What V said twice!

Happy Birthday Ella Fitzgerald!!

It's not really possible to pick *one* favorite track by her, not really. But this one is easy to listen to over and over again... The little combo puts some real swing into it. And Ella, oh man... I agree. Let's just fall in love. Worth listening to the whole track, they let the tape roll and you can hear them talk about the recording. A favorite, among many.

Seeing as I have nothing better to do...Onward.:)

Today is April 26.

Many of the southern states in the U.S. celebrate Confederate Memorial Day today, commemorating the ~258,000 members of the Confederate States Army, Navy, Marines, and militia who died in combat during the Civil War.

Today is also Hug A Friend Day, so, hug somebody, dammit! Here's how.

As well, today is World Intellectual Property Day.

Russia, and Belarus, commemorate the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster with Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes, and Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy, respectively.

Today is the Feast Day of Aldobrandesca. But don't say that word aloud. I did, and my coffee table disappeared.


Events

1777 – Legend tells that Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode 40 miles to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces.

1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. Yeah, if something's there, it pretty much exists, alright.

1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.

1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship,

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leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.

1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue

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from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

1982 - Out on a day's shopping, Rod Stewart was robbed by a gunman of his $50,000 Porsche on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.

1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.

2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

2013 - US country singer George Jones who had a string of number one songs between the 1950s and 1990s, died aged 81. Nicknamed 'Possum', his signature song was He Stopped Loving Her Today, a track about love and death.

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121 – Marcus Aurelius, 1785 – John James Audubon, 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, 1889 – Anita Loos, 1898 – Eddie Eagan:boxers:, 1917 – I. M. Pei, 1927 - Grandmadigr The Younger, 1933 – Carol Burnett, 1938 – Duane Eddy♪ ♫, 1940 - Uncledigr The Elder, 1942 – Bobby Rydell♪ ♫, 1943 – Gary Wright:keys:, 1960 – Roger Taylor:drummer:(Duran Duran), 1961 – Joan Chen:love:, 1963 – Jet Li, 1965 – Kevin James, 1970 – Melania Trump (47th FLOTUS), 1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins♪ ♫(TLC), 1978 – Stana Katic (Castle), 1980 – Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious), 1983 – Jessica Lynch

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1865 – John Wilkes Booth, 1956 – Edward Arnold, 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee:ggw:, 1981 – Jim Davis (Dallas), 1984 – Count Basie:keys:, 1986 – Broderick Crawford, 1989 – Lucille Ball, 1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., 2013 - George Jones, 2015 – Jayne Meadows

Today is April 27.

1521 – Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.

1667 – John Milton, blind and impoverished, sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.

1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' Hymn).

1861 – American President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1986 – The city of Pripyat as well as the surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.

2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee, killing 348 and injuring hundreds more. The outbreak spawned 362 confirmed tornadoes. 218 tornadoes touch down on this day. This event was the costliest tornado outbreak, and one of the costliest natural disasters, in United States history (even after adjustments for inflation), with total damages of approximately $11 billion (2011 USD).

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1791 – Samuel Morse, 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant (18th POTUS), 1896 – Rogers Hornsby, 1899 – Walter Lantz, 1922 – Jack Klugman (Odd Couple, Quincy M.E.), 1926 – Tim LaHaye, 1927 – Coretta Scott King, 1932 – Casey Kasem, 1938 – Earl Anthony, 1944 – Cuba Gooding Sr., 1947 – Pete Ham♪ ♫(Badfinger), 1951 – Ace Frehley:devil::shred:(KISS, Frehley's Comet), 1955 – Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc), 1959 – Sheena Easton♪ ♫

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1521 – Ferdinand Magellan, 1813 – Zebulon Pike (namesake of Pike's Peak), 1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1932 – Hart Crane, 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, 1988 – Fred Bear:devil:(American bow hunter), 1996 – William Colby, 1999 – Al Hirt♪ ♫, 2002 – Ruth Handler (created the Barbie doll), 2015 – Verne Gagne

Today is April 29.

This date is observed as a Day of Remembrance For All Victims of Chemical Warfare, and also as International Dance Day.


Events

1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1770 – James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.

1834 – Charles Darwin during the second survey voyage of HMS Beagle, ascended the Bell mountain, Cerro La Campana on 17 August 1834, his visit being commemorated by a memorial plaque.

1903 – A 30 million cubic-metre landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.

1944 – World War II: British agent Nancy Wake, a leading figure in the French Resistance and the Gestapo's most wanted person, parachutes back into France to be a liaison between London and the local maquis group.

1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.

1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor; Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day. [video link]

1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

1967 – After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

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1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon before an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.

1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.

1992 – Riots in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of buildings are destroyed.

2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.

2016 - Fifteen of Prince's (<--Wait for it...) albums made it into the UK chart as fans rushed to buy his music following his sudden death. Six were in the top 40 with The Very Best Of, Ultimate and Purple Rain at two, three and four.

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1863 – William Randolph Hearst, 1899 – Duke Ellington, 1901 – Hirohito, 1917 – Celeste Holm, 1931 – Lonnie Donegan, 1933 – Rod McKuen, 1933 – Willie Nelson, 1935 – Otis Rush, 1936 – Zubin Mehta, 1938 – Bernard Madoff, 1943 – Duane Allen, 1947 – Tommy James, 1947 – Johnny Miller, 1951 – Dale Earnhardt, 1951 – John Holmes (no, not that one:)), 1952 – Nora Dunn, 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, 1955 – Kate Mulgrew, 1957 – Daniel Day-Lewis, 1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, 1958 – Eve Plumb, 1970 – Andre Agassi, 1970 – Uma Thurman

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1967 – J. B. Lenoir, 1980 – Alfred Hitchcock, 1997 – Mike Royko, 2008 – Albert Hofmann, 2014 – Bob Hoskins, 2015 – Calvin Peete

Today is April 30, the last day of April, and the 120th day of the year. One third of the year has passed.

There are 245 days remaining in 2017.

On this date Western Christianity observes a Global Day Of Prayer.

