In the OED as the definition of "clutch".

One of Bill Murray's finest moments, with a Baylor twist:



This is even better:

Murrary?

???

The graphic on the video spelled it Murrary.

I didn't notice.
I guess every one has typos.

September 22:

1515: Birthday of Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of Henry VIII

1692: Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 20 hanged overall during Salem Witch Trials

1761: George III was crowned King of Great Britain.

1776: Nathan Hale was hanged by the British for spying.

1791: Birthday of Michael Faraday, English physician and chemist

1823: Joseph Smith claimed to have found the golden plates after being sent to the by the angel Moroni. This formed the basis of Mormonism.

1862: President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.

1918: Birthday of Hans Scholl, German activist, co-founder of The White Rose Nazi resistance movement

1937: Publication of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

1947: Birthday of Norma McCovey, American activist, the Roe of Roe v Wade, later a Christian pro-life activist

1949: The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb successfully.

1958: Birthday of Neil Cavuto, American journalist and author

1958: Birthday of Andrea Bocelli, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

1958: Birthday of Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

1960: Birthday of Scott Baio, American actor

1961: President John F Kennedy signed a congressional act that established the Peace Corps.

1965: Birthday of Mark Guthrie, American baseball player

1975: Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.

1980: A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.

1989: Death of Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter

1999: Death of George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer

2001: Death of Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor

2007: Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy: "I'm a Man! I'm 40!"

2010: Death of Eddie Fisher, American singer, father to Princess Leia

September 22, 2007: “I’m a Man! I’m 40!” pic.twitter.com/NIkWNuLhQK

— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) September 22, 2020

September 23:

63 BC: Birthday of Augustus (Octavian), Roman emperor

1122: Holy Roman Emperor Henry V and Pope Callixtus II agreed to the Concordat of Worms to end the Investiture Controversy.

1215: Birthday of Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor

1642: Harvard College held its first commencement exercises.

1779: Capt. John Paul Jones won a major victory against British warships Serapis and Countess of Scarborough.

1780: British Major John Andr was arrested as a spy by American soldiers. He was carrying evidence of the treason of Benedict Arnold.

1806: Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis after completing their exploration of the western territories to the Pacific coast and back.

1846: Astronomers at Berlin Observatory discovered the planet Neptune.

1920: Birthday of Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer

1926: Birthday of John Coltrane, American saxophonist and composer

1930: Birthday of Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor

1939: Death of Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist

1962: The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened in New York City.

1987: Death of Bob Fosse, American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director

September 24:

622: Muhammad completed the first Hegira from Mecca to Medina.

787: The Second Council of Nicaea assembled at Hagia Sophia, the great church in Constantinople (now Istanbul).

1583: Birthday of Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian general

1755: Birthday of John Marshall, American Continental Army officer, jurist, and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1789: Congress passed the Judiciary Act which established the first Supreme Court, created the rest of the federal judiciary, and created the office of the Attorney General.

1846: Gen. Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey during the Mexican-American War.

1896: Birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer

1902: Birthday of Rohollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, Ayatollah after the Iranian Revolution

1906: Pres. Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devil's Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

1911: Birthday of Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, briefly General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1948: The Honda Motor Company was founded.

1957: Pres. Eisenhower sent the 101stAirborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation.

1960: The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, was launched.

1964: The Warren Commission delivered their report on the assassination of JFK to Pres. Johnson.

1991: Death of Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator

1993: The Cambodian monarchy was restored in the person of Norodom Sihanouk.

2005: Hurricane Rita made landfall in parts of Louisiana and Texas devastating portions of those states.

September 25:

1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge: Harold II of England defeated Harold Hardrada, the King of Norway invading England. He then raced south, the full length of England, to face another invasion from William, the Duke of Normandy (aka William the Conqueror).

1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean.

1555: The Peace of Augsburg was signed by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League ending one of the religious wars of the time. Local rulers were allowed to choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism.

1683: Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist

1744: Birthday of Frederick William II of Prussia

1789: Congress passed the Bill of Rights.

1849: Death of Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer

1897: Birthday of William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer

1929: Birthday of Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author

1943: Birthday of Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, Secretary of Defense under Pres. Obama

1944: Birthday of Michael Douglas, American actor and producer

1951: Birthday of Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer

1952: Birthday of Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist

1957: The Little Rock Nine began their first full day of classes.

