Day Tripping: October 20
No Sleeping Dogg
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. came into the world in 1971 in Long Beach, California. His father was a singer and Vietnam vet who left his family three months later. Calvin’s mother and step-father nicknamed him Snoopy because of his resemblance to the Peanuts character.
As a child, Snoopy worked bagging groceries and selling candy to help the family. An above-average student and regular churchgoer, Snoopy learned to play piano while singing with the church choir. But in 1993, he joined a gang started down a path of illegal activity.
“U don’t know where u goin’ unless u know where u come from.”
When he started recording music with help from Dr. Dre, Broadus took on the persona, Snoop Dogg. In 1995, he was then arrested and tried for murder but was acquitted one year later. At that moment, Snoop Dogg decided he needed to distance himself from the Gangsta lifestyle and committed himself to the music industry.
Snoop Dogg’s softer rap stylings led to a stellar recording career followed by producing. In 2013, he paid tribute to Herbie Hancock at the Kennedy Center Honors, calling the pianist the inventor of Hip Hop.
Snoop is also a certified football coach, starting a youth charity football program, a business investor, and entrepreneur.
Today is:
Sloth Day — Seems that we’ve had a couple of years of this already. So, one more won’t hurt, right?
Musical Ride
A plane carrying the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed on a trip to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1977. Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines were killed instantly along with Gaines’ sister Cassie and the two pilots. The other band members were all injured but survived.
Interesting Notes
Fourteen years after construction began, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the Sydney Opera house in 1973.
Gone But Not Forgotten
Burt Lancaster was a four-time Oscar nominee spanning five decades. He often acted alongside his friend Kirk Douglas in major Hollywood productions. His lone Oscar win came for Elmer Gantry in 1960. Burt Lancaster died in 1994 at the age of 80.
Notable Births
1882 — Bela Lugosi said, “I have never met a vampire personally, but I don’t know what might happen tomorrow.”
1950 — Tom Petty said, “Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
1979 — John Krasinski said, “I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side.”
K. Barrett Maria Rattray Maryam Merchant Dr. Mehmet Yildiz Tree Langdon Myriam Ben Salem Phil Truman Chelsea Mandler MAT Terry Mansfield Hollie Petit, Ph.D. Terry Trueman Dr. Preeti Singh John Gruber Bill Abbate James G Brennan ScienceDuuude Marcus Liam Ireland Claire Kelly Noorain Hassan, BMS Amy Pierovich David Acaster Nora Thewriteyard David Perlmutter Joe Luca Holly Kellums Michael Burg, MD Lucy Dan Dave Logan
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