Selections from the July 2009 Ant Farmer's Almanac Calendar
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1914: Babe Ruth makes his baseball debut and suggests serving hot dogs and beer inside stadiums so he won't have to order take-out during games.
1984: Geraldine Ferraro, of New York becomes the first female major-party VP candidate.
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1865: Horace Greeley advises a young man to "Go west!"; the young man in question is puzzled by this since he'd asked Greeley for directions to Carnegie Hall.
1865: P.T. Barnum's museum burns down; he goes west.
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1789: Bastille Day; citizens of Paris storm Bastille prison; they had been told it was full of cigarettes and stinky cheese.
1832: Opium is exempted from federal tariff duty; asked why, glassy eyed federal tariff officials just stare blankly into space.
1973: Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to the Everly Brothers; they reunite a decade later after stints with the Allman Brothers, Blues Brothers and the Pointer Sisters, respectively.
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1971: Nixon announces he will visit China.
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1769: Father Juniper Serra founds a mission in San Diego, but continues north when local indians tell him that "Dude, the surf up at Malibu is, like, totally awesome!"
1976: Extremely soft-rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years.
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1841: British humor magazine Punch first published.
1902: Baltimore's American League ballclub doesn't have enough men to field a team.
1917: British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor.
1935: Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix." So true.
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1536: Pope's authority declared void in England; stunned Italians say, "Really? You can just do that?"
1927: Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit; it was some guy in the parking lot who was in his way.
1938: Pilot Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland instead of his announced destination of Los Angeles; consequently his reserved table at the Brown Derby is given to Don Ameche.
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