Tangerines Cause Global Warming???

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MASS UFO SIGHTING BRINGS TOWN TO STANDSTILL...








Elizabeth Edwards Gives Up Tangerines to Fight Global Warming... I didn't realize Tangerines caused global warming. And who is Elizabeth Edwards. On second thought don't answer because I really don't care.

Pastor struck dead... by lightning... It started raining and the family went to seek cover under a cedar tree. Not very smart. Very sad.

MYSPACE deletes 29,000 sex offenders... I didn't know that was against myspace policy but I guess they can refuse business to anyone they choose.

Beyonce Falls Head-First Down Stairs During Concert; Asks Fans NOT To Post Video Online... So....Bear with me here. Did Beyonce Bounce down the stairs?

German airline will cater to smokers... Well, there goes the resale value of those jets.

Man accused of 292 false 911 calls... Ford told deputies he made the calls because he didn't have any minutes on his phone and "911 is a free call. What a dope!!!

Lohan Defends Herself... 'I Am Innocent'... Sure. Just like O.J. That reminds me of a joke Amy told me. What's the difference in O.J. and Tang? Tang won't kill ya. hahahahahaha

WASHPOST: Bush Most 'Unpopular President' In Modern History? So, the presidency should be a popularity contest? I don't think so.

Prison poker to solve cases? Florida is giving inmates playing cards with cold-case images in hopes of getting new leads. Now that's a good idea.

China's astronaut food soon on sale

Queen guitarist to complete doctorate Brilliant guy!!!

Maid jailed for serving up urine Hmmm. I looked like apple juice.

Pearl Jam will play a private show for fan club members in Chicago on August 2, three days before its headlining stint at the city's Lollapalooza festival, the rock group said on Tuesday. This surprises me in so many ways. Tickets for the show at the Vic Theatre will go on sale on Thursday, priced at $150 per pair (plus applicable fees). The Vic's capacity is about 1,400 people, according to the venue's web site. Oh, there's the catch.


Today in History:
306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

864 - Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings

1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.

1547 - Henry II (France) crowned

1722 - Three Years War begins along Maine and Massachusetts border. How long did that last?

1755 - The decision to deport the Acadians takes place in Halifax, Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to Louisiana, while others later resettled in New Brunswick.

1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1792 - The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed.

1795 - The first stoner of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. Lucky guy. Oh, you said stone,...the first stone of the.....hahahaha. My mistake. Sorry.

1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife Island (Spain).

1837 - The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

1853 - Joaquin Murietta, famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.

1861 - American Civil War: The Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. I bet they don't teach that in school

1866 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

1868 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.

1897 - Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

1898 - The United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico (the land invasion, proper, began that day; nevertheless, sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of San Juan had occurred since May of 1898.

1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).

1920 - Telecommunications: first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast.

1934 - Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

1939 - George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe first sat in Parliament. Did he stand the rest of the time?

1940 - General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal. I thought it was gonna say that he orderd a swiss army knife. That would be much more interesting.

1946 - Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini atoll. We've all seen the video. Good Lord In Heaven!!!!

1946 - At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

1953 - Merrie Melodies releases the cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, perhaps the most famous of the cartoons starring Duck Dodgers, Porky Pig, and Marvin The Martian.

1956 - 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

1961 - John F. Kennedy speech emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. You tell 'em Jack. I mean John. Why do people call you Jack if you're name is John? Or Dick for Richard? Or Bob for Robert?

1964 Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 14 weeks

1965 - The electric Dylan controversy starts at the Newport Folk Festival.

1966 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"

1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.

1973 George Harrison pays œ1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album

1980 - Australian hard rock band AC/DC release the album Back in Black. This album goes on to be the 2nd best selling album in history.

1990 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at San Diego Padre game. Who thought that was a good idea?

2000 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.


Happy Birthday:
1750 - Henry Knox, American general (d. 1806) ....as in Fort Knox

1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor. So where's he been lately?


Deaths on this Day:
1995 - Charlie Rich, American rock/soul/country musician (b. 1932)

Lindsay Needs Help!!!

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Lindsay Lohan was arrested this morning for DUI and Cocaine Possession. Doh!!! That's what being a child star will do for you. That doesn't even look like her.







Microchips mulled for HIV carriers. Don't sleep with people you don't trust and no problem. That's where it starts. Then they microchip dangerous criminals. Then they microchip anyone arrested. Then they microchip other medical patients. Then they microchip people applying for gun licenses...... I want freedom... no I Demand Freedom!!!

Another human civilization may live inside Earth's hollows....
Legends say that an entry to the underground realms was located somewhere in the North, and legendary ancient tribes living on the planet centuries ago used the entries to have a good shelter under the Earth's surface. Mystics believe that the entry to the legendary Hyperborea, Shambala and Plutonia is carefully concealed from outsiders somewhere close to the North Pole. Recently, a reliable edition reported that UFOs coming to this planet start not from space but burst out from huge holes under the surface in the North Pole.

