Today in History

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Post your interesting "Today in history" facts here.

On your replies put the date in the title part. (Thanks):lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun

[Harakimi]

1888 Jack The Ripper killed his first victim

[saltysurprise]

1896- Chop Suey, a supposedly traditional Chinese meal, is invented in New York.

1939- Germany invades Poland at 6am. Brittain starts to evacuate a million women and children from major cities.

1974- The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fighter establishes a new record by flying the Atlantic in under 2 hours. 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds. New York to London.

[EIR Loe.307]

1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask

[EIR Loe.307]

1901 VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
1978 John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston

[EIR Loe.307]

1752 This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the govt stole 11 days of their lives
1940 1st showing of high definition color TV

[EIR Loe.307]

1836 Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas

Boring day otherwise. :lol:

[Ryan]

1836 Sam Houston elected president of the Republic of Texas

Boring day otherwise. :lol:


Lots of stuff happened on this day.

1774: The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in response to the British enactment of the Intolerable Acts.

1793: The National Convention began the "Reign of Terror" which resulted in the execution of thousands of French men and women perceived to be enemies of the state.

1972: Palestinian gunmen broke into the Israeli section of the Olympic village at the Munich Summer Games and killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, and 1 German Police officer.

[EIR Loe.307]

Lots of stuff happened on this day.

1793: The National Convention began the "Reign of Terror" which resulted in the execution of thousands of French men and women perceived to be enemies of the state.


Ya, but they were French so does it really count? Hehehe :lol:

[saltysurprise]

Ya, but they were French so does it really count? Hehehe :lol:

Easy does it Cream Puff!:stop: You don't see too many of us US bashing now do ya? Maybe a little Bush bashing etc., but hey, that's an easy target:cool:

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

[EIR Loe.307]

Easy does it Cream Puff!:stop: You don't see too many of us US bashing now do ya? Maybe a little Bush bashing etc., but hey, that's an easy target:cool:

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

I like to bash Bush regularly myself!!:lol:

(Ok George St. Pierre is cool):lol::lol:

[saltysurprise]

I like to bash Bush regularly myself!!:lol:

(Ok George St. Pierre is cool):lol::lol:

Har har!

(GSP is Canadian French, not French French... Sheesh!:rolleyes:)

[EIR Loe.307]

Har har!

(GSP is Canadian French, not French French... Sheesh!:rolleyes:)


Best I can do. Hehehehe

[saltysurprise]

Best I can do. Hehehehe

Well there's the American Public school system for ya:rolleyes:...

There, now I've got my dig in:cool::D

Est-ce que vous êtes ivre??:drunk: Je pense que la robe est trop petite pour vous...:eek::sick::lol:

MUHAhahahaha!!!!!

[EIR Loe.307]

Well there's the American Public school system for ya:rolleyes:...

There, now I've got my dig in:cool::D

Est-ce que vous êtes ivre??:drunk: Je pense que la robe est trop petite pour vous...:eek::sick::lol:

MUHAhahahaha!!!!!

DOH!!! That's alright, we invented....uh......McDonald's???:stop:

[saltysurprise]

DOH!!! That's alright, we invented....uh......McDonald's???:stop:

Does someone need a hug??:wonder::cry::lol::lol::lol:;)

Hey, it's your thread, de-rail it all you want:D:lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

1620 Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth England to the New World
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV

[saltysurprise]

1998- Google founded

Oooooh. I use that!:D:lol:

Wow, has it been nearly 10 years?!? Time flies when you're something somthing...

[Ryan]

Oooooh. I use that!:D:lol:

Wow, has it been nearly 10 years?!? Time flies when you're something somthing...

Go crazy? ;)

[saltysurprise]

Go crazy? ;)

Now if it were me, I would have said 'going' crazy. But that's just me.

Sure, I'll take that as an acceptable answer:cool:.

[Ryan]

Now if it were me, I would have said 'going' crazy. But that's just me.

Sure, I'll take that as an acceptable answer:cool:.

That joke went right over your head.

Sit down before you hurt yourself.

[Harakimi]

1997: Princess Diana's funreal

[saltysurprise]

That joke went right over your head.

Sit down before you hurt yourself.

Perhaps... I'm in the seated position, my seat is a floatation device. There are exits located front and rear.

If you were refering to Mr. Homer Simpson, I wasn't really aiming for such an impression.

Hey, when did we move Fried Day night boozing to 'Today in History'?:lol:

1997: Princess Diana's funreal

Yeah, real fun:rolleyes:

:lol: You're cut off!:lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

1863 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal invasion force at Sabine Pass, TX
1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave destroys Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history (this is where I was born)
1966 "Star Trek" premiers on NBC-TV
1973 Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)

[EIR Loe.307]

1776 Continental Congress renames "United Colonies," "United States"
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1956 Elvis Presley appears on national TV for 1st time (Ed Sullivan)
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
1987 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter (MLB Texas Rangers pitcher (ret.) and former Houston Astro that lives 10 min from me)

[EIR Loe.307]

1788 New York City becomes capital of the United States
1906 1st airplane flight in Europe

[EIR Loe.307]

1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity :lol:

[saltysurprise]

1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity :lol:

What the?!?:lol: That was a horrible show:lol:. What was the movie he was in a couple of years ago where he played a total psycho weirdo? Was it Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, or Super Troopers? (both hilarious movies:thumbsup:)

He's so far out of the closet now, I'm not sure he could find it again if he tried!:eek::lol:

[EIR Loe.307]

What the?!?:lol: That was a horrible show:lol:. What was the movie he was in a couple of years ago where he played a total psycho weirdo? Was it Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, or Super Troopers? (both hilarious movies:thumbsup:)

He's so far out of the closet now, I'm not sure he could find it again if he tried!:eek::lol:

It was H&K :lol:

[NetOz]

They got moved to the "Today in racing history" thread in world racing history.

