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Post by dex on Oct 11, 2018 10:54:04 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2018. There are 81 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1809, just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35. In 1884, American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City. In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis. In 1958, the lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere. In 1961, actor-comedian Leonard "Chico" Marx, 74, died in Hollywood, Calif. In 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council, also known as "Vatican 2." In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. In 1983, the last full-fledged hand-cranked telephone system in the United States went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial service. In 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a "high-tech lynching." In 2001, in his first primetime news conference since taking office, President George W. Bush said "it may take a year or two" to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but he asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, "we've got them on the run." In 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today's birthdays
Actor Ron Leibman is 81. Actor Amitabh Bachchan is
76. Singer Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) is 72. Actress-director Catlin Adams is 68. Actor David Morse is 65. Actress-writer-comedian Dawn French is 61. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 57. Actress Joan Cusack is 56. Rock musician Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms) is 56. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 54. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 53. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Chris Spielman is 53. Actor Luke Perry is 52. Actor-comedian Artie Lange is 51. Actress Jane Krakowski is 50. Rapper U-God (Wu-Tang Clan) is 48. Rapper MC Lyte is 47. Figure skater Kyoko Ina is
46. Actor/writer Nat Faxon is
43. Singer NeeNa Lee is 43. Actress Emily Deschanel is
42. Actor Matt Bomer is 41.
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Post by thumper on Oct 11, 2018 11:18:21 GMT -5
What are the odds that Artie Lange makes it to 52?
PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by dex on Oct 11, 2018 18:58:22 GMT -5
Never heard of the guy so I shall defer to you Thumperella.
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Post by thumper on Oct 12, 2018 6:17:49 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Oct 12, 2018 8:41:35 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Oct. 12, the 285th day of 2018. There are 80 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1492 (according to the Old Style calendar), Christopher Columbus' expedition arrived in the present-day Bahamas. In 1792, the first recorded U.S. celebration of Columbus Day was held to mark the tricentennial of Christopher Columbus' landing. In 1870, General Robert E. Lee died in Lexington, Va., at age 63. In 1942, during World War II, American naval forces defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. Also, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced during a Columbus Day celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens. In 1971, the rock opera "My God Superstar" opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway. In 1973, President Richard Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president. In 1984, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people. In 1986, the superpower meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, ended in stalemate, with President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev unable to agree on arms control or a date for a full-fledged summit in the United States. In 1997, singer John Denver was killed in the crash of his privately built aircraft in Monterey Bay, California; he was 53. In 2000, 17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen. In 2001, NBC announced that an assistant to anchorman Tom Brokaw had contracted the skin form of anthrax after opening a "threatening" letter to her boss containing powder. In 2002, bombs blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants destroyed a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians and seven Americans. In 2007, former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming.
Today's birthdays
Actress Antonia Rey is 91. Singer Sam Moore (formerly of Sam and Dave) is 83. Broadcast journalist Chris Wallace is 71. Actress-singer Susan Anton is 68. Pop/rock singer/songwriter Jane Siberry is 63. Actor Hiroyuki Sanada is 58.
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Post by dex on Oct 13, 2018 8:12:49 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Oct. 13, the 286th day of 2018. There are 79 days left in the year.
On this date
In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina.
In 1775, the Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval fleet, the origins of the U.S. Navy.
In 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid by President George Washington, during a ceremony in the District of Columbia.
In 1845, Texas voters ratified a state constitution.
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.
In 1943, Italy declared war on Germany, its one-time Axis partner.
In 1944, during World War II, American troops entered Aachen, Germany.
In 1962, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway.
In 1972, a Uruguayan chartered flight carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes; survivors resorted to feeding off the remains of some of the dead in order to stay alive until they were rescued more than two months later.
In 1981, voters in Egypt par ticipated in a referendum to elect Vice President Hosni Mubarak the new president, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
In 1999, in Boulder, Colorado, the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury was dismissed after 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn’t enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old beauty queen’s slaying three years earlier.
In 2008, American Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize in economics for his work on international trade patterns.
In 2017, President Donald Trump accused Iran of violating the 2015 nuclear accord, but did not pull the United States out of the deal or reimpose nuclear sanctions. (Trump would pull the United States out of the deal the following May and restore harsh sanctions.)
Today’s birthdays
Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 81. Actress Melinda Dillon is 79. Singer-musician Paul Simon is 77. Actress Pamela Tiffin is 76. Musician Robert Lamm (Chicago) is 74. Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 72. Actor Demond Wilson is 72. Singer-musician Sammy Hagar is 71. Pop singer John Ford Coley is 70. Actor John Lone is 66. Model Beverly Johnson is 66. Producer-writer Chris Carter is 62. Actor Reggie Theus is 61. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, is 60. Singer Marie Osmond is 59. Rock singer Joey Belladonna is 58. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer is 58. NBA coach Doc Rivers is 57. Actress T’Keyah Crystal Keymah is 56. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice is
