Remembering the 1840 birthday of French sculptor extraordinaire Auguste Rodin. His signature works, the Thinker and the Kiss , are masterpieces that everyone recognizes. The Rodin Museum in Paris is a must-C site. He donated the museum’s contents to the French people in his will. Bravo! 🙏👏🏻❤️

On Veteran’s day I’d like 2 pay tribute 2 the 2 veterans that helped found our family-my father-in-law, Frank, who was a Lt. in the USAAF & a B-29 bombardier in the Pacific.& my Mom, LIsl, who after liberation from Concentration camp joined the Canadian Army as a nurse and became a Major. 🙏❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦

1947-Daryl Zanuck releases Gentlemen’s Agreement,1 of the 1st treatments of the issue of antisemitism on the big screen.With Gregory Peck,Dorothy McGuire & John Garfield,it had the star power 2 deliver a strong message about the prejudice pervasive against Jews in our society.Thanks Daryl!

Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps, founded by the Continental Congress OTD IN 1775. In their storied history since, the #USMC has been an incredible force to keep us free. That NOT include domestic deployment for made up emergencies. Semper Fi! Bravo!🙏🥰👏🏻🇺🇸

1938-OTD NAZI Germany & its occupied territories erupted in a nationwide pogrom against thousands of Jewish stores,temples & homes that became known as the Night of Broken Glass-Kristallnacht.For Jews left in those areas it was a wake-up call that the situation was untenable….

1895- OTD German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen first demonstrates the electromagnetic energy that we now recognize as X-Rays. His discovery leads to so many medical innovations and diagnostic improvements. He wins the 1st Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. ⚕️👏🏻🙏

Remembering the 1867 birthday of Polish/French scientist Madame Marie Curie, the 1st woman to receive a Nobel Prize and 1st to receive 2 Nobels. Her work with radioactivity opened the doors to so much technology in the 20th century. And her daughter and husband also won Nobels. Quite a family!👏🏻🥇

Remembering the 1976 bday of American hero #PatTillman, #NFL star and USArmy Ranger. Tragically KIA in 2004 in Afghanistan by friendly fire. Thank you for your service and the ultimate sacrifice you made. 🙏🇺🇸😢

1955- OTD Marty McFly landed his DeLorean 40 years into the past as part of the brilliant 1985 movie comedy #BackToTheFuture Still one of the funniest movies of the ‘80’s. Thank you #MichaelJ.Fox for a brilliant performance 🎥❤️👏🏻 share.google/UwYJSZvjyySH...

Remembering the 1908 bday of Polish born nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat,the only Manhattan Project scientist to leave Los Alamos on moral grounds. He advocated fiercely against nuclear proliferation @ won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.He would have much 2 say about the US resuming nuclear testing😢

OTD in both 1934 & 1942 Triple Crown winners in the AL, Lou Gehrig (34) & Ted Williams (42), lost out on the MVP vote 2 Mickey Cochrane & Joe Gordon respectively.Those 4 men were all HOF’ers.But Lou & Ted had 2 wonder what’s a guy have 2 do 2 win an MVP if the Triple Crown wasn’t enough? ⚾️👏🏻😳

Remembering the 1939 birthday of Jay Black, whose incredible voice guided his group the Americans to a slew of Top 10 hits. I saw him late in his life and he could still belt them out check out Cara Mia Wow!👏🏻🎶❤️ youtu.be/zKp7Xf8OGX8?...

1894-OTD French MD/immunologist Emile Roux successfully demonstrated his vaccine against diphtheria.Dr. Roux was a colleague of Louis Pasteur & helped co-found the Pasteur Institute 2 develop vaccines against rabies & other lifesaving medications. Would that his faith in vaccines persisted 2day!😢🇫🇷⚕️👏🏻

Happy 94th Bday to iconic newsman and political commentator Dan rather, one of the last of the great #CBS news correspondents. I wonder what he thinks of the changes at his old network. But I hope he has a great day!🎂👏🏻📺

1953-OTD General George C. Marshall became the 1st & only American General 2 receive the Nobel Peace Prize 4 his plan 2 rebuild war ravaged Europe after WW2.The Marshall plan did more 2 defeat the Communists than anything else.Good lessons here about the importance of supporting our Allies👏🏻🇺🇸

1969-OTD Tom “The Franchise” Seaver won his first Of 3 Cy Young awards for his 25-7 record for the World Champion #NYMets. He was amazing to behold in those years from 1969-74. One of my greatest heroes in baseball. He appropriately entered the #HOF in 1992 & earned a statue in front of CitiField⚾️👏🏻❤️

