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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 10, 2008 15:27:35 GMT -5
....................Part 2 1763 : The French and Indian War ends 1779 : The Battle of Carr's Fort 1861 : Davis learns he is president 1992 : Boxing legend convicted of raping beauty queen 1887 : First U.S. actor to perform in two cities on one day 1958 : Elvis ballad tops charts 1992 : Alex Haley dies 1846 : Mormons begin exodus to Utah 1899 : Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry 1965 : Viet Cong blow up U.S. barracks 1916 : U.S. secretary of war resigns 1942 : Japanese sub bombards Midway 2007 : RUSH touring
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 15, 2008 15:08:05 GMT -5
1898 : The Maine explodes 1942 : Japan celebrates major victory in the Pacific 1776 : Nova Scotia governor sends word of potential American invasion 1835 : Alexander Stewart Webb born 1914 : The Squaw Man released 1932 : Burns and Allen radio debut 1950 : Disney's Cinderella opens 1965 : Nat King Cole dies 1984 : Ethel Merman dies 1812 : Wilson Hunt arrives at Astoria, Oregon 1903 : First "Teddy" bear goes on sale 1933 : FDR escapes assassination in Miami 1998 : Dale Earnhardt wins first Daytona 500 1970 : Chicago Eight defense attorneys sentenced 1812 : Tiffany is born 1915 : Mutiny breaks out among Indian soldiers in Singapore 2007 : Chillin to some Smooth Jazz on Sky.FM ;D
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Post by Bromhead24 on Feb 15, 2008 17:02:31 GMT -5
1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.
1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
1898 USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
1913 The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.
1933 Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
1965 The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
1989 More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
2002 Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Feb 17, 2008 13:44:41 GMT -5
1600 Italian philospher, alchemist, and Copernican theory advocate Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition.
1801 The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.
1817 Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.
1864 The Confederate submarine Hunley, equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
1904 Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered in Milan.
1972 President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.
1996 Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Feb 17, 2008 13:45:40 GMT -5
Where's everybody at?
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Post by neferetus on Feb 17, 2008 15:38:24 GMT -5
Probably too much 'Who Hit John' after last night's party.
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Post by seguin on Feb 17, 2008 16:03:46 GMT -5
I´m right here! ;D
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 17, 2008 21:40:07 GMT -5
I`m here and here is what I have to say! ;D ..................#2 1957 : Gromyko becomes foreign minister 1979 : China invades Vietnam 1782 : French and British battle in the Indian Ocean 1911 : First self-starter installed.....The auto 1934 : First driving class is offered 1972 : VW Bug sets record 1865 : Sherman sacks Columbia, South Carolina 1947 : Voice of America begins broadcasts to Russia 1906 : The first "Trial of the Century" 1993 : Ferry sinks near Haiti 1927 : Studios postpone audio decision 1979 : Prairie Home Companion debuts 1982 : Lee Strasberg dies 1820 : Senate passes Missouri Compromise 1801 : Thomas Jefferson is elected 1968 : U.S. casualty rate reaches record high 1997 : CompuServe chief throws in the towel 1915 : Zeppelin L-4 crashes into North Sea 1944 : U.S. troops land on Eniwetok atoll 2007: Reading abit today on Neanderthals and I`ll be damn if they don`t start showing that GEICO Caveman commercial!
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Post by neferetus on Feb 17, 2008 22:54:43 GMT -5
Hey Ted. It's 2008, already. Time to change your calendar.
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Post by neferetus on Feb 17, 2008 23:07:52 GMT -5
Careful there, Seguin. Remember, that's what Jefe said---and look what happened to him.
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Post by seguin on Feb 18, 2008 15:26:36 GMT -5
LOL - right! The Three Amigos sure teached El Guapo a lesson... ;D
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Post by Bromhead24 on Feb 18, 2008 22:22:17 GMT -5
El Guapo!
