Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VII

[RAPTORBOY20]

ummmm iight...

[kyledvor61]

any ho's in the house

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Jul 20 1923

While driving his 1919 Dodge, retired revolutionary Pancho Villa is ambushed and assassinated. But even with 16 gunshot wounds he still manages to kill one of his attackers. Curiously, Villa's head is stolen from his grave three years later and never recovered. Despite persistent rumors, Yale's secret society Skull and Bones denies they possess the artifact.

Jul 20 1944

In an attempt on Hitler's life, a timebomb explodes in the situation room of the Wolf's Lair, killing four Nazi officers but only wounding the Fuhrer. After his close call, Hitler becomes even more paranoid. A massive purge is to follow, resulting in the execution of thousands of officers.

Jul 20 1951

In Jerusalem at the al-Aqsa Mosque, King Abdullah of Jordan is shot three times in the head and chest by Mustapha Shukri Usho, a Palestinian opposed to peace with Israel. Abdullah dies on the spot.

Jul 20 1969

On live television, the world watches as Neil Armstrong steps foot on the Moon. That is, unless it was faked.

Jul 20 1973

In Hong Kong, martial artist Bruce Lee drops into a coma and dies of cerebral edema. He had been experiencing brain problems beginning in May, which included sporadic loss of consciousness. Lee's death transpires shortly before the release of Enter the Dragon, his most successful film.

Jul 20 1994

O.J. Simpson offers a $500,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the Real Killers. To this day progress remains elusive, although Simpson's golf score has improved somewhat.

Birthdays today...
356BC - Alexander the Great, Macedonian-Greek king and military leader (d. 323 BC)
810 - Imam Bukhari, Muslim scholar and compiler of Hadith (d. 870)
1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1754 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
1757 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
1774 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
1838 - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1847 - Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)
1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1858 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1931)
1868 - Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania (d. 1939)
1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1876 - Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944)
1889 - John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971)
1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1893 - George Llewelyn-Davies, English Peter Pan character model (d. 1915)
1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1996)
1900 - Maurice Leyland, Former England cricketer (d. 1967)
1901 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
1909 - Eric Rowan, Former South African cricketer (d. 1993)
1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
1911 - Baqa Jilani, Former Indian cricketer (d. 1941)
1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer (d. 2006)
1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber (d. 2008)
1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
1922 - Alan Stephenson Boyd, American politician
1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1925 - Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission
1925 - Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (d. 1961)
1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
1926 - Patricia Cutts, English actress (d. 1974)
1929 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman and sports executive
1929 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
1930 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
1930 - Sally Ann Howes, English-born singer and actress
1931 - Tony Marsh, English racing driver
1932 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
1933 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (d. 1999)
1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress (d. 1996)
1934 - Doug Padgett, Former England cricketer
1935 - Ted Rogers, English comedian (d. 2001)
1936 - Barbara Mikulski, American politician
1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1938 - Roger Hunt, English footballer
1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, English actress
1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981)
1939 - Judy Chicago, American artist
1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player
1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1942 - Ron Bowden, Australian politician
1942 - Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
1942 - T. G. Sheppard, American country music singer
1943 - Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver
1943 - Wendy Richard, English actress
1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
1945 - Larry Craig, American politician
1945 - John Lodge, English musician (The Moody Blues)
1945 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (d. 2005)
1945 - Bo Rein, American football coach (d. 1980)
1946 - Randal Kleiser, American film director
1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-born American guitarist
1948 - Muse Watson, American actor
1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1951 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1953 - Dan Shaughnessy, American sports writer
1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
1955 - Jem Finer, English musician and composer (The Pogues)
1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
1956 - Jim Prentice, Canadian politician
1957 - Nancy Cruzan, American figure in right-to-die case (d. 1990)
1957 - Donna Dixon, American actress
1958 - Mick MacNeil, Scottish musician (Simple Minds)
1960 - Claudio Langes, Italian racing driver
1962 - Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
1962 - Giovanna Amati, Italian racing driver
1962 - Lee Harris, English drummer (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1963 - Frank Whaley, American actor
1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave)
1964 - Terri Irwin, American naturalist; widow of Steve Irwin
1964 - Kool G Rap, American musician
1964 - Bernd Schneider, German racing driver
1964 - Dean Winters, American actor
1966 - Stone Gossard, American musician (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad)
1967 - Reed Diamond, American actor
1968 - Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player
1968 - Michael Park, American actor
1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor
1969 - Giovanni Lombardi, Italian cyclist
1969 - Tobi Vail, American musician (Bikini Kill, The Go Team, The Frumpies)
1969 - Vitamin C, American singer
1971 - Charles Johnson, American baseball player
1971 - Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
1971 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (d. 2000)
1971 - Ed Giddins, England cricketer
1972 - Erik Ullenhag, Swedish jurist and politician
1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1973 - Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
1973 - Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
1973 - Courtney Taylor-Taylor, American singer (The Dandy Warhols)
1973 - Nixon McLean, West Indian cricketer
1974 - Bengie Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
1975 - Ray Allen, American basketball player
1975 - Judy Greer, American actress
1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1975 - Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish politician
1975 - Atiq-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer
1976 - Erica Hill, American news anchor
1976 - Andrew Stockdale, Australian musician (Wolfmother)
1976 - Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
1976 - Debashish Mohanty, Indian cricketer
1977 - Kiki Musampa, Congolese footballer
1977 - Alessandro dos Santos, Brazilian-born Japanese footballer
1978 - Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
1978 - Charlie Korsmo, American actor
1978 - Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
1978 - Will Solomon, American basketball player
1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
1979 - Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
1979 - Miklos Feher, Hungarian football player (d. 2004)
1979 - David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
1980 - Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian model
1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
1981 - Damien Delaney, Irish footballer
1981 - Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
1982 - Percy Daggs III, American actor
1984 - Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Troy Smith, American football player
1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor
1988 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer
1991 - William Tomlin, British actor
1997 - Billi Bruno, American actress
1999 - Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco

Famous deaths...
985 - Pope Boniface VII
1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
1928 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1932 - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1956 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
1969 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
1970 - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1977 - Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
1987 - Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
1998 - June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
2007 - Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances...
Argentina - Día del Amigo (Friendship Day)
Colombia - Independence Day

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

 

Jul 20 1994

O.J. Simpson offers a $500,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the Real Killers. To this day progress remains elusive, although Simpson's golf score has improved somewhat.

[Flynbyu]

OJ is still in hot water over robbin' those people in Las Vegas.

~Brian

[RR34]

i can play an entire song now

[Peelz]

i can play an entire song now

[RR34]

wait make that 2. everlong and everlong acoustic by foo fighters.

[Colorado700R]

Jul 20 1969

On live television, the world watches as Neil Armstrong steps foot on the Moon. That is, unless it was faked.



WTF, 


Why do people doubt the greatest accomplishment in the 20th century?   That shit pisses me off.  There was a tremendous effort by allot of the our countries best and brightest to achieve that goal, and we dishonor them by factless banter.   

[exentix]

whats the dealio with treverton?! we wanna go there but nobody has directions and i found a forum that does and nobody is willing to give them up like its a big F*in secret 

[Colorado700R]

treverton???  What state?  I can find it 

[exentix]

treverton???  What state?  I can find it 

pa... its a huge strip mine place with big hills 

[Peelz]

treverton???  What state?  I can find it 

pa, spelled trevorton, i believe

[exentix]

treverton???  What state?  I can find it 

pa, spelled trevorton, i believe

yea whatever i cant spell today 

[Peelz]

treverton???  What state?  I can find it 

pa, spelled trevorton, i believe

yea whatever i cant spell today 

I wasn't nitpicking, just wanted colorado to have the right info.