56. Actress Kelly Preston is 56. Country singer John Wiggins is 56.
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Post by dex on Oct 18, 2018 14:13:40 GMT -5
organization on record. In 1767, the Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between colonial Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, was set as astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey. In 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened (it could only handle one call at a time). In 1898, the American flag was raised in Puerto Rico shortly before Spain formally relinquished control of the island to the U.S. In 1931, inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West Orange, New Jersey, at age 84. In 1944, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia during World War II. In 1962, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. In 1968, the U-S Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “black power” salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City. In 1969, the federal government banned artificial sweeteners known as cyclamates because of evidence they caused cancer in laboratory rats. In 1977, West German commandos stormed a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers. In 1982, former first lady Bess Truman died at her home in Independence, Missouri, at age 97. In 1997, a monument honoring American servicewomen, past and present, was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2001, CBS News announced that an employee in anchorman Dan Rather’s office had tested positive for skin anthrax.
Today’s birthdays
Actress Dawn Wells is 80. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Ditka is 79. Singer-musician Russ Giguere is 75. Actor Joe Morton is 71. Actress Pam Dawber is 68. Author Terry McMillan is 67. Writer-producer Chuck Lorre is 66. Gospel singer Vickie Winans is 65. Director-screenwriter David Twohy is 63.
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Post by dex on Oct 19, 2018 9:54:01 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2018. There are 73 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1789, John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
In 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, as the American Revolution neared its end.
In 1944, the U.S. Navy began accepting black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
In 1950, during the Korean Conflict, United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
In 1953, the Ray Bradbury novel “Fahrenheit 451,” set in a dystopian future where books are banned and burned by the government, was first published by Ballantine Books.
In 1967, the U.S. space probe Mariner 5 flew past Venus.
In 1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
In 1982, automaker John Z. DeLorean was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, accused of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage his business. (DeLorean was acquitted at trial on grounds of entrapment.)
In 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value (its biggest daily percentage loss), to close at 1,738.74 in what came to be known as “Black Monday.”
In 1994, 22 people were killed as a terrorist bomb hattered a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv’s shopping district.
In 2001, U.S. special forces began operations on the ground in Afghanistan, opening a significant new phase of the assault against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
In 2005, a defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture as his trial opened under heavy security in the former headquarters of his Baath Party in Baghdad.
Today’s birthdays
Author John le Carre is 87. Artist Peter Max is 81. Author and critic Renata Adler is 81. Actor Michael Gambon is 78. Actor John Lithgow is 73. Feminist activist Patricia Ireland is 73. Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 73. Rock singer-musician Patrick Simmons (The Doobie Brothers) is 70. Talk show host Charlie Chase is 66. Rock singer-musician Karl Wallinger (World Party) is
61.
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Post by dex on Oct 31, 2018 9:24:06 GMT -5
Today is Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2018. There are 61 days left in the year. This is Halloween.
On this date
In 1517, Martin Luther sent his 95 Theses denouncing what he saw as the abuses of the Catholic Church, especially the sale of indulgences, to the Archbishop of Mainz, Germany (by some accounts, Luther also posted the Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg), marking the start of the Protestant Reformation. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state as President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation. In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. In 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. Also, work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927. In 1961, the body of Josef Stalin was removed from Lenin’s Tomb as part of the Soviet Union’s “de-Stalinization” drive. In 1975, the Queen single “Bohemian Rhapsody” was released in the United KinWowom by EMI Records. In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards. In 1992, Pope John Paul II formally proclaimed that the Roman Catholic Church had erred in condemning the astronomer Galileo for holding that the Earth was not the center of the universe. In 1998, a genetic study was released suggesting President Thomas Jefferson did in fact father at least one child by his slave Sally Hemings. In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990, bound from New York to Cairo, crashed off the Massachusetts coast, killing all 217 people aboard. In 2001, New York hospital worker Kathy T. Nguyen died of inhalation anthrax, the fourth person to perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism.
