Brad's Worlds

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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Free Hit Counters
Ugg Boot


That's Odd:
A village in the Italian Alps is finally basking in winter sunlight thanks to a giant mirror installed on a mountain top to reflect the sun's rays into the main square.

Woman tells cop she bought 'bad crack'

Thieves break into police station. Now there's a good idea.


Today in History:
1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.

1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .

1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. Doh

1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.

1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

1997 - The film Titanic is released.

2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.

Happy Birthday:
1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress


Deaths on this day:
1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)

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