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<\/a>1582 – Eighteen-year-old William Shakespeare<\/strong> marries pregnant 25-year-old Anne Hathaway<\/strong>.\u00a0 Just like the question about his authoring all those plays, it was speculated that the baby was Christopher Marlowe’s.<\/strong><\/p>\n1826 – Jedediah Smith<\/strong> is the first white man to cross the Mohave Desert<\/strong>, leaving from the Great Salt Lake in Utah and arriving in San Diego.\u00a0 He would have made it in less time, but stopped in Palm Springs to play two rounds of golf and get a massage.<\/p>\n 1842 – Ada Lovelace<\/strong>, daughter of poet Lord Byron and English mathematician, was the first computer programmer. She is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbag’s (the father of computers) mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine<\/strong>. Her notes on the engine include an algorithm to calculate Bernoulli numbers. This is recognized as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine, making her the first computer programmer.<\/p>\n Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio<\/p><\/div>\n 1914 – Joe DiMaggio<\/strong>, real name\u00a0Giuseppe\u00a0Paolo DiMaggio, Jr. was born.\u00a0 Only player in major leagues to be selected to the All-Star Game in every season he played.\u00a0 His 56-game hitting streak in 1941 still stands today!\u00a0 Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?<\/span><\/p>\n 1921 – Comedian Rodney Dangerfield<\/strong> was born and as Rodney recalls, he was so ugly that when he was born the doctor smacked his mother.<\/p>\n 1931 – Tommy Allsup<\/strong> was born.\u00a0 \u00a0Allsup was the lead guitarist in Buddy Holly and the Crickets<\/strong> and was touring with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson<\/strong>\u00a0when he lost a coin toss with Valens for a seat on the plane. The plane crashed, killing Valens, Holly, Richardson, and the pilot, while Allsup was a survivor of ‘The Day the Music Died’.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1940 – Brothers Maurice and Dick McDonald<\/strong> start McDonald’s hamburger chain, with some stale buns, a dried out pickle and a small tasteless patty of meat.\u00a0 Everyone loved it!<\/p>\n 1976 – Buffalo Bills running back, O.J. Simpson<\/strong> ran for 273 yards in a game against Detroit and he’s been running ever since . . . presumably in search of the real killer<\/p>\n 1992 – IBM<\/strong> debuts the “Angler”<\/strong>. It combined a mobile phone and PDA allowing the user to make and receive telephone calls, facsimiles, emails and pages. It also included a calendar, address book, notepad, maps, stocks, and news – the first ‘smart phone’.<\/p>\n End of Planet of the Apes<\/p><\/div>\n 1993 – Anna Nicole Smith<\/strong>, real name, Vickie Lynn Marshall or\u00a0Giuseppe\u00a0Paolo DiMaggio, Jr.,<\/span> American actress, model, Playmate of the Year. At age 26, she married 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall.<\/strong> 3978 – Astronauts land on a mysterious planet ruled by apes – the calendar on their spacecraft, as seen in the movie, Planet of the Apes<\/strong>, read November 25, 3978.<\/p>\n 2019 – Bob Sparrow went nowhere, did nothing and had no interesting observations to put in the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow Following are historical happenings that took place this week; some, more interesting than others, but all more interesting than what I did. 1582 – Eighteen-year-old William Shakespeare marries pregnant 25-year-old Anne Hathaway.\u00a0 Just like the question about … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Joe.jpg\")
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<\/a>1952 – First 3-D movie,\u00a0Bwana<\/i>\u00a0Devil<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0premiers. The audience was required to wear special Polaroid viewers.\u00a0The movie\u00a0Bwana Devil<\/i>\u00a0was based on a true story<\/strong> about two man-eating lions who would drag\u00a0railroad construction workers at night from their tents and eat them.\u00a0 I’m guessing it wasn’t a musical-comedy.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/libety-150x150.jpg\")
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\nQuote: “I’m sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.”<\/p>\n