Happy Easter everyone .. a nice start to whats going to turn out to be a beautiful day .. 72 today .. 76 tomorrow .. wow. Hope your Easter is full of family, great food, finding those hidden eggs and plenty of smiles and laughter. Its April 20th .. lets take a look back this Easter Sunday .. 1841, the first detective story, Murders in the Rue Morgue was first published .. 1912, Navin Field, later named Briggs, thenTiger Stadium opened, and 6783 games were played there .. and Fenway Park in Boston opened .. 1931, Louis Armstrong recorded When Its Sleepy Time Down South .. 1935, Your Hit Parade first aired .. 1959, The Untouchables debuts .. 1961, the FCC approved FM stereo broadcasting .. 1964, the movie Viva Las Vegas premiered .. 1968, Pierre Trudeau became Canadas newest Prime Minister and in 1999, 14 students and one teacher were killed at Columbine High School. Born April 20th were Duncan Renaldo (the Cisco Kid) in 04 .. Lionel Hampton in 08 .. Bob Braun in 29 .. Star Treks George Takei in 37 .. Johnny Tillotson in 39 .. Ryan ONeal in 41 .. keyboardist Jimmy Winston of the Small Faces in 45 .. keyboardist Craig Frost of Grand Funk Railroad in 48 .. Jessica Lange in 49 .. Luther Vandross in 51 and Carmen Electra in 72. People we lost April 20th were Ottawa Indian Chief Pontiac in 1769 .. author Bram Stoker (Dracula) in 12 .. Knute Rockne in 31 .. Funk Brothers drummer Benny Benjamin (Papa Zita) in 69 .. Saginaw native Robert Armstrong (King Kong) in 73 .. Steve Mariott of Small Faces in 91 .. Johnny Shines and Benny Hill in 92 .. and jazz sax man Teddy Edwards in 2003. Wings go for two in a row against the Boston Bruins today at 3 .. St. Louis, Colorado and Columbus win last night .. Tigers win yesterday, Rick Porcello goes for two in a row today at 1. A nice warm Easter in store today .. enjoy !
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:42:12 +0000
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