{"id":27360,"date":"2022-05-23T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=27360"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:48:45","slug":"keener-today-may-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=27360","title":{"rendered":"Keener Today &#8211; May 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Today in 1967, Detroit announced the formation of a 39-man brigade of &#8220;litter police&#8221; who would begin ticketing sanitation code viiolators on June 1. Fines as high as $500 dollars and 90 days in jail could be issued for serious litterbugs.<\/li>\n<li>Today in 1972, A 15-year-old Ann Arbor 9th grader is suing the state, calling a law that bars people under the age of 18 from running for public office discriminitory. Sonia Yaco, a member of the Human Right&#8217;s Party who had successfully fielded two council members was an Ann Arbor School Board hopeful.<\/li>\n<li>Today in 1977, over 40,000 people were nursing sunburns after showing up at Metropolitan Beach over the weekend. A heatwave that brought temperatures in the upper 80s drove more than 100,000 area residents to Metro Park beaches.<\/li>\n<li>Today in 1979, A scenario from a government study of the effects of nuclear war estimated 220,000 Detroiters would die instantly of an atom bomb was dropped at the Ford-Chrysler Freeway interchange. The 150 page study was conducted at the behest of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/li>\n<li>Today in 1982, At least a dozen law makers, including Governor Milliken and House Speaker Bobby Crim are among the list of lame duck public servants who will step down at the end of their next terms. The age old debate between loss of experienced legislators and the value of new political blood continued as a combination of the State&#8217;s financial misery and desire for higher public office motivated political vetrans to move onward.<\/li>\n<li>Today in 1987, Highland Appliance was advertising a Sanyo VHS VCR with 14 day scheduleing and a wireless remote control for the low, low price of $269.00. That&#8217;s over $800 dollars adjusted for inflation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals<br \/>\n1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution<br \/>\n1867 Jesse James gang robs bank in Richmond, Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)<br \/>\n1903 1st automobile trip across US leaves San Francisco for New York, (arrives July 26)<br \/>\n1922 Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films<br \/>\n1934 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow &#8211; Bonnie and Clyde &#8211; are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana<br \/>\n1949 Federal Republic of [West] Germany created out of the American, British and French occupation zones<br \/>\n1958 Mao Zedong starts the &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221; movement in China<br \/>\n1969 BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus<br \/>\n1971 American rock group Iron Butterfly (&#8220;In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida&#8221;) disbands<br \/>\n1980 Horror film &#8220;The Shining&#8221; released directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, based on book by Stephen King<br \/>\n1984 &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom&#8221;, 2nd in the film series, directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford, opens in the US<br \/>\n1994 &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221; finale airs this week in syndication<\/p>\n<p>Music released today:<\/p>\n<p>1975: 10cc, \u201cI\u2019m Not In Love\u201d [UK], Art Pop-Rock, The Original Soundtrack, \u201cGood News\u201d<br \/>\n1987: Bob Seger, \u201cShakedown\u201d, Album Rock, Beverly Hills Cop II[Sndtrk], \u201cThe Aftermath\u201d<br \/>\n1966: Marvin Gaye, Moods Of Marvin Gaye LP<br \/>\n1969: The Who, Tommy LP<br \/>\n1975: Elton John, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy LP<br \/>\n1995: The Rembrandts, LP<br \/>\n2006: Huey Lewis &amp; The News, Greatest Hits &amp; Videos LP<\/p>\n<p>Rock Birthdays: Via DrRock.com<\/p>\n<p>1910: Artie Shaw \/ (Arthur Jacob Arshawsky), Big Band-era bandleader, composer and one of the most-renowned clarinetists of all time, his version of Cole Porter\u2018s \u201cBegin The Beguine\u201d (#3, 1938) is one of the most popular and enduring songs of the Swing Era, retired from touring in the early 50s, returned briefly in the mid-80s and died of natural causes on 12\/30\/2004, age 94<br \/>\n1918: Bumps Blackwell \/ (Robert Blackwell), Early rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and soul music producer, Specialty Records executive, managed Little Richard and co-wrote several hits, including \u201cLong Tall Sally\u201d (#6, R&amp;B #1, 1956), guided multiple other R&amp;B\/soul acts including Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Sly &amp; The Family Stone, died of pneumonia on 1\/27\/1985, age 66<br \/>\n1921: Humphrey Lyttleton, Jazz bandleader, trumpeter, composer and BBC Radio 4 host, I\u2019m Sorry I Haven\u2019t A Clue, died of an aortic aneurysm on 4\/25\/2008, age 86<br \/>\n1925: Mac Wiseman \/ (Malcolm Bell Wiseman), Known as \u201cThe Voice with a Heart,\u201d former radio DJ and guitarist for Bill Monroe\u2018s Foggy Mountain Boys, started a solo career in 1951 and became a legend in bluegrass and country music with over 60 albums and a knack for pulling from other genres through his versions of \u201cThe Ballad of Davy Crockett\u201d (Country #10, 1955), the R&amp;B standard \u201cI Hear You Knockin\u2019,\u201d Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cNever Going Back Again\u201d and others, also recorded with jazz great Woody Herman and folkie John Prine, co-founded the Country Music Association (CMA) in 1958 to save country music from the rise of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship in 1993 honoring his contributions to traditional American music and arts, died from kidney failure on 2\/24\/2019, age 93.