Boxing champion shot in the head for saying 'don't smoke'.... No Joke!!!

TROUBLED: STARBUCKS raising drinks prices -- again... Does anyone drink starbucks because it tastes good? Or is it because you're seen in starbucks or with a starbucks cup? That's the way I see it. $6 for a cup of coffee. Think for a second people.

Drew Carey will host 'Price Is Right' Oh yeah!!!!


Today in History:
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.

1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va

1683 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard the Concord

1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.

1783 Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia

1799 William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York

1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll. Clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.

1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown - Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

1900 Race riot in New Orleans, 2 white policemen killed

1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu "the Lost City of the Incas".

1919 Race Riot in Washington DC (6 killed, 100 wounded)

1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs

1931 - A fire at a home for aged people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.

1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.

1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west

1956 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together which started on July 25, 1946.

1959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"

1964 - One criticality (nuclear) accident at Charlestown in Rhode Island (US), killing one.

1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"

1967 - Beatles: sign a petition in The Times to legalise marijuana.

1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.

1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal

1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC

1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released

1998 - Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.



Happy Birthday:
1957 - Pam Tillis, American singer

1963 - Paul Geary, American musician (Extreme)

1998 - Bindi Irwin, activist and daughter of Steve Irwin


Deaths on this Day:
1862 - Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (b. 1782)

1980 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)

what's It Mean?

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Symbol in NYC building a history mystery A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse.
It was a 3-foot-by-10-foot section of timeworn brick wall, its predictable rows abruptly interrupted by three distinct, deliberate-looking triangular shapes. Once part of a warehouse, it now does nothing but raise questions.

Watch the moon Make plans for the total lunar eclipse Aug. 28. For an even better experience, listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. SWEEEET!!!

Lightning struck a diver's air tank as he surfaced off Florida's Atlantic coast, killing him.

Tiny dog saves baby from rattlesnake Yikes!!!

Nude blonde, gold stilettos and a Ferrari..

Tourists fined for cycling nude in heatwave

Man finds out wife, not daughter, having affair DOH!!!!


Today in History:
1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.

1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precurser to the typewriter.

1903 - Ford Motor Company sold its first car. I wonder who bought the first one?

1903 - Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A. Oh..

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1914 - Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum to Serbia allowing the Austrians to find out who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When Serbia denies Austria-Hungary their demands World War I is sparked on July 28, 1914. Here we go.

1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. Thank you very much.

1929 - Fascist government in Italy ban the use of foreign words.

1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London

1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK

1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens

1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

1967 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned).

1968 - Glenville Shootout: In Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurred. During the shootout, a riot began that lasted for five days.

1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya

1982 - Actor Vic Morrow and two child actors are killed on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie when a helicopter spins out of control.

1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)

1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.


Happy Birthday:
1938 - Juliet Anderson, American pornographic actress.What? They didn't have those back then...

1943 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter

1961 - Woody Harrelson, American actor

1965 - Slash, English guitarist (ex-Guns N' Roses) English??? American...


Deaths on this Day:
1875 - Isaac Singer, American inventor and entrepreneur (b. 1811)

1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) He's also the only president get a speeding ticket. He was driving his carriage too fast on Pennsylvania blvd. No kidding.

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What Happened?

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New questions about Jim Morrison's death Definitely worth the read. What really happened? We'll never know.

Automatic toilet tissue dispenser ready Why do we need this? We don't. Take it away Bill.

Nixon library loses Watergate whitewash Interesting one here too.

Condoms of all shapes and sizes were on display at a Bejing fashion show on Wednesday featuring dresses, hats and even lollipops made of the said item. Take a look at the picture. Clothing made from condoms? That makes life a loooooooooooooot easier.

North Korea's security agency has ordered the shutdown of karaoke bars and Internet cafes, saying they are a threat to society, a South Korean newspaper reported Wednesday. Do they sing that bad?

ESCAPE: TB Patient Flees Ark. Quarantine; broke hospital window and fled... Damn dude. Haven't you put enough lives in danger.

Police: Fake Officer Stops Real One... Doh!!! BUSTED!!!!

First planet with water is spotted outside Solar System... And when the final Earth war is fought, this is where we'll run.

This is the extraordinary moment the Queen lost her temper and stormed out of a photoshoot, after a celebrity photographer dared ask her to remove her crown. You tell 'em Liz. See me and the Queen,....we hang out. That's my pet name for her. Love ya Liz.

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105 balloons put lawn chair pilot in air What a rush that would be.

