Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Schultz, the great cartoonist.
Schultz was born in Minneapolis and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was an only child that loved drawing from the beginning. He was conscripted in 1943 and served as an infantryman, narrowly avoiding killing a German soldier towards the end of t he war as he fogot to load the M2HB machine gun he was assigned to.
After the war, he first worked for the Catholic comic magazine Timeless Topix. Peanuts had its first appearance, of sorts, in 1947.
I don't have a clue what this photograph is supposed to depict, and only know that it was taken on this day in 1922.
Opera singer Beniamino Gigli and Paul Longone, general manager of the Chicago City Opera Company.
The first popular election for the position of President of Uruguay was held. José Serrato of the Colorado (Red) Party won.
Red would indicate, of course, it's left wing ideology, which it holds. That's because red is the color of the left everywhere in the world, except the US.
Well, it wasn't always that way. When John Birchers used to state "better dead than red" they didn't mean "better dead than a member of the Republican Party". But later, some pinhead reversed the colors in the US as an example of moronic American Exceptionalism. That individual should be sentenced to read Mao's Little Red Book every day for the rest of his life.
Anyhow. . .
The United Kingdom turned control of the Gallipoli peninsula over to the Turks.
Dr. Jack premiered.
It was one of the most popular films of 1922.
