°°°What happened today?°°°

[Supafly]

I use to check Wikipedia for things that happened on the day in the year we have.

A thread about this, for members to share big and small, significant or just odd would be a fun thing

So I will share some things that happened today:

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983)

1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

1953 – Don Black, founder and current webmaster of Stormfront

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

World Hepatitis Day (International) :1orglaugh

 

[Tittyman5000]

Seriously its World Hepatitis Day? Does that mean Pamela Anderson.... nevermind

 

[gunslingingbird]

:scream: MINI D!!! :scream:

 

[Supafly]

Seriously its World Hepatitis Day? Does that mean Pamela Anderson.... nevermind

And Tommy 'T-Bone', too, as far as I know :stir:

Oh, I forgot a birthday:

1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

 

[Tittyman5000]

Jackie O :drool2:










:rubbel:

 

[Supafly]

10. August

1557 – Battle of St. Quentin: Spanish victory over the French in the Habsburg-Valois Wars. (You see, there is an Old-World San Quentin)

1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London. (Must have pissed them off a lot)

1846 – The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.

1909 – Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991) (Praised be thy name, o father of Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazz Bass and so much more)

2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.

Our Lady of Good Success of Parañaque, Patroness of Parañaque, Philippines

Birthday of:

Brooke Barnes, Misty Rain, and Vica Ryder plus a couple more...

http://www.freeones.com/new/

 

[Vanilla Bear]

:scream: MINI D!!! :scream:

:scream: Same what I was thinking! :scream:



Looky here:
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=50817

 

[Supafly]

:scream: Same what I was thinking! :scream:



Looky here:
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=50817

For some reason, I don't post in threads that are 7 years old. Too many dead links, etc.

 

[Vanilla Bear]

Well that's history! :tongue:


Merge the threads or burn in hell!

 

[Rane1071]

1948 August 10

Candid Camera with Allen Funt debuted on television

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory#ixzz1UdA11zCI

 

[BigSwede]

Ferdinand Magellan began his world wide journey in 1519.
The warship Vasa sank in 1628.
Mozart finished Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in 1787.
In 1792 the Palais des Tuileries was stormed and king Louis XVI and his family was arrested.

 

[Rane1071]

1909
Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the S.O.S. distress signal.

1934
The first inmates arrived at the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay

1956
Abstract artist Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident

 

[Vanilla Bear]

2009
My beloved sister Usha and niece Ava died in a horrible accident.

 

[Supafly]

1953 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run today in 1929.

1953 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler

He wasn't born? He just... sort of appeared?

 

[Rane1071]

2009
My beloved sister Usha and niece Ava died in a horrible accident.

My condolences, Maley. :hatsoff: I didn't know until I saw your post and sig.



[size=-2]I feel like a real shit-heel.[/size]

 

[BigSwede]

The first horse race took place in Ascot in 1711.
The Weimar Republic adopted their constitution in 1919.
The Watts riot started in 1965.

 

[Rane1071]

1624
Cardinal Richelieu was named chief minister of France by king Louis XIII

1865
British surgeon Joseph Lister became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery

2000
The Russian military submarine, Kursk, and its crew were lost in the Barents Sea.

 

[Supafly]

30 years of personal computers today

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/ibm-handson/

Oh, and 50 years ago, they started building the Berlin Wall

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/10/remembering-the-shame/

 

[Njosnavelin]

The reptilian hegemony completed it's decades long breeding program......Justin Bieber was the result.