DC Madam Posts All Phone Records Online... I'll bet there are a lot of nervous politicians in Washington right now. Hahahaha

British juror arrested after listening to MP3 music under hijab -- during murder trial!
It is said that she was listening to Eric Clapton's version of I Shot the Sheriff.

Madonna accused of faking guitar solo at LIVE EARTH... Britney Spears fakes singing at all of her concerts as does almost every female pop artist. Really, who cares?

Report: Fake Drinking Water Hits Beijing... And just when you thought you had enough conspiracies to worry about.

STUDY: Women drawn to men with muscles... No....really?



Today in History:
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.

552 Origin of Armenian calendar. Before this date, time didn't exist.

988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.

1204 - The invention of milk. Milk was invented?

1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England. She had just better bring that right back.

1584 - William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard. I'll bet William I of Green and William I of Red were worried.

1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army. They can live in our country but they can't die for our country. Smart thinking!!!

1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. Thanks to the efforts of Benjamin Franklin.

1789 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta. What are the odds in that happening?

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. Uhhhhh run that by me again....

1800 - British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. Vernacular.....hahahaha Inside joke, you wouldn't understand. Or would you????

1806 - The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. The indians really liked their hair. No really, they collected many a scalp.

1821 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain. That same year, condos started springing up everywhere. Time shares for sale.... anyone? anyone?

1850 - Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States. I bet you didn't know that. VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death

1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass. Really, who would eat a pencil. OOooooohhhh Indelible. What's that mean anyhow?

1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio). You'll just have to come up with something funny here on your own.

1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft. It was a cold winters night. Mr. Goldman arose from his slumber to put a rug against the drafty door. Just then, BAM! The police bust in and take him to jail for obstructing the draft. DOH!!!

1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia) Oh Hail Naw!!!

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. It's illegal to teach evolution? You remember what happened to Galileo right?

1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency. Baby bucks???

1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY. Man this is interesting. Don't you think? Finally they get away from lugging the tin cans and the miles of string to and fro.

1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.

1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed). I would assume then that the first ticket issued for expired meter happened on this day also.

1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. It's also a good song.

1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia. What was he demonstrating? A washing machine? Vacuum cleaner perhaps?

1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks.

1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction". I wonder if that satisfied Mick Jagger?

1967 - New Zealand adopts decimal currency. They raised him well, I hear. They did, however, change his name from decimal currency to Dough and sometimes refer to him as bread.

1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India

1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke. Oh happy Day!!!!

1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show. That's not even possible.

1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid. Do you know what the good thing about having a cricket stadium is? It doesn't cost much to build and it can fit in anyone's living room.

1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. I can't say anything about the drugs but I told him to keep the racketeering down on several occasions. He'd throw these wild parties and have loud music and all. Disturbing!!!

1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1998 - Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos. Well, if they'd let the men get married.....

2000 - A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. Gasoline, worth more than gold.

2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson. Oh My Lord.



Happy Birthday:
1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) I've read his book, or his version of a book. The Bible

1834 - James McNeil Whistler, American painter (d. 1903) I find it odd that more people know of Whistlers mother than Whistler himself, especially people who've seen Bean the movie.

1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serb-American inventor (d. 1943) Brilliant man.

1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)

1934 - Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer. His Sesame Street characters include Count von Count (1972-), Sherlock Hemlock (1970-1992), The Amazing Mumford (1970-), Herry Monster (1970-2002), and half of the Two-Headed Monster (1978-1999), as well as Herbert Birdsfoot (1970-1973), Genie (1976, 2002), Simon Soundman (1971-1992), Frazzle (1971-1983), Fat Blue (1970-1999) and the Announcer (1970-). He was also the first puppeteer to perform Mr. Snuffleupagus, keeping the role until 1980.

1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American musician

1947 - Arlo Guthrie, American musician

1980 - Jesse Jane, American actress

1980 - Jessica Simpson, American singer


Deaths on this Day:
1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625) So....I wonder if he FELL to his death. hahahaha

1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704) hahahahahaha, His name is Dick Peters

1978 - John D Rockefeller III, American businessman (b. 1906)

1989 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (voiced Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Barney Rubble, etc.) (b. 1908)

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Some people just don't know when to stop. You know who you are and I know you're reading this. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It will stop one way or another. You've been warned...

Now that I've taken care of that,....


In The News:
Avril Lavigne sued for stealing tune It's called a remake you turd.

Mexican tycoon passes Bill Gates as planet's richest person OH MY GOD NO!!!!!!!

Spears sorry for attacking photog's car Sure. I wonder how much that apology was valued at?

Stretch your talents as a condom tester.. I've been doing it for years.

Dinner guest finds host's wife, son in freezer And the game of CLUE begins...now

Ice cream vendor accused of selling pot I wonder where he got that idea. Maybe from the ole' Cheech and Chong movie?

