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Gravdigr · 06-16-2016, 12:37 PM

June 16

Today is Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland.

1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.

1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.

1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children.

1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.

1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.

1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".

1911 – IBM is founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin)damaging a barn.

1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.

1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800.

1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.

1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

1965 - Bob Dylan recorded 'Like A Rolling Stone' at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming 'Highway 61 Revisited' album.

1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins.

1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

1980 - The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago.

1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.

1982 - Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place.

1994, Kristen Pfaff, bass player with Hole was found dead in her bathtub due to a heroin overdose, aged 26.

2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.

2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

2013 - Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between No.1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top of the charts, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached No.1.

Births

1821 – Old Tom Morris; 1829 – Geronimo; 1890 – Stan Laurel; 1907 – Jack Albertson; 1917 – Katharine Graham (publisher The Washington Post); 1934 – Eileen Atkins; 1937 – Erich Segal (wrote "Love Story"); 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, Charles B. Pierce (directed "The Town That Dreaded Sundown"(original), "The Legend of Boggy Creek", wrote "Sudden Impact"); 1939 – Billy "Crash" Craddock; 1941 – Lamont Dozier; 1942 – Eddie Levert; 1943 – Joan Van Ark; 1951 – Roberto 'Hands of Stone' Durán; 1952 – Gino Vannelli; 1955 – Laurie Metcalf; 1957 – Ian Buchanan; 1959 – The Ultimate Warrior; 1962 – Wally Joyner, Femi Kuti; 1968 - Gravdigr; 1969 – MC Ren; 1970 – Phil Mickelson; 1971 – Tupac Shakur; 1972 – John Cho ('Harold' of Harold & Kumar); 1973 – Eddie Cibrian; 1978 – Daniel Brühl

Deaths

1881 – Marie Laveau (voodoo priestess); 1930 – Ezra Fitch (Abercrombie & Fitch); 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry (co-invented the gyrocompass, namesake of the subtender USS Sperry (AS-12), with Peter Hewitt to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors of the UAV); 1939 – Chick Webb; 1958 – Imre Nagy; 1959 – George Reeves; 1970 – Brian Piccolo; 1977 – Wernher von Braun; 1979 – Nicholas Ray; 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott; 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch; 2014 – Tony Gwynn

06-16-2016, 12:37 PM	#124
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	June 16 Today is Bloomsday in Dublin, Ireland. 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses. 1774 – Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children. 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday". 1911 – IBM is founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin)damaging a barn. 1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. 1955 – In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union. 1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. 1965 - Bob Dylan recorded 'Like A Rolling Stone' at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the sessions for the forthcoming 'Highway 61 Revisited' album. 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins. 1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. 1980 - The Blues Brothers film starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd premiered in Chicago. 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor. 1982 - Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special was arrested on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public place. 1994, Kristen Pfaff, bass player with Hole was found dead in her bathtub due to a heroin overdose, aged 26. 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco. 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. 2013 - Black Sabbath established a new UK chart record for the longest gap between No.1 albums when their new release, 13 debuted at the top of the charts, 42 years and 8 months after their second album Paranoid reached No.1. Births 1821 – Old Tom Morris; 1829 – Geronimo; 1890 – Stan Laurel; 1907 – Jack Albertson; 1917 – Katharine Graham (publisher The Washington Post); 1934 – Eileen Atkins; 1937 – Erich Segal (wrote "Love Story"); 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates, Charles B. Pierce (directed "The Town That Dreaded Sundown"(original), "The Legend of Boggy Creek", wrote "Sudden Impact"); 1939 – Billy "Crash" Craddock; 1941 – Lamont Dozier; 1942 – Eddie Levert; 1943 – Joan Van Ark; 1951 – Roberto 'Hands of Stone' Durán; 1952 – Gino Vannelli; 1955 – Laurie Metcalf; 1957 – Ian Buchanan; 1959 – The Ultimate Warrior; 1962 – Wally Joyner, Femi Kuti; 1968 - Gravdigr; 1969 – MC Ren; 1970 – Phil Mickelson; 1971 – Tupac Shakur; 1972 – John Cho ('Harold' of Harold & Kumar); 1973 – Eddie Cibrian; 1978 – Daniel Brühl Deaths 1881 – Marie Laveau (voodoo priestess); 1930 – Ezra Fitch (Abercrombie & Fitch); 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry (co-invented the gyrocompass, namesake of the subtender USS Sperry (AS-12), with Peter Hewitt to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors of the UAV); 1939 – Chick Webb; 1958 – Imre Nagy; 1959 – George Reeves; 1970 – Brian Piccolo; 1977 – Wernher von Braun; 1979 – Nicholas Ray; 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott; 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch; 2014 – Tony Gwynn __________________ 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.