Mike Hirsh

1971-OTD #CaroleKing’s iconic record Tapestry was released. She won 4 Grammy’s the next year for the wonderful compilation of songs that became the soundtrack of the next decade. Carole just celebrated her 84th birthday yesterday. Tapestry still holds up!🎶👏🏻🙏❤️

1943-OTD Japanese forces withdrew from the Solomon Islands of Guadalcanal.This ended a battle that News 6 mos. long & was the 1st American land battle in the Pacific War.The American victory cost 7000 American lives & an estimated 25K Japanese lives.The 1st island hopping victory 4 the USA🇺🇸🙏

Angel in the Morning- Merrilee Rush

50 yrs ago OTD Martin Scorsese’s scathing film about the degradation of society in NYC,The Taxi Driver ,was released. It was controversial from the start but was buoyed by great performances by Robert DeNiro (Oscar) as Travis Bickle and a young Jodie Foster as a child prostitute. It is a classic🎥👏🏻❤️

Hope you are right. I have my doubts

1950- OYD Walt Disney studios released the animated classic Pinocchio. With beautiful songs and unforgettable characters like Jiminy Cricket, it was a huge hit. I was pretty scared when I first saw it about 20 years later as a 6 yo- but what a tale!🎥👏🏻❤️
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I still have ongoing jobs at the Med School and UMass Hospital system until 7/31/26. Then I will be fully retired. But getting out of the WDPH was the right move. It was time. How are you?

Remembering the 1895 bday of the Sultan of Swat, HOF’Er George Herman “Babe” Ruth, whose legendary prowess at hitting the long ball cemented baseball as the national pastime. His 714 HR’s in what was otherwise considered a dead ball era are an amazing accomplishment.⚾️❤️👏🏻
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Our House - Crosby Stills and Nash

Remembering the 1934 bday of the true #MLB home run king, Hammerin’ Henry (Hank) Aaron. He was a 25 time All-Star & an underrated outfielder besides his 755 homers and a lifetime .300+ hitter. The Pride of Mobile Alabama. ⚾️🙏👏🏻

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1970- OTD the epic biopic about General George Patton was released. It was a tour de force performance by George C. Scott who one the best actor Oscar in 1971. Still a great watch. 🎥🙏👏🏻❤️

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Good luck Monica

150 yrs ago OTD Albert Spaulding founded his sporting goods company.He was a cofounder of the National League & is in the Hall of Fame.But I appreciate all the sporting equipment he made,not the least of which was the pinkie high bounce ball.In NYC we played stick/stoop/hand/wall ball with them. 👍🏀❤️

Today is the day in 1959 when the music died. RIP

Forging guns into tools of growth - The Boston Globe Volunteer blacksmiths with Guns2Gardens turn old pistols, rifles, and other firearms into garden tools.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Stan Grossfeld of the @bostonglobe.com just featured my work with Guns2Gardens MA, as well as Dr Mike Hirsh @mph54.bsky.social of UMass Memorial and Vanessa Calixto of Worcester's YouthGROW teen urban garden.

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Thanks John for being a great partner in our efforts to achieve lethal means access reduction in the best of ways- converting retrieved guns from our Worcester gun buyback into garden tools to feed the hungry.

Love is all around by the Troggs
“I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes”

1887- OTD the first Ground Hog Day celebration at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, PA was celebrated. There has been a designated Punxsutawney Phil ever since. Waiting to hear his prediction of the winter this year.

1967- the 10 team American Basketball Association is founded. It lasts for a decade and introduces basketball to the 3 point shot. For me, watching Dr. J (Julius Erving) do superhuman things with that crazy looking ball made the ABA something I followed closely. Glad for the merger though. 🏀🙏❤️

Two baseball giants born on the same date today. Jackie Robinson-1919- who broke the color line and brought glory to the Bums in Brooklyn. And Mr Cub, Ernie Banks -1931-!who was a fixture at short/1b at Wrigley- Let’s Play 2! Thanks for the baseball memories!

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1945–OTD a band of Army Rangers & Filipino guerrillas raiided a POW camp on Luzon called Cabanatuan where about 500 American & Filipino survivors of the 1942 Death March from Bataan were being held by the Japanese.The raid was well planned & spectacularly successful. 1 of the great escapes of WW2.👏🏻

Remembering the 1923 birthday of brilliant screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky who gave us movie greats like Marty, the Hospital, & Network. His prescience of where television news and reality TV will go still amazes me. 🎥📺❤️🙏👏🏻

OTD 40 yrs ago I was a pediatric surgery fellow at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philly.Inpatient floors had set up mini-theaters so everyone could watch America’s teacher, Christa McAuliffe, blast off in the Challenger. Tragedy ensued and tears and screams followed. Such a loss!😱🇺🇸😞

81 years ago OTD the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz. We commemorate the event by declaring this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I lost 6 of my 8 Great Grandparents in that camp. They were among the 1.2 million souls exterminated there. Never again✡️🙏😞

Remembering the 1876 birthday of Dr. Julius Hess, widely acknowledged as the father of Neonatology. He invented incubators for the care of premature infants and for their transport to speciality care units now called NICU’s. A true medical pioneer!⚕️👏🏻🙏

1970- Robert Altman’s iconic satire about the insanity of war called #MASH, was released OTD. Amazing cast, great comedy and great anti war messaging at the height of the Vietnam war. Bravo!

Remembering the 1917 bday of actor Ernest Borgnine of Hamden, CT.He won an Oscar 4 playing a regular frumpy guy in Paddy Chayefsky’s brilliant “Marty”. But then character roles including From Here 2 Eternity,Bad Day at Black Rock,the Wild Bunch,the Poseidon Adventure,The Dirty Dozen& McHale’s Navy👏🏻🎥

I love the Live Long and Prosper salute!

Saturday in the Park by Chicago