Today, we celebrate National Dollar Day. It was 226 years ago today (1786)
that the Continental Congress established the monetary system.

Dustin Lee Hoffman is 75 today

Connie Stevens was born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingoglia in Brooklyn. She is 
a actress and singer, best known for her roles in the ABC television series
Hawaiian Eye (1959-1963) and other TV and film work.

"St. George and the Dragonet" was recorded August 26, 1953 by Stan
Freberg for Capitol Records. The satire was released September 21,
1953 and reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box record
charts.

Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is still a very active author, recording artist,
animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and
advertising creative director,

Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after he 
graduated from High School in Alhambra, California. He began at
Warner Brothers in 1944.

In 1958, the Oregon Centennial Commission, under the sponsorship of Blitz-
Weinhard Brewing Company, hired Freberg to create a musical to celebrate
Oregon’s one-hundredth birthday. The result was the album Oregon! Oregon!
A Centennial Fable in Three Acts. It was released by Capitol Records during  
the Oregon Centennial in 1959.