Time for Some Trivia

The weather hasn't been very nice and actually it's gotten cold! I couldn't think of what to write, so I decided maybe a little trivia might be fun. I got permission to copy these from the Terracina Grand newsletter.

In 1846 The "New York Nines" played the New York Knickerbockers in the first baseball game using Alexander Cartwright’s rules (found in The Daily Chronicle).

In 1943 the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merged for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.  

In 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving a 93-day filibuster in the Senate.

Celebrity Trivia - Valentina Tereshkova enrolled in a parachute class at age 22 to escape her life of poverty, and that is where the Soviet space program found and recruited her! 

Vlad III, The Impaler of Wallachia, launched his infamous "Night Attack" on a Turkish Army eventually forcing the legion out of Bulgaria. Vlad, who had a reputation for extreme cruelty, was also known as Dracula (Son of the Dragon) and was the inspiration for the vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. 

During the Battle of Bunker Hill, surviving Revolutionaries were able to escape from the British forces due to the heroics of freed slave Peter Salem.

The army weekly newspaper, YANK, coined the term "GI Joe" in a comic strip drawn by Dave Breger. Other popular features in the newspaper included the comic strip "Sad Sack" and weekly pinup photos of starlets. 

A 10-gallon hat barely holds six pints!

In 1782, The U. S. Congress adopted the Great Seal. The design included an eagle with an olive branch in one talon and 13 arrows in the other. 

The film Jaws was released. John Williams composed the film's score, which earned him an Academy Award. The score's main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes, became synonymous with approaching danger.

The King of England signed the Magna Carta, an historic agreement with his barons that protected individual liberties and established that not even the king was above the law.

Margaret Jones was the first person executed for witchcraft.