Honesty Day is marked today in the U.S., coinciding with the anniversary of the first inauguration of George Washington.

UNESCO has proclaimed this day as an International Jazz Day, so, if you're a musician, find four buddies and all of ya play a different song at the same time.


Events

1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.

1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for less than three cents per acre, $15 million (~$250,000,000 in 2016 dollars), more than doubling the size of the young nation.

1885 – Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.

1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete

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at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

1945 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.

1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.

1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.

2009 – Chrysler

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files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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1877 – Alice B. Toklas, 1908 – Eve Arden, 1926 – Cloris Leachman, 1938 – Gary Collins, 1943 – Bobby Vee, 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, 1953 – Merrill Osmond, 1954 – Jane Campion, 1961 – Isiah Thomas, 1963 – Michael Waltrip:driving:, 1981 – Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), 1982 – Kirsten Dunst

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65 – Lucan, 1900 – Casey Jones, 1956 – Alben W. Barkley (35th VPOTUS), 1970 – Inger Stevens, 1972 – Gia Scala, 1974 – Agnes Moorehead ('Endora' on Bewitched), 1983 – George Balanchine, 1983 – Muddy Waters, 1989 – Sergio Leone, 1994 – Richard Scarry, 2007 – Tom Poston, 2016 – Daniel Berrigan

I'd give $250 million for that property. :cool:

Holy premiums Bruceman!!

Think of the insurance payments.

Think the rent would cover them? Of course I wouldn't do this for a profit, just to build a better America.

Today is May 1.

There are 237 days until Christmas.

Today is May Day.

Today is also International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day.

In the U.S., today is Loyalty Day. Also observed today is Law Day.

Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Celtic Neopagans, and Wiccans observe this day as Beltane, while the Welsh celebrate Calan Mai.

International Workers' Day falls on this date. As does Lei Day.


Events

1707 – The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1759 – Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.

1776 – Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.

1785 – Kamehameha I, the king of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikūpule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.

1786 – In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.

1820 – Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators.

1840 – The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.

1844 – Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.

1884 – Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.

1886 – Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.

1893 – The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.

1915 – The RMS Lusitania

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departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.

1945 – World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.

1945 – World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.

1956 – The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.

1956 – A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.

1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.

1964 - The Beatles received $140,000 dollars for the rights to having their pictures included in packages of bubble gum in the USA.

1966 - The Beatles played live for the last time in the UK when they appeared at the NME Poll Winners concert at Wembley Empire Pool.

1967 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

1971 – Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.

1978 – Japan's Naomi Uemura (<--Interesting read.), travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.

1979 - Elton John became the first pop star to perform in Israel.

1994 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

1999 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.

2002 – OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.

2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".

2003 - American soul singer Barry White suffered a stroke while being treated for kidney failure. The singer died two months later on July 4th.

2005 - Matchbox 20 singer Rob Thomas went to No.1 on the US album chart with his first solo album 'Something To Be.' This marked the first time a male artist from a rock group had debuted at number one with his first solo album since the Billboard Top 200 was introduced 50 years ago.

2013 - Chris Kelly, one half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, died in an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34. Kelly had been found "unresponsive" at his home.

2016 – A wildfire starts in Fort McMurray, Alberta, causing a mandatory evacuation and a provincial state of emergency.

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1852 – Calamity Jane, 1862 – Marcel Prévost, 1864 – Anna Jarvis (founded Mother's Day), 1895 – Nikolai Yezhov (head of Soviet NKVD), 1907 – Kate Smith, 1913 – Louis Nye, 1916 – Glenn Ford:devil:, 1918 – Jack Paar, 1924 – Art Fleming, 1924 – Terry Southern, 1925 – Scott Carpenter, 1934 – Shirley Horn, 1939 – Judy Collins, 1943 – Joe Walsh (no, not that one, this one's an Irish politician), 1945 – Rita Coolidge, 1946 – Joanna Lumley, 1946 – John Woo, 1949 – Paul Teutul, Sr. (American Chopper), 1950 – Dann Florek, 1954 – Ray Parker, Jr., 1960 – Stevie Cauthen:dedhorse:, 1967 – Tim McGraw, 1972 – Julie Benz (Dexter), 1982 – Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey' in the Fifty Shades franchise)

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1873 – David Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), 1945 – Joseph & Magda Goebbels, 1965 – Spike Jones, 1978 – Aram Khachaturian, 1994 – Ayrton Senna:driving:, 1998 – Eldridge Cleaver (so not the Beav's uncle), 2015 – Grace Lee Whitney (Star Trek: TOS)

The year was 1979:

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U.K. #1 song:



U.S. #1 movie:



U.K. #1 movie:

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May first is mighty busy, loyalty and law day has to be in response to the commies May Day. And the commies probably instigated workers day to undermine to poor capitalists who cares not a whit for profit, only to contribute to a better life for mankind.

But I'm green with envy today, thinking of Elspode dancing around the fire with naked and near naked ladies, for Beltane. :biggrinba

I'm diggin this

Today is May 2.


1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.

1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.

1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

1863 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson

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is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He loses his left arm, and succumbs to pneumonia eight days later. Upon learning of Jackson's injury Robert E. Lee wrote to Jackson, saying "Could I have directed events, I would have chosen for the good of the country to be disabled in your stead." While Jackson lay dying Lee sent him a message via the Chaplain, "Give General Jackson my affectionate regards, and say to him: he has lost his left arm, but, I, my right." Toward the end, and near death, Jackson stated "It is the Lord's Day; my wish is fulfilled. I have always desired to die on Sunday."

Dr McGuire wrote of Jackson's last moments and words:

1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.

1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.

1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.

1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2

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departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.

1970 - One-hit-wonder Norman Greenbaum was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Spirit In The Sky.'

1972 - Bruce Springsteen auditioned for CBS Records A&R man John Hammond in New York. Springsteen played a short set for him in his office; Hammond was so impressed that he arranged a real audition that night at the Gaslight Club in New York for other Columbia executives. He passed the audition.

1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.

1986 – Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.

