Blah Blah Friday Blah
Ugg Boot
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored). Dumbasses.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS. Thanks George. Those of us who didn't get to see it the first time have missed out. I know, re-release it with new bonus scenes and deleted old ones.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. Isn't K-Mart almost bankrupt?
Happy Birthday:
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer. You know, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987) Son of Dean Martin
Deaths on this day:
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored). Dumbasses.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS. Thanks George. Those of us who didn't get to see it the first time have missed out. I know, re-release it with new bonus scenes and deleted old ones.
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California.
2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. Isn't K-Mart almost bankrupt?
Happy Birthday:
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer. You know, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987) Son of Dean Martin
Deaths on this day:
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)
posted by Crazy B @ 1:56 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home