Please Remember Peace Is How We Make It

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Where does that line come from? Hmmm?

IN THE NEWS:

A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.

NEW YORK A Burger King restaurant manager is being charged with shooting a teenage boy dead after the two argued and the boy spit in the manager's face.

Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.

Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp. A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot. Doh!!!

Andy Griffith sues Andy Griffith???? Huh? The star of "The Andy Griffith Show," who portrayed the sheriff of the fictional town of Mayberry, has sued a Wisconsin man who unsuccessfully ran for the Grant County post after legally changing his name to Andrew Jackson Griffith. That makes more sense.

Dead N.C. candidate easily wins election.

Four urinals shaped like a woman's lips were sold on eBay Sunday for a total of 5,343 euros ($6,877) after their owner removed them from a public toilet in Vienna following protests that they were sexist.


Today in History:
1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.

1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts

1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.

1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport

1887 - Demonstrators demanding the release of William O'Brien from prison clash with police in central London on Bloody Sunday.

1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii

1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released

1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 . The legal drinking age is still 21 though. This makes sense. Did you know that in Europe, you can buy beer in public vending machines? No ID required. ......and we live in a FREE country.

1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.

1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.

1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)

1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.

1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."

1970 - Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster).

1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.

1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood is killed in a car crash while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Conspiracy? I think so.

1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in Amityville, New York (Amityville Horror)

1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President

1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"

1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. Minutes after the fight was over, Kim collapsed into a coma, and was taken to a hospital. Emergency brain surgery was performed there to try to save him, but that effort proved to be futile, as Kim died 5 days after the bout on November 18. The week after, Sports Illustrated published a photo of the fight on its cover, under the heading Tragedy in The Ring.
Mancini went through a period of reflection, as he blamed himself for Kim's death. After friends helped him by telling him that it was just an accident, Mancini was able to go on with his career, but Kim's death would always haunt him. The bout's referee, Richard Greene, committed suicide in February of 1983, and so did Kim's mother, four months later. That's why I'm not a boxer. The suicide rate is way too high.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

1985 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.

1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"

1990 - The World Wide Web first began. Thank you Al Gore.

1991 - Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast is released in theatres


Happy Birthday:
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host