1989 - A security guard alerted the police after a man wearing a wig, fake moustache and false teeth walked into Zales Jewellers, California. Three squad cars arrived and police detained the man, who turned out to be Michael Jackson in disguise.

2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. And there was much rejoicing.

2005 - Eric Clapton joined former Cream members drummer Ginger Baker and bass player Jack Bruce for the first of four nights at London's Royal Albert Hall 36 years after they had split up. Tickets were changing hands for more than £500 on eBay and fans had flown over from the USA to witness the reunion, which Clapton aged 60, is said to have agreed to because of the failing health of the other former members of the band.

2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. And there was much rejoicing.

2011 – An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. Not a lot of rejoicing.

2012 – A pastel version of The Scream,

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by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.

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1729 – Catherine the Great, 1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, 1885 – Hedda Hopper, 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen "The Red Baron", 1903 – Benjamin Spock, 1907 – Pinky Lee, 1922 – Roscoe Lee Browne (The Cowboys), 1925 – John Neville (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), 1929 – Link Wray, 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, 1945 – Bianca Jagger, 1946 – Lesley Gore, 1946 – David Suchet (Agatha Christie's Poirot), 1947 – James Dyson, 1948 – Larry Gatlin, 1950 – Lou Gramm (Foreigner), 1951 – John Glascock (Jethro Tull), 1972 – Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, 1975 – David Beckham, 1980 – Ellie Kemper (The Office), 1985 – Lily Allen, 1985 – Kyle Busch

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1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, 1880 – Eberhard Anheuser (of Anheuser-Busch, PBUH), 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, 1990 – David Rappaport (Time Bandits), 1999 – Oliver Reed, 2009 – Jack Kemp, 2010 – Lynn Redgrave, 2011 – Osama bin Laden, 2014 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., 2015 – Ruth Rendell, 2016 – Afeni Shakur (Black Panther, and Tupac's mother)

Apologies, but, this is bucket night, and I got things to do, and bartenders to flirt with.

:)

No problem Bro, maybe you can get a ride home. ;)

Back when it opened in I think '69, the cars were running over 200 mph and the drivers getting wicked headaches. They brought in a team from NASA at the cape and discovered the track surface was causing vibrations over 200mph that were killing brain cells wholesale. They had to repaved the whole fucking track before the first race. I swear it's true or my name isn't Ralph.

I'm glad you have your priorities straight.

...for all the good it done me.:neutral:

Not all massages have a happy ending but they all feel good, and a change of scenery. :blush:

Today is May 4.

May the Fourth be with you.:vader1:

Today is Anti-Bullying Day, as well as Bird Day, International Firefighters' Day, and World Give Day.


Events

1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.

1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge,

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linking Devon and Cornwall in England.

1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.

1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.

1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone

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begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.

1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary;

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5 people are killed in the riot.

1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.

1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.

1970 - ♪ ♫Four dead in O-HI-O♪ ♫

1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".

1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1988 – The PEPCON disaster



rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.

1989 - Stevie Ray Vaughan set out on what would be his last ever tour at the Orpheum Theater, Vancouver, British Columbia.

2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado.

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It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.

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1796 – Horace Mann, 1916 – Richard Proenneke (Alone In The Wilderness), 1919 – Dory Funk, 1928 – Thomas Kinsella, 1928 – Hosni Mubarak, 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, 1937 – Dick Dale:shred:, 1940 – Robin Cook, 1941 – George Will, 1942 – Nick Ashford♪ ♫(Ashford & Simpson), 1951 – Jackie Jackson, 1959 – Randy Travis, 1959 – Bob Tway, 1979 – Lance Bass

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1975 – Moe Howard, 1984 – Diana Dors, 1987 – Paul Butterfield, 2009 – Dom DeLuise, 2012 – Adam Yauch ('MCA' from The Beastie Boys)

Damn shame when the government locks up patriotic citizens who feed the poor, employ dozens, support police and public servants... every week, keep the city afloat, and love their mother. :(

He did a lot of work with unwed mothers, too.

Y'know, just helping them get a start.;)

Today is May 5.

Today marks the approximate mid-point of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and of Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.

Today is Cinco de Mayo.:f124:


Events

1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.

1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.

1821 – Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull

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leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.

1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.

1945 – World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.

1963 - On a recommendation by George Harrison Dick Rowe Head of A&R at Decca records, (and the man who turned down The Beatles) went to see The Rolling Stones

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play at the Crawdaddy Club, London. The band were signed to the label within a week.

1968 - Aw shit, man, Buffalo Springfield broke up.

1973 – Secretariat

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wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, an as-yet unbeaten record.

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1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, 1818 – Karl Marx, 1830 – John Batterson Stetson (hat dude), 1864 – Nellie Bly, 1898 – Blind Willie McTell, 1914 – Tyrone Power, 1926 – Ann B. Davis, 1934 – Ace Cannon, 1940 – Lance Henriksen, 1942 – Tammy Wynette, 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, 1944 – Roger Rees, 1945 – Kurt Loder, 1948 – Bill Ward:drummer:(Black Sabbath), 1955 – Jon Butcher:shred:(Jon Butcher Axis), 1959 – Brian Williams, 1983 – Henry Cavill, 1988 – Adele

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1821 – Napoleon, 1902 – Bret Harte, 2001 – Clifton Hillegass (created CliffsNotes), 2008 – Irv Robbins (Baskin-Robbins), 2013 – Robert Ressler (coined the term "serial killer")

The Mexican St Patrick's day, when Americans get stupid drunk to celebrate then berate Mexicans tomorrow for the hangover. :rolleyes:

Today is May 6.

International No Diet Day is observed today.


Events

1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.

1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by Confederate troops.

1877 – Chief Crazy Horse

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of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

1882 – Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.

1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1915 – Babe Ruth

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then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.

1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.

1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

1941 – At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.

1941 – The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.

1942 – World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.

1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.

1954 – Roger Bannister

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becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

1965 - In their Clearwater, Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards worked out the opening guitar riff of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' following Richard's purchase of a Gibson fuzz-box earlier that day.

