What a Wonderful World.....

In The News:

Offensive greetings? Australian Santas have been told to stop using the phrase "ho ho ho."
Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive to women Okay. C'mon. Santas have said that forever now. Get over it stupid hos.

Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth hahahahahahaha

Papa John's takes texted pizza orders

Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten Crazy Germans.

Two Zeppelin tickets make $170,000 in charity sale How will I ever repay that amount to the bank?

Today in History:
1777 - American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.

1806 - Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it was later named Pikes Peak).

1864 - American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

1926 - The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.

1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1941 - Holocaust: SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to concentration camps of all homosexuals in Germany, with the exception of certain top Nazi officials.

1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (see Porajmos)

1949 - Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.

1959 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family are murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.

1960 - The Polaris missile is test launched.

1966 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

1967 - The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.

1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

1969 - Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's fast food restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.

1970 - The Soviet Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the moon.

1979 - A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

1988 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.

1990 - Producers acknowledge that Milli Vanilli, who won the 1990 "Best New Artist" Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.


Happy Birthday:
1906 - Curtis LeMay, U.S. Air Force general (d. 1990)

1907 - Claus von Stauffenberg, would-be assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 1944)

1919 - Joseph Wapner, American judge. You know. Peoples court.

1929 - Ed Asner, American actor

1940 - Sam Waterston, American actor


Deaths on this Day:
1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)

1996 - Alger Hiss, American government official and alleged spy (b. 1904)