Today in History...

[Stoogey 219]

6 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted of murdering his wife.

This is very interesting. I was saving Crippen for November 23 but this'll work. First suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraph.

Vulcana, Cora Crippen's friend who was a professional strongwoman, reported her as missing to police. The Crippen house was searched but nothing unusual was found. Crippen told Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Walter Dew that he lied about his wife having died and that she'd run off for America with her lover.

Crippen and his girlfriend tried to escape to Canada. Crippen shaved his mustache; his girlfriend was disguised as a boy. The captain of the ocean liner wasn't fooled and sent a wireless telegram to London police. Police went to Crippen's house and searched more thoroughly digging up the cellar finding the torso of a body. Chief Inspector Dew took a faster White Star ship and met Crippen in Canada. 

If Crippen hadn't tried to escape, suspicions wouldn't have risen. If he hadn't booked first class passage, he may not have been recognized. If Crippen had taken a ship to the USA, things would have been tied up in extradition. (Canada was still a British colony.)

The jury was out for twenty-seven minutes until the guily verdict. Crippen was convicted and sentenced to death. In England, this meant being assigned to a condemned cell. The hangman and his assistant make calculations for the drop based on he prisoner's weight and height to achieve a swift death by broken neck without decapitation or strangulation. On November 23, 1910 at 9:00AM, guards entered Crippen's cell, removed a partition wall to the execution chamber. It was over within seconds.

Cora's torso is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Except it isn't Cora. Recent DNA testing revealed it was a man's torso in the cellar. 1910 coroner's exams note the torso had high levels of  anaphrodisiac - the opposite of an aphrodisiac - which Crippen bought at a local pharmacy. The head, arms and legs were never found. Why go through the trouble of disposing of them and leaving the torso?  Who is he?

Was Crippen performing abortions? 

Did he murder Cora? Did she have syphilis? (Regarded as proof of her infidelity and a motive for Crippen to kill her.)  

There are more questions than answers.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

Maybe he murdered her because he found out she was a man

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4 hours ago, Stoogey said:

This is very interesting. I was saving Crippen for November 23 but this'll work. First suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraph.

Vulcana, Cora Crippen's friend who was a professional strongwoman, reported her as missing to police. The Crippen house was searched but nothing unusual was found. Crippen told Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Walter Dew that he lied about his wife having died and that she'd run off for America with her lover.

Crippen and his girlfriend tried to escape to Canada. Crippen shaved his mustache; his girlfriend was disguised as a boy. The captain of the ocean liner wasn't fooled and sent a wireless telegram to London police. Police went to Crippen's house and searched more thoroughly digging up the cellar finding the torso of a body. Chief Inspector Dew took a faster White Star ship and met Crippen in Canada. 

If Crippen hadn't tried to escape, suspicions wouldn't have risen. If he hadn't booked first class passage, he may not have been recognized. If Crippen had taken a ship to the USA, things would have been tied up in extradition. (Canada was still a British colony.)

The jury was out for twenty-seven minutes until the guily verdict. Crippen was convicted and sentenced to death. In England, this meant being assigned to a condemned cell. The hangman and his assistant make calculations for the drop based on he prisoner's weight and height to achieve a swift death by broken neck without decapitation or strangulation. On November 23, 1910 at 9:00AM, guards entered Crippen's cell, removed a partition wall to the execution chamber. It was over within seconds.

Cora's torso is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Except it isn't Cora. Recent DNA testing revealed it was a man's torso in the cellar. 1910 coroner's exams note the torso had high levels of  anaphrodisiac - the opposite of an aphrodisiac - which Crippen bought at a local pharmacy. The head, arms and legs were never found. Why go through the trouble of disposing of them and leaving the torso?  Who is he?

Was Crippen performing abortions? 

Did he murder Cora? Did she have syphilis? (Regarded as proof of her infidelity and a motive for Crippen to kill her.)  

There are more questions than answers.

Thunderstruck by Eric Larsen. great book.

[El Diablo 4232]

Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

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Oct. 23, 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

I remember this very well. I was a freshman in high school and it was the first time I’d heard about radical suicide bombers.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

2002- The Moscow Theater Seige begins. After taking 850 people hostage, the Russian military pumped in an unknown gas that ended the standoff but killed 130 hostages. 

2001- Apple releases the iPod

1989- The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, TX injured 314 and killed 23. The explosion registered at 3.5 on the Richter Scale

1958- Smurfs by Peyo first appear in the Spirou comic

1739- The War of Jenkins Ear begins. The seeds of conflict began with the separation of an ear from British Captain Jenkins following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, eight years before the war began.