1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by experts.

1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

1998 – Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.

2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.

2002 - 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen was voted the UK's favourite single of all time in a poll by the Guinness Hit Singles book. 'Imagine' by John Lennon was voted in at No.2 and 'Hey Jude', The Beatles No.3, 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA was fourth and Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' was in fifth place.

2002 - American songwriter and producer Otis Blackwell died from a heart attack. He wrote the classic songs ‘All Shook Up’, ‘Return To Sender’, ‘Don't Be Cruel’, ‘Great Balls Of Fire’ and ‘Fever.’ Over the years, Blackwell's songs have sold more than 185 million copies.

2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio.

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1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, 1856 – Sigmund Freud, 1856 – Robert Peary, 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, 1903 – Toots Shor, 1913 – Stewart Granger, 1915 – Orson Welles, 1929 – Rosemary Cramp (invented cramps), 1931 – Willie Mays, 1937 – Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter:boxers:, 1945 – Bob Seger, 1950 – Robbie McIntosh, 1953 – Tony Blair, 1955 – Tom Bergeron, 1960 – Roma Downey, 1961 – George Clooney, 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe

:reaper:

1862 – Henry David Thoreau, 1882 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, 1902 – Bret Harte, 1919 – L. Frank Baum, 1952 – Maria Montessori, 1983 – Kai Winding, 1987 – William J. Casey, 1991 – Wilfrid Hyde-White (My Fair Lady), 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, 2004 – Barney Kessel:shred:(member of The Wrecking Crew), 2016 – Reg Grundy (created Wheel Of Fortune)

I never heard of that...
but that didn't stop me from celebrating it to the fullest. :blush:

Today is May 8.

Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered this day in 1945, and it is celebrated as VE Day.

Today is also Ima Get Drunk As Fuck Day, and is celebrated everywhere within a five foot circle of me.


Events

1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War.

1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.

1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale, is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris.

1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.

1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.

1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton (PBUH) first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.

1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.

1912 – Paramount Pictures

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is founded.

1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.

1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.:cheerldr:

1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened.

1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".

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1847 – Oscar Hammerstein I, 1884 – Harry S. Truman (33rd POTUS), 1895 – Fulton J. Sheen, 1911 – Robert Johnson

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1919 – Lex Barker, 1920 – Saul Bass, 1926 – David Attenborough, 1926 – Don Rickles, 1928 – Ted Sorensen, 1940 – Peter Benchley (author Jaws), 1940 – Ricky Nelson, 1940 – Toni Tennille (Capt. & Tenille), 1941 – James Traficant, 1943 – Danny Whitten (Crazy Horse), 1944 – Gary Glitter (kiddie fiddler), 1944 – Bill Legend (T. Rex), 1950 – Robert Mugge, 1951 – Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind, & Fire), 1951 – Chris Frantz (Talking Heads), 1953 – Billy Burnette (Fleetwood Mac), 1953 – Alex Van Halen, 1954 – David Keith, 1955 – Stephen Furst ('Flounder' in Animal House), 1956 – Jeff Wincott, 1958 – Lovie Smith, 1959 – Ronnie Lott, 1961 – Bill de Blasio, 1964 – Melissa Gilbert, 1973 – Marcus Brigstocke, 1975 – Enrique Iglesias

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1794 – Antoine Lavoisier:behead:, 1819 – Kamehameha I , 1880 – Gustave Flaubert, 1903 – Paul Gauguin:artist:, 1947 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, 1982 – Neil Bogart (founded Casablanca Records, signed Donna Summer, The Village People, T. Rex, Parliament, Harry Chapin, Joan Jett, et al), 1982 – Gilles Villeneuve:driving:, 1985 – Dolph Sweet, 1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, 1994 – George Peppard (Breakfast At Tiffany's, Banacek, The A-Team), 1999 – Dirk Bogarde, 1999 – Dirk Bogarde, 1999 – Dana Plato (Diff'rent Strokes), 2008 – Eddy Arnold, 2013 – Jeanne Cooper (played 'Katherine Chancellor' for forty years on The Young and The Restless), 2016 – William Schallert (that guy who was in that thing)

Do you recycle the jars?

I keep 'em. So, yeah I guess I do. Well, Momdigr does, she uses them when she cans stuff.

Today is May 9.

Today is also "Lord, If I Get Through This, I'll Cut Way Back. Promise." Day.


Events

1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated. It was the tallest building in the world for 238 years.

1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch (of Punch & Judy) made his first recorded appearance in England.

1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.

1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro

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becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).

1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.

1945 – World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.

1950 - Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard hit store shelves.

1958 – The Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo

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has its world premiere in San Francisco.

1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid,

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making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.

1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.

1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.

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1800 – John Brown, 1837 – Adam Opel (yeah, that Opel), 1860 – J. M. Barrie, 1873 – Anton Cermak, 1874 – Howard Carter, 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, 1914 – Hank Snow, 1918 – Mike Wallace "The Grand Inquisitor", 1921 – Daniel Berrigan, 1936 – Albert Finney, 1936 – Glenda Jackson, 1937 – Dave Prater♪♫(Sam & Dave), 1940 – James L. Brooks (The Simpsons), 1942 – John Ashcroft, 1944 – Richie Furay♪♫(Buffalo Springfield, Poco), 1945 – Steve Katz♪♫(Blood, Sweat, & Tears), 1946 – Candice Bergen, 1949 – Billy Joel:keys:, 1950 – Tom Petersson:bass:(Cheap Trick, 'invented' the twelve-string bass guitar), 1961 – John Corbett (Northern Exposure), 1962 – Dave Gahan♪♫(Depeche Mode)

:reaper:

1914 – C. W. Post (founded Post Foods), 1968 – Harold Gray (created Little Orphan Annie), 1986 – Tenzing Norgay, 1998 – Alice Faye, 2004 – Alan King, 2010 – Lena Horne, 2012 – Vidal Sassoon

Ima pass out now.:drunk:

It's not nice to lie to the lord... again. http://cellar.org/2012/nono.gif

It's Way Back Wednesday! Lets take a look at a year ago. Ooh, look someone made a post:

Addendum:

May 10, 1869 - The Golden Spike (also known as The Last Spike)

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is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. Celebrated as Golden Spike Day in Promontory, Utah.