1959: Pres. Eisenhower met with Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev for talks at Camp David.

1968: Birthday of Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper

1969: Birthday of Catherine Zeta-Jones, American actress

1970: Death of Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator

1971: Death of Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician; Supreme Court Justice

2016: Death of Arnold Palmer, American golfer

2018: Bill Cosby was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for sexual assault.

September 26:

1087: William II was crowned King of England

1580: Francis Drake returned to England after circumnavigating the globe.

1774: Birthday of Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and environmentalist

1777: British troops occupied Philadelphia.

1789: Pres. George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson the first Secretary of State of the U.S.

1791: Birthday of Theodore Gericault, French painter and lithographer

1820: Death of Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer

1888: Birthday of T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, and critic

1898: Birthday of George Gershwin, American pianist and composer

1902: Death of Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founder of Levi Strauss & Co.

1905: Albert Einstein published a paper introducing his special theory of relativity.

1918: Meuse-Argonne offensive began. This was the last major offensive of WWI that ultimately ended the war with an Allied victory, largely because of the hundreds of thousands of fresh American troops.

1933: As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he gave them their nickname, G-Men.

1934: The ocean liner RMS Queen Marywas launched.

1937: Death of Bessie Smith, American singer and actress

1948: Birthday of Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter, actress

1952: Death of George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet

1950: United Nations forces recaptured Seoul from North Korean forces.

1958: Birthday of Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian and author

1960: First televised presidential debate: presidential candidates Richard Nixon vs John F. Kennedy.

1969: Release of the Beatles' final album, Abbey Road.

1981: Nolan Ryan set a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

1984: The United Kingdom and China reached an agreement to transfer control of Hong Kong in 1997.

2008: Death of Paul Newman, American actor, director, producer, and businessman

2019: Death of Jacques Chirac, French politician and President of France

Discussion regarding The Beatles las album is always interesting, sometimes controversial.

The "Let it Be" album was primarily recorded before the "Abbey Road" album but was released after "Abbey Road".

And I say "primarily" because there were a few little things after the release of "Abbey Road".

September 27:

1529: Suleiman I attacked Vienna, beginning a siege that would last over two weeks.

1540: Pope Paul III established the Society of Jesus, aka the Jesuits.

1590: Pope Urban VII died only 13 days after being chosen, the shortest papacy in history.

1601: Birthday of Louis XIII of France

1722: Birthday of Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, Governor of Massachusetts

1777: After evacuating Philadelphia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania became the U.S. capital for a day.

1791: The National Assembly voted to award full citizenship to Jews in France.

1822: Jean-Franois Champollion announced that he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

1840: Birthday of Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian

1917: Death of Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor

1921: Death of Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator

1938: The ocean linerQueen Elizabethwas launched in Glasgow.

1939: Poland surrendered, completing Germany's conquest (aided by the Soviet Union).

1940: Germany, Italy & Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.

1972: Birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman

1972: Birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman

and Candle Maker

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1972: Birthday of Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress, blogger, and businesswoman

and Candle Maker

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And woo peddler.

September 28:

551 BC: Birthday of Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

48 BC: Pompey the Great was assassinated.

1066: William the Conqueror landed in England to begin the Norman Conquest.

1781: The Battle of Yorktown began. This American victory, with considerable French aid, would convince the British to seek peace and thus guaranteed American independence.

1821: The Mexicans drafted their Declaration of Independence from the Spanish Empire.

1841: Birthday of Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician

1871: Brazil's Parliament passed a law that would begin the emancipation of their slaves.

1889: The General Council on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defined the length of a meter.

1891: Death of Herman Melville, American author and poet

1895: Death of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist

1901: Birthday of Ed Sullivan, American television host

1915: Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, American who spied for the Soviets

1918: Late in WWI, a British soldier came upon a wounded German soldier & spared his life. Although, the details are sketchy, it seems that man was Adolf Hitler.

1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

1941: Ted Williams bat .400. He is the last pro baseball player to do so.

1970: Death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician

1974: Steve Beaird took a Neal Jeffrey pass 84 yards for a TD as eventual SWC champ Baylor upset #12 Oklahoma State, 31-14.

1985: Ralph Stockemer's 40 yard TD run helped Baylor rout the visiting Texas Tech Red Raiders 31-0. This was the second victory in a 6 game win streak.