 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 23rd is Mole Day. Given yesterday's "Wombat Day" designation, you probably now have the wrong idea. We're not talking about naked, half blind rodents who burrow through your petunias when you're not looking. 

No, Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated by chemists, chemistry students, chemistry enthusiasts, and other personality deficient buffs, on October 23rd, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, which in the American Date Style makes it "6:02 10/23"... otherwise known as Avogadro's number, approximately 6.02 x 10 to the 23rd, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one "mole" of substance, one of the seven base SI units. 

Maurice Oehler, now a retired chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is to blame for the creation of the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991. High school chemistry students are afflicted with Mole Day in the U.S., South Africa, Australia and Canada. Don't blame me, though. Blame Maurice Oehler.

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49 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

October 23rd is Mole Day.

 

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53 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

 

No, Mole Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated by chemists, chemistry students, chemistry enthusiasts, and other personality deficient buffs, on October 23rd, between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, which in the American Date Style makes it "6:02 10/23"... otherwise known as Avogadro's number, approximately 6.02 x 10 to the 23rd, defining the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one "mole" of substance, one of the seven base SI units.

ah...that one...the tastiest number in Science.

[Stoogey 219]

Happy 69th Birthday, Robert William "Willy" Pickton! Pig farmer and serial killer.

 

Fed his victims to his pigs. About the only things they don't digest are zippers and buttons and hair.

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Do you know what nemesis means?

[El Diablo 4232]

October 24th, 1980, the merchant freighter SS Poet departed Philadelphia, bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain; it disappeared en route and has not been heard from since.

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50 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

October 24th, 1980, the merchant freighter SS Poet departed Philadelphia, bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain; it disappeared en route and has not been heard from since.

Dun dun dun daaaaaahhhh ........... another Bermuda triangle mystery.

[El Diablo 4232]

1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Dun dun dun daaaaaahhhh ........... another Bermuda triangle mystery.

I think it was maybe early Fall of '81, we were steaming back to Norfolk from a deployment in the Med and got caught in a pretty nasty storm. Ship received a distress call from a German freighter and so we turned south to go assist. We had been heading into the waves on our east/west transit but turning south put us in rolls between the swells. It was pretty brutal, walking on the walls at times it seemed.

By the time we got into the area where the ship had last been it had sunk and another ship had picked up the crew (don't recall if anyone was lost or if we even ever heard). We did find an empty inflatable raft, a big one, probably made for 30 or so people. It had a cover over the entire thing with openings on the ends. We sent some guys into the water to inspect it and then used one of the ships cranes to lift it up onto the helo deck. A couple of innovative deck hands cut the top off of it and filled it with sea water to fashion a sort of swimming pool.

Also picked up a sailboat that was abandoned, it had the mast snapped off. I guess the insurance company was glad to see it, not so sure about the owners.

Whole ship disappearing with crew is just spooky.

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1 minute ago, El Diablo said:

I think it was maybe early Fall of '81, we were steaming back to Norfolk from a deployment in the Med and got caught in a pretty nasty storm. Ship received a distress call from a German freighter and so we turned south to go assist. We had been heading into the waves on our east/west transit but turning south put us in rolls between the swells. It was pretty brutal, walking on the walls at times it seemed.

By the time we got into the area where the ship had last been it had sunk and another ship had picked up the crew (don't recall if anyone was lost or if we even ever heard). We did find an empty inflatable raft, a big one, probably made for 30 or so people. It had a cover over the entire thing with openings on the ends. We sent some guys into the water to inspect it and then used one of the ships cranes to lift it up onto the helo deck. A couple of innovative deck hands cut the top off of it and filled it with sea water to fashion a sort of swimming pool.

Also picked up a sailboat that was abandoned, it had the mast snapped off. I guess the insurance company was glad to see it, not so sure about the owners.

Whole ship disappearing with crew is just spooky.

Rogue wave would be my guess..... or aliens..  Both work for me..

[Doc Reeves 6434]

2008- Bloody Friday starting an international Financial Crisis. Most all financial markets experience their worst day ever, with the entire World market losing around 10% of its value.

2002- Police capture Beltway Snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo as they slept in their car.

1945- Foundation of UN

1929- Black Thursday. Stock market crashes starting the Great Depression.

