Saturday’s Nostalgic News – May 13

“TV/RADIO TODAY”

• 1978 – Jimmy Buffett sang “Son Of A Sailor” on the television show Saturday Night Live.
• 1993 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and Barry White were guest voices on the season finale of the “The Simpsons.” The episode was entitled “Krusty Gets Kancelled.”

“OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS…”

• 1861 – Britain declared its neutrality in the American Civil War.
• 1880 – Thomas Edison tested his experimental electric railway in Menlo Park.
• 1911 – The New York Giants set a major league baseball record. Ten runners crossed home plate before the first out of the game against St. Louis.
• 1940 – Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.
• 1949 – The first gas turbine to pump natural gas was installed in Wilmar, AR.
• 1958 – U.S. Vice President Nixon’s limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1967 – Mickey Mantle hit his 500th homerun.
• 1968 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave a series of interviews to help launch Apple Corps in the US.

• 1971 – Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane crashed her Mercedes into a wall near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and was hospitalised.
• 1974 – Forty-three people were arrested and more than fifty were injured after youths started throwing bottles outside a Jackson Five concert at RFK stadium in Washington DC.
• 1982 – The Chicago Cubs became the first major league baseball team to win 8,000 games.
• 1985 – Tony Perez became the oldest major league baseball player to hit a grand slam home run at the age of 42 and 11 months.

“NATIONAL DAYS”

• NATIONAL APPLE PIE DAY
• NATIONAL STAMP OUT HUNGER DAY FOOD DRIVE DAY
• NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY
• NATIONAL BIRTH MOTHER’S DAY
• NATIONAL BABYSITTER’S DAY
• NATIONAL CROUTON DAY
• NATIONAL FRUIT COCKTAIL DAY
• NATIONAL ARCHERY DAY
• NATIONAL MINIATURE GOLF DAY
• NATIONAL CORNELIA DE LANGE SYNDROME AWARENESS DAY