Jefe: I have put many beautiful pinatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little suprises. El Guapo: Many pinatas? Jefe: Oh yes, many! El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas? Jefe: A what? El Guapo: A *plethora*. Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora. El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora? Jefe: Why, El Guapo? El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a plethora. Jefe: Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
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Post by seguin on Feb 18, 2008 23:27:23 GMT -5
LOL - Hilarious conversation! There was a plethora of funny moments in that movie... ;D
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Post by neferetus on Feb 19, 2008 0:20:06 GMT -5
For those of you who are unaware, Joe Musso worked extensively on THE THREE AMIGOS, designing and building the town of Santo Poco and El Guapo's old mission hideout. (Lots of Alamo humps there.) He also did all of the title and background matte paintings, as well as all of the posterwork art seen in the film, including the posters on display at the Amigos' bogus motion picture studio.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 19, 2008 16:14:36 GMT -5
1847 : Donner Party rescued On this day in 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In the summer of 1846, in the midst of a Western-bound fever sweeping the United States, 89 people--including 31 members of the Donner and Reed families--set out in a wagon train from Springfield, Illinois. After arriving at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, the emigrants decided to avoid the usual route and try a new trail recently blazed by California promoter Lansford Hastings, the so-called "Hastings Cutoff." After electing George Donner as their captain, the party departed Fort Bridger in mid-July. The shortcut was nothing of the sort: It set the Donner Party back nearly three weeks and cost them much-needed supplies. After suffering great hardships in the Wasatch Mountains, the Great Salt Lake Desert and along the Humboldt River, they finally reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains in early October. Despite the lateness of the season, the emigrants continued to press on, and on October 28 they camped at Truckee Lake, located in the high mountains 21 kilometers northwest of Lake Tahoe. Overnight, an early winter storm blanketed the ground with snow, blocking the mountain pass and trapping the Donner Party. Most of the group stayed near the lake--now known as Donner Lake--while the Donner family and others made camp six miles away at Alder Creek. Building makeshift tents out of their wagons and killing their oxen for food, they hoped for a thaw that never came. Fifteen of the stronger emigrants, later known as the Forlorn Hope, set out west on snowshoes for Sutter's Fort near San Francisco on December 16. Three weeks later, after harsh weather and lack of supplies killed several of the expedition and forced the others to resort to cannibalism, seven survivors reached a Native American village. News of the stranded Donner Party traveled fast to Sutter's Fort, and a rescue party set out on January 31. Arriving at Donner Lake 20 days later, they found the camp completely snowbound and the surviving emigrants delirious with relief at their arrival. Rescuers fed the starving group as well as they could and then began evacuating them. Three more rescue parties arrived to help, but the return to Sutter's Fort proved equally harrowing, and the last survivors didn't reach safety until late April. Of the 89 original members of the Donner Party, only 45 reached California.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Feb 21, 2008 12:45:22 GMT -5
1613 Michael Romanov was elected czar of Russia, beginning the Romanov imperial line. 1878 The first telephone book was issued (New Haven, Conn.). 1916 Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I, began. 1965 Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. 1972 President Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit China. 1995 Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean solo in a balloon. 2002 It was confirmed that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was dead, allegedly murdered by Islamic militants. 2008 Bromy is going NVTS he is in a bad way and needs your support and prayers. "Oh the pain the pain"
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Post by seguin on Feb 21, 2008 13:31:17 GMT -5
Don´t go nuts, Bromy! We need you here! - You always have our support! We all know it´s no joke feeling bad. I hope you´ll feel better in a day or too! Try to avoid dark thoughts, it will only prolong it! And remember that you´re not alone!
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Post by Greg C. on Feb 22, 2008 8:31:27 GMT -5
2008: SNOW DAY!
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 22, 2008 15:48:23 GMT -5
Mike, I`ve known you for awhile now and I`d like to see some good come to your mind, body and soul Is there any talk of changing meds? Does your wife "fully" understand the pain, anguish and despair you have been goung through? I`ll be here for you buddy! TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded
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Post by Cole_blooded on Feb 22, 2008 15:50:33 GMT -5
1980 : U.S. hockey team makes miracle on ice
In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold.