1901- Annie Edison Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel on her 63rd Birthday. She survives relatively uninjured.

 

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7 hours ago, El Diablo said:

I think it was maybe early Fall of '81, we were steaming back to Norfolk from a deployment in the Med and got caught in a pretty nasty storm.

1881?

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1415- The Battle of Agincourt. After losing a number of his troops to disease during a campaign in Northern France, English King Henry V’s retreat was blocked by a superior French force of Knights. The evening before the battle, a French envoy offered mercy by allowing the English to surrender, however if the English refused, the French promised to remove the index and middle finger of every English archer. In the morning, the English answered the proposal by yelling their battle cry while raising their fingers toward the French line. Even though outnumbered by modern accounts of 4:1 - 6:1, English won a stunning and decisive victory thanks to their superior English long-bowman and tactics. This battle marked the beginning of the end of knights and shift to range weapons.

To this day in England, raising your index and middle finger (backwards peace sign) is a symbol of defiance similar to pointing the middle finger in the US.

[El Diablo 4232]

October 25th, 1983, a U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there.

[El Diablo 4232]

14 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

1881?

Um... ships still run on steam power.

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U in her B is over there man.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

4 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

1415- The Battle of Agincourt. After losing a number of his troops to disease during a campaign in Northern France, English King Henry V’s retreat was blocked by a superior French force of Knights. The evening before the battle, a French envoy offered mercy by allowing the English to surrender, however if the English refused, the French promised to remove the index and middle finger of every English archer. In the morning, the English answered the proposal by yelling their battle cry while raising their fingers toward the French line. Even though outnumbered by modern accounts of 4:1 - 6:1, English won a stunning and decisive victory thanks to their superior English long-bowman and tactics. This battle marked the beginning of the end of knights and shift to range weapons.

To this day in England, raising your index and middle finger (backwards peace sign) is a symbol of defiance similar to pointing the middle finger in the US.

Dang it, stole my thunder....

 

October 25 is Saint Crispin's Day, when "gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

Shakespeare's rendition of Henry the Fifth's victory at the Battle of Agincourt is perhaps only etched upon the average American's mind because of Kenneth Branaugh's rendition, and a man who so aptly portrayed Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter films cannot be reliably depended upon to convey historical importance, so it's a good idea to read actual history books if you want to know more or less what really happened:

England went all medieval on the French, and done whipped 'em good. Agincourt was the high point for the English during the 100 Years War, but it ultimately didn't mean much, as Henry V's gains were eventually ceded to the inevitable reality that France was simply in much better position to defend French soil (when they could finally be bothered to stop running, turn around, and actually, you know, fight) than the English were in to conquer it.

[El Diablo 4232]

October 26th, 1979, South Korean President Park Chung-hee was shot to death by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-kyu.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 26 is Angam Day in the Republic of Nauru. In the Nauruan language, angam means "jubilation", "celebration", "to have triumphed over all hardships" or "to have reached a set goal" or "coming home". 

Twice, the Nauruan population has fallen below 1,500 (which is a number those in population studies consider a demarcation line below which a given human ethnicity will inevitably face extinction), first in 1919, just after World War I, when the occupying government of Imperial Germany fell and Australian administrator Brig. Gen. Thomas Griffiths held a census, and let the local chiefs know that because of their low population, they were in imminent danger of ceasing to be a people. 

The tribal leaders agreed that the baby who was born who brought the population back to 1500 was the "Angam Baby" and would receive gifts and honor. The first Angam Baby was born on October 26, 1932. Unfortunately, the population declined again during World War II and Japanese occupation of Nauru; 1,201 Nauruans were evacuated to the island of Chuuk; only 737 returned to Nauru, and of the 600 left behind, only ~400 survived, leaving the population again at slightly under 1200. 

It was not until 1949 (on March 31st) that the 2nd Angam Baby (Bethel Enproe Adam) was born. Not sure what an appropriate Angam Day gift would be, now that I think of it. 

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1881- Gunfight at OK Coral takes place

1825- Erie Canal opens

1977- Last known natural case of Small Pox observed in Somalia.

2001- US passes the notorious Patriot Act

1984- “Baby Fae” receives the heart of a baboon.  She died 1 month later

1959- World sees dark side of the moon for the first time

1940- P-51 Mustang takes its maiden flight

1921- The Chicago Theatre Opens

1795- The French Directory, a 5 person revolutionary government, is formed. Their different political motivations led to the Reign of Terror.