Okay. thkz for the info and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY m8 :thumbsup:

[EIR Loe.307]

Okay. thkz for the info and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY m8 :thumbsup:
Thanks!!

1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca (paving the way for rental porn :lol:)
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike (I hope they mean labor strike :eek::p)
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1995 O.J. Simpson found not guilty

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1984 US govt closes down due to budget problems :lol:

[emmabro]

1956 - Didier Theyes was born
1926- chuck berry was born
1781- the american war of independance ends with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to george washington

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1881 Pablo Picasso Born
1983 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) :lol:

[JoStream]

1597 Imjin War: About twelve Korean ships commanded by Admiral Yi Sun-sin defeated a large Japanese invasion fleet of at least 300 at the Battle of Myeongnyang in the Myeongnyang Strait.

1863 The Football Association, the oldest governing body in football, was founded at a pub in London's Great Queen Street.

1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaimed himself the first President of the new Republic of Vietnam

2001 U.S. President George W. Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act

[EIR Loe.307]

Halloween!! :eek:

[JoStream]

1871 "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" – Journalist and explorer Henry Stanley located missing explorer David Livingstone in Ujiji in present-day Tanzania

1969 The children's television series Sesame Street debuted on the National Educational Television network in the United States

[JoStream]

1936 – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic

1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with explosives, leading to the exploding whale incident

1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler

[saltysurprise]

1936 – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic

1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with explosives, leading to the exploding whale incident

1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler

That is one incredible bridge. When I was there, I couldn't decide what was more spectacular, driving on it or seeing from the boat. The approaches are something as well. I can't recall what we paid for the toll:wonder: Apparently there were many thousands of gallons of oil spilled in the bay just a week or so ago:mad:

As for old the old whale, that's quite the footage they shot:lol: Rotten whale guts splattered all over everything for blocks:sick: Where did all these seagulls come from:confused::lol:

And as for the merger, at the time, I thought it was the strangest thing I'd ever heard. I can't believe that was almost 10 years ago:wonder: It certainly seemed to pull Chrysler out of the mud.

[JoStream]

And as for the merger, at the time, I thought it was the strangest thing I'd ever heard. I can't believe that was almost 10 years ago:wonder: It certainly seemed to pull Chrysler out of the mud.

Yea, when I heard it I couldn't believe it, nor could I see it working. Took them almost a decade to figure that out, and just a few months back they split again :rolleyes:

[saltysurprise]

Yea, when I heard it I couldn't believe it, nor could I see it working. Took them almost a decade to figure that out, and just a few months back they split again :rolleyes:

I don't know the numbers, but I'm sure Chrysler came out of it better than when they went in.:wonder:

[EIR Loe.307]

Gotta put the date!!

[saltysurprise]

Gotta put the date!!

Oh Jeez!:wonder: Someone's pissy today:lol: Yes your worship!:rolleyes::lol::lol:

[JoStream]

Gotta put the date!!

Thanks for the visual :lol: Done!

[Harakimi]

1002 King of England, Ethelred The Unready ordered that all Danish people in England shall be killed.

[Harakimi]

1917 National Hockey League (NHL) is founded.
2003 Last flight of the Concorde

[Krazy-K]

Nov. 29

1947 U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

[Harakimi]

2008 Albert Hofman, inventor of LSD dies at the age of 102.

[EIR Loe.307]

2008 Albert Hofman, inventor of LSD dies at the age of 102.

WOW!! There has been so much about him this year. Crazy. It's like we knew it was coming.

[Harakimi]

1945 Newlyweds Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kill themselves in the charming and romantic Fuhrerbunker, ending all hope for a ten-thousand-year Reich.

[EIR Loe.307]

1945 Newlyweds Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun kill themselves in the charming and romantic Fuhrerbunker, ending all hope for a ten-thousand-year Reich. AHHHH hahahahahahah!! :lol: Love the way you put that.

[Dunk]

1973: Completion of the world's tallest building, the Sears Tower in Chicago.

[saltysurprise]

Happy 22nd birthday to Megan Fox!:D

Hellloooo!!

[NetOz]

1962 - Brazil wins the world cup :finishfirst:

[NetOz]

1970 - Brazil wins the world cup for the third time :finishfirst:

[NetOz]

1978 - Argentina wins the world cup :wonder:

[NetOz]

1958 - Brazil wins the world cup

[Ryan]

July 1, 1867: The British North America Act comes into effect, establishing Canada as an independent nation.

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