Question: Who coined the phrase, “Tell it to the Marines!”

Yesterday’s Question answered below: What planet is in between Mars and Jupiter?
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History for 12/9/2023
Birthdays: Sappho, John Milton, Jean De Brunhoff, Emil Waldteufel the composer of The Skaters Waltz, Admiral Grace Hopper who wrote the earliest computer language, Margraret Hamilton, Hermoinie Gingold, Dalton Trumbo, John Cassavettes, Broderick Crawford, Dick Butkus, Red Foxx, Cesar Franck, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Kirk Douglas, Buck Henry, Felicity Huffman, Mario Cantone, Alan Zaslove, John Malkovich is 70, Judy Dench is 89

536- The legions of Byzantine General Belisarius captured Rome from the Ostrogoths. This was part of Emperor Justinian’s unsuccessful plan to win back the western half of the old Roman Empire.

1641- Famed Flemish portrait artist Sir Anthony van Dyck died of a fever at his home in Blackfriars, London. He was 42.

1783- First executions began at England’s Newgate Prison, replacing the traditional public hanging, drawing, quartering, branding, beheading place of Tyburn Hill- approximately where London’s Marble Arch is today.

1803- Congress passed the Twelfth Amendment calling for the President and Vice President to be of the same party. Before this, the system was the Vice President was the loser of the presidential election, thus the people’s second choice. But trying to govern with your bitter political enemy standing right behind you proved impractical. The Amendment also defined the order of succession: President, Vice President, Secretary of State. Speaker of the House, Senate Leader Pro-Tem. In 1945 the 22nd Amendment excluded the Secretary of State, who was never an elected official.

1824- Battle of Ayacucho- Simon Bolivar defeated the last Royal Spanish Army in the Americas.

1825- THE LATIN AMERICAN BUBBLE- The London Stock Exchange crashed over rampant stock speculation in the potential wealth in the new emerging Latin American republics. Financier Nathan Rothschild became a national figure when he lent the Bank of England millions to stay solvent. Thanks to new communications and international investment for the first time the London panic reached across national borders and caused the U.S. Stock Exchange and the Paris Bourse to also crash. This kind of speculation in futures caused the South Sea Bubble in France and the Tulip craze a century earlier. We’ve seen it in our own times with the global credit crash of 2008 and the crypto-currency crash of 2022.

1835- First battle of San Antonio de Bexar. Angry Texas citizens forced Mexican
General Cos to abandon a post in an old mission called the Alamo and give up a store of valuable cannon. This was the incident that provoked President Santa
Anna into attacking San Antonio the following Spring.

1840- Dr. David Livingstone set sail for Africa to do missionary work. He met Stanley in 1871.

1854- Albert Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published. The battle had been fought earlier that June.

1861- The first ever government oversight committee formed. The Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. It was created because Congressmen were afraid President Lincoln was a naïve hillbilly lawyer who was losing the Civil War. All they succeeded in doing was give Lincoln more stress and at one point they even accused First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln of being a Confederate spy.

1889- The Chicago Auditorium dedicated. The landmark building’s architect Louis Sullivan had hired a new assistant to help with the drawings-Frank Lloyd Wright.

1899- BLACK WEEK-Battle of Stormberg Junction. A series of small battles in which British forces were defeated by Boer guerrillas in South Africa.
The commanding British general Sir Redvers Buller was considered so slow moving that one wag suggested they periodically hold a mirror up to his nostrils to check for signs of life. He was later replaced with the more energetic Lord Roberts of Kandahar, “Old Bobs”.

1905- Richard Strauss’s opera Salome premiered in Dresden. The lead role demands a soprano with big Wagnerian lungs but also a flat stomach to do the strip tease The Dance of the Seven Veils. When the opera debuted in New York, prudish old millionaires like J.P. Morgan were shocked at its’ blatant sexuality. They threatened to cut off funding until Sal and her skimpy veils was banished from the schedule.

1907- the first Christmas Seals go on sale to fight tuberculosis.

1909- Mary Harris a.k.a. Mother Jones spoke at the Thalia Theater in support of
the "The Strike of the 20,000" Immigrant seamstresses in New York's garment
district. "Every strike I have ever been in has been won by women!"

1917- During World War I, Field Marshal Allenby and the British army entered Jerusalem while Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab forces marched on Damascus. To promote harmony between Arabs and Jews, Allenby ordered the building of a huge YMCA in the Old City. The people that schvitz together….

1931- Disney short Mickey’s Orphans debuted.

1936- The first cookery show appeared on British television.

1937- In the path of advancing Japanese armies, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and his government abandoned his capitol Nanking and moved to Chunking.

1946- Damon Runyon died, the writer whose characters the musical "Guys and
Dolls' are based. His philosophy: "All life is six to five against."

1948- Actor Ossie Davis married actress Ruby Dee.

1960- Coronation Street premiered on British ITV.

1964- John Coltrane recorded his landmark jazz album “A Love Supreme”. Late on foggy nights Trane liked to take his saxophone out onto the middle of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in the night fog, and practice by himself.

1965- Bill Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" the first half hour animated TV special featuring the music of Vince Guaraldi. Producer Lee Mendelson had heard Guaraldi's jazz combo perform in San Francisco. He never scored a film before:" How many yards of music do you want? At the preview screening for CBS executives, the show was met with deathly silence; when the show concluded, one executive said to the director Bill Melendez, "Well, you gave it a good try." CBS hated its religious message, the idea of actual kids voicing the characters, not having a laugh track and having jazz as the soundtrack. They only aired it out of obligation to the sponsor, Coca-Cola. It was not screened for any critics sans one Time Magazine critic (who gave it a positive review). Estimates are that 15,490,000 households and 36 million people watched Charlie Brown and his friends that night. A Charlie Brown Christmas won an Emmy and has been a holiday favorite every year since.

1967- At a Doors concert lead singer Jim Morrison was sprayed with mace and arrested by Miami police for “lewd behavior” on stage, but probably more for referring to the cops as pigs.

1968- The MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS- At the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, Dr Douglas Engelbart of Stanford demonstrated the first personal computer workstation. He showed how people would use hot keys, a printer and scanner, cut and paste text. And he had a real time internet hookup to another workstation at Palo Alto, 120 miles away. His student assistant was Stewart Brand, who would later create the Whole Earth Catalog. In the audience was student Andries van Dam, who would one day create SIGGRAPH. Its been called “The 21 Century dropped in on 1968”.

1967- Nicholas Ceaucescu became dictator of Communist Romania.

1992-Britains Prime Minister John Major announced the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Wales.

1994- Disney Animators in California move into their new Animation building designed by Robert Stern.

1994- The Surgeon-General of the United States, Dr Jocelyn Elders, was forced to step down after her statements that sex education in primary schools include masturbation outraged many conservatives.

2004- Mia Hamm and the stars of the Women’s National Soccer Team played their last game, defeating Mexico 5-0.

2008- Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois was arrested for corruption and having a really bad haircut.

2340- Mr Worf, the Klingon officer of Star Trek Next Generation was born.
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Yesterday’s Question: What planet is in between Mars and Jupiter?

Answer. There is no planet in between Mars and Jupiter. Just a large asteroid belt, which may be the remains of a disintegrated planet.