1520- Charles V is Crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Today is also the Christian Feast Day for Alford the Great who is recognized as a Christian hero and even a Saint in Anglican denominations

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That’s nice, but we were actually looking for:

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2002. Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL record for career rushing with 18,355 yards.

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1997- Stock Market mini-crash. NYSE must enacting it’s ‘circuit breakers’ for the first time, twice, then controversially outright closing the market early.

1904- NYC Subway opens

2004- Boston Wins World Series after 86 yrs.

1992- Terry Helvey is kicked to death by Shipmate Allen Schindler in Japan. This leads to the controversial ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military.

1986- The Big Bang: UK suddenly deregulates the financial markets leading to monumental upheaval.

1964- Ronald Reagan makes the conservative manifesto ‘a time for choosing’ on TV for presidental candidate Berry Goldwater.

1682- Philadelphia is founded

1275- Founding of Amsterdam 

312- Constantine the Great has his ‘Vision of the Cross”

 

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october seems like a shitty month for the stock market

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 27 is the Deň černovskej tragédie, or "Day of Remembrance of the Černová Massacre" in Hungary. On October 27, 1907, 15 villagers in Černová were killed during an ethnically charged church consecration. 

Andrej Hlinka, the Slovak parish priest of nearby Ružomberok and a native of Černová had organized the construction of a new church in the village; the locals raised 80,000 crowns (a considerable amount at the time) and had received not insignificant contributions from Slovak Americans. 

When the time came to consecrate the church, however, Hlinka was not available to perform the ceremony -- he was in prison, serving a two year sentence for his activities "agitating" for pro-Slovak causes during the election campaign of 1906. The people of Černová, being Slovaks, were in sympathy with Hlinka, and wanted the ceremony delayed until his release from prison. 

The Austro-Hungarian government was not sympathetic, and conflict was inevitable. Since one side in the conflict had guns, and the other didn't... the result was sadly predictable. Many of the facts are blurred, given that all of the accounts were handed down by partisans on one side or the other, but it is nevertheless true that this example of ethnic violence is to this day used as a rallying cry in the Balkans for increased autonomy by ethnic communities over their own internal affairs.

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1965. On this date, the Second Vatican Council addressed relations between Jews and Catholics. Nostra ætate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions) stopped blaming Jews for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration.

I was born before Vatican II. There was no blaming or hatred for centuries. This was pretty much engineered between rabbis and cardinals to bring Jews and Catholics (and all religions) closer together.

And there were other changes. The Holy Ghost became the Holy Spirit. Stopped speaking prayers and singing hymns in Latin. Instead of the altar facing the tabernacle, it was reversed to face the congregation. And I may be disremembering things but it seems around that time the girls in my class didn't have to wear veils in church any longer and the nuns wore more contemporary habits instead of the eighteenth century wimple and starched collar. Like Mary Tyler Moore in Change Of Habit. 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 28 is Επέτειος του ("Ohi Day") in Greece, commemorating the October 28, 1940 spit-in-the-eye given by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas to an ultimatum given by Italian dictator and all-around jackanapes Benito Mussolini. Mussolini had demanded that Greece allow Axis forces to enter Greek territory and occupy certain unspecified "strategic locations" or face war.

Metaxas actual reply was in French, "Alors, c'est la guerre" ("Then it is war"), however, the legend (as legends so often do) strayed a bit from reality, and reported Metaxas as replying with a rather idiomatic Greek word, "όχι" (in this context, not just "no" but the kind of "no" that gives the impression of not really caring whether you take another breath or not).

Greece did not especially fare all that well during the war (and, really, who could expect them to, being outmanned, outgunned, outfinanced, and out of range of any help) but their dashing rejection of fascism during this dark period really deserves much more recognition than the world generally affords. Heck, that was a line worthy of Sam Houston himself. Opa!

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1919- Congress passes the Volstead Act overriding President Wilson’s veto and allowing prohibition to begin the following January.

1965- St Louis Arch Completed

1981- Metallica is founded

1886- Grover Cleavland dedicates the Statue of Liberty

1793- Eli Whitney applies for a patent for the cotton gin.

