Chicago Cubs baseball player and Marine Corps Reserve veteran Rick Monday noticed two protesters trying to burn an American flag in the outfield during a game at Dodger Stadium and snatched the flag from them.
Portugal's constitution proclaimed socialism to be a national goal.
A mass prison outbreak occurred in Laos.
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This was obvious, but will remain unrecognized for quite some time, for the same reason that coal is almost dead, but people don't grasp it.
Average people's ability to really grasp an existential change in something is pretty poor as a rule. It's not so much that people choose to live in the past as it is that they have no grasp that the past of their younger lives and of their parents lives, the latter of which a lot of people hold to in a sort of mythical way, evolves. We see that a lot in the U.S. right now.
The entire imaginary economy of Donald Trump is one that's grounded in a mythical 1970s, when he was young and clubbing and men lusting after girls in their teens was basically okay, du e to the sexual revolution. MAGA, for its part, imagines a mythical 1950s economy, not understanding why the economy of the 1950s was the way it was. In both instances, and particularly in regard to the 1970s economy, things were not as rosy as imagined.
Coal has been dying ever since the Royal Navy went to oil for ships. We've discussed that before here:
Coal is not coming back. In fact, it's demise is accelerating. Lot of the globe, including China, in spite of what a demented Donald Trump thinks, is racing towards renewables. Trump can't really imagine it as he's 80 years old and in the 70s there weren't very many big windmills, although even then there was a push towards renewable power.
Indeed, that push was started by the Arab Oil Embargo and people have been working on the technology ever since. Now renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels for power generation. Only nuclear can compete.
Every since the 70s engineers have been working on electric vehicles as well. Their day has arrived.
And Donald Trump started a war that will accelerate the pace of this change, rapidly. Trump might end up being recalled as the greenest President ever, accidentally.
The change just won't be a switch to clean electrical power, and that switch is rapidly coming and no amount of John Barrasso and Harriet Hageman calling for the mythical "clean coal" will stop it. It's also going to be a switch away from the sort of vehicle based economy we have now. People aren't going to stop owning cars, but already a younger generation really isn't all that enamored with them. Self driving vehicles, as much as I hate the idea, are coming in. With them will come self driving semi tractors and more importantly, in my view, remotely driven electric trains.
There's no reason that railroads can't be controlled like giant model train layouts. Model trains already provide the model for it. We're not far from that day.
That day is coming now whether Donald Trump, Harriet Hageman, John Barrasso, or people with an emotional tie to fossil fuels like it or not. Your livelihood depending on it won't matter either.
It's already happening.
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, suffering from irreversible brain damage, could be disconnected from the ventilator that had been keeping her alive since April 15, 1975. She had been found unresponsive after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma. A Catholic, her parents had appealed to Catholic moral theology arguing that extraordinary means not be required to preserve her life.
She'd live for an additional nine years.
She had been trying to lose weight to fit into a bikini.
This is one of those events I can personally recall. It was a major news story at the time.
The UN Security Council found South Africa liable for an act of aggression against Angola, a fairly dubious Security Council conviction given that what South Africa really did is intervene in a civil war that other powers were likewise involved in.
The slam dunk was restored as a legal college basketball feature.
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Bernard Law Montgomery died at age 88.
Of Scots Irish descent, he was born in Kennington, England to a Church of Ireland cleric and grew up principally in Australia when his father was appointed Bishop of Tasmania. He was commissioned an Army officer in 1908. He became a British Field Marshall during World War Two and is justifiably famous. He was deputy commander of NATO until 1958, when he retired at age 70.
Isabel Peron was deposed.
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Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his retirement at age 60 due to what he knew was advancing dementia, although, in those years before this was as understood as well as it currently is, he cited physical and mental exhaustion. He would die in 1995, although his dementia never took fully hold.
The more power to him. Right now, in the United States, we have a demented President in a family with a history of dementia, who is sending people off to war based on his feelings. History will not forgive us for putting up with this.
John Thune, in the Senate, is too old for his job.
John Barrasso, in the Senate, is 73, way too old for his job.
And the people who will die in the current war can take no comfort in that, as Congress is composed, on the Republican side of abject cowards.
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Route 66 was recorded for the first time, the introductory edition of the Bobby Troup work by Nat King Cole.
