°°°What happened today?°°°

[Rane1071]

September 23rd


63 B.C.
Caesar Augustus was born in Rome.

1642
The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge, MA, was held.

1845
The "Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York" was formed by Alexander Joy Cartwright. It was the first baseball team in America.

1846
Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

1897
The first recorded traffic fatality in Great Britain occurred. It happened 2 years before the first fatality in the U.S.

1926
Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey for world heavyweight boxing title.

1952
The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.

1962
"The Jetsons" premiered on ABC-TV. It was the first program on the network to be carried in color.

1977
Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels.

1986
Japanese newspapers quoted Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the "intelligence level" of America.


Silly Quote of The Day

"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally."
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister.

 

[Supafly]

1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.

1905 – Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.

1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.

2011 – The National Campaign, Palestine: "State No. 194” Friday asked United Nations member states to support Palestine’s just bid for recognition and UN admission.

Birthdays:

480 BC – Euripides, Greek playwright (d. 406 BC)

1215 – Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1294)

1876 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and Talmudic scholar, and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1968)

1920 – Mickey Rooney, American actor

1930 – Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)

1949 – Bruce Springsteen, American singer and songwriter

1982 – Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress

National Day (Saudi Arabia)

Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Bisexual community)

Is that sheer coincidence???

 

[BigSwede]

1636-The battle of Wittstock where Sweden defeated an Imperial-Saxon army during the Thirty Year War.
1664-The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1706-The treaty of Altranstädt between Sweden and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania during the Great Northern War.
1725-Sir Arthur Guiness was born.
1789-The US supreme court is founded.
1896-F. Scott Fitzgerald was born.
1923-Fats Navarro was born.
1936-Jim Henson was born.
1950-Kristina Wayborn was born.
1977-Linda Thorén was born.

 

[Rane1071]

September 24th

1915
"The Lamb," Douglas Fairbanks first film, was shown at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York City, NY.

1929
The first all-instrument flight took place in New York when Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchell Field.

1960
The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.

1961
"The Bullwinkle Show" premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as "Rocky and His Friends."

1970
1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16.

1976
Patricia (Patty) Hearst was sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery. An executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter set her free after only 22 months.

2004
The USS Crommelin stopped the fishing boat San Jose. The Coast Guard team found 26,000 pounds of *******.


Silly Quote of The Day

"There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964."
Roger Daltrey, Singer/Actor.

 

[Supafly]

622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.

1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.

1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.

1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.

Births

1900 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Islamic religious leader and politician (d. 1989)

1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer and photographer (d. 1998)

1980 – Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornographic actress

 

[Rane1071]

September 23rd

1493
Christopher Columbus left Spain with 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1513
The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.

1789
The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.

1847
During the Mexican-American War, U.S. ****** led by General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey Mexico.

1956
A transatlantic telephone-cable system began operation between Newfoundland and Scotland.

1973
The three crewmen of Skylab II landed in the Pacific Ocean after being on the U.S. space laboratory for 59 days.

1983
A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. ****** was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.

1992
The Mars Observer blasted off on a mission that cost $980 million. The probe has not been heard from since it reached Mars in August of 1993.



Silly Quote of The Day

"It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor."
Zsa Zsa Gabor, on the jury used for her assault trial.

 

[Rane1071]

September 26th


1687
The Parthenon is destroyed in the war between Turks & Venetians.

1777
Philadelphia was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War.

1789
Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.

1908
In "The Saturday Evening Post" an ad for the Edison Phonograph appeared.

1950
U.N. troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans during the Korean Conflict.

1955
The New York Stock Exchange suffered its worst decline since 1929 when the word was released concerning U.S. President Eisenhower's heart ******.

1962
"The Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS-TV.

1964
"Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.

1969
"The Brady Bunch" series premiered on ABC-TV. :eeew:

1983
Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race.

1990
The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had created a new rating. The new NC17 rating was to keep moviegoers under the age of 17 from seeing certain films.

1991
Four men and four women began their two-year stay inside the "Biosphere II." The project was intended to develop technology for future space colonies.



Silly Quote of The Day


"Whoever designed the streets must have been *****... I think it was those Irish guys."
Jesse Ventura, Minnesota governor.

 

[Supafly]

46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.

1923 – Gustav Stresemann resumes the Weimar Republic's payment of reparations.

1960 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.

1984 – The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong

Births

1888 – T. S. Eliot, American-born British writer and poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

1898 – George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)

1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer (Roxy Music)

1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress

1976 – Michael Ballack, German footballer

1977 – Premium Link Upgrade , American porn star

1980 – Jane Darling, Czech porn model/actress

Revolution Day (Yemen)

 

[Rane1071]

September 27th

1540
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola.

1777
Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by the British.

1779
John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revolutionary War peace terms.

1825
George Stephenson operated the first locomotive that hauled a passenger train.

1928
The U.S. announced that it would recognize the Nationalist Chinese Government.

1954
The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.

1964
The Warren Commission issued a report on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. The report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.

1968
The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.

1989
Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.

2009
Polish-French film director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a United States arrest warrant. He had fled the U.S. in 1977 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a *****.


Silly Quote of The Day


"Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths."
Frank Broyles, College football coach.

 

[Supafly]

27.09.11

1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is ******.

1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.

1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.