1636- Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in the United States, today know as Harvard

1492- Columbus Discovers Cuba

 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 29 is Cumhuriyet Bayramı or "Republic Day" in Turkey. In 1923 on this date, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared that Turkey would be a republic, officially ratifying a status that had been effective since April 23, 1920 (when the Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi, or "Grand National Assembly of Turkey" had first convened). The equivalent distinction in the United States would have been celebrating the date of the first Continental Congress convening (September 5, 1774) as opposed to the date on which the Declaration of Independence was ratified (July 4, 1776). Of course, the actual vote for independence was on July 2nd, but... anyway, back to Turkey. Happy Birthday, Turkey! It's a shame you've decided to return to tinpot dictatorship status, but whatever.

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2012- Hurricane Sandy seriously fucks some shit up

1971- Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident in Macon Georgia 

1969- first ever computer to computer link was made on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet

1964- Murf the Surf and his accomplice steal the Star of India as well as several other priceless gems for the Museum of Natural History in NYC by unlocking a bathroom window during day hours and sneaking back thru at night. They were captured a couple days later.

1960- Cassius Clay fights and wins his first professional fight in Louisville KY

1922- Mussolini is appointed Prime Minister by the King of Italy

1921- Harvard’s Football team loses to Centre College snapping a 25 game win streak. It is still considered one of the greatest upsets in college football history.

1918- The German fleet is incapacitated by a mutiny. This begins the German Revolution of 1918-19

1901- Nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis Family of Boston with morphine.

1886- The First Ticker Tape Parade is held in NYC when office workers spontaneously throw paper on the parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty.

1787- Don Giovanni is first performed in Prague.

1618- Sir Walter Raleigh is executed for his involvement in the Main Plot which has to do with the succession of queen Elizabeth with James I. It was and is widely seen as a miscarriage of justice. After his execution his trial judge said: ”The justice of England has never been so degraded and injured as by the condemnation of the honourable Sir Walter Raleigh."

1390- First Trial for witchcraft takes place in Paris.

 

 

 

 

[Doc Reeves 6434]

58 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

1901- Nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis Family of Boston with morphine.

She was one of the first female serial killers ever caught. She confessed to 31 murders and is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived".

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56 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

She was one of the first female serial killers ever caught. She confessed to 31 murders and is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived".

By God , thats pluck.....

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 30, 758 C.E., Guangzhou, largest city in Guangdong province in southern China, was sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. While westerners tend to think of Marco Polo as the first link of the occidental and oriental worlds, the Muslim writers Al-Masudi and Ibn Khordadbeh wrote about Guangzhou nearly 500 years before the famous Venetian vagabond. 

Trade was fairly common between the Far East and the Near East at that time, in fact, with several records existing of Chinese prisoners of war in the area now known as Iraq dating from the 8th century. 

The significance of the Guangzhou raid, of course, is that the pirates attacked from the China Sea, meaning they had rounded the Indian subcontinent, passed what is now Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, etc., essentially marking the course later followed by Europeans once they had finally figured out how to get around the southern tip of Africa several centuries later.

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1938. Orson Welles' version of H G Wells' The War of the Worlds about a Martian invasion of Earth is broadcast. Some people do not understand it is a radio drama. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

I think the whole radio drama story was invented to cover up the fact that we were invaded by aliens, they defeated us and now control the world.

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1974- Rumble in the Jungle. Mohammed Ali vs. George Forman in Africa

1534- English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy making Henery VIII head of the Anglican Church.

1961- The Tsar Bomba is tested by the Soviet Union. At 58 Megatons it is still the largest human explosion ever detonated. It’s primary blast diameter raised the ground surface temperature to almost 1000 degrees and stretched for 120 miles 

1960- Micheal Woodruff preforms the world’s first kidney transplant in the UK

1953- D. Eisenhower approves top secret National Security Paper 162/2 that states that the US will maintain and expand its nuclear arsenal to counter the communist threat.

1945- Jackie Robinson signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in Baseball 

1942- Members of the HMS Petard board U-559 and retrieve materials that would lead the the Allies breaking the Germans Enigma Code Machine.

1831- Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the largest slave revolt in US history.

1485- King Henery VII is crowned

1470- King Henery VI retakes the English throne

 

 

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On this day in 1945, The Fonz was born.