This day In Music History
 

May 10

1965 - The Rolling Stones recorded a version of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' at Chess Studios in Chicago, with Brian Jones on harmonica. The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, with a different beat and the Gibson Maestro fuzzbox that Keith Richards had recently aquired, adding sustain to the sound of the guitar riff.

1969 - Frank Sinatra's version of 'My Way' made the British Top ten for the first time. Over the next three years it re-entered the Top 50 singles chart on eight different occasions. Paul Anka re-wrote the original French song for Sinatra, after he told Anka he was quitting the music business. Anka changed the melodic structure and lyrics to the song with Sinatra in mind.

1969 - The Turtles gave a special performance at the White House as guests of Tricia Nixon. Stories circulate concerning members of the group allegedly snorted cocaine on Abraham Lincoln's desk.:evil2:

1986 - Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee married TV star Heather Locklear in a courtyard in Santa Barbara California with five hundred guests. Tommy wore a white leather tuxedo.


1999 - American singer, songwriter, poet, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children's books, Shel Silverstein died of a heart attack aged 57. Wrote, 'A Boy Named Sue' for Johnny Cash (which Silverstein won a Grammy for in 1970) and many songs for Dr Hook including 'Sylvia's Mother' and 'The Cover of the Rolling Stone.'

2000 - Michael Bolton lost his appeal against a court ruling that he stole part of his 1991 hit 'Love Is a Wonderful Thing' from an Isley Brothers song. Bolton had asked for a retrial following a 1994 jury verdict that he had plagiarised parts of The Isley Brothers song of the same name, but, an appeals court panel upheld the ruling which awarded the group $5.4m (£3.37m) from the profits of Bolton's single - one of his biggest hits.

The 'd' in day in the above post title should be a capital D.

Sorry.

Sorry urrbody.

That does it. That just ruined my day.

Sigh.

I guess there's nothing to do now but get drunk. Man, good thing it's bucket night.:D

The small d drove you to drink? :lol2:

Actually, it was the lack of a big D.

Meh. It was the first excuse I could come up with.:p:

Today is May 11.

Today Minnesota celebrates becoming the 32nd state, don'tcha know.

And, risking a reeeally bad typo, today is Nisga'a Day, celebrating the Nisga'a Final Agreement. So...Whir my Nisga'as at? I want all my Nisga'as to put ya hands in da ayuh, and wave 'em like ya just don't cayuh!


Events

868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it the oldest known dated printed book.

1502 – Christopher Columbus departs Cádiz on his fourth and final voyage to the Americas.

1647 – Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City. Stuyvesant is one of the namesakes of the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, aka Bed-Stuy, or sometimes Stuyford (combination(s) of Village of Bedford, and Stuyvesant Heights).

1792 – Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented white person to sail into the Columbia River.

1846 – President James K. Polk asked for a Declaration of War against Mexico, starting the Mexican–American War. It is approved on May 13.

1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.

1889 – An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 (<--~$694,000 in 2017 dollars) and the award of two Medals of Honor.

1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.

1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.

1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill

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is hit by two kamikazes, within 30 seconds, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.

1970 – The Lubbock tornado, a F5 tornado, hits Lubbock, Texas, killing 26 and causing $250 million (<--$1,569,606,958 in 2017 dollars) in damage.

1974 - Led Zeppelin attended an Elvis Presley show at the Los Angeles Forum in California. After a shaky start to the show, Elvis stopped the band and jokingly said: ‘Wait a minute, if we can start together fellas, because we’ve got Led Zeppelin out there, lets try to look like we know what we're doing.’ All four members of Zeppelin met with Elvis after the show, spending over 2 hours backstage. Elvis asked for all the group’s autographs for his daughter Lisa Marie.

1981 - Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley died of lung cancer and a brain tumor aged 36.

1985 – Bradford City stadium fire: Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in a flash fire at Valley Parade football ground during a match against Lincoln City in Bradford, England.

1996 – After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

1996 – The 1996 Mount Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die during summit attempts on Mount Everest.

1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer,

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defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

2011 - One of the rarest rock t-shirts in the world sold for $10,000 (£6096.00), the largest sum ever paid for a vintage t-shirt. The record-setting sale of a 1979 Led Zeppelin t-shirt on eBay was sold by Kyle Ermatinger of Stormcrow Vintage. The recent completion of the transaction placed the purchase as the world's rarest and most expensive vintage t-shirt.

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1720 – Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, Baron Munchausen, 1799 – John Lowell, Jr. (founded Lowell Institute), 1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks (26th VPOTUS), 1875 – Harriet Quimby, 1888 – Irving Berlin, 1894 – Martha Graham, 1904 – Salvador Dalí

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1911 – Phil Silvers, 1912 – Foster Brooks:drunk:, 1918 – Richard Feynman, 1920 – Denver Pyle ('Uncle Jesse' on The Dukes of Hazzard), 1927 – Mort Sahl, 1932 – Valentino Garavani (founded Valentino SpA), 1933 – Louis Farrakhan, 1941 – Eric Burdon (The Animals), 1946 – Robert Jarvik (developed the artificial heart), 1947 – Butch Trucks:drummer:(Allman Bros), 1952 – Frances Fisher, 1959 – Martha Quinn (one of the original MTV Veejays), 1963 – Natasha Richardson, 1964 – Tim Blake Nelson ('Delmar' in O, Brother Where Art Thou), 1982 – Cory Monteith, 1989 – Cam Newton

:reaper:

1871 – John Herschel, 1889 – John Cadbury (yeah, that Cadbury:yum:), 1891 – Edmond Becquerel, 1979 – Lester Flatt:shred:(Flatt & Scruggs), 1981 – Bob Marley, 1985 – Chester Gould (created Dick Tracy), 2001 – Douglas Adams, 2002 – Joseph 'Joe Bananas' Bonanno (boss of the Bonanno crime family), 2003 – Noel Redding:bass:(Jimi Hendrix Experience), 2006 – Floyd Patterson:boxers:

I think it's a bit strange that the 1996 Mount Everest disaster just happens to have occurred in 1996.:eyebrow:

Paymaster Major Wham picked up the payroll from the train, paid the first 2 forts then headed for the third with 4 wagons, 11 Buffalo soldiers, a civilian, a woman, and 250 lbs of gold and silver coin.

