Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Tuesday Thoughts...




April 30, 1789: On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. Rev. Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), newly appointed chaplain of the United States Senate and first Episcopal bishop of New York, officiated at a service in St. Paul's Chapel.


George Washington surprised guests of the nation's first inauguration with a speech after taking the oath of office. The inaugural address has been customary ever since. The Library of Congress is home to the speech manuscript, which still has faint fold lines from being in Washington's pocket. Dear old George if he were resurrected today would probably say, my fellow Americans, the Masonic experiment has failed...assemble the firing squad, now!


April 30, 1946: USS Solar (DE 221) was berthed at Naval Ammunition Depot in Earle, New Jersey to discharge ammunition when one of the crewmen dropped a hedgehog projectile which detonated and caused a series of three explosions. The blasts were so great that the ship's forward superstructure was folded back. Her number 2 gun was demolished and the bridge, main battery director, and mast were all blown aft and to starboard. Both sides of the ship were torn open. The accident killed 7 sailors and injured 125.



She was towed to New York, decommissioned on 21 May 1946. Solar was then stripped of all usable equipment, towed 100 miles out to sea, and sunk on 9 June 1946, in 4200 feet of water. On July 5, 2022, the last living survivor of the explosions – Seaman J.D. Reed – died at age 95.


April 30, 1905: Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.


Fact, fiction and Einstein Folklore


April 30, 1945: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (aged 56), committed suicide in his Berlin bunker [official story], along with his wife, Eva Braun (aged 33). Since mid-January 1945, Hitler retreated to his underground bunker underneath the Reich Chancellery, as Germany headed towards military defeat.  In accordance with Hitler’s Will, Admiral Karl Dönitz was named as the new German Head of State. He was virtually unknown outside Germany. Hitler decided to appoint a naval figure to make the point that his generals had let him down during WW2 and betrayed him. Karl Dönitz died on Christmas eve 1980, age 89.


Ironically, post-WWII when the Pentagon was built & established, it was the Navy brass who ran it including the nuclear football & protocols. That all changed when the evil shadow group took out JFK and the insidious umbrella corp we been living under ever since. Not entirely accurate but you get the point.



April 30, 1956: Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. In a keynote address at the Washington and Lee Mock Convention on April 30, 1956, Barkley spoke of his willingness to sit with the other freshman senators in Congress; he ended with an allusion to Psalm 84:10, saying "I'm glad to sit on the back row," he declared, "for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." Then, with the applause of the crowd in his ears, Alben Barkley collapsed and died from a massive heart attack. For an old-fashioned orator, there could have been no more appropriate final exit from the stage" at age 78.


Mark Hatfield's biographical sketch of Barkley noted that he was, "the last of the old-time vice presidents, the last to preside regularly over the Senate, the last not to have an office in or near the White House, the last to identify more with the legislative than the executive branch. He was an old warhorse, the veteran of many political battles, the perpetual keynote speaker of his party who could rouse delegates from their lethargy to shout and cheer for the party's leaders and platform. His stump -speaker's lungs enabled him to bellow out a speech without need for a microphone."
Mark O. Hatfield, with the Senate Historical Office


Columbia Daily Spectator of April 30, 1968. And Flyer during occupation of Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, 1968.


1968: Columbia in Crisis


April 30, 1969: The last episode of paranormal ITV series, The Champions, was broadcast. It featured 3 telepathic agents: Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready & Richard Barrett, who work for "Nemesis". In all, there were 30 episodes.







April 30, 1975: The 1st episode of the detective series, Starsky & Hutch, a 70-minute pilot movie, was broadcast on ABC-TV. It was followed by 92 episodes of 50 minutes each, until 15 May 1979. Paul Michael Glaser played Starsky and David Soul, Hutch. The coolest cop car of all: a Ford Gran Torino. Apparently, was a popular show in the UK (at least the paint job) and France too.





Photos from the British GQ magazine and the original 1976 Ford Torino was at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles last year.


Fr. Mulcahy (William Christopher) and an anachronistic* Fallout Shelter Sign cameo in the "Fallout" S1E10 of AFTERMASH (CBS, Dec 5, 1983).


*The episode takes place in 1953 - eight years before the first shelter sign was posted. I guess some would call this cold war predictive programming.


"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

― Tom Robbins (novelist; friend of Terence McKenna & Timothy Leary)