1989: Death of Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, President of the Philippines

1991: Death of Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader

2000: Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem. This sparked the Second Intifada.

2014: Hong Kong citizens began protests against restrictive measures being imposed on them from Beijing.

2016: Death of Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, President of Israel

September 29:

106 BC: Birthday of Pompey, Roman general and politician

1227: Pope Gregory IX excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II for failing to participate in the Crusades. Frederick would proceed on a crusade, without first reconciling with the pope, and achieve spectacular results through diplomacy.

1547: Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright

1758: Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English admiral, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

1780: Maj. John Andre, accomplice to Benedict Arnold, was sentenced to death.

1881: Birthday of Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher

1901: Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic

1902: Death of Emile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright

1907: The cornerstone was laid at the Washington National Cathedral.

1907: Birthday of Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman

1913: Death of Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, inventor of diesel engine

1918: Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defenses on the Western front during WWI. The German Supreme Army Command told the political leaders they needed to negotiate for peace.

1923: The British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandates for Syria and Lebanon took effect. In essence, the League of Nations provided cover for the imperial transfer of territory from the defunct Ottoman Empire to the victorious Allied empires.

1935: Birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1941: Beginning of Babi Yar massacre near Kiev as the Nazis murdered thousands of Jews with the aid of Ukrainian collaborators.

1943: Birthday of Lech Walesa, Polish electrician, labor organizer, and politician, 2ndPresident of Poland, leader of Solidarity

1976: Birthday of Dave Aranda, Baylor football head coach

1988: Birthday of Kevin Durant, American basketball player

1990: Construction of the Washington National Cathedral was completed.

1990: The YF-22, now known as the F-22 Raptor, flew for the first time.

2008: Largest single-day drop in the Dow.

2010: Death of Tony Curtis, American actor

Happy birthday von Mises!

The Austrian School is so important.

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September 29:

106 BC: Birthday of Pompey, Roman general and politician

1227: Pope Gregory IX excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II for failing to participate in the Crusades. Frederick would proceed on a crusade, without first reconciling with the pope, and achieve spectacular results through diplomacy.

1547: Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet and playwright

1758: Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English admiral, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar

1780: Maj. John Andre, accomplice to Benedict Arnold, was sentenced to death.

1881: Birthday of Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher

1901: Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic

1902: Death of Emile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright

1907: The cornerstone was laid at the Washington National Cathedral.

1907: Birthday of Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman

1913: Death of Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, inventor of diesel engine

1918: Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line, the last line of German defenses on the Western front during WWI. The German Supreme Army Command told the political leaders they needed to negotiate for peace.

1923: The British Mandate for Palestine and the French Mandates for Syria and Lebanon took effect. In essence, the League of Nations provided cover for the imperial transfer of territory from the defunct Ottoman Empire to the victorious Allied empires.

1935: Birthday of Jerry Lee Lewis, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1941: Beginning of Babi Yar massacre near Kiev as the Nazis murdered thousands of Jews with the aid of Ukrainian collaborators.

1943: Birthday of Lech Walesa, Polish electrician, labor organizer, and politician, 2ndPresident of Poland, leader of Solidarity

1976: Birthday of Dave Aranda, Baylor football head coach

1988: Birthday of Kevin Durant, American basketball player

1990: Construction of the Washington National Cathedral was completed.

1990: The YF-22, now known as the F-22 Raptor, flew for the first time.

2008: Largest single-day drop in the Dow.

2010: Death of Tony Curtis, American actor

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2012: Baylor and West Virginia combine for 1,507 total yards and 19 touchdowns on 28 total possessions (BU 9 TDs, 2 missed FGs, 2 punts, 1 INT; WV 10 TDs, 3 punts, 1 end of half). WV wins 70-63.

September 30:

1399: Henry IV was proclaimed king of England

1452: the first book is published (Guttenburg Bible)

1520: Suleiman the Magnificent was proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

1732: Birthday of Jacques Necker, Swiss-French politician, Prime Minister of France

1791: First performance of The Magic Fluteby Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart took place in Vienna. He died two months later.

1791: France's National Constituent Assembly was dissolved to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.

1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant began operation.

1888: Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims.

1889: The Wyoming legislature wrote a constitution granting women the vote so when they became a state in

1890, they were the first state to grant suffrage to women.

1915: During WWI a Serbian became the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft using ground-to-air fire.

