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Friday, July 06, 2007

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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)

1 Comments:

At 11:07 AM, Blogger Jane Q Doe said...

pasteur actually tested that out on his son first, didnt he?? or am i thinking of the guy who inoculated for cow pox??

 

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