly that he was pulled and replaced by running back Walter Payton. Yes, Payton, at quarterback.
Piffles Taylor, a World War I veteran, played quarterback for the Regina Roughriders for some years after the war. One game was interrupted when Piffles’ glass eye was knocked out in a play and everyone had to hunt for it. Once found, he popped it back in and play resumed.
The privilege of being the first subjects to acclaim each new sovereign at their coronation in Westminster Abbey is reserved for the Queen’s (or King’s) Scholars. Their shouts of “Vivat Regina/Rex” (“Long Live the Queen/King”) are incorporated into the coronation anthem I was glad. The tradition dates back to the coronation of King James II.
Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, is named for Queen Victoria. Another city, Prince Albert, is named for her husband. A third city, Saskatoon, is named for a berry.