1886- OTD POTUS Grover Cleveland dedicated the #StatueofLiberty in NYC. The statue was a gift from the people of France 2 the USA.The dedication was followed by the first Ticker Tape parade down Broadway in history. Celebrating Liberty & treating Allies well is something we could learn from 2day🇫🇷🇺🇸👏🏻❤️

70 yrs ago today the iconic #RebelWithoutACause was premiered, starring #JamesDean, #NatalieWood, & #SalMineo. It captured the teen angst of living in the ColdNwqr and Nuclear Age made the trio stars. James Dean was incredible! Gone too soon. 😞🎥👏🏻

Happy 63rd Bday to British actor #CaryElwes. He has given us great comedic roles such as in the #PrincessBride & #Robinhood-MeninTights, but also serious ones like #Glory & #SavingPrivateRyan. Versatile & entertaining. Have a great day🎂👏🏻🎥

1415-OTD British King Henry V defeated the French Army at Agincourt. Shakespeare immortalized his pep talk-“ We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother. …, "From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd".

1924-OTD Dutch physician/ physiologist Willem Einthoven receives the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his invention of the electrocardiogram. This revolutionized our understanding of the heart and its ailments. Bravo!⚕️🙏

Today would have been the 100th birthday of the undisputed King of Late Night TV, Johnny Carson. His was was the greatest form of entertainment you could get for free. Comedians, great comic sketches, musicians, actors all peppered his show with must-C-📺. Thanks for the memories Mr. Carson🙏👏🏻❤️

Happy 73rd birthday to Pittsburgh’s own, #JeffGoldblum, whose acting career has given us so many memorable roles in movies like the Big Chill, Jurassic Park, the Fly & Independence Day just to name a few. Have a great Day!🎥🙏❤️

1976-OTD 1 of my adolescent heroes, #NYKnicks captain Willis Reed, had his # retired up 2 the rafters of MSG.He played his entire 11 season career with the NYK after graduating from Grambling & led them to 2 #NBA championships.Only 6’9”,he centered up against Wilt,Thurmond,Russell, & Unseld.WOW!🏀❤️

(1) 1973 OTD-US POTUS Nixon accepts the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson & Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus as they refuse orders 2 discharge Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in what is known as "The Saturday Night Massacre".

1781-OTD British LORD Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. George Washington and French Comte de Rochambeau at the Battle of Yorktown. This essentially ended the Revolutionary War.The upstart American Colonies had defeated the greatest empire on earth.Very appropriate to remember on #NOKINGS weekend.!🇺🇸👏🏻🙏

1952-OTD THE 1st edition of the iconic #MadMagazine was released. As a boy growing up in the 50’s and 60’s , this was a constant companion and source of many a giggle in summer camp and in school. I probably missed 3/4 of the satire and failed to appreciate the amazing artwork- but I loved it!🙏👏🏻❤️

1777-OTD General Horatio Gates and his Continental Army defeated British General Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga, a huge boost for Independence. It helped Lafayette and Ben Franklin to convince Louis XVI to support the American cause🇺🇸👏🏻🙏

1846- OTD Dentist William Thomas Green Morton demonstrated the use of either at the “Etherdome” of Harvard Medical school in a tooth extraction. This became a seminal event in the development of “painless” surgery and anesthesia. ⚕️👏🏻🙏

Today, October 15, is National Grouch Day. You are allowed to be grumpy. You can try to relate to grouches in your life. You can try to cheer a grouchy person up. Or you can just watch an episode of #SesameStreet and listen to #OscartheGriuch sing. youtu.be/rxgWHzMvXOY?...

OTD in 1962 US U2 spy planes over Cuba discovered Soviet missile launchers being constructed.Thus began The Cuban Missile Crisis which over the next 2,5 weeks embroiled us in a showdown with the USSR with Nuclear war consequences. Fortunately, JFK & Nikita KHrushchev found an off ramp to avoid WWIII

OTD in 1775, 250 yrs ago, the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of 2 warships. This essentially was the birth of the #USNavy. Admiral Esek Hopkins became the Naval commander and heroes like #JohnPaulJones became part of US history. Happy Birthday, #USN!!🎂🇺🇸🙏

1915-OTD heroic British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by the German Army 4 espionage.She had faithfully tended 2 WWI casualties from both sides while serving in a Belgian hospital.But she confessed 2 helping British prisoners escape through tunnels under the hospital-leading 2 the firing squad😢🙏