They were attacked by 11 civilians who wounded 8 solders and stole the payroll. All 11 were found not guilty at a trial by their peers, and no money recovered.

The 8 Certificates of Merit went to the wounded I guess. But 2 medals of Honor? For losing the payroll? :confused:

Today is May 12.

The 2nd Amendment, "The Right to Bear Arms; One American Right Protecting All Others", is being celebrated today in Pennsylvania.

International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day, and International Nurses Day are also observed today.


Events

1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence, Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.

1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.

1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.

1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3,

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the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.

1967 - Pink Floyd appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, giving a special concert Games For May - Space Age Relaxation For The Climate Of Spring. This was reportedly the first show to include loudspeakers placed at the back of the hall to give a 'sound in the round', ie quadraphonic, effect. The sound system, developed by EMI technicians, was stolen after the show and not recovered for some years.

1968 - Brian Jones made his final live appearance with The Rolling Stones.

1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.

1996 - 17-year-old Bernadette O'Brien died the day after being injured while 'body crowd surfing'

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at a Smashing Pumpkins gig at The Point, Dublin.

2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

2008 - Singer-songwriter Neil Young had a spider named after him. US university biologist Jason Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider

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and decided to name it after his favourite musician. Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi was found in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007.

2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.

2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.

2015 – A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.

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1820 – Florence Nightingale, 1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge, 1889 – Otto Frank, 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, 1918 – Mary Kay Ash ("Paint that mother pink."), 1918 – Julius Rosenberg, 1925 – Yogi Berra, 1928 – Burt Bacharach, 1935 – Felipe Alou, 1936 – Tom Snyder, 1937 – George Carlin, 1939 – Ron Ziegler, 1942 – Billy Swan, 1945 – Ian McLagan, 1948 – Lindsay Crouse, 1948 – Steve Winwood, 1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, 1950 – Gabriel Byrne, 1950 – Billy Squier:devil:, 1955 – Kix Brooks (Brooks & Dunn), 1958 – Eric Singer:drummer::devil:(KISS, Badlands, ESP, Lita Ford, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Gary Moore), 1959 – Ray Gillen (Badlands, Black Sabbath), 1959 – Ving Rhames, 1961 – Billy Duffy (The Cult), 1962 – Emilio Estevez, 1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, 1966 – Stephen Baldwin, 1968 – Tony Hawk, 1969 – Kim Fields ('Tootie' on The Facts Of Life), 1970 – Jim Furyk, 1970 – Samantha Mathis, 1978 – Jason Biggs (American Pie movies)

:reaper:

1748 – Thomas Lowndes, 1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, 1925 – Amy Lowell, 1944 – Max Brand:devil:, 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, 1992 – Robert Reed (the dad on The Brady Bunch), 2000 – Adam Petty:driving:(son of Richard Petty (1st 4th generation NASCAR driver, killed (basilar skull fracture)in crash when his throttle stuck open), 2001 – Perry Como, 2001 – Alexei Tupolev, 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg:artist:, 2014 – H. R. Giger:artist:

Salute to nurses with bare arms, and all too often, chronic fatigue. :comfort:

Today is May 13.

Abbotsbury Garland Day is celebrated today in Abbotsbury, Dorset, England.


Events

1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.

1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.

1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.

1861 – The Great Comet of 1861

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is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last organized land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.

1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.

1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.

1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.

1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.

1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, the Half-Safe,

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having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.

1969 - Led Zeppelin became one of the first major British rock group to appear in Hawaii, when they appeared at The Civic Auditorium, Honolulu. A review in the Honolulu Advertiser stated: 'The showmanship exceeded any rock performance here to date. I wondered before the concert if Led Zeppelin could sound as good as their Atlantic album – they sounded better'.

1970 - The world premiere of The Beatles film 'Let It Be'

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took place in New York City. The film which was originally planned as a television documentary features an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, their last performance in public. Released just after the album, it was the final original Beatles release.

1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.

1971 - On his twenty-first birthday Stevie Wonder received all his childhood earnings. Despite having earned $30 million so far, he received only $1 million.

1980 – An F3 tornado strikes the heart of downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, killing 5, injuring 79, leaving 1,200 homeless, and doing $50 million ($147,817,354 in 2017 dollars) in damage in a path 11 miles long. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.

1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in an assassination attempt in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.

1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.

1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.

1996 - Oasis became the fastest selling group in UK history after all 330,000 tickets for their summer shows sold out in just nine hours.

2008 - The US Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honour of Frank Sinatra.

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The design showed a 1950s-vintage image of Sinatra.

2012 - Donald Dunn, bassist with Booker T and the MG's died in his sleep after playing a show at the Blue Note night club in Tokyo the night before.

2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.