Birthdays:

1894 – Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922)

1931 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer



1947 – Meat Loaf, American singer



1972 – Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress

1982 – Lil Wayne, American rapper

1984 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter

Feast of Mashíyyat (Will); the first day of the eleventh month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)

 

[Rane1071]

September 28th


48 B.C.
Pompey the Great was ******** on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt.

1066
England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.

1542
San Diego, CA, was discovered by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

1687
The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.

1781
During the Revolutionary War, American ****** began the siege on Yorktown, VA.

1850
U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.

1915
The British defeated the Turks in Mesopotamia at Kut-el-Amara.

1920
Baseball's biggest scandal, a grand jury indicts 8 White Sox for throwing the 1919 World Series with the Cincinnati Reds.

1961
"Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.

2009
The iTunes Music Store reached 2 billion applications downloaded.


Silly Quote of The Day

"While sitting in a tavern, someone hit my nose from behind."
Reason given for an insurance claim.

 

[Rane1071]

September 29th


1789
A regular army was established by the U.S. War Department with several hundred men.

1829
The first public appearance by London's re-organized police ***** was met with jeers from political opponents. The ***** became known as Scotland Yard.

1943
U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marchal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson.

1963
"My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS-TV.

1977
Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into earth orbit.

1978
Pope John Paul I was found dead after only one month of serving as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

1984
Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem.

1988
The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.


Silly Quote of The Day


"Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that."
Bill Clinton, former U.S. president.

 

[Supafly]

1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

Birthdays:

1758 – Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)

1912 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)

1931 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress

1935 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician

1936 – Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy

1963 – Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)

1969 – Erika Eleniak, American actress and model

Inventor's Day (Argentina)

 

[Supafly]

30.09.11

1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.

1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1986 – Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is ********* in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.

2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Birthdays:

1924 – Truman Capote, American author (d. 1984)

1934 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer



1947 – Marc Bolan, English musician (T. Rex) (d. 1977)

1982 – Tory Lane, American nude model and pornographic actress

1985 – T-Pain, American musician

Blasphemy Day, founded in 2009 to encourage individuals and groups to openly express their criticism of, or even disdain for, religion.

 

[Rane1071]

September 30th

1399
Henry Bolingbroke became the King of England as Henry IV.

1630
John Billington was hanged for ******. He was the first criminal to be executed in the American colonies.

1846
Ether, an experimental anesthetic at the time, was used for the first time by Dr. William Morton at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1938
The Munich Conference ended with a decision to appease Adolf Hitler. Britain, and France allowed Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to be annexed by the Nazis.

1949
The Berlin Airlift came to an end. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.

1960
"The Flintstones" premiers.

1971
The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.

1982
"Cheers" began an 11-year run on NBC-TV.

1983
The first AH-64 Apache ****** helicopter was rolled out by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company.

1987
Mikhail S. Gorbachev retired President Andrei A. Gromyko from the Politburo and fired other old-guard leaders in a shake-up at the Kremlin.


Silly Quote of The Day

"My lord, we find the man who stole the mare not guilty."
Welsh Jury Verdict.

 

[LukeEl]

September 30, 2011- I got up brushed my teeth, took a shower, got dressed, went to work, thinking about what I should eat for lunch, and cannot wait for 5pm!

 

[Rane1071]

October 1st


331 BC
Alexander of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela.

1596
The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.

1800
Spain ceded the territory of Louisiana back to France. Later the property would be purchased by the U.S. effectively doubling its size.

1896
Rural Free Delivery was established by the U.S. Post Office.

1908
The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase price of the car was $850.

1918
Damascus was captured from the Turks during World War I by a ***** made up of British and Arab ******.

1936
General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of the Spanish state.

1949
Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China when the communist ****** had defeated the Nationalists. The Nationalist ****** fled to Taiwan.

1968
"Night of the Living Dead" premiered in Pittsburgh, PA.

1996
A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb ****** of an ad executive.


Silly Quote of The Day

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony.

 

[Rane1071]

October 2nd

1492
King Henry VII of England invaded France.

1608
Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope.

1780
British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.

1835
The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.

1836
Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

1870
Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital.

1925
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.

1959
"The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.

1984
3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit.

2001
NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an ****** on one member is an ****** on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.



Silly Quote of The Day


"And now the sequence of events in no particular order."
Dan Rather, television news anchor.

 

[Supafly]

4.October 2011

1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.

Birthdays:

1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)

1895 – Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)

1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008)

1941 – Anne Rice, American writer (The Vampire Lestat Series, Mayfair Witches, much more. Must read.)

1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist

Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden)

 

[Rane1071]

October 4th

1535
The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland.

1648
The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant.

1895
The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI. Horace Rawlins, 19 years old, won the tournament.

1915
The Dinosaur National Monument was established. The area covered part of Utah and Colorado.

1957
"Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.

1958
British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first jetliner to offer trans-Atlantic service to passengers with flights between London, England and New York.

1959
USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side.

2001
A Russian airliner blew up as it flew over the Black Sea. There were no survivors of the 76 people on the plane. U.S. intelligence sources stated that they likely cause of the accident was a missile strike from a Ukrainian military exercise.

2001
Shannen Doherty was sentenced to serve five days in a work-release program for a ******* driving arrest on December 28, 2000. The sentence came after Doherty had given lectures to teens about the dangers of driving under the influence.


Silly Quote of The Day


"Sure, it's going to **** a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway."
Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane.