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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)