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Oil exporting countries may consider a cut in output after crude prices fell below $60 a barrel on Monday for the first time in six months. Read that again. These bastards want to drop oil production because it's finally getting somewhat affordable. They're not making the billions per day that they were a month ago. Cry me a river. Aren't you rich enough? Bastards. You are the enemy!
Oil prices retreated Tuesday after a rally the day before lifted crude futures by almost $1 a barrel on worries that the recent drop in prices could prompt OPEC to cut production. Natrual gas hit a new three year low. I feel so sorry for those billionaires.Scienteists to unveil secrets of Mona Lisa.
CAUGHT ON TAPE Fight Erupts Between Drivers at Toledo Speedway. You must watch the video. Dude kicks in the race car windshield, etc. Check it out.
Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.
Killer teddy bear leaves 2,500 fish dead
The odds of such an occurrence seem insurmountable, yet Jay Gibbons pulled off the unimaginable feat: He hit a foul ball that injured his wife. If a ball strikes a chicken, is it a fowl ball?
The Queen Mother lived through the whole of the 20th century without once having to open or draw her bedroom curtains herself. Other royal quirks here.
Today in History:
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe. I didn't know he was circumnavigated. I, myself, am also circumnavigated.
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens. Thank you Venetians. What do we have to remember them by? Venetian blinds. That's it.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Stinkin' red coats.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General. Back in the day, me and ole Tom Jeff, as I called him, hung out. That dude was a partier.
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 piece
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1957 - West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war. Thanks Petrov.
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season). Dude must've really needed a job.
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234
2002 - Thirty people are killed in a shooting by terrorists at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
Happy Birthday:
1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1925 - Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1926 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1947 - Lynn Anderson, American singer
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress
1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress. Little House on the Prarie
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1972 - Shawn Stockman, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1977 - Kaylynn, porn star
Deaths on this day:
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829) I'm wearing his product as we speak.
1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
Oil prices retreated Tuesday after a rally the day before lifted crude futures by almost $1 a barrel on worries that the recent drop in prices could prompt OPEC to cut production. Natrual gas hit a new three year low. I feel so sorry for those billionaires.Scienteists to unveil secrets of Mona Lisa.
CAUGHT ON TAPE Fight Erupts Between Drivers at Toledo Speedway. You must watch the video. Dude kicks in the race car windshield, etc. Check it out.
Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.
Killer teddy bear leaves 2,500 fish dead
The odds of such an occurrence seem insurmountable, yet Jay Gibbons pulled off the unimaginable feat: He hit a foul ball that injured his wife. If a ball strikes a chicken, is it a fowl ball?
The Queen Mother lived through the whole of the 20th century without once having to open or draw her bedroom curtains herself. Other royal quirks here.
Today in History:
46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in fulfilment of a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe. I didn't know he was circumnavigated. I, myself, am also circumnavigated.
1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens. Thank you Venetians. What do we have to remember them by? Venetian blinds. That's it.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Stinkin' red coats.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General. Back in the day, me and ole Tom Jeff, as I called him, hung out. That dude was a partier.
1890 US stops minting $1 & $3 gold coin & 3 piece
1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.
1950 Because of forest fire in Br Columbia, blue moon appears in England
1957 - West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins opens on Broadway
1960 - In Chicago, Illinois, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1960 Longest speech in UN history (4 hrs, 29 mins, by Fidel Castro)
1961 - Bob Dylan makes his public debut.
1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premiers on CBS
1968 Hawaii Five-O debuts as an hourly program on CBS
1969 - The Chicago Seven trial begins.
1969 - The Beatles album Abbey Road is released in the UK.
1969 - The Brady Bunch debuts on ABC-TV and would run for five years.
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war. Thanks Petrov.
1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10
1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season). Dude must've really needed a job.
1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234
2002 - Thirty people are killed in a shooting by terrorists at a temple in Gandhinagar, India
Happy Birthday:
1774 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1847)
1898 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
1907 - Anthony Blunt, English art historian and Soviet spy (d. 1983)
1925 - Marty Robbins, American singer (d. 1982)
1926 - Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)
1947 - Lynn Anderson, American singer
1948 - Olivia Newton-John, British-born Australian singer and actress
1956 - Linda Hamilton, American actress
1962 - Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress. Little House on the Prarie
1962 - Peter Foster, Australian con-man
1967 - Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
1972 - Shawn Stockman, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men)
1977 - Kaylynn, porn star
Deaths on this day:
1763 - John Byron, English poet (b. 1692)
1820 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (b. 1734)
1902 - Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer (b. 1829) I'm wearing his product as we speak.
1937 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
1972 - Charles Correll, American radio actor (b. 1890)
1998 - Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)
2003 - Robert Palmer, British singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Shawn Lane, American guitarist (b. 1963)
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