Flashermac Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 My father was a Cape Canaveral watching the launch. When the disaster happened, he turned to a colleague and said, "This is enough to give you a heart attack." The next day he had one! (He survived it, fortunately.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Jan 30th. Death and posthumous execution of Cromwell. Cromwell is thought to have suffered from malaria (probably first contracted while on campaign in Ireland) and from "stone", a common term for urinary/kidney infections. In 1658 he was struck by a sudden bout of malarial fever, followed directly by an attack of urinary/kidney symptoms. He died at Whitehall on 3 September 1658. In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, and was subjected to the ritual of a posthumous execution. Symbolically, this took place on January 30; the same date that Charles I had been executed. His body was hung in chains at Tyburn. Finally, his disinterred body was thrown into a pit, while his severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Abbey until 1685. Afterwards the head changed hands several times, before eventually being buried in the grounds of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lawrence what is it with you Guys?,you keep trying to bump off your Presidents.. 1948......Ghandi assaninated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tet_Offensive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_%281972%29 and still the controversy rages... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_masturbation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted February 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 Feb 5th 1917 - The Congress of the United States passes a law, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most Asian immigration to the United States. 1924 - The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1958 - A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. sounds a bit careless. 1974 - John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Jaa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_McClure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 << what is it with you Guys?,you keep trying to bump off your Presidents. >> Can you blame us??? p.s. It was Irish-Americans who pushed hard for the Asian exclusion laws. They didn't want the competition for jobs. In the late 19th century, the leader of the anti-Asian crowd in San Francisco was an Irishman named Denis Kearney -- who wan't even a US citizen yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soongmak Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Did you know that Georgia are the Unofficial Football World Champions ? :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Good grief ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Woodward becomes the 1st person to be given a star on Hollywood Boulevard. why?........there were many more famous actors/actresses before her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747 1st flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pesci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_McGrath fucked up a big catch on his birthday today....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Ziyi the Woman i would love to fuck....... no matter if she looks ad like in Musa,she still looks beautiful. disgraceful she died in Hero and HOFD's...... Princess Racoon was remarkable... i will be watching The Road Home tonight.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Connolly great band from my youth. and half-brother to Mark McMacmanus who play Taggert in the UK cop series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted February 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Invasion_of_Britain 1903 - Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima 1991 - Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabia border and enter Iraq, thus starting the ground-phase of the war. 1991 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan. births. 1633 - Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist (d. 1703) 1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician deaths 1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857) 1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890) 1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916) 2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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