Firefighter in bikini accepts plea deal What a title. I love it.

Blinded by love, man stabbed in eye by girlfriend A Hong Kong woman who blinded her boyfriend in one eye in a fight six years ago has been jailed for jabbing a chopstick into his other eye, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. This may just be my opinion but I would say to dude......RUNNNNNNN!!!!!!

Woman returns to husband who took her hostage See above story.


Today in History:
1483 England's King Richard III crowned

1508 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice

1687 Newton publishes "Principia"

1699 Capt William Kidd arrested in Boston

1752 - A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.

1785 Congress resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage

1808 - Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.

1833 - U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.

1882 - More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

1885 1st inoculation (for rabies) of a human being, by Louis Pasteur

1886 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public

1894 - Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.

1912 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.

1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England

1925 - The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler. I own a Chrysler and wouldn't have anything else. Love ya Chrysler.

1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown, in NY (Lights of NY)

1928 Worlds largest hailstone 1« lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska

1932 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.

1933 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.

1939 - German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War. What a freak.

1944 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn

1945 Pres Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom

1964 - Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.

1964 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premiers in London

1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms

1966 - James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi. Mississippi is a pretty long state. That's a long walk.

1969 - The first Internet connection was created when network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another

1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

1971 - A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.

1981 - A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.

1985 - The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February 1979.

1990 - U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by the 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind." Strike down our freedom of speech you dirty bastard. Yeah, I called you a bastard.

1990 "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premiers


Happy Birthday:
1747 John Paul Jones naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight") Somehow Wikipedia missed this one.

1796 Nicholas I Russia, Tsar (1825-55) ...and this one.

1923 Nancy Davis Reagan NY, 1st Lady (1981-89)

1925 Bill Haley Mich, (& the Comets-Rock Around the Clock)

1925 Merv Griffin San Mateo Calif, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)

1927 Janet Leigh Merced Cal, actress, She's in the shower (Psycho, Harper)

1937 Ned Beatty Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)

1945 Burt Ward LA Calif, actor (Robin-Batman)

1948 - Tony Levin, American bassist

1949 - Robert Englund, American actor. You probably know him as Freddie Krueger.

1960 - Steve Vai, American musician


Deaths on this Day:
1189 Henry II King of England (1154-89), dies at 56

1415 Jan Hus burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany

1535 Sir Thomas More executed in England for treason

1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)

1962 William Faulkner author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at 64

1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator (b. 1925)

1971 Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 70

2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)

2006 - Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)

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I saw a very good movie this weekend. 1408 blew me away. I haven't read any reviews because they're usually wrong. I know they are just opinions but.... Anyway, my opinion is that 1408 rocks. Go see it. Can't wait to watch Transformers. I'm a geek from the 80's what can I say.

In The News:
I was browsing around for property to invest in and came upon....get this....Dracula's Castle is for sale. Let me get out my calculator.

New Git-R-Done beer named for comedian I wonder if drinking that beer will git r done?

Diana's sons pay her homage at concert and had to read every single word they said about their mother from a note in their hand. Someone didn't rehearse.

AT&T works to fix iPhone activation woes You bought a $500 phone that doesn't work. Ha ha

Curious gadget fans smash, dissect iPhones Once again..... Ha ha!!!

Price of machetes drops after elections Is there a message here? Hmmm.



Today in History:
1613 - First English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia - led by Samuel Argall.

1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi - led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.

1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain, though a public Declaration of Independence is not formally printed for the masses until July 4.

1776 - John Hancock signs Declaration of Independence

1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.

1787 de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinque take over the slave ship Amistad.

1843 An alligator falls from the sky during a Charleston SC thunderstorm

1847 Envelope bearing the 1st US 10 stamps, still exists today

1850 - The self-contained gas mask is patented by Benjamin J. Lane.

1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC

1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19.

1890 - The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

1917 - Forty-eight die in rioting in East St. Louis, Illinois, as lower-paid black laborers clash with whites.

1932 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1941 - Nazi massacre of Jews in Lutsk, Ukraine. Jewish men were summoned for work, about 2000 of them were taken to the Lubart Fortress and murdered. German soldiers from rearguard units stationed in the city participated in the murder.

1947 - An object speculated to be a UFO crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, though the United States Air Force claims it is a weather balloon.

1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premiers on ABC "wasn't that lovely"

1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"

1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.

1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.

1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience break up.

1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.

1980 Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement

1982 - Larry Walters uses 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet.

1998 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was released to the public as the second installment to the Harry Potter book series.

2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.

2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.



Happy Birthday:
1917 - Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)

1934 - Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)

1937 - Richard Petty, American race car driver

1939 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)

1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)

1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress


Deaths on this Day:
1566 - Nostradamus, French astrologer (b. 1503)

1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)

1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer

1961 - Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)