:knockdup:

1221 – Alexander Nevsky, 1904 – Louis Duffus, 1907 – Daphne du Maurier, 1914 – Joe Louis:boxers:, 1914 – Johnnie Wright♪ ♫(Johnnie & Jack, married to Kitty Wells), 1922 – Bea Arthur, 1927 – Fred Hellerman♪ ♫(The Weavers), 1931 – Jim Jones (leader of The Peoples Temple cult), 1939 – Harvey Keitel, 1941 – Ritchie Valens, 1943 – Mary Wells, 1945 – Magic Dick:lol2:(J. Geils Band), 1950 – Danny Kirwan♪ ♫(Fleetwood Mac), 1950 – Stevie Wonder:keys:, 1951 – Paul Thompson:drummer:(Roxy Music), 1952 – John Kasich, 1961 – Dennis Rodman:rainfro:, 1964 – Stephen Colbert, 1965 – Lari White (appears in the beginning and end of the Tom Hanks movie CastAway, at the end she gives Hanks directions on the road at the end of her driveway), 1966 – Darius Rucker, 1969 – Buckethead:shred:, 1977 – Samantha Morton, 1978 – Mike Bibby, 1986 – Lena Dunham, 1986 – Robert Pattinson

:reaper:

1884 – Cyrus McCormick (co-founded the International Harvester Company), 1961 – Gary Cooper, 1972 – Dan Blocker, 1975 – Bob Wills♪ ♫, 1977 – Mickey Spillane, 2001 – Jason Miller ('Father Damien' in The Exorcist), 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn:bass:(Booker T. & The M.G.s), 2013 – Dr. Joyce Brothers

Shit, that's almost a given for juvenile performers. Either family, or agents, or managers, or investment counselors, or lawyers, or record companies, or some combination, have their hand in the till. Rinse and repeat. :(

Today is May 15.

Peace Officers Memorial Day, as well International Conscientious Objectors Day, is observed today.

Also, today is Nakba Day, so, grab 'em by the nakba.


Events

1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.

1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun,

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the Puckle Gun.

1730 – Robert Walpole effectively became the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1776 – American Revolution: The Fifth Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.

1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.

1800 – King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.

1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

1851 – The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.

1905 – Las Vega$ is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

1911 – In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.

1919 – The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.

1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1941 – Joltin' Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.

1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb

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in Operation Grapple.

1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays

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and Elizabeth P. Hoisington

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the first female United States Army generals.

1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.

2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

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1856 – L. Frank Baum, 1859 – Pierre Curie, 1902 – Richard J. Daley, 1905 – Joseph Cotten, 1905 – Abraham Zapruder (American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film), 1909 – James Mason, 1918 – Eddy Arnold, 1923 – Richard Avedon, 1931 – Ken Venturi, 1937 – Madeleine Albright, 1937 – Trini Lopez, 1940 – Roger Ailes, 1940 – Lainie Kazan, 1942 – K. T. Oslin, 1945 – Jerry Quarry:boxers:, 1948 – Brian Eno, 1952 – Chazz Palminteri, 1953 – George Brett, 1956 – Dan Patrick, 1967 – Smokin' John Smoltz, 1969 – Emmitt Smith, 1976 – Ryan Leaf, 1981 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 1987 – Andy Murray

:reaper:

1886 – Emily Dickinson, 1967 – Edward Hopper:artist:, 2003 – June Carter Cash, 2007 – Jerry Falwell

Drop your weapons and surrender or I'll Puckle you!

That ought to strike fear in the hearts of the brigands. :rolleyes:

How'd he die?

He died in the war.

Oh. What happened?

He was puckled.

Ooh, snap!

Today is May 16.

1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

1770 – A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. You'd think they married young, but it was the 1700s, they were middle-aged.

1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.

1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.

1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.

1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).

1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.

1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.

1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft

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commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

1965 - Driving away from a gig at the Civic Hall, Long Beach, California, the limo taking The Rolling Stones back to their hotel was besieged by fans who caved in the roof by standing on it. The band attempted to hold the roof up while their chauffeur drove off with bodies falling onto the road.

1966 - The Beach Boys released the album Pet Sounds

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in the US. The album is now regarded as the masterpiece of composer-producer Brian Wilson. To confirm this, Pet Sounds has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released and has been ranked at No.1 in several music magazines lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo Magazine. In 2003, it was ranked No.2 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, (Sgt. Pepper's came first).

1969 - Pete Townshend spent the night in a US jail for assaulting a man during a Who gig at The Fillmore East. What Townshend didn't know was the man who jumped onto the stage was a plainclothes policeman trying to warn the audience that a fire had broken out. The Who guitarist was later fined $30 for the offence.

1984 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee for 'staggering drunk' down Beale Street. Osbourne was released from the Memphis jail five hours later, after drying out, and was not required to return for a court appearance. He continued on with a tour in support of 1983’s Bark at the Moon.

1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

2010 - Ronnie James Dio,

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singer with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio, died after a six-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 67 years old. Dio’s career began in 1957 with The Vegas Kings, which later changed to Ronnie and the Rumblers, then Ronnie and the Redcaps, then in 1961, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, Dio and Prophets guitarist Nick Pantas formed the Electric Elves, which shortened its name to Elf. The band’s success eventually landed them an opening slot for Deep Purple which exposed Dio’s voice to Deep Purple’s guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, who later recruited Dio and other members of Elf for his new band Rainbow.

2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

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1801 – William H. Seward (bought Alaska from Russia, 375,303,680 acres, for 2 cents an acre:devil:), 1824 – Levi P. Morton (22nd VPOTUS), 1905 – Henry Fonda, 1913 – Woody Herman♪ ♫, 1919 – Liberace, 1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., 1928 – Billy Martin, 1944 – Danny Trejo, 1946 – Roger Earl:drummer:(Foghat), 1946 – Robert Fripp♪ ♫(King Crimson), 1947 – Barbara Lee♪ ♫(The Chiffons), 1947 – Darrell Sweet:drummer:(Nazareth), 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, 1955 – Olga Korbut, 1955 – Debra Winger, 1959 – Mare Winningham, 1964 – John Salley, 1965 – Krist Novoselic:bass:(Nirvana), 1966 – Janet Jackson♪ ♫:love:, 1968 – Ralph Tresvant♪ ♫(New Edition), 1969 – David Boreanaz (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones), 1969 – Tucker Carlson, 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, 1973 – Tori Spelling, 1986 – Megan Fox

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1920 – Levi P. Morton (22nd VPOTUS), 1953 – Django Reinhardt:shred:, 1956 – H. B. Reese (created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, PBUH), 1957 – Eliot Ness, 1984 – Andy Kaufman, 1990 – Sammy Davis Jr.♪ ♫:devil:, 1990 – Jim Henson, 2010 – Ronnie James Dio♪ ♫:devil:(Elf, Rainbow, Dio, Heaven & Hell), 2012 – Chuck Brown♪ ♫, 2013 – Dick Trickle:driving:(one of the greatest names in racing)

Funny, I'd never heard of the Mill River flood.