1927: Babe Ruth hits a record 60th home run (record would last until 1961)

1928: Birthday of Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American author, academic, and activist

1935: Dedication of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River.

1935: Birthday of Johnny Mathis, American singer and actor

1938: The Munich Pact was signed in which Great Britain, France & Italy agreed that Czechoslovakia should give the Sudetenland to Hitler's Germany. It delayed the outbreak of war but the Czech's were not consulted and they were betrayed by their Allies. It was the climax of appeasement and was proved worthless 6 months later when the German armies marched on Prague and took the entire country.

1939: 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg)

1947: Beginning of the 1947 World Series with several firsts: the first World Series to be televised, to include a black player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have 6 umpires on the field.

1949: TheBerlin Airlift ended.

1950: Baylor Stadium (later Floyd Casey Stadium) opens with a 34-7 win over the University of Houston.

1954: USS Nautilus commissioned as first nuclear powered submarine.

1955: Death of James Dean in an automobile accident.

1962: James Meredith defied racial segregation rules by entering the University of Mississippi resulting in riots.

1968: The Boeing 747 is shown to the public for the first time.

2005: A Danish newspaper printed cartoons featuring Muhammad resulting in much controversy from angry Muslims.

The Diamond Sutra says Hi to Herr Guttenburg.

October 1:

331 BC: Alexander the Great defeated the forces of Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

86 BC: Birthday of Sallust, Roman historian

1553: Coronation of Queen Mary I of England

1800: In the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain ceded Louisiana to France. Thirty months later, Napoleon would sell the territory to the U.S.

1814: The Congress of Vienna opened to redraw the map of Europe and formulate a lasting peace. Despite the interruption of Napoleon's Hundred Days (escape from exile and the Battle of Waterloo), they accomplished this goal spectacularly: general peace in Europe would last 99 years until WWI.

1832: Texian political delegates met at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in how Mexico governed Texas.

1865: Birthday of Paul Dukas, French composer, scholar, and critic

1881: Birthday of William Boeing, American engineer and businessman, founder of Boeing Company

1890: Congress established Yosemite National Park.

1891: Stanford University opened in California.

1903: The first game of the modern World Series featured the Boston Americans versus the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1908: Ford Model T automobiles were offered for sale at a price of $825. Ordinary Americans could afford to buy one on an installment plan.

1910: Birthday of Bonnie Parker, American criminal

1914: Birthday of Daniel Boorstin, American historian, lawyer, and author

1918: Lawrence of Arabia captured Damascus.

1921: Birthday of James Whitmore, American actor

1924: Birthday of Jimmy Carter, American naval lieutenant, politician 39thPresident of the United States

1924: Birthday of William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1928: The Soviet Union introduced their first Five Year Plan. A set of socialist goals initiated by Stalin, the five year plans would industrialize and socialize the Soviet economy through brutal measures resulting in the deaths of millions.

1935: Birthday of Julie Andrews, English actress and singer

1936: Francisco Franco was named head of the Nationalist Government in Spain.

1938: Germany annexed the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia as a result of the Munich Conference, with the blessing of England and France but without the Czechs having any say in the matter.

1946: Nazi war criminals were sentenced at Nuremberg.

1949: Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People's Republic of China with himself as head of state. Note: most countries named "People's Republic..." are ruthless dictatorships. Mao would demonstrate that fact costing the lives of 50 million Chinese people.

1956: Birthday of Theresa May, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1957: The words "In God We Trust" began appearing on U.S. currency.

1960: Baylor had a big road win in Baton Rouge over LSU, 7-3.

1961: Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record.

1964: The Free Speech Movement was launched on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

1964: The Japanese bullet trains began high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.

1969: The Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time.

1971: Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida.

1975: Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in Manila, Philippines.

1982: Helmut Kohl replaced Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of West Germany through a vote of no confidence.

1982: Epcot opened at Walt Disney World in Florida.

1982: Sony and Phillips launched the compact disc in Japan.

1987: An earthquake struck in southern California.

2005: Suicide bombers staged terrorist attacks in Bali.

2013: Death of Tom Clancy, American author

2017: A crazed gunman opened fire on a concert crowd in Las Vegas killing 58 and injuring 869.

This version is more famous:

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Thank you for not posting any clips from Darling Lili or S.O.B.

Or 10. I see no reason to include those lesser films.

Enjoyed a couple of Boorstin's books. Thorough and insightful.