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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Top 20 Albums of All Time

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Did You Know This?
* The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real)

#20. Faith - George Michael

#19. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses

#18. Purple Rain - Prince

#17. Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin

#16. Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

#15. Nevermind - Nirvana

#14. Van Halen - Van Halen

#13. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
#12. The Wall - Pink Floyd

#11. The Joshua Tree - U2

#10. Metallica - Metallica

#9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

#8. Hotel California - Eagles

#7. The White Album - The Beatles

#6. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

#5. Abbey Road - The Beatles

#4. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

#3. Thriller - Michael Jackson

#2. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

#1. Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
That's hard to believe. What about Sgt Pepper? Stevie Wonder beat out Dark Side of the Moon? I'm not sure that I believe this study.



Today in History:
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body

1718 Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony ofPennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible withmonotheism and religious liberty.

1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston

1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot. This is impressive.

1870 Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100

1909 US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane

1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie

1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized. That would never have passed in this day and age. I'm surprised someone hasn't sued to have that removed.

1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks

1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away

1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"

1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162

1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon

1974 House of Reps recommends 3 articles of impeachment of Nixon. Leave Nixon alone, will ya?

1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit

1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif. That's really fast.

1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg. Is that the term? Jerking? Sounds a little fishy to me.

1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993.... all of which do, in fact, suck.


Happy Birthday:
1818 Emily Brontë England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)

1863 Henry Ford Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)

1941 Paul Anka Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)

1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger Austria, body builder (Commando, Terminator)

1950 Frank Stallone NYC, actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force) Guess who his brother is....

1956 Delta Burke Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)


Wednesday, July 23, 2008

July 23, 2008

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Today in History, July 23:

636 Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire

685 John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1253 Jews are expelled from Vienne France by order of Pope Innocent III. The Jews always get a bad rap.

1298 Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany. See what I mean?

1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt

1829 William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)

1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii completed

1886 Steve Brodie supposedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge

1904 Ice cream cone created by Charles E Menches during La Purchase Expo

1940 "Blitz" begins, all-night raid on London

1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph

1964 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside
in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage

1965 Beatles "Help" is released in the UK

1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens

1966 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of the air by lightning, St Louis-36 die

1980 Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya

1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

1986 Britain's Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson


HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
1961 Woody Harrelson Midland Tx, actor (Woody Boyd-Cheers)


Deaths on this Day:
1885 Ulysses S Grant 18th US pres, dies in Mount McGregor, NY, at 63

1979 Keith Godchaux rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32

1982 Vic Morrow killed during filming of "Twilight Zone" at 53