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Friday, November 10, 2006

WTF? Trust No One! Not Even Walt Disney???

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In The News:
Ford to become oldest living president

Humiliated frat boys sue 'Borat' Stupid frat boys. Did you get your little feelings hurt? GOOD!!!

Hundreds to compete for rock, paper, scissors title Now that shows class. Imagine the training that goes into that? Nothing but skill. It's all skill.

Sunderland man injured after launching firework from bottom A must read. Dumbass!!!!

College professor displays $170,000 pen One word. IDIOT!!!

Man uses bug story to make women disrobe. I use the Joey from Friends technique. "How you doin' "



Today in History:
1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.

1520 - Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.

1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating two battalions of Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.

1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.

1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time. Let me tell you one thing. If I were gonna sing something on the air, I would've atleast practiced it first and not sang it for the first time with an audience. Sheesh!

1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives. If you can't trust Walt Disney, who can you trust?

1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands

1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. How cool is that?

1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board and launching the career of Gordon Lightfoot. hehehe

1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).


Happy Birthday:
1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
1956 - Sinbad, American actor


Deaths on this day:
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)

1 Comments:

At 3:43 PM, Blogger Jane Q Doe said...

personally, i prefer the "have you ever wanted to make out with a girl?" approach.

 

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