Today in History...

[Underdog 29168]

1948 - Babe Ruth dies. 

1977 - Elvis has left the Living. 

[NeverMarryAStripper 22289]

I visited Graceland once in the late 90s and I know I saw him in one of the upstairs windows.  That's why you can't go upstairs at Graceland.

[Armybrat 41394]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I visited Graceland once in the late 90s and I know I saw him in one of the upstairs windows.  That's why you can't go upstairs at Graceland.

That was just the velvet curtain you saw.

[Scheiss Meister 8468]

Elvis is not dead; he moved to Patroon.

[Crusher 127]

I purchased a bottle of Tito's and a six pack of Stella Artois. Settling in to watch the Astros.

[HouTex 1939]

1915 Hurricane strikes Galveston, Texas (275 killed)

1943 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel

1946 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom

1957 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

1969 Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)

1976 An earthquake & tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000

1980 George Brett goes 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401

[Underdog 29168]

I wonder if Richie or that fan went out and bought lottery tickets that day. 

[HouTex 1939]

1769 A lightning strike on the Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia, Italy, ignites 90 tonnes of gunpowder, killing 3,000 people

1817 60-70ft sea serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts

1936 106.5°F - Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa

1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest ever air battle

1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act

1983 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas

1987 Former UT star, Heisman Trophy winner and Houston Oiler Earl Campbell retires from NFL

[HouTex 1939]

1692 Five more people hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts

1812 US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere

1849 NY Herald reports gold discovery in California

1895 American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)

1960 The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts

1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22

1983 LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting

1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état

 

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[HouTex 1939]

1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

[HouTex 1939]

1879 The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

1968 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

1991 Latvia declares its independence from USSR

1995 US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho

2015 Terrorist attack on train between Amsterdam and Paris thwarted by 4 passengers overpowering gunman
 

[HouTex 1939]

565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, the last English monarch to die in battle.

1775 King George III proclaims colonies to be in open rebellion

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" signed by 12 nations

1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI

1944 Adolf Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed [or 23rd]

1962 Failed assassination attempt on French president Charles de Gaulle

1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)

[gecko 1104]

[Buffsoldier 1895]

3 hours ago, gecko said:

 

Jesus. The equivalent of 2 entire divisions in one day.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Buffsoldier

[HouTex 1939]

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II

1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London

1944 Allied troops capture Marseille, France

1974 John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC

1990 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

[HouTex 1939]

79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die

1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed

1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon's murder

1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

1991 Ukraine declares independence from USSR

2011 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness

 

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

August 24th is La Noche de la Nostalgia. Every dance club, radio station, and public event in Uruguay is culturally obligated to play “oldies” on this date.

It’s hard to imagine debating such a topic, but… the origins of “Nostalgia Night” are disputed. Regardless of whose idea it was (though the most accepted claim is that of José Fernández, owner of the Disco Ton Ton Metek), in the years since the first Noche de la Nostalgia in 1978, the event has become successful enough to be officially decreed throughout Uruguay by the Ministry of Tourism. (I wonder how ‘Stayin’ Alive’ sounds on the Andean pan flute…?)

[HouTex 1939]

1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded

1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812)

1829 President Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses

1915 Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage

1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation

[gecko 1104]

[El Diablo 4232]

August 29th, 1972, swimmer Mark Spitz of the United States won the third of his seven gold medals at the Munich Olympics, finishing first in the 200-meter freestyle.

Munich Olympics had its ups and downs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre

[HenryJames 67329]

 

[Message Board User 12405]

 

[El Diablo 4232]

September 3, 1895—124 years ago today—William Carrol Crawford, the last surviving signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, died 10 days before his 91st birthday while visiting his son in Erath County. Crawford was a North Carolina native who moved to Texas in 1835 and represented Shelby County at the convention in 1836 during which both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas were written

[HouTex 1939]

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, abdicates after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Traditional end of the Western Roman Empire

1781 Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1998 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford 

 

[HouTex 1939]

1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World

1776 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sink; 600 die

1776 Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, killing more than 6,000.

