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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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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)










1 Comments:

At 8:24 AM, Blogger Jane Q Doe said...

for starters, thats inappropriate.

and i thought the swedes invented milk. weird.

 

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