The Soviet team had captured the previous four Olympic hockey golds, going back to 1964, and had not lost an Olympic hockey game since 1968. Three days before the Lake Placid Games began, the Soviets routed the U.S. team 10-3 in an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Americans looked scrappy, but few blamed them for it--their average age, after all, was only 22, and their team captain, Mike Eruzione, was recruited from the obscurity of the Toledo Blades of the International League.
Few had high hopes for the seventh-seeded U.S. team entering the Olympic tournament, but the team soon silenced its detractors, making it through the opening round of play undefeated, with four victories and one tie, thus advancing to the four-team medal round. The Soviets, however, were seeded No. 1 and as expected went undefeated, with five victories in the first round.
On Friday afternoon, February 22, the American amateurs and the Soviet dream team met before a sold-out crowd at Lake Placid. The Soviets broke through first, with their new young star, Valery Krotov, deflecting a slap shot beyond American goalie Jim Craig's reach in the first period. Midway through the period, Buzz Schneider, the only American who had previously been an Olympian, answered the Soviet goal with a high shot over the shoulder of Vladislav Tretiak, the Soviet goalie.
The relentless Soviet attack continued as the period progressed, with Sergei Makarov giving his team a 2-1 lead. With just a few seconds left in the first period, American Ken Morrow shot the puck down the ice in desperation. Mark Johnson picked it up and sent it into the Soviet goal with one second remaining. After a brief Soviet protest, the goal was deemed good, and the game was tied.
In the second period, the irritated Soviets came out with a new goalie, Vladimir Myshkin, and turned up the attack. The Soviets dominated play in the second period, outshooting the United States 12-2, and taking a 3-2 lead with a goal by Alesandr Maltsev just over two minutes into the period. If not for several remarkable saves by Jim Craig, the Soviet lead would surely have been higher than 3-2 as the third and final 20-minute period began.
Nearly nine minutes into the period, Johnson took advantage of a Soviet penalty and knocked home a wild shot by David Silk to tie the contest again at 3-3. About a minute and a half later, Mike Eruzione, whose last name means "eruption" in Italian, picked up a loose puck in the Soviet zone and slammed it past Myshkin with a 25-foot wrist shot. For the first time in the game, the Americans had the lead, and the crowd erupted in celebration.
There were still 10 minutes of play to go, but the Americans held on, with Craig making a few more fabulous saves. With five seconds remaining, the Americans finally managed to get the puck out of their zone, and the crowd began counting down the final seconds. When the final horn sounded, the players, coaches, and team officials poured onto the ice in raucous celebration. The Soviet players, as awestruck as everyone else, waited patiently to shake their opponents' hands.
The so-called Miracle on Ice was more than just an Olympic upset; to many Americans, it was an ideological victory in the Cold War as meaningful as the Berlin Airlift or the Apollo moon landing. The upset came at an auspicious time: President Jimmy Carter had just announced that the United States was going to boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Americans, faced with a major recession and the Iran hostage crisis, were in dire need of something to celebrate. After the game, President Carter called the players to congratulate them, and millions of Americans spent that Friday night in revelry over the triumph of "our boys" over the Russian pros.
As the U.S. team demonstrated in their victory over Finland two days later, it was disparaging to call the U.S. team amateurs. Three-quarters of the squad were top college players who were on their way to the National Hockey League (NHL), and coach Herb Brooks had trained the team long and hard in a manner that would have made the most authoritative Soviet coach proud. The 1980 U.S. hockey team was probably the best-conditioned American Olympic hockey team of all time--the result of countless hours running skating exercises in preparation for Lake Placid. In their play, the U.S. players adopted passing techniques developed by the Soviets for the larger international hockey rinks, while preserving the rough checking style that was known to throw the Soviets off-guard. It was these factors, combined with an exceptional afternoon of play by Craig, Johnson, Eruzione, and others, that resulted in the miracle at Lake Placid.
This improbable victory was later memorialized in a 2004 film, Miracle, starring Kurt Russell. ;D
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