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Fuck yes! Birthdays:

 

1735- President John Adams

1748- Martha Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson’s wife

1821- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer 

1936- Dick Vermeil, football coach

1951- Harry Hamlin, actor from LA Law and ‘Clash of the Titans’

1956- Kevin Pollak, actor in lots of shit. Off the top of my head: ‘The Usual Suspects’

1970- Ben Bailey, actor and host of ‘Cash Cab’

1975- Maria Thayer, hot redhead actress from ‘Strangers with candy’, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and ‘Eagleheart’

1981- Ivanka Trump

 

 

 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

October 31, of course, is Halloween, and no doubt the absolute dorkiest among us prefer to call it Samhain, but among the dozen or so other names by which this holiday may be known is the Cornish "Kalan Gwav", or "Nos Kalan Gwav" meaning "eve of the first day of winter" -- obviously followed by "Dy' Kalan Gwav" or "first day of winter". Loosely translated into English, the Cornish folk call it "Allantide" and while it has pre-Christian origins, in modern times it is popularly linked to St. Allen (alternatively "Arlan") a little-known Cornish saint. 

The big tradition on Allantide is the giving of big polished red apples. A variation on the bobbing for apples theme makes for an interesting contest -- a couple of pieces of lumber were nailed together making a cross, which was then hung like a chandelier, with candles on the four end-pieces, and an apple dangling from a string in the middle. The whole thing was then swung gently, and... get your bite nimbly, or get a face full of hot wax as your reward. 

Who says the Cornish are a boring lot, huh?

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1984- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by Sikh security guards. Riots break out across India and over 10,000 Sikhs are killed

1517- Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

1940- The Battle of Britain ends halting the momentum of the Nazi Army and the start of the turning of the tide of WWII

2011- The world population hits 7Billion. The UN recognizes today as “7 Billion Day”

1999- Egypt Air flight 990 crashes into the ocean. After it’s investigation, the US officially declares that the crash was because of pilot suicide. Egypt and other Arab governments deny this was the cause.

1997- British nanny, 19 y/o Louise Woodward is sentenced to life in prison for the involuntary man slaughter of 8 month old Matthew Eappen who died in her care.

1961- Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s tomb and buried with a plain, simple stone marker.

1918- The disillusion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

1917- Battle of Beersheba, WWI. The last successful calvary charge in history.

1876- A monster cyclone hit India killing 200,000.

1864- Nevada joins the US as the 36th state.

683- During the Seige of Mecca the Kaaba catches fire and burns to the ground.

 

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1981. Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter but fails to kill Harry.

 
 

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1946. Happy Birthday, Yuko Shimizu! Created Hello Kitty as a designer at Sanrio.  

 

1974. Happy Birthday, Hello Kitty! 




FUN FACT: Japan produces 17.5 trillion metric tons of cute shit annually, most of it for export. 

Shimizu left Sanrio in 1976 to get married. Despite her character's enduring popularity and sales in the billions of dollars, she saw very little money.

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1512- Sistine Chaple with is ceiling painted by Michelangelo is opened to the public for the first time.

1604- ‘Othello’ is preformed for the first time

1611- ‘The Tempest’ is preformed for the first time

1765- British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies.

1938- Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in a huge upset. It was know as “the match of the century” in horse racing

1955- United Airlines Flight 629 is blown up in mid air with dynamite. Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Grahamwas responsible to kill his mother as revenge for his childhood and to obtain a large life insurance payout.

1952- Americans detonate the first hydrogen bomb known as “Mike” (10 MT) in the Marshall Islands.   

1951- Operation Buster-Jangle. 6500 American troops are exposed to Atomic Explosions for research and training in NV. Participantion is not voluntary. 

1950- Puerto Rican nationalist attempt to assinate Harry Truman at Blair House

1941- Ansil Adams take a photo of a moon rise over the town of Hernandez, NM. It will become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

1939- The first creature born because of artificial  insemenation, a rabbit, is introduced to the world.

1922- The Ottoman Empire ends with the abdication of its final sultan, Mehmed VI.

1918- Malone Street Wreck. The worst rapid transit wreck in US history when subway trains collide in Brooklyn NYC. Due to a Rail Workers strike and confusing line layout, inexperienced operators are blamed. Between 95-104 people were killed. 

1911- The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat during the Italio-Hungarian War

1896- A bare breasted woman appears in Natural Gepgraphic for the first time.

1894- Nicholas II becomes the Tzar of Russia.

1870- The Weather Bureau, later the National Weather Service, makes its first forecast

1805- Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria

1800- President John Adams is the first President to move into and live at the new Executive Mansion, later known as the White House

1520- The Strait of Magellan connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is discovered during the first Voyage of Circumnavigation.

1179- Phillip II is crowned King of France

 

 

Edited November 1, 2018 by Doc Reeves

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11/1/1992 - MIA gets laid for the first time. The world wasn't the same until he turned 41 and became a middle aged incel.