1901 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

1916 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

1968 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (interestingly, the song foreshadows Clapton's eventual love affair with Harrison's wife, Patty Boyd)

1972 Summer Olympics resume in Munich, Germany after massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorist organization

1995 Cal Ripken Jr breaks Gehrig's record, plays in 2,131 straight games

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London

 

[HouTex 1939]

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)

1565 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida

1863 Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces

1900 6,000 killed when a hurricane and storm surge strikes Galveston, Texas

1943 Italy surrenders to Allies in WWII

1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London & Antwerp

1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana & Florida

1966 "Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV

1974 Evil Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries

1994 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin

2002 Rookie quarterback David Carr throws for 2 TDs as the Houston Texans beat Dallas Cowboys 19-10 to become only the 2nd expansion team (1961 Minnesota Vikings) to win their inaugural game

 

 

[HouTex 1939]

Other than 2001, there were some other interesting and important events that occurred on 9/11:

1914 W. C. Handy "Father of the Blues" publishes his most famous composition "St Louis Blues"

1941 Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia (completed Jan 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain, construction was overseen by Leslie Groves (who later oversaw the construction of the A-Bomb).

1944 A reconnaissance squadron of the US 5th Armored Division "Victory Division" is 1st allied force to enter Nazi-Germany

1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese Prime Minister during most of World War II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal but fails - later he is hanged

1961 Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph

1965 The 1st Cavalry Division of the United States Army arrives in Vietnam.

[Underdog 29168]

1924 - Former Horns/Cowboys Coach Tom Landry is born on this date. 

[El Diablo 4232]

September 12, 1909—100 years ago today—a country singer named Kenneth Threadgill, who turned a service station into a tavern that later became a music venue that launched the careers of such stars as Janis Joplin, was born in Peniel. He moved to Austin in 1933 and began working at the service station he later bought. After World War II, he turned it into what became a legendary venue. He wrote such songs as “Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine,” “T for Texas, T for Tennessee,” and in the early 1980s, appeared and sang with Willie Nelson in the film “Honeysuckle Rose.” He died in 1987.

[HouTex 1939]

1919 Adolf Hitler joins the obscure German Worker's Party as its seventh member, agreeing not with worker's rights, but with its German Nationalism and antisemitism

1928 Hurricane in Florida, kills 6,000

1938 Adolf Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech

1940 Four teens, following their dog down a hole near Lascaux, France discover 17,000 year old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings

1944 Hurricane, kills 389 in NC

1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit to his supervisor

1965 Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida & Louisiana kills 75
 

[abuelo gringo 333]

4 hours ago, El Diablo said:

September 12, 1909—100 years ago today—a country singer named Kenneth Threadgill, who turned a service station into a tavern that later became a music venue that launched the careers of such stars as Janis Joplin, was born in Peniel. He moved to Austin in 1933 and began working at the service station he later bought. After World War II, he turned it into what became a legendary venue. He wrote sang such songs as “Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine,” “T for Texas, T for Tennessee,” and in the early 1980s, appeared and sang with Willie Nelson in the film “Honeysuckle Rose.” He died in 1987.

"Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" was co-written by Gene Autry and Jimmy Long.  "T for Texas" aka Blue Yodel No. 1 was written by Jimmie Rodgers, the Singin' Brakeman.  Rodgers was Threadgill's musical hero and he sang and yodeled in Rodgers' style.

Threadgill used to perform for free on campus on occasion in the late '60s and early '70s.  He performed regularly at the Split Rail on S. Lamar.  A documentary was made about him called "Singing the Yodeling Blues."

http://imgbox.com/N3S4cUY3

Mr. Threadgill at Willie's first picnic, July 1973.  Unsure why link isn't loading picture.

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2019 by abuelo gringo

[luke duke 6449]

1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates his first integrated circuit to his supervisor

[csb]He used to live in my neighborhood [/csb]

[El Diablo 4232]

1 hour ago, abuelo gringo said:

"Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" was co-written by Gene Autry and Jimmy Long.  "T for Texas" aka Blue Yodel No. 1 was written by Jimmie Rodgers, the Singin' Brakeman.  Rodgers was Threadgill's musical hero and he sang and yodeled in Rodgers' style.

Threadgill used to perform for free on campus on occasion in the late '60s and early '70s.  He performed regularly at the Split Rail on S. Lamar.  A documentary was made about him called "Singing the Yodeling Blues."

http://imgbox.com/N3S4cUY3

Mr. Threadgill at Willie's first picnic, July 1973.  Unsure why link isn't loading picture.

 

 

 

Thanks for the edit, I just trusted the source that I copied and pasted from. What has this world come to when you can't trust what you read on the internet??

[El Diablo 4232]

 September 13, 1921, the First Cavalry Division was activated at Fort Bliss in El Paso.

