Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States.
Bill Clinton was the 42nd Governor of Arkansas.
Bill Clinton was first the 40th Governor of Arkansas, as his first and second terms were non-consecutive. Grover Cleveland served the only non-consecutive terms as President of the United States.
Bill Clinton playing Heartbreak Hotel on the saxophone on Arsenio Hall’s show will later be paradied in the Animaniacs opening number:
We're Animaniacs!
Dot is cute and Yakko yaks,
Wakko packs away the snacks
While Bill Clinton plays the sax.In the Animaniacs song “Yakko’s Universe”, he explains that “It’s a great big universe and we’re all really puny / We’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney”.
Adolphe Sax moved to Paris in 1842 and registered his invention, the saxophone, in 1846. There are eight different sizes of saxophones in the sax family. The highest pitched ones are known as the Sopranino and Soprano sax. The more moderately middle toned saxes are the Alto and Tenor, while the lowest pitched saxs are Baritone Sax, Bass Sax, Contrabass Sax, and Sub-Contrabass Sax.
In 1983, Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Steve Sax committed 30 errors, many of them on routine throws to first base. This sudden breakdown of the mechanics of a routine throwing skill has become known as “Steve Sax Disease.”
The LA Dodgers have not won the World Series in almost THIRTY years.
So very loooooooooong ago! They’re among the longest championship droughts in baseball.
This NFL season marks the half-century anniversary of the New York Jets’ only Super Bowl appearance (and win). Lyndon Johnson was still President when they upset John Unitas’ Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III for the AFL’s first victory in the then-nascent spectacle of Americana.
The Buffalo Bills (0–4) have the most consecutive Super Bowl appearances with four — all were losses, from 1990 to 1993. The Miami Dolphins are the only other team to have at least three consecutive appearances: 1972–1974. The Dolphins lost Super Bowl VI, and then won Super Bowls VII and VIII.
Although Pierre Trudeau was in office for fifteen years, the third longest period of Canadian prime ministers, he never won back to back majorities. In 1968, he won a majority, but in 1972 he was reduced to a minority. In 1974 he won his second majority, but was defeated by Joe Clark in 1979. In 1980, he won his third majority, defeating Clark.
Architect Ernest Cormier’s home, which he built for himself in 1930-31 at 1418 Avenue des Pins in Montreal, is a fine example of an Art Deco dwelling. The building, at the foot of Mount Royal in the Golden Mile district, was proclaimed a historical monument in Quebec in 1974. In 1979 Pierre Trudeau purchased it and lived there following his retirement until his death in 2000. It is now owned by Trudeau’s son Sacha.
In the late 1960s, the star player on the Yale football team was quarterback Brian Dowling. One of Dowling’s classmates, Garry Trudeau, created a comic strip for the Yale Daily News, “Bull Tales,” which parodied Dowling and his exploits. After Trudeau graduated, that comic strip evolved into “Doonesbury,” in which Dowling became the character B.D.
On September 13, 2018, the San Jose Sharks traded for star player Erik Karlsson of the Ottawa Senators. The trade shows Sharks General Manager Doug Wilson is all in for the Sharks to win now, not in 2cor 3 years, but now. This year. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Sharks’ odds to win the Stanley Cup is now 10-1.
Go Sharks!!!
Shark is the name of a French company that produces motorcycle helmets. It was founded in 1986 in Marseille, France and still has it’s headquarters there.
The Mako Shark was a 1961 concept car based on the Corvette. A Mako Shark was used in an episode of the TV series Route 66. Then, in 1963, Chevy debuted the Corvette Sting Ray and that had many of the styling cues of the Mako Shark.
Stingray and Thunderbird were the best known of several action-adventure “Supermarionation” series created in England by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson in the 1960s. One of the shows’ special effects designers was Derek Meddings, who went on to work on several of the James Bond films.
(I liked Thunderbirds as a kid but forgot all about it until I saw Michael Dukakis on TV in the 80s–no offense to Dukakis who I met briefly in 2012 and who was very gracious, but his hair and eyebrows reminded me of the show’s puppets: Redirect Notice)
In the 1920s, the Klan made significant inroads in Saskatchewan. The Liberal Premier, Jimmy Gardiner, strongly condemned it, and in retaliation there were cross-burnings outside some of his political rallies. Gardiner repeatedly stated that there was a link between the Klan and the leader of the Conservative Party, James Anderson, but no proof ever emerged.
Anderson became Premier in 1929, after defeating the Gardiner government on a non-confidence motion. Support for both the Klan and the Conservative Party collapsed with the Depression. In the 1934 election, Anderson and the Conservatives were wiped out, not electing a single member to the Legislative Assembly.
Jon Anderson and Steve Howe wrote one of Yes’s signature songs, “Roundabout,” while the band drove through Scotland after a gig. The title was inspired by the large number of roundabouts they drove through, and the lyrics were based on the Scottish scenery, including cloud-shrouded mountains and a lake (further fueled by the marijuana which Anderson was smoking during the trip).
John Anderson, born 1759 in Ayrshire, was a close friend of Robert Burns and is reputed to have built his coffin in 1796. He is also the subject of a famous poem by Burns, later set to music called “John Anderson My Jo, John.” Ironically, the poem celebrates their long friendship and refers to their growing old together, but Burns died when he was only 37.
Ardrossan is a small town in Ayrshire. There is an old legend that the local laird, Sir Fergus Barclay, was in league with the Devil. When the Devil came to claim Fergus’s soul, Fergus pointed out that the Devil had agreed to carry out a task for Fergus, and told him to make ropes out of sand on the beach. When the Devil proved unable to do so, Fergus said the contract was void. The Devil retreated, after kicking Fergus’s castle and leaving the mark of a cloven hoof in the castle.
Side note: some of Clan Piper’s distant ancestors came from Ardrossan.