Aaron Burr presided over the first impeachment trial held in the US Senate, of Justice Chase of the Supreme Court.
(Wow, I didn’t realize that) Aaron Burr was the VP when he shot Alexander Hamilton.
Comment: my kids are direct descendants of Alexander Hamilton.
That Hamilton Woman was a wartime film by Korda, tracing the life of Emma Hamilton and her love affair with Nelson. It starred Vivien Leigh as Hamilton and Laurence Olivier as Nelson.
Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, suffered burns to her face and hand during the filming of the scene in which the she departed from Munchkinland in a cloud of smoke and fire. The burns forced Hamilton to take six weeks off from filming to recuperate.
Hamilton’s stunt double in The Wizard of Oz, Betty Danko, was also injured during filming, when a pipe which was being used for the “skywriting” scene exploded. Danko suffered injuries to her legs from the explosion, which led to permanent scarring.
Margaret Hamilton was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was developed around the Universal Systems Language (USL) based on her paradigm of Development Before the Fact for systems and software design.
Hamilton has published over 130 papers, proceedings, and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs with which she has been involved. She is one of the people credited with coining the term “software engineering”.
On November 22, 2016, Hamilton was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Moon missions.
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States.
The 2016 Tony Awards were presented the next evening, Sunday June 13, 2016. Lin-Manuel Miranda insisted that the cast of his hit musical “Hamilton” perform their musical number without rifles and, as he accepted his Tony for Best Musical, ended his speech with “It makes no difference, Love is love is love is love.”
Gotta love such a classy, talented guy.
Jeremy Pope, a graduate of Orlando’s Timber Creek HS, was nominated for *two *Tony awards this year (but didn’t win either). He first starred as Pharus, a talented and brash gay singer, in the drama “Choir Boy.” While performing in that show in January and February, he also rehearsed for “Ain’t Too Proud — The Life and Times of the Temptations.” In that musical, which opened in March, he plays Eddie Kendricks, a co-founder of the legendary R&B group.
Pope was nominated for both lead actor in a play for “Choir Boy” and featured actor in a musical for “Ain’t Too Proud.” The two shows were also nominated for best play and best musical respectively.
MLB baseball player Orlando Cepeda played for six teams in his 17-year career from 1968 to 1974, the San Francisco Giants, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Atlanta Braves, the Oakland Athletics, the Boston Red Sox, and the Kansas City Royals. He was born in Puerto Rico. His father was a professional baseball player in Puerto Rico, where he was known as “The Bull” and was widely considered one of the best players of his generation. Orlando Cepeda was thus known as “The Baby Bull.”
In 1967, while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, Orlando Cepeda had a .325 batting average, hit 25 home runs, and led the league with 111 runs batted in. Not surprisingly, he won the National League Most Valuable Player award that season.
The Cardinals won their second World Series in four years by defeating the Boston Red Sox 4 games to 3.
The St. Louis Cardinals have been to the World Series 18 times, and their record is 11-8.
The San Francisco Giants have been to more World Series, 20 of them. But their record isn’t as good, it is 8-12.
(It’s 19 World Series appearances for the Cards…)
In play: In the last game of the 1910 baseball season, the St. Louis Browns were playing the Cleveland Naps. Neither team was involved in the pennant race, so the game was essentially meaningless. However, Nap Lajoie of the Naps was fighting for the batting title with Ty Cobb.
Cobb took off the last game of the season, believing that his slight lead over Nap Lajoie would hold up unless Lajoie had a perfect day at the plate. But the Browns players decided to help Lajoie win the title over the unpopular Cobb. Browns’ manager Jack O’Connor ordered rookie third baseman Red Corriden to play on the outfield grass. This all but conceded a hit for any ball Lajoie bunted. Lajoie bunted five straight times down the third base line and made it to first easily. On his last at-bat, Lajoie reached base on an error – officially giving him a hitless at-bat. O’Connor and coach Harry Howell tried to bribe the official scorer, a woman, to change the call to a hit – even offering to buy her a new wardrobe. She refused to do so, and Cobb won the batting title by just a few thousandths of a point over Lajoie.
Ted Williams, the last baseball player to hit .400 in the majors, was at .3995 (which rounds to .400) going into the last weekend of the season. He had been in a slump and slipped from .413. Rather than play it safe, sit out, and stay at .400, he played the last series anyway, for the Boston Red Sox against the Philadelphia Athletics at Shibe Park, and finished cleanly above the line at .406.
Ted Williams is considered to be one of the greatest hitters in the history of major league baseball. Williams won six American League batting titles, won the triple crown (leading the AL in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in) twice, and has the highest career on-base percentage (.482) of all time.
Williams hit 521 career home runs, despite not playing at all in 1943-1945 (he served in the Navy Reserve, and then the Marine Corps, as a pilot during WWII), and playing very little in 1952-1953 (the Marines called him back to active duty during the Korean War, during which he flew a number of missions as John Glenn’s wingman).
The movie The Right Stuff, with Ed Harris playing a young astronaut John Glenn, came out in 1983, just as US Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) was gearing up for a run for the Presidency. Glenn later remarked that he thought the movie did his campaign more harm than good, for making it seem that he had done his most important work decades earlier.
The first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, which produced astronauts for NASA and the Air Force, was Chuck Yeager, the first man to ever go supersonic in an aircraft. Ironically, Yeager was not qualified to be an astronaut, as he only had a high school diploma.
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Did you know that there are three kinds of people in the world?
Those who can count, and those who can’t.
Did you know that there are two kinds of countries in the world? Those which use the metric system, and those which have been to the Moon.
Liberia and Myanmar do not use the metric system along with the United States. However, unlike the United States they have not put a man on the Moon.
In the metric system, the gram was the first unit defined as a unit of mass.
In the metric system, the unit of area is the acre.
Postal code notwithstanding, most people still abbreviate “Massachusetts” as “Mass,” and the state government’s official website is mass.gov