You Send Me

Hello there and wel­come to the Jan­u­ary 22nd edi­tion of Hangin’ in the Ham­mer; where we’re really glad to have a day to relax and take it easy (well, after this of course.)

How are you this chilly Sun­day morn­ing? We’ve brought in some extra heaters to make the place nice and cozy, so grab your cof­fee and sit a spell while Gordie gives you the daily details on some of the peo­ple and events from Cana­dian his­tory, sports and music related to this date.

We start out on this day in 1813, near French­town, Michi­gan, where Major Gen­eral Henry Proc­tor leads 500 sol­diers and mili­tia, with Tecumseh’s 800 Indi­ans from Amher­st­burg, in a coun­ter­at­tack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days ear­lier. He recap­tures the River Rai­son post, defeat­ing the roughly 900 US troops who were led by Brig. Gen. James Win­ches­ter. Proc­tor man­aged to cap­ture an esti­mated 300 Amer­i­can pris­on­ers, includ­ing James Win­ches­ter.

On this day in 1874, Canada holds its sec­ond gen­eral elec­tion and Lib­eral leader Alexan­der Macken­zie defeats John A. Mac­don­ald 138 seats to 67. The elec­tion was notable for the fact Macdonald’s party was appar­ently held account­able for his part in the Pacific Scandal.

The elec­tion also fea­ture the first appear­ance of Wil­frid Lau­rier as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Drum­mond and Louis Riel, who was elected as the mem­ber for Provencher in Man­i­toba (due to a war­rant for his arrest in Ontario, Riel was unable to go to Ottawa to take his seat.)

On this day in 1901, after some 64 years on the throne as ruler of the Eng­lish Empire, Queen Vic­to­ria dies in Lon­don at the age of 81. Her son Albert takes the throne as King Edward VII.

On this day in 1992, Roberta Bon­dar, a Cana­dian Space Agency Mis­sion Spe­cial­ist born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, blasts into Space from the Kennedy Space Cen­ter on an eight-day flight aboard the shut­tle Dis­cov­ery with six other astro­nauts„ becom­ing Canada’s first lady in space.

From the world of sports, it was on this day in 1807, Canada’s first curl­ing club was founded in Montreal.

On this day in 1981, New York Islander rookie Mike Bossy ties Rock­ets Richards record of 50 goals in 50 games.

Some notable Cana­di­ans born on this day include a HHoF mem­ber since 1986, Serge Savard; a line­mate of the Rocket and a mem­ber of the HHoF since 1966, Elmer Lach; a defen­sive stand out through a Hab dynasty in the sev­en­ties J.C. Trem­b­ley;  a star of the hemp hut for the Habs in the 1940s and a mem­ber of the HHoF since 1964, Bill Dur­nan and the afore-mentioned Mike Bossy also a mem­ber of the HHoF (since 1991)

Today’s Juno Moldy Oldy was inspired by Ben Mink who has worked with a num­ber of award-winning Cana­dian acts includ­ing k.d. lang and F.M.. Here’s Pha­sors On Stun.

Born on this day in 1960 the late Michael Hutchence of INXS (who was replaced by Cana­dian J.D. For­tune.) When was the last time you heard New Sensation?

Our musi­cal title today, You Send Me; was inspired by the late great Mr Sam Cooke who was born on this day in 1931.

And that brings me to the con­clu­sion of another of our daily lists so I bid you all a Good Day and send you back to my big brother Puck.

Before we go we the boys insist I men­tion some other peo­ple born on this day, in par­tic­u­lar the poet Lord Byron, whose full name is Lord george Gor­don Noel Byron (small things.)

And when it comes to today’s title we could add that Bill Bixby who was born on this day would be sent into fits of rage that turned him into the Incred­i­ble Hulk for a while and Linda Blair (also born today) who was sent into her own series of fits in The Exorcist.

We hope you get to enjoy the day today and we remind you to take the time to be safe along the way so we can see you right here again tomorrow.

Bye for now.

Hon­est you do, hon­est you do…