50 yrs ago tonite the premiere of #SaturdayNightLive featuring the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players happened. Hard to believe it has lasted so long and produced so many of the world’s greatest comedians and sayings. Bravo to #LorneMichaels for his vision. 📺👏🏻❤️

Remembering the 1837 bday of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw,the Boston born heroic commander of the 54th Massachusetts regiment,an all Black Union fighting force.He lost his life in the unsuccessful assault on Ft. Wagner in South Carolina in 1863.His service is honored by a beautiful bas-relief in Boston

Today would have been the 85th bday of iconic #Beatle John Lennon. Such a giant of music making. What could have been if he wasn’t brutally assassinated in 1980 one could only imagine😢 music.apple.com/us/album/ima...

1645-OTD a French nurse, Jeanne Mance, opened the 1st Hospital in Montreal and 2nd in North America, the Hotel Dieu. It was a major gift to the settlers of Nee France and set the bar high for settlers in New England. ⚕️🙏

This past Sunday the Central MA Jewish Community dedicated a headstone to commemorate the 1200+ Israeli souls massacred OTD 2 yrs ago. The stone says it all.😞🙏

65 yrs ago 2day the BC epic #Spartacus produced & starring #KirkDouglas & directed by ##StanleyKubrick,made its debut in NYC.Controversially, Douglas broke the Blacklist by hiring Dalton Trumbo as the screenwriter.It was a classic of hope that tyranny will lose in the end. Good thought 4 2day!

1947- POTUS Harry S. Truman delivers the 1st televised address 2 the public from the Oval Office. It seems incredibly lo-tech now but it raised the bar 4 political candidates by making their appearance & demeanor on the TV screen an important criteria 4 popularity. Not sure if that was a win?!🤨

Happy 58th birthday to one of my favorite actors, #LievSchreiber, who has given us so many great performances such as #RayDonovan, Defiance, Spotlight and many more. Hope you have a great day🎂🙏👏🏻

Remembering the 1800 bday of Worcester’s own George Bancroft,whose treatise on American History gave him the title of the “Father of American History”.He was also an able politician who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Polk during which time the Naval Academy at Annapolis was built🙏

90 yrs ago today the #HaydenPlanetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC opened its doors. It was one of my favorite places growing up as a kid. Opened up a world of wonder and inquisitiveness in thousands of people over these many years. BRAVO!⭐️

OTD 70 yrs ago the iconic sitcom the Honeymooners debuted on #CBS. Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph set the bar for “reality” comedy. Watching Gleason’s reactions to the situations he got himself into still cracks me up. Bravo!📺

1938-OTD Neville Chamberlain, British PM,conceded to Hitler 40% of Czechoslovakia.His appeasement was supposed to bring “Peace in Our Time”. It don’t last even 11 mos.Let this serve as an example of what will happen if Putin gets 20% of Ukraine-he will not stop there. APPEASEMENT doesn’t work!!!😞

1954-OTD #WillieMays Made The Catch-in game 1 of the World Series against mightY Cleveland,he sprinted with his back 2 home plate 2 make a spectacular catch of a 460 ft drive by slugger Vic Wertz in the old Polo Grounds.Then he wheeled & fired 2 the cutoff man.WOW!⚾️👏🏻  www.google.com/search?sa=X

1941- OTD ICONIC #RedSox slugger #TedWilliams elected to risk his .400 batting average by playing BOTH games of a double header. He went 6 for 8 raising his batting average to ,406! He became the last #MLB player to hit >.400. He lost the MVP to #JoeDiMaggio and his 56 game hit streak!🤨

Happy 60th birthday to #NBA player/coaching great Steve Kerr. He won three rings as a player in Chicago, 2 more with San Antonio, and 3 as a coach with the Golden Sate Warriors.He’s a guy everyone loved to play with and for! Bravo!

1971-OTD #JimPalmer Of the #BaltimoreOrioles wins his 20th game.That makes Baltimore the 2nd team ever 2 boast of 4 20 game winners-Mike Cuellar,Pat Dobson ,Dave McNally & Jim.What a staff!The Orioles won the AL pennant,but a 1 man wrecking crew named #RobertClemente led his #Pirates 2 the WS win⚾️👏🏻

Happy 74th birthday to actor Mark Hamill, whose role as Luke Skywalkwr in the #StarWars universe has been so important in the lives of millions of fans. He has been a comforting presence in all the Sequels. He also is a liberal lion. Hope you have a great birthday!