[HouTex 1939]

335 Church of Holy Sepulchre consecrated in Jerusalem

1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1847 American-Mexican war: US General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1956 IBM introduces the RAMAC 305, 1st commercial computer with a hard drive that uses magnetic disk storage, weighs over a ton

2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2001 Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts

2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

2018 Islamic extremism by 121 groups caused 84,000 deaths in 2017 according to report by Global Extremist Monitor presented by Tony Blair

[HouTex 1939]

1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza

1935 Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany

1938 British PM Neville Chamberlain visits Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden

1940 Battle of Britain Day: climax of the Battle of Britain, tide begins to turn as the Royal Air Force repulses a major Luftwaffe attack, losing 29 aircraft to the Germans' 57-61

1997 Google.com is registered as a domain name

 

[HouTex 1939]

1787 The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention

1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead, wounded or missing in first battle on Union soil

1920 National Football League is born in Canton, Ohio; 12 teams pay $100 each to join American Professional Football Association; re-named the NFL in 1922

1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500

1938 British premier Neville Chamberlain ("Peace in Our Time!!) leaves Munich

1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain

1944 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine

1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel

1980 Polish workers under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa found the Solidarity movement at the Gdańsk Shipyard

2001 Major trading markets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), reopen for the first time since September 11

 

 

[El Diablo 4232]

Sept 17, 1841—178 years ago today--The Republic of Texas signed an agreement that allowed the rebel Mexican state of Yucatán to lease the Texas Navy for $8,000 a month.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22289]

Interestingly, while operating under the agreement with Yucatan, vessels of the Texas Navy engaged a Mexican fleet which included the ironclad steamer the Guadalupe.  The Mexican fleet was driven off and the Guadalupe sustained extensive damage.  It is believed to be the only time in history that an ironclad was defeated in open battle by sailing vessels.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Interestingly, while operating under the agreement with Yucatan, vessels of the Texas Navy engaged a Mexican fleet which included the ironclad steamer the Guadalupe.  The Mexican fleet was driven off and the Guadalupe sustained extensive damage.  It is believed to be the only time in history that an ironclad was defeated in open battle by sailing vessels.

2 words: Mexican navy.

[Armybrat 41394]

2 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

Interestingly, while operating under the agreement with Yucatan, vessels of the Texas Navy engaged a Mexican fleet which included the ironclad steamer the Guadalupe.  The Mexican fleet was driven off and the Guadalupe sustained extensive damage.  It is believed to be the only time in history that an ironclad was defeated in open battle by sailing vessels.

That sea battle scene was rollmarked on the cylinders of Colt cap & ball revolvers during the 1850s.

[El Diablo 4232]

September 18, 1850—169 years ago today—the French Expedition to California fizzled in Texas. The expedition was organized by Parker H. French in New York. He promised “fast and safe” passage to the California gold fields for just $250 a passenger, and the offer attracted 180 travelers and workers, who got discounted fares. The group set sail on May 13, 1850, stopped for a week in New Orleans, and then landed in Port Lavaca, beginning an arduous overland journey to present day El Paso, arriving on Sept. 18. The men, suspecting fraud, mutinied and when they opened French’s safe, found it empty. French escaped across the Rio Grande into Mexico. Later, during the Civil War, he was arrested in Connecticut. It’s not clear where and when he died.

[Armybrat 41394]

Sumbitch lived down to his name.

[HouTex 1939]

1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.

1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast

1926 Hurricane hits Miami, kills 250

1965 "I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC (Barbara Eden in her prime is still one of the GOATs).

1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die
 

[El Diablo 4232]

September 20th, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. was seriously wounded during a book signing at a New York City department store when he was stabbed in the chest by Izola Curry. (Curry was later found mentally incompetent; she died at a Queens, New York, nursing home in 2015 at age 98.)

[HouTex 1939]

1814 "Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith

1870 Capture of Rome by Italian army, Pope Pius IX surrenders to King Victor Emmanuel which unifies Italy and ends 1,116 year reign of Papal States

1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match in the Astrodome

1980 George Brett goes 0-for-4 dropping his avg below .400 for good

1990 Both East and West Germany ratify reunification

 

 

[El Diablo 4232]

September 25, 1690—329 years ago today--one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first and last edition in Boston. The government shut down the paper four days later and in an order strictly forbade “any person or persons for the future to Set forth any thing in Print without License first obtained from those that are or shall be appointed by the Government to grant the same."

[HouTex 1939]

1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British

1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights

1911 Groundbreaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park

1926 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week

1944 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem

1966 Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1

1975 Pink Floyd's concept album "Wish You Were Here" reaches No. 1 in the US, goes on to sell 13 million copies

1980 Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a law suit follows

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor (a/k/a "Sandy Baby" to Redskin John Riggins) becomes the first female US Supreme Court Justice

1981 Nolan Ryan's record-breaking 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0

1990 Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience

[Tylerocks 2603]

9/25

 

1986- Mike Scott's No-Hitter to Clinch the Western Division