Today’s birthdays
Actress Lee Grant is 93. Former astronaut Michael Collins is 88. Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather is 87. Folk singer Tom Paxton is
81. Actor Ron Rifkin is 80. Actress Sally Kirkland is 77. Actor Brian Doyle-Murray is 73. Actor Stephen Rea is 72. Olympic gold medal long-distance runner Frank Shorter is 71. Actress Deidre Hall is 71. TV show host Jane Pauley is 68. Movie director Peter Jackson is 57. Rock musician Larry Mullen is 57. Actor Dermot Mulroney is
55. Rock singer-musician Johnny Marr is 55. Actor Rob Schneider is 54. Actor-comedian Mike O’Malley is 53. Rap musician Adrock is 52. Songwriter Adam Schlesinger is 51. Rap performer Vanilla Ice (aka Rob Van Winkle) is 51
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Post by Free Weyinmi on Nov 1, 2018 13:42:40 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press Today is Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2018. There are 81 days left in the year. On this date In 1809, just over three years after the famous Lewis and Clark expedition ended, Meriwether Lewis was found dead in a Tennessee inn, an apparent suicide; he was 35.Wow! Never knew this. Turns out there's a lot of dispute regarding what actually happened: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis#Death
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Post by dex on Nov 1, 2018 15:28:03 GMT -5
Fascinating stuff...thanks for sharing Free
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Post by dex on Nov 12, 2018 9:25:15 GMT -5
On this date
In 1866, Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, the first provisional president of the Republic of China, was born. In 1920, baseball got its first “czar” as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues. In 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C., giving the green light to traffic. In 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Allies ended up winning a major victory over Japanese forces.) In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal. In 1970, the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan; it’s believed a half-million people, possibly more, were killed. In 1977, the city of New Orleans elected its first black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, the winner of a runoff. In 1984, space shuttle astronauts Dale Gardner and Joe Allen snared a wandering satellite in history’s first space salvage; the Palapa B2 satellite was secured in Discovery’s cargo bay for return to Earth. In 1987, the American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive. In 1996, a Saudi Boeing 747 jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a Kazak Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, killing 349 people. In 1998, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley filed a $433-million-dollar lawsuit against the firearms industry, declaring that it had created a public nuisance by flooding the streets with weapons deliberately marketed to criminals. (A judge dismissed the lawsuit in 2000; an appeals court ruled in 2002 that the city of Chicago could proceed; but the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2004.) In 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 headed to the Dominican Republic, crashed after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground.
Today’s birthdays
Singer Brian Hyland is 75. Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn is 75. Rock musician Booker T. Jones (Booker T. & the MGs) is 74. Sportscaster Al Michaels is 74. Singer-songwriter Neil Young is 73. Rock musician Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) is 71. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., is 69. Country and gospel singer Barbara Fairchild is 68. Actress Megan Mullally is 60. Actor Vincent Irizarry is 59. Olympic gold medal gymnast Nadia Comaneci is 57. Actor Sam Lloyd is 55. Rock musician David Ellefson is 54. Retired MLB All-Star Sammy Sosa is 50. Figure skater Tonya Harding is 48. Actress Rebecca Wisocky is 47. Actress Radha Mitchell is 45. Actress Lourdes Benedicto is 44. Actress Tamala Jones is 44. Actress Angela Watson is 44. Singer Tevin Campbell is 42. Actor Ryan Gosling is 38. Actress Anne Hathaway is 36.
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Post by dex on Nov 28, 2018 16:22:49 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press
Today is Nov. 28, the 332nd day of 2018. There are 33 days left in the year.
On this date In 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. In 1861, the Confederate Congress admitted Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri's disputed secession from the Union. In 1907, future movie producer Louis B. Mayer opened his first movie theater, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1909, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 had its world premiere in New York, with Rachmaninoff at the piano. In 1942, fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever. (The cause of the rapidly-spreading fire, which began in the basement, is in dispute; one theory is that a busboy accidentally ignited an artificial palm tree while using a lighted match to fix a light bulb.) In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began conferring in Tehran during World War II. In 1961, Ernie Davis of Syracuse University became the first African-American to be named winner of the Heisman Trophy. In 1964, the United States launched the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it flew past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet. In 1975, President Ford nominated Federal Judge John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas. In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC-10 en route to the South Pole crashed into a mountain in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard. In 1990, Margaret Thatcher resigned as British prime minister during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II, who then conferred the premiership on John Major. In 2001, Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4-billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.) Today's birthdays Recording executive Berry Gordy Jr. is 89. Singer-songwriter Bruce Channel is 78. Singer Randy Newman is 75. CBS News correspondent Susan Spencer is 72. Movie director Joe Dante is 71. Former "Late Show" orchestra leader Paul Shaffer is 69. Actor Ed Harris is 68. Former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan is 67. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson is 66. Actor Judd Nelson is 59. Movie director Alfonso Cuaron is 57. Actress Jane Sibbett is 56. Comedian Jon Stewart is 56.
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Post by drairf on Dec 5, 2018 11:20:12 GMT -5
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On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, as announced in this proclamation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment of January 16, 1919, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol.
1776 The first scholastic fraternity in America, Phi Beta Kappa, was organized at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. 1782 Martin Van Buren, the eighth U.S. president and the first to be born after the country was formed, was born in Kinderhook, N.Y. 1791 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna at age 35. 1792 George Washington was re-elected president and John Adams was re-elected vice president. 1831 Former President John Quincy Adams took his seat as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1848 President James K. Polk triggered the Gold Rush of '49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California. 1901 Movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago. 1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO. 1994 Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades. 1996 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan questioned whether the stock market was overvalued due to investors' "irrational exuberance." 2002 Senate Republican leader Trent Lott praised Strom Thurmond's pro-segregation 1948 presidential campaign. The ensuing uproar led to Lott's resignation from the Senate leadership. 2006 New York became the first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging trans fats at restaurants. 2008 A judge in Las Vegas sentenced O.J. Simpson to 33 years in prison (with eligibility for parole after nine) for an armed robbery at a hotel room.
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Post by pcdad on Dec 5, 2018 17:31:37 GMT -5
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