Bridges Falling, Flash Fires, Mountains Erupting...

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In The News:
Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child C'mon. Tie something off people.

Bruce Willis rocks Kennedy Space Center Some 7,000 people showed up to watch Bruce Willis and his blues band perform at the Kennedy Space Center's rocket garden.

First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq...

Woman wearing 'I'm A Drunk' t-shirt arrested for DUI...



Today in History:
8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.

435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied

1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.

1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.

1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.

1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.

1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.

1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.

1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)

1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.

1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. I thought that was yesterday.

1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.

1963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"

1963 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool

1963 Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed

1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try

1971 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings

1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)

1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers

1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.

1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated

1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered

1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.

1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).

2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.


Happy Birthday:
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861) He invented a safety device in 1852 in Yonkers, New York that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke.

1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)

1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer

1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor

1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)

1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality

1950 John Landis director (Twilight Zone)

1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)

1963 - James Hetfield, American guitar player, (Metallica)

1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)

1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)


Deaths on this Day:
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)

1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)

1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)

1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) dies of a morphine overdose

2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)

Crap!!!

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Some days you want to....... I don't know what but this is one of those days.



In The News:

Australian granny, 94, becomes world's oldest master. Master Granny. That sounds like the name of a movie.

Aztec pyramid ruins found in Mexico City. A good read here otherwise I wouldn't have posted it on my blog.

Russian subs seek glory at North Pole.

Chris O'Donnell to be a dad for 5th time. Goodness man. Take a breather, why doncha.

Woman kept dead husband by bed for a year. That's just nasty.


Today in History:
338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London)

1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

1776 - Delegates to the Continental Congress begin signing the United States Declaration of Independence.

1790 - The first US Census is conducted.

1819 1st parachute jump in US

1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass

1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones

1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted

1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers

1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place

1931 - Einstein urges all scientists to refuse military work. See how smart he was?

1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it

1937 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

1939 - Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him to begin the Manhattan project to develop a nuclear weapon. He was afraid the Nazis would get the weapon first.

1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew.

1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

1985 - A Delta Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges


Happy Birthday:
1897 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945)

1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)

1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor

1937 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)

1939 - Wes Craven, American film director

1941 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)

1945 - Joanna Cassidy, American actress

1951 - Joe Lynn Turner, American Singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow (Band))

1959 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian

1970 - Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter


Deaths on this Day:
1100 - King William II of England

1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)

1876 - James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, American gunfighter (b. 1837)

1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)

1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)

1972 - Brian Cole, American bass player (The Association) (b. 1942)

Major Movie Star

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No. That's not my ego getting out of control. I'll explain...... Yesterday I played in another movie. I say played in rather than was featured in, or starred (yeah right) in, because I see it as a neat experience only and don't dream of being a big star. It would be cool but I won't give up the farm just yet. hahaha. Anyway, I was cast as Jessica Simpson's brother-in-law in Major Movie Star. I went to work on the set and learned that I had a wife and two children. My actual characters name is Jenny's Husband. That's what'll be in the credits anyway. It was a fun but very hot and long day. This is the second movie that I've been in with Jessica Simpson. The first was Blonde Ambition . We actually talked about filming on Blonde Ambition, which was neat. I also got to hang out with Gary Grubbs, Cheri Oteri (oh my God she's hilarious), Vivica A. Fox, and a ton of other very nice people. I recognized Cheri Oteri as the female Apartan cheerleader alongside Will Farrell in the Saturday Night Live skits. She was crackin' some jokes too. It's not all glamorous like everyone thinks most of the time. Although I was in makeup, which I still can't get used to, I got a good sunburn. It was extremely hot. The food on this one was great. Grilled Chicken, Lasagna, Some sort of bean stew that was amazing, rice and gravy, and a loooooooot more. It was a blast.