Today, May 25, is a day of honoring our dead. Do you remember when stores closed on Sunday and Holidays? Nobody went shopping for things they really didn't need, and you spent the day with family.
1787 - The Constitutional Convention convenes in Philadelphia, Pa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=25HZNDN2uW4
1927 - The "Movietone News" was shown for the first time at the Sam Harris Theater in New York City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=T7vGi8dyxVs
1935 - American track star Jesse Owens sets three world records and tied another in a little over an hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PbxZQa4C9Vc
1940 - Golden Gate International Exposition reopens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ilE8o31aE&feature=player_detailpage
1961 - President John F. Kennedy says man will step foot on the moon within a decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUXuV7XbZvU&feature=player_detailpage
1962 - The Isley Brothers release "Twist and Shout"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzK9AH9thUo&feature=player_detailpage
1968 - The Gateway Arch is dedicated in St. Louis, Mo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iuKrsXLLaHU
1969 - Midnight Cowboy is released with an X rating. I always think of Joe Buck and Ratso walking down the street ...............
[video=youtube;c412hqucHKw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
(Hmmm wasn't there a trivia question the other day? Now what's the second one?)
and
Iron Butterfly records the album Iron - and side two's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is seventeen minutes long. (how many times could you listen to it? My limit was one and one quarter times. The first time was good then it kinda wore you down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZCkHanF4v1w
1973 - The Edgar Winter Group hits #1 on the U.S. charts with 'Frankenstein', the bands only US No.1. ( I absolutely hate this song. DH roommate said his ex wife's name over and over one night to this (his wife wasn't there). It seemed to go on for hours. We went looking for an apartment in the morning.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OEQZTzIYRXs
1978 - Star Wars is released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sg01XkYe5EU
(and in !983 The Return of the Jedi is released also)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7L8p7_SLzvU
1986 - Millions of people joined hands in "Hands Across America," forming a line across the country to raise money for the nation's hungry and homeless. (we need to do this and pray for our land - If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Il6yAPJh13s