Aired May 1st, 2025
I want again. Welcome in to the 04:05 coffee break. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat.
OK Solberg:$5.68 a bushel. 550 pounds steer calf as reported all week long, super high, top end, highest in the history of mankind, $3.88 a pound. I kid you not. I checked it out myself. Pays, Billings.
OK Solberg:Butcher Hog in Omaha, Eighty One Cents a pound and a hundred pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.19 a pound. But, guys, there's more. Much more. Hey.
OK Solberg:It's the May 1. April's gone. May 1. Mayday. School will be getting out soon.
OK Solberg:Summer's coming. Let's look and see what historical events happened on May 1. Did you realize on 05/01/1718, Spanish Catholic missionaries established Mission San Antonio, now known as Alamo, the first of several settlements in what is now San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. I've been there.
OK Solberg:How about you? On 05/01/1786, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera marriage of Figaro premieres at Vienna with Mozart himself directing. What about that then? 1786. May first '18 '80 '4, construction begins on Chicago's First skyscraper.
OK Solberg:First one ever. Eighteen eighty four, 10 stories high. So question for you, was that before or after the great Chicago fire? Anyone? Anyone?
OK Solberg:We all remember Johnny Horton's song titled O'Leary's Cow, and it starts out October 1871. That's when this great big fire began. So the first skyscraper was thirteen years after the great fire. Oh, look at what we have here on May '1, Chicago White Sox outfield er Herm McFarlane hits first grand slam in American League history in a 19 to nine win at home against Detroit. The tigers committed 12 errors.
OK Solberg:The first grand slam. Baseball lovers, take note, and baseball lovers will like to know this interesting fact from 05/01/1920. Legendary slugger Babe Ruth records his first home run for the New York Yankees in a six to zero win over his former club, the Boston Red Sox. Comic book lovers sit up and pay attention on 05/01/1939. Batman first appears in detective comics number 27.
OK Solberg:Everyone who likes cold cereal but will be interested in this one on 05/01/1941, just six months or so before Japan bomb Pearl Harbor, General Mills introduces Cheerioats, later renamed Cheerios in 1945, an oat based ready to eat cold cereal. So do the math. Cheerios have been on the shelves for eighty four years. I hope to shout. Who out there remembers this one?
OK Solberg:On 05/01/1943, food rationing begins in The United States during World War two. Yep. They did. They rationed food right here in The good old US Of A. I wasn't there.
OK Solberg:I wasn't born, but I do have ration stamps in my office that I got online just to see what they looked like. Okay? Everybody loves mister Potato Head, so remember this. On 05/01/1952, mister potato head first was introduced by toy distributor Hasbro. Book lovers, take note, for it was on 05/01/1961 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Harper Lee for her novel to kill a mockingbird.
OK Solberg:Did any of you realize it was 05/01/1969 when children's educational television host Fred Rogers from mister Rogers' Neighborhood testifies before US senate subcommittee on communications to secure funding for creation of PBS. That was 1969. It was 05/01/1971, Amtrak Railroad begins operation. The same year, same day in 1971, Rolling Stones released their single, brown sugar. Many of us will remember 05/01/1986, Russian news agency TASS reports Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant mishap.
OK Solberg:Yikes. I remember it well. And finally, for all of us to enjoy since we all love baseball, listen to what happened on 05/01/1991, Texas rangers starter Nolan Ryan pitches Major League Baseball's record seventh no hitter. Beat Toronto Three Zero at 44 years of age. Ryan is the oldest to throw a no hitter.
OK Solberg:I hope to shout and call the doctor. Do you know how hard it is to pitch a no hitter? And Nolan Ryan is still alive and well at 78 years old. Ask Babes or Tony about Nolan. Nolan Ryan retired in 1993 at the age of 46 with a record 5,714 strikeouts.
OK Solberg:Ryan is considered the first player to earn a million dollars annually. Well, there you have it. I thought I'd just look up a few May 1 facts, and it was so fun. It took the entire episode. Well, that's just okay.
OK Solberg:There's always tomorrow. I'll close with a bible verse. And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season, we shall reap if we faint not. Galatians six nine six nine. That's a cribbage bible verse, six and nine for 15.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.