Your Lips Are Venomous Poison

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Have you ever seen the video to Alice Coopers hit Poison? I love the song and downloaded the video. I noticed what I thought, and I should know, was female nudity. Topless to be exact. I went to my trusty wikipedia.com and found out that the video was actually censored for that very reason. Favorite line from the song: I want to hurt you just to hear you sreaming my name. Did you know that Alice Coopers name is really Vincent Damon Furnier.

Today in History:
1497 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

1503 - Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

1534 - Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.

1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.

1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.

1869 - The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.

1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.

1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA).

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972.

1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the charts.

1960 - The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.

1969 - The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

1996 - A "rogue storm" near the summit of Mount Everest kills eight climbers, making this the deadliest day in the mountain's history. Among the dead are experienced climbers Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, both of whom were leading paid expeditions to the summit.

2002 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds. Weren't his kids in that pop group? Didn't they do a song called...mmmbop? Whatcha gonna do now Robert? You're in jail, your kids don't have a record deal. Life's a bitch, isn't it?

2005 - A hand grenade allegedly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 65 feet(20 meters) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.

2007 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces his June resignation after ten years in office.

2007 - Brad, creator of this blog, sits at his desk starring at the clock watching the second move.... tick tick tick tick


Happy Birthday:
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1899 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
1946 - Donovan, Scottish musician
1946 - Dave Mason, English musician (Traffic)
1960 - Bono, Irish singer (U2)
1967 - Young MC, American rapper
1977 - Denise Ho, Hong Kong singer hahahahahahaha her name is ho