Troup was a songwriter and actor, married to actress Julie London
He was also a graduate of Wharton, which produced the unfortunate Trump and Gray, but that's another matter. He served in the Marine Corps in World War Two, by which time he was already a songwriter. The war did not really interrupt his songwriting.
Route 66 was an absolute masterpiece, and has been recorded an innumerable number of times, and was even used for the basis of a television series that ran from 1960 to 1964.
In some very real ways, Route 66 symbolized the post war world and its sense of youth, indicability, and automotive freedom.
Route 66 itself was one of the original U.S. Highways of the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. It became a huge factor in Depression Era migration to California, which makes the way its nostaglically remembered somewhat ironic, but as
College basketball player George Mikan, who was hugely popular turned pro.
He was a great player, and notably played with glasses. He struggled with diabetes in his final years, which focused attention on the plight of pre big money players.
The American Bar Association (ABA) voted to amend its rules of ethics to allow lawyers to advertise their services. Initially, the ABA approved letting attorneys buy display ads in telephone directories (specifically, the "Yellow Pages" for business phone numbers), with limitations on what could be allowed in the ad.
It's been an absolute disaster.
I used to be a member of the ABA, which does provide some good services, but I ultimately dropped out as it truly had some "woke" sections to it that had little to do with reality.
Abuna Theophilos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, was removed from office by Ethiopia's military rulers and imprisoned. He'd be murdered on August 14, 1979.
During his captivity he escaped on one occasion and thought about seeking refuge in the Greek Embassy. He decided instead to head for a monastery, but was captured en route.
The Clark National Forest and the Mark Twain National Forest, both in Missouri. were merged into one unit.
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I was not aware that this was a 1976 movie, but then, I've never thought of the topic either.
I've actually never seen Taxi Driver all the way through.* It's just too icky for me. But the point raised here, tracking the depictions of New York City from the early 1960s into the 1970s, from "magical" to decline, is a really interesting observation.
Somewhere I have a series photographs of my mother in New York that must date from the late 1940s. She and some friends went down from Montreal to visit. She told me once how "clean" New York was, that being her observation from that trip.
I've been to New York state, but it's been years and years. My exposure to New York City, however, is limited to the airport, a memory which is equally old.
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*Indeed, of the movies mentioned in this thread, the only one I've seen all the way through is Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Leonard Peltier was arrested in Canada and charged with the murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the husband of Queen Juliana and the inspector general of the Netherlands Armed Forces, was implicated in a bribery scandal in testimony by an official of the Lockheed Corporation. He confirmed accepting the bribe in a posthumously published memoir, acknowledging it was a mistake, but claiming all the money went to the World Wildlife Fund.
Sort of an example of how monarchy behaved, the prince is pretty far from a universally admirable person in general, although his record is mixed. A German, he worked in Germany in the 1930s for IG Faben where he was a member of the Reiter-SS (SS Cavalry Corps) before it was a full time military establishment, and to the paramilitary National-sozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps (NSKK) although he never showed any outward Nazi sympathy or political views in general otherwise. He denied these memberships, although its certain that he belonged. He claimed to sever all of this ties after marrying Princess Julian, the future queen, in 1937. During the war, however, he actively supported the Dutch cause and saw military service and was regarded as a war hero by the Dutch, and not without good reason.
He helped found the World Wildlife Fund after the war, and was its first president.
He had four children by his wife, and two more by mistresses, all daughters.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith warned of a new large-scale guerilla offensive against hte country and that it would entail significant military expenditure.
The caisson horse Black Jack died at age 19.
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Just as with the 1916 Flu Epidemic, the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak commenced on an Army post, when Private David Lewis died of the disease.
President Ford signed the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act into law creating the Consolidated Rail Corporation to operate freight trains in the northeastern United States. The act united much of the rail systems of the Penn Central, Ann Arbor Railroad, Erie Lackawanna Railway, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Reading Company, Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh and Hudson River Railway into Conrail.
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The 1976 Winter Olympics opened in Innsbruck.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan resigned as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.in anticipation of running for Congress, although he did not express that goal at the time.
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Would that we could be braced by such great mean again.
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In Buckley v. Valeo the United States Supreme Court struck down most limits on political campaign spending as unconstitutional, opening the door to disaster.
George Bush became head of the CIA.
Registration for the draft was called off.
