Brad's Worlds

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Tom thought back to events in the recent past. What was Reginald up to, he wondered.


Reginald planned his attack with his buddies Waldo and Fluffy. He tried everything he could to persuade them to help. They had other problems to deal with.

Waldo and Fluffy had lost control of reality.



Today in History:
1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6.

1306 - Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.

1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to exploit Virginia.

1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland.

1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.

1655 - Protestants take control of Maryland at the Battle of the Severn.

1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. We work a little slower than the British, as history shows us in this case.

1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

1865 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman from the Union in a bloody battle.

1931 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.

1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.

1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

1990 - In the Bronx, New York City, a fire at an illegal social club called "Happy Land" kills 87 people.




Happy Birthday:
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)

1918 - Howard Cosell, American sports reporter (d. 1995)

1942 - Aretha Franklin, American singer

1947 - Elton John, English singer and songwriter

1966 - Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)


Deaths on this Day:
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)








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