| November 6th, 2004 02:05 PM |
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| gorda |
At the www.mickjagger.com forum, (which no longer works), we celebrated Micky's birthday! And we found out that all kinds of weird things happened on the day he was born!
The very exact day he was born, day and year!
July 26, 1943!!!
This was originally for Micky's birthday, but check it out:
On the day you were born . . . the very exact day . . .
On July 26, 1943 . . .
Soldiers made the front cover of Life magazine.
In Tishmoningo, Oklahoma, it was a hot, hot day!
http://users.commkey.net/fussichen/otdnh.htm
It was ”120øF (49øC). The state record.”
In Texas, a hurricane struck the state!
http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/OEM/1943.html
”This hurricane was first detected on July 26, 1943.
The first public awareness of the storm was Monday morning, July 26, 1943. The papers carried an article headlined "FIRST STORM WARNING OF THE SEASON.”
The article went on to report the disturbance was located ‘110 miles west southwest of Burrwood, LA and moving west at 10 mph, attended by strong winds, probably gales. The advisory called for 30-40 mph winds on the Louisiana coast Monday night and in Texas on Tuesday. Small craft were advised to stay in port.’
The Houston Weather Bureau Meteorologist in charge at the time, C. E. Norquist, was quoted as saying when asked about the storm, ‘Don't get the people disturbed by use of the word hurricane. As matters now stand it is a small tropical disturbance. If it gets worse, we will let everyone know in plenty of time.’”
In Los Angeles, a dark, heavy fog . . . smoke . . . smog covered the city for the very first time!
http://www.aqmd.gov/monthly/marchcov.html
”Los Angeles experienced Black Monday on July 26, 1943. This was the first sign of “smog” that would later consume cities from Rio to New York. Black Monday and the subsequent wartime smog were the result of combined industrial and auto emissions. At the time the primary task of public health was communicable diseases, so the threat of “smog” or “air pollution” was added to the long list of things to be confronted.
Researchers worldwide would analyze smog and conclude that it contained a host of chemicals considered dangerous to human health: cyclic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxides, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, benzpyrene, ozone, and lead. Public anxiety about smog would increase when some of its contents would prove to cause cancer in laboratory animals.”
”On July 26, 1943, in the midst of World War II, Los Angeles was attacked -- not by a foreign enemy, but a domestic one -- smog.
The Los Angeles Times reported that a pall of smoke and fumes descended on downtown, cutting visibility to three blocks. Striking in the midst of a heat wave, the "gas attack" was nearly unbearable, gripping workers and residents with an eye-stinging, throat-scraping sensation. It also left them with a realization that something had gone terribly wrong in their city, prized for its sunny climate.”
And, in England, at Livingstone Hospital in Dartford, Kent, a beautiful baby boy was born to Eva Ensley Mary Scutts and Basil Fanshawe “Joe” Jagger, and they named him Michael Philip Jagger.
I LOVE YOU, MICKY!
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| November 6th, 2004 02:14 PM |
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| gorda |
Isn't that weird?
Heat, Smog, Hurricanes, and Micky's Birth!
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| November 6th, 2004 02:15 PM |
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| gorda |
Oh and World War II.
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