<br \/>\n1928: Rosemary Clooney, Immensely popular 40s-50s adult pop singer, \u201cMangos\u201d (#10, 1957), stage and film actress, died of lung cancer on 7\/29\/2002, age 74<br \/>\n1933: Gary Burden, Grammy-winning designer of music album covers for many rock and pop luminaries, including The Doors, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, as well as 40 covers for Neil Young beginning with After The Gold Rush (1970) and continuing for over 35 years, died from undisclosed causes on 3\/7\/2018, age 84<br \/>\n1934: Robert Moog, Keyboard musician and electronics inventor who built his first electronic music instrument, the Theremin (Thereminophone) at age 14 and followed with the first synthesizer in 1974 and the MiniMoog in 1970, the \u201cfirst compact, easy-to-use synthesizer,\u201d becoming a key figure in the development of synthesized electronic music in the 60s and 70s, diagnosed with brain cancer and died four months later on 8\/21\/2005, age 71.<br \/>\n1941: General Norman Johnson, Frontman and lead singer for R&amp;B\/soul-pop Chairmen Of The Board, \u201cGive Me Just A Little More Time\u201d (#3, 1970), left for a successful songwriting career, including the Grammy-winning \u201cPatches\u201d for Clarence Carter (#4, R&amp;B #2, 1971) and \u201cWant Ads\u201d for Honey Cone (#1, R&amp;B #1, 1971), died from lung cancer on 10\/13\/2010, age 69.<br \/>\n1944: Tiki Fulwood \/ (Raymond Fulwood), Drummer for R&amp;B\/soul-funk (\u201cP-Funk\u201d) giants Parliament-Funkadelic, \u201cOne Nation Under A Groove\u201d (#31, 1978), died from stomach cancer on 10\/29\/1979, age 35<br \/>\n1945: Misty Morgan \/ (Mary Donahue), With husband Jack Blanchard, one-half of the country-pop vocal duo Jack &amp; Misty, scored two crossover hits, including the Grammy-nominated \u201cTennessee Bird Walk\u201d (#23, Country #1, 1970) among 15 country chart hits, continued to record and perform without chart success into the 00s, diagnosed with cancer in late 2020 and died on New Year\u2019s Day, 1\/1\/2021, age 75.<br \/>\n1946: Danny Klein, Bassist for boogie-blues-rock \u2018n roll bar band J. Geils Band, wrote \u201cCenterfold\u201d (#1, 1982)<br \/>\n1946: Ruth Underwood \/ (Ruth Komanoff), Marimba, vibraphone, xylophone and general percussionist for Frank Zappa and his backing band, The Mothers Of Invention (\u201cBrown Shoes Don\u2019t Make It,\u201d 1967) in the 60s and 70s, also did session work for pop-rock Ambrosia, jazz-fusion George Duke and others, retired from music in the 80s<br \/>\n1947: Bill Hunt, Horns and keyboards for pop-rock Electric Light Orchestra, \u201cDon\u2019t Bring Me Down\u201d (#4, 1979) and 26 other Top 40 hits<br \/>\n1953: Rick Fenn, Guitarist and vocals for soft pop-rock 10cc, \u201cI\u2019m Not In Love\u201d (#2, 1975), session work with Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman and others<\/p>\n<p>Other Notable Birthdays: Via OnThisDay.com<\/p>\n<p>1883 Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (The Mark of Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1939)<br \/>\n1910 Benjamin &#8220;Scatman&#8221; Crothers, American singer, musician (&#8220;Television Blues&#8221;), and actor (Chico and the Man; The Shining), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1986)<br \/>\n1912 John Payne, American actor (The Restless Gun, Miracle on 34th Street), born in Roanoke, Virginia (d. 1989)<br \/>\n1945 Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)<br \/>\n1952 &#8216;Marvelous&#8217; Marvin Hagler, American boxer (undisputed World Middleweight champion 1980-87; second-longest unified C&#8217;ship reign in history), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2021)<br \/>\n1958 Drew Carey, American actor &amp; comedian (Drew Carey Show), born in Cleveland, Ohio<br \/>\n1958 Mitch Albom, American writer<br \/>\n1974 Ken Jennings, American game show contestant, born in Edmonds, Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in 1967, Detroit announced the formation of a 39-man brigade of &#8220;litter police&#8221; who would begin ticketing sanitation code viiolators on June 1. Fines as high as $500 dollars and 90 days in jail could be issued for serious litterbugs. Today in 1972, A 15-year-old Ann Arbor 9th grader is suing the state, calling a law that bars people under the age of 18 from running for public office discriminitory. Sonia Yaco, a member of the Human Right&#8217;s Party who had successfully fielded two council members was an Ann Arbor School Board hopeful. 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