Betty White’s character in “The Golden Girls”, Rose Nylund, moved to Miami from St. Olaf, Minnesota.
Betty White is now 97, and the only “Golden Girl” still alive.
Betty White, who graduated from high school in 1939, originally wanted to become a Forest Ranger. Because women were not allowed to be rangers at that time, she instead aspired to be a writer. She wrote and played the lead in a graduation play at Horace Mann School and discovered her interest in performing. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The musical Hamilton wad written by and starred Lin-Manuel Miranda. When extreme cold caused the Chicago show to close, Andrew Donneen on Twitter had the nest take on Brrrrrr kills Hamilton again
Composer John Williams has written the soundtracks for all eight (so far) “numbered” Star Wars films. Only a handful of other composers have written music which has appeared in a Star Wars film, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote “Dobra Doompa,” a song which appears in the cantina scene in The Force Awakens.
Sumerian is believed to be the oldest written language.
The Sumerians are also believed to have invented the wheel and plow and were probably the first people to use levees and canals to control flooding and provide irrigation to their crops.
The Sumerian King List is a cuneiform document, written by a scribe of the city of Lagash, sometime around 2100 BCE which lists all of the kings of the region, and their accomplishments, in an attempt to show continuity of order in society dating back to the beginning of civilization.
Lagash, in present-day Iraq, was in Mesopotamia and was northwest of the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and apparently was an important Sumerian city in the late 3rd millennium BC. Today Lagash is one of the largest archaeological mounds in the region. It measures roughly 1 mile by 2 miles.
Lagash was the name of the great alien city in Isaac Asimov’s 1941 novelette “Nightfall,” which he later expanded into a novel, at which time the city was renamed Kalgash.
While Isaac Asimov wrote many books that featured space travel, he only flew twice in his life, both due to military requirements.
Isaac Asimov, who wrote or edited over 500 books in his career, died in 1992. The cause of death was listed as heart and kidney failure. Ten years later, the family revealed that these were complications of AIDS, which Asimov had contracted from a blood transfusion during triple bypass surgery in 1983.
Asimov’s books have been published in 9 of the 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
Dutch Schultz, noted New York gangster, sought permission from the Commission to have District Attorney Thomas Dewey killed. The Commission refused to grant permission, because of the long-standing policy of not putting out hits on law enforcement.
Schultz stormed out, saying he would do it anyway.
To protect their interests, the Commission instead put out a hit on Schultz, who died after a gangland shooting.
John Banner, an actor who is best known for his role as Master Sergeant Schultz in the comedy Hogan’s Heroes, was born in Vienna in 1910. In 1938, he was performing with an acting company in Switzerland when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany He immediately emigrated to the United States and remained there until shortly before his death in 1973. It is believed that many members of his family that remained in Vienna perished in Nazi concentration camps.
John F. Kennedy pulled strings to get out of the cushy Office of Naval Intelligence posting he was given during World War II to get a frontline assignment. He ended up commanding not only the famous PT-109 but also, after his and his crew’s rescue, the more heavily-armed PT-59.
PT-109 sank under Kennedy’s command because it collided with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Two of Kennedy’s crew, Seamen Andrew Jackson Kirksey and Harold W. Marney, were killed instantly, and two other members of the crew were badly injured and burned when they were thrown into the flaming sea surrounding the boat.
For almost all USN ship commanders, being in command of a ship involved in a collision resulting in loss of crew typically results in a court martial. But no, not for the son of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
The destroyer Amagiri was commissioned on 10 November 1930 and served in several campaigns with the Japanese Navy, including the Battle of Midway and the battles around Guadalcanal and Rabaul. She was sunk in April 1944 when she hit a naval mine after leaving Singapore.
On 10 November 1930 the US Marine Corps, founded on 10 November 1775, celebrated its 155th birthday.
The US Marine Corps began when two battalions were formed on 10 November 1775 in Philadelphia as a service branch of infantry troops capable of fighting both at sea and on shore. However, another of their missions was defending the ship’s officers from mutiny. Their quarters on ship were often strategically positioned between the officers’ quarters and the rest of the crew.