The 1970 film Tell Me That You Love Me Julie Moon stars Liza Minnelli as the title character, a woman whose face is scarred in a battery acid attack by her boyfriend, Ken Howard as a man with epilepsy, and Robert Moore as a gay paraplegic
The TV Show *The White Shadow *starred Ken Howard as Ken Reeves, a white professional basketball player who retires from the Chicago Bulls of the NBA after a severe knee injury. Upon his retirement, Reeves takes a job as a basketball coach at Carver High School, a mostly black and Hispanic urban high school in South Central Los Angeles. The show ran from 1968 to 1971.
The nickname White Shadow was given to Ken Howard in 1961 by the Long Island press when he was the only Caucasian starter on the Manhasset High School varsity basketball team.
Ken Howard won for 1970 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Child’s Play.
Ken Howard’s ex-wife is Margo Howard, daughter of Esther “Ann Landers” Friedman Lederer and niece of Pauline “Dear Abby” Friedman Phillips. Although now retired from the advice column business herself, she replaced her mother’s column with her own “Ask Margo”, after warming up as Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Her cousin Jeanne Phillips took over “Dear Abby”, and the pair have continued the rivalry their twin-sister mothers had.
Ken Howard can sing! When he was in college at Amherst, where he captained its basketball team, he was also a member of the a cappella singing group, “The Zumbyes.”
The trope that the English settlers in America got rid of the pesky Indians by giving them blankets infected with smallpox comes from a never-implemented proposal by Lord Geoffrey Amherst in one of his letters.
Pocahontas, aka Matoaka, aka Rebecca Rolfe, died of smallpox, probably contracted from fellow guests at the very crowded and rowdy Bell Savage Inn where she and her husband and the rest of their party were lodged.
While Edward Jenner discovered that immunity to smallpox could be developed by exposing a person to a milder disease called cowpox in 1796, it took another 188 years for it to eradicated. The global eradication of smallpox was certified, based on intense verification activities in countries, by a commission of eminent scientists on 9 December 1979 and subsequently endorsed by the World Health Assembly on 8 May 1980.
The only other disease to be eradicated to date is rinderpest, which was declared eradicated in 2011.
The last naturally-occurring case of smallpox was diagnosed in 1977.
The Patriation Reference (1981) and the Reference re the Secession of Quebec were the two most important cases the Supreme Court of Canada has ever decided. Both cases were advisory cases, in American parlance. The Patriation Reference was instituted by three provincial governments referring the issue to their courts of appeal. The federal government instituted the Reference re Secession of Quebec by referring the case directly to the Supreme Court.
In 1789, the US Supreme Court Chief Justice’s salary was $4,000, while associate justices made $3,500. By 2015, the Chief Justice’s salary had risen to $258,100, with associate justices receiving $246,800.
North Carolina halfback Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting in both 1948 and 1949, and held the team’s total offense record until 1994. He was named the Most Valuable Player in the 1950 College All-Star Game, when he led the college team to a 17-7 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. He ran for 133 yards which was 48 yards more than the entire Eagles team.
In the 42 College All-Star Games from 1934 to 1976, the defending pro champions won 31, the College All-Stars won nine, and two were ties, giving the collegians a .238 winning percentage.
In 1976, the Parti québécois won the general election in Quebec on a separatist platform, sending Canada into an existential crisis.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. Kierkegaard was also a theologian, poet, social critic and religious author. Kierkegaard lived during the first half of the 19th century, and he was only 42 years old when he died in 1855.
Susanna Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, just turned 116 on July 6, meaning she was born in 1899!!!
Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the woman who blocked U.S. approval of thalidomide, has just passed away at the age of 101.
Roper room host Sherri Finkbine took thalidomide when pregnant with her fifth child. She obtained a legal abortion in Sweden, and her case is seen as a pivotal event in the legal abortion battle.
Thalidomide was known as Kevadon. Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, was a former family doctor and teacher in South Dakota who at that time had recently taken the F.D.A. job in Washington to review requests to license new drugs. Kelsey worked with Merrell of Cincinnati, the drug manufacturer, to obtain information about its safety and efficacy. She finally blocked its distribution in the US and was awarded in 1962 by President JFK. Kelsey rewrote the procedues by which medications are approved for use in the US, and her FDA procedures have been adopted by countries around the world.