[The Poet]

On this day in 1941, in a game against the Cleveland Indians, Joltin' Joe DiMaggio failed to get a hit. Of itself, this would not be of significance, but it was the first time he hadn't in 56 consecutive games. That streak remains to this day, and likely shall for the foreseeable future. In 1938 aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, with a flight plan filed for a return trip to California. Twenty-eight hours later, he landed in Dublin Ireland, and thus earned the appellation "Wrong Way" . . . though his claims that he got lost were widely dismissed as a fabrication.

In 1955 Disneyland opened in Anaheim CA, and you still can't manage to get in . . . unless you are a Kardashian. And in 1967 teen heart-throbs The Monkees, on a summer-long American tour, lost their opening act after only 8 shows when The Jimi Hendrix Experience suddenly left, due mainly to the guitarist (largely unknown to the US audience) getting sick of hearing the teeny-bopper crowd booing him offstage as they screamed for Davy Jones. This fiasco might have been foreseen by all but the totally myopic, even if those early dates had not included such avant-guard locations as Jacksonville, Charlotte, and Greensboro.