Only One Week Until Thanksgiving????
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Today has been an odd day indeed.
1. *****OMITTED BECAUSE I'M A NICE GUY******
2. Today would've been my anniversary
3. My ex just called and in a very nice and polite tone said "Happy......Un.....Anniversary".
4. and to top it off, I have to go pick up a tuxedo because I'm gonna be in a friends wedding.
Talk about timing.
How does it sneak up on you so quick? That's crazy talk. I didn't get the memo that Thanksgiving was so close. I should've gotten the memo. I'm upset about that.
Today in History:
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1676 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. Doh!!!
1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States). Yee hee!!!
1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces. Yowza!!!
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to the sea during Civil War
1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York. Interesting, don't you think?
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube. This invention makes my guitar amps rock out. And my tv. and my microwave. and.........
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. Oh how times have changed. Wanna take a stroll with me throught the monkey house? We could even monkey around. Then we could go over to the stables for some horseplaying.
1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. Stupid Nazis.
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1965 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World
1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1973 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1974 John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters. One of my favorite movies. The original release was a lot better than the "Directors Cut" that you get now. Stop changing our movies George and Steven.
1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history. You have got to be kidding.
1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz
1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship. By the time they gave it to her, she was too old to enjoy it. Thanks America.
1996 - The $127.5 million Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first serving U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
2001 - The first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), is released in theatres in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.
2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.
Happy Birthday:
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative) According to Wikipedia: He also is prone to chronic constipation. On the Symphony For The Devil video he shows off a giant turd in his toilet and picks it up in his bare hand.
I thought you'd like to know that.
1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
Deaths on this day:
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754) Who knew it was almost Moses, Ohio.
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879) I'd like to buy that guy a drink.
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
1. *****OMITTED BECAUSE I'M A NICE GUY******
2. Today would've been my anniversary
3. My ex just called and in a very nice and polite tone said "Happy......Un.....Anniversary".
4. and to top it off, I have to go pick up a tuxedo because I'm gonna be in a friends wedding.
Talk about timing.
How does it sneak up on you so quick? That's crazy talk. I didn't get the memo that Thanksgiving was so close. I should've gotten the memo. I'm upset about that.
Today in History:
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1676 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. Doh!!!
1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States). Yee hee!!!
1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces. Yowza!!!
1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to the sea during Civil War
1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York. Interesting, don't you think?
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube. This invention makes my guitar amps rock out. And my tv. and my microwave. and.........
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. Oh how times have changed. Wanna take a stroll with me throught the monkey house? We could even monkey around. Then we could go over to the stables for some horseplaying.
1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. Stupid Nazis.
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1965 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World
1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1973 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1974 John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters. One of my favorite movies. The original release was a lot better than the "Directors Cut" that you get now. Stop changing our movies George and Steven.
1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history. You have got to be kidding.
1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz
1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship. By the time they gave it to her, she was too old to enjoy it. Thanks America.
1996 - The $127.5 million Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first serving U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
2001 - The first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), is released in theatres in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.
2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.
2006 Uk launch of the 21st james bond film, casino royale I'm There!!!!!!
Happy Birthday:
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative) According to Wikipedia: He also is prone to chronic constipation. On the Symphony For The Devil video he shows off a giant turd in his toilet and picks it up in his bare hand.
I thought you'd like to know that.
1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
Deaths on this day:
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754) Who knew it was almost Moses, Ohio.
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879) I'd like to buy that guy a drink.
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
posted by Crazy B @ 8:21 AM
3 Comments:
happy anniversary.
Well that's some history you've posted there...and i really liked it..very informative...and hey since Thanksgiving is just a week away just visit my Thanksgiving Blog sometime and find out some really cool info and facts on Thanksgiving......visit soon and have a great time!!!
Thank you Jane. I appreciate that. Nothing like a good stab.
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