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Thursday, February 15, 2007

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ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.

Man guilty in stripper slaying.


An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

A day will come when the Earth's natural resources will be running dangerously low. The Race Wars now over, a new war begins. The great war, referred to Darwin's War, will begin worldwide where humans will go through an elimination process based on DNA structure to decide which humans will attempt to carry on the human species. The spaceship called "the Mayflower" will take these designated beings to their new world, Mars..... To Be Continued.....


Space shuttle Atlantis began a sluggish move to the launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a mid-March mission to continue construction of the international space station. Can you see how this series of events is put into motion? It goes back to Sputnik. The Russians understood this problem all to well and wanted to be first in line when the time came.


A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for conning people out of 3 billion yuan ($387 million) in a giant scam to breed ants. I ant joking about this one.

Interesting facts from Great Britain.

An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing in Honolulu after pilots heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit. The airline blamed the emergency landing of the Tokyo-Dallas flight with 202 passengers on a stowaway squirrel.

A cash-strapped Hungarian village is offering the chance of immortality to anyone willing to pay to have a street named after them, and it's hoping world famous celebrities apply. I want one.

Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.


Holy fence jumping, Batman! Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert.


Today in History:
399 BC - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death. That is not So Crates.

1764 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri established.

1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia

1879 - Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

1903 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.

1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)




1931 1st Dracula movie released









1933 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)

1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.

1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1952 - King George VI buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, with the entire US Figure Skating team, several coaches & family.

1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks

1965 John Lennon passes his driving test

1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

1970 - A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.

1971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL

1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George NY

1982 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.

1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.

1998 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after 20 years of disappointment.

2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.

2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 8,000,000-30,000,000 people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in history of the world.

2004 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Daytona 500, six years to the day when his father won his only Daytona 500.

2005 - YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, is established.

Happy Birthday to:
0037 Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero emperor of Rome (54-68)

1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)

1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)

1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)

1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)

1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)

1874 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer (d. 1922)

1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)

1935 - Roger Chaffee, astronaut (d. 1967)

1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)

1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)

1947 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990) Can you believe his parents name him Rusty? He committed suicide in DeRidder La. Go figure.

1951 - Jane Seymour, British actress

1954 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist

1957 - Jake E. Lee, guitarist

1964 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)


Deaths on this day:
1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)



2 Comments:

At 7:12 AM, Blogger Penny said...

I was wondering what was up with the peanut butter. There was no Great Value on the shelves yesterday, and that's the cheap kind I buy. THANK YOU, CRAZY B! You're my #1 source for peanut butter news.

 
At 3:16 PM, Blogger Jane Q Doe said...

happy birthday dr quinn medicine woman

 

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