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Gravdigr · 02-18-2017, 02:28 PM

February 18

1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

1791 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.

1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.

1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.

1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.

1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.

1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. [Wonder how many times that has happened since?]

1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.

1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.

1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.

1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.

1990 - Freddie Mercury made his final public appearance on stage when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, held at the Dominion Theatre, London, England.

2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.

2013 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.

Births

1745 – Alessandro Volta (invented the battery, namesake of the volt); 1838 – Ernst Mach; 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany; 1862 – Charles M. Schwab (co-founded Bethlehem Steel); 1890 – Edward Arnold; 1890 – Adolphe Menjou; 1892 – Wendell Willkie; 1898 – Enzo Ferrari; 1906 – Hans Asperger (namesake of Asperger's Syndrome); 1914 – Pee Wee King♪ ♫; 1919 – Jack Palance; 1920 – Bill Cullen (game show host); 1922 – Allan Melvin; 1925 – George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke, The Blue Knight, The Sons Of Katie Elder); 1929 – Len Deighton; 1931 – Johnny Hart (co-created The Wizard of Id); 1931 – Toni Morrison; 1933 – Yoko Ono; 1933 – Mary Ure; 1934 – Skip Battin♪ ♫(The Byrds, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers); 1939 – Bobby Hart (co-wrote and performed much of the Monkees' music); 1947 – Dennis DeYoung♪ ♫(Styx); 1948 – Keith Knudsen

(The Doobie Bros); 1949 – Gary Ridgway (convicted serial killer The Green River Killer); 1950 – John Hughes; 1950 – Cybill Shepherd; 1952 – Juice Newton♪ ♫; 1953 – Robbie Bachman

(Bachman-Turner Overdrive); 1954 – John Travolta; 1957 – Vanna White; 1960 – Greta Scacchi; 1964 – Matt Dillon; 1965 – Dr. Dre♪ ♫; 1968 – Molly Ringwald; 1974 – Jillian Michaels; 1977 – Sean Watkins♪ ♫(Nickel Creek); 1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper attacks)

Deaths

1294 – Kublai Khan; 1405 – Timur; 1546 – Martin Luther; 1564 – Michelangelo

; 1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany; 1906 – John Batterson Stetson (Stetson Hats); 1933 – James J. 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett

(Corbett defeated John L. Sullivan

); 1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier (founded Bombardier Inc.); 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer ("Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."); 1973 – Frank Costello "The Prime Minister of the Underworld"; 1977 – Andy Devine (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach); 1981 – Jack Northrop (founded the Northrop Corporation which became Northrup-Grumman); 1998 – Harry Caray; 2006 – Bill Cowsill♪ ♫(The Cowsills); 2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp

How damn many Cowsills and von Trapps are/were there, anyway? Can we have a week without one being born or dying?

02-18-2017, 02:28 PM	#573
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	February 18 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London. 1791 – Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March 1791, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state. 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America. 1878 – John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico. 1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States. 1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg. 1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. 1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto. 1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft. [Wonder how many times that has happened since?] 1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles. 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series. 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. 1972 – The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment. 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747. 1983 – Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history. 1990 - Freddie Mercury made his final public appearance on stage when he joined the rest of Queen to collect the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, held at the Dominion Theatre, London, England. 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. 2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500. 2004 – Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur in Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes. 2013 – Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium. Births 1745 – Alessandro Volta (invented the battery, namesake of the volt); 1838 – Ernst Mach; 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany; 1862 – Charles M. Schwab (co-founded Bethlehem Steel); 1890 – Edward Arnold; 1890 – Adolphe Menjou; 1892 – Wendell Willkie; 1898 – Enzo Ferrari; 1906 – Hans Asperger (namesake of Asperger's Syndrome); 1914 – Pee Wee King♪ ♫; 1919 – Jack Palance; 1920 – Bill Cullen (game show host); 1922 – Allan Melvin; 1925 – George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke, The Blue Knight, The Sons Of Katie Elder); 1929 – Len Deighton; 1931 – Johnny Hart (co-created The Wizard of Id); 1931 – Toni Morrison; 1933 – Yoko Ono; 1933 – Mary Ure; 1934 – Skip Battin♪ ♫(The Byrds, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Flying Burrito Brothers); 1939 – Bobby Hart (co-wrote and performed much of the Monkees' music); 1947 – Dennis DeYoung♪ ♫(Styx); 1948 – Keith Knudsen(The Doobie Bros); 1949 – Gary Ridgway (convicted serial killer The Green River Killer); 1950 – John Hughes; 1950 – Cybill Shepherd; 1952 – Juice Newton♪ ♫; 1953 – Robbie Bachman(Bachman-Turner Overdrive); 1954 – John Travolta; 1957 – Vanna White; 1960 – Greta Scacchi; 1964 – Matt Dillon; 1965 – Dr. Dre♪ ♫; 1968 – Molly Ringwald; 1974 – Jillian Michaels; 1977 – Sean Watkins♪ ♫(Nickel Creek); 1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo (Beltway Sniper attacks) Deaths 1294 – Kublai Khan; 1405 – Timur; 1546 – Martin Luther; 1564 – Michelangelo; 1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany; 1906 – John Batterson Stetson (Stetson Hats); 1933 – James J. 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett(Corbett defeated John L. Sullivan); 1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier (founded Bombardier Inc.); 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer ("Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."); 1973 – Frank Costello "The Prime Minister of the Underworld"; 1977 – Andy Devine (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach); 1981 – Jack Northrop (founded the Northrop Corporation which became Northrup-Grumman); 1998 – Harry Caray; 2006 – Bill Cowsill♪ ♫(The Cowsills); 2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp How damn many Cowsills and von Trapps are/were there, anyway? Can we have a week without one being born or dying? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.