I'm going to try not to be amazed each day that the blog goes on - bets have been placed amongst colleagues and the family that I will have forgotten how to do it by the end of January. Well, keep watching this space, because I intend to do the whole year. At least.
So, what was happening on this day in history?
Tex Ritter died on this day in 1974. White hats were doffed all over the Western world at his passing because he represented the kind of guy we all wanted to be - a singing cowboy. Picture the scene: the Indians are on the warpath; outlaws are rustling cattle and holding up the Overland Stage; Sleazeball Joe Macready is buying up all the property on Main Street - but none of this matters, because Tex is bursting into song and his little Dogies are getting along just fine. They don't make westerns like his any more - in fact, they hardly make Westerns, with the very creditable exception last year of True Grit and that was a remake - and we're all the sorrier for it.
In other news ...
Cardinal Richlieu (he's the baddie in the red outfit in the Musketeers films) set up the Academie Francaise in 1635 to safeguard the purity of the French language. Which is why, on the other side of the Channel, they have 'le weekend' during which they watch 'le football' whilst eating 'le fast food'. So that was a job well done - let's hear it for the Cardinal!
See you tomorrow!
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