Today is May 17.

Also, Canadians observe a National Day Against Homophobia, while the world marks today as International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (aka IDAHO), as well as World Hypertension Day, and World Information Society Day

Today In Music History
 

On this day:

1963 - The first Monterey Folk Festival took place over three days in Monterey, California. The festival featured Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Peter Paul and Mary. The 1967 Monterey Rock festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin. It was also the first major performance by Otis Redding in front of a predominantly white audience.

1964 - Bob Dylan made his first major concert UK appearance when he played at the Royal Festival Hall in London with an afternoon show listed as a ‘Folksong Concert’. Dylan's 18-song set included the live debut of Mr. Tambourine Man and took place on a Sunday afternoon. In the interval, Dylan received a telegram from John Lennon seeking a meeting which never materialized.

1966 - During a UK tour, Bob Dylan appeared at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester. This was the concert where a member of the audience shouted out ‘Judas’ at Dylan unhappy with the singer's move from acoustic to electric. Dylan replied with "You’re a liar", the entire concert was eventually officially released in The Bootleg Series by Sony Music in 1999.

1971 - [Tony Orlando &] Dawn were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Knock Three Times', the group's first of two UK No.1's. Singer Tony Orlando had retired from singing when he was persuaded to front Dawn for studio recordings.

1975 - Elton John was awarded a Platinum Record for sales of a million copies of the LP 'Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy', the first album ever to be certified Platinum on the day of its release.

1987 - A fire destroyed Tom Petty's house in Los Angeles, the cost was estimated at $800,000.

1996 - US blues guitarist Johnny Guitar Watson died of a heart attack while on tour in Yokohama, Japan. According to eyewitness reports, he collapsed mid guitar solo. His last words were "ain't that a bitch."

2006 - Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills admitted that they had given up the fight to save their marriage, saying that after four years together, they were going their separate ways.

2012 - Donna Summer, the 1970s pop singer known as the Queen of Disco, died of lung cancer, an illness she believed she contracted from inhaling toxic particles released after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.

2013, Bob Dylan was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dylan, who was unable to attend the New York ceremony, said he felt "extremely honoured" and "lucky" to be admitted.

Union Carbide lost 2.4 million pounds of mercury into the air, soil and water at Oak Ridge? Nonsense, UC is an honorable American Corporation, like Monsanto, and LePage. Just ask the people in Bhopal.

Plus the slanderous accusation that Gerald Ford, Antonin Scalia, Richard Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld, tried to kill the Freedom of Information Act, is unpardonable.

"Half the free world’s mercury was in Oak Ridge: Union Carbide and the Atomic Energy Commission and successor agencies “LOST” 10% OF IT."

4.2 million pounds, not 2.4. Just sayin'.

Mercury is pretty dense though, so it's not like 4.2 million pounds of it is a lot. That's like one jar.

Today is May 18.

This date is observed as International Museum Day, as well as World AIDS Vaccine Day.

Today is also Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar Genocide. I didn't know about Crimean tatars...I knew about Irish taters...:D


Events

332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. Welfare is born.

1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land.

1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.

1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.

1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people. The cause was the rumor that beer & pretzels were in short supply. No shit.

1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California.

1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.

1953 – Jackie Cochran

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becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.

1966 - During his 1966 world tour, Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson from The Band were filmed singing several songs in a hotel room in Glasgow, Scotland, the footage turning up in the film Eat The Document. The film was originally commissioned for the ABC television series Stage '66, but after Dylan edited the film himself ABC rejected it as 'incomprehensible for a mainstream audience'.

1974 - Ray Stevens started a three week run streak at No.1 on the US singles chart with the novelty song 'The Streak' which capitalized on the then popular craze of streaking.

1980 – Mount St. Helens

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erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

1990 – In France, a modified TGV train

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achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).

1994 – Israeli troops finish retreating from the Gaza Strip after occupying it, giving the area to the Palestine to govern.

2009 – The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

2011 - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the 1967 Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' sold for $237,132 (£145,644) at an auction in the US.

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1048 – Omar Khayyám, 1822 – Mathew Brady, 1850 – Oliver Heaviside (Kennelly–Heaviside layer), 1892 – Ezio Pinza, 1897 – Frank Capra, 1911 – Big Joe Turner♪ ♫, 1912 – Richard Brooks (director Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry), 1912 – Perry Como♪ ♫, 1920 – Pope John Paul II, 1922 – Kai Winding♪ ♫, 1928 – Pernell Roberts, 1930 – Fred Saberhagen (author Berserker stories/books), 1931 – Don Martin (Mad's Maddest Artist), 1946 – Reggie Jackson, 1947 – Gail Strickland (The Drowning Pool), 1948 – Joe Bonsall♪ ♫(The Oak Ridge Boys), 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh♪ ♫(Devo), 1952 – George Strait♪ ♫, 1955 – Chow Yun-fat (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, John Woo movies), 1969 – Martika♪ ♫, 1970 – Tina Fey, 1975 – Jack Johnson♪ ♫, 1979 – Jens Bergensten (co-designed Minecraft)

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1675 – Jacques Marquette, 1808 – Elijah Craig (invented Bourbon, PBUH), 1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune, 1973 – Jeannette Rankin,

1980 – Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:

Reid Blackburn, American photographer and journalist David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist
Harry Truman, owner/operator of Mount St. Helens Lodge

1981 – William Saroyan, 1990 – Jill Ireland, 1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr., 1995 – Alexander Godunov, 1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, 2012 – Peter Jones:drummer:(Crowded House), 2012 – Alan Oakley (designed the Raleigh Chopper)

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2013 – Steve Forrest, 2017 – Roger Ailes (founder of Fox News)

Picky picky picky. :rolleyes:

:D

Today is May 20.

Today is Too Nice To Spend On History.