Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume VIII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Aug 6 1890

Axe murderer William Kemmler becomes the first American executed by the Electric Chair, an invention created primarily to malign alternating current. It takes about four minutes for the electrons to kill the prisoner, by which time the odor of burnt flesh is inescapable. A newspaper headline the following morning reads KEMMLER WESTINGHOUSED, much to the glee of DC power proponent Thomas Edison.

Aug 6 1927

Andrew Warhola is born in Pittsburgh.

Aug 6 1945

At 9:15am, Col. Paul Tibbets releases "Little Boy" over Hiroshima and executes a hard, 159-degree turn. 40 seconds later, the Atomic Bomb detonates, yielding a 12.5 kiloton explosion and a huge, black mushroom cloud. About 45,000 people are killed immediately, and another 200,000 are killed in later years by leukemia and other radiation illnesses.

Aug 6 1970

750 unkempt Yippies show up at Disneyland, hell-bent "to liberate Minnie Mouse, have free rein of the park and infiltrate Tom Sawyer's Island," according to Youth International Party leaflets. Instead, they wind up scuffling with Disney security and other patrons, eventually prompting Anaheim police to close the park early and forcibly eject the dirty longhairs.

Birthdays today...
1180 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (d. 1239)
1504 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1575)
1609 - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1675)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1638 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
1644 - Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
1656 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (d. 1733)
1666 - Maria Sofia of the Palatinate, queen of Portugal (d. 1699)
1697 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1745)
1715 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (d. 1747)
1766 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)
1768 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (d. 1813)
1775 - Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician (d. 1847)
1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)
1844 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (d. 1896)
1844 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1861 - Edith Roosevelt, American First Lady of the United States (d. 1948)
1868 - Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)
1874 - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
1877 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
1880 - Hans Moser, Austrian actor (d. 1964)
1881 - Leo Carrillo, American actor (d. 1961)
1881 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
1881 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
1887 - Dudley Benjafield, British racing driver (d. 1957)
1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1889 - John Middleton Murry, English poet (d. 1957)
1889 - George Kenney, American Air Force General (d. 1977)
1891 - William Slim, British general (d. 1970)
1892 - Hoot Gibson, American actor (d. 1962)
1893 - Wright Patman, American politician (d. 1976)
1900 - Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)
1902 - Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger (d. 1935)
1904 - Henry Iba, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1908 - Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
1908 - Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
1910 - Charles Crichton, British film director (d. 1999)
1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)
1911 - Norman Gordon, Former South African cricketer
1914 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1980)
1916 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
1916 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)
1918 - Norman Granz, American record producer (d. 2001)
1920 - Ella Raines, American actress (d. 1988)
1922 - Sir Freddie Laker, English entrepreneur (d. 2006)
1923 - Jess Collins, American artist (d. 2004)
1925 - Barbara Bates, American actress (d. 1969)
1926 - Clem Labine, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1926 - Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
1926 - Frank Finlay, British actor
1928 - Andy Warhol, American artist (d. 1987)
1928 - Herb Moford, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1929 - Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
1932 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1933 - A. G. Kripal Singh, Former Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
1934 - Piers Anthony, English writer
1937 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1938 - Paul Bartel, American actor (d. 2000)
1938 - Peter Bonerz, American actor
1940 - Mukhu Aliyev, Dagestanian politician
1941 - Lyle Berman, American poker player
1941 - Ray Culp, American baseball player
1942 - George Jung, American convicted drug felon
1943 - Jon Postel, American computer scientist (d. 1998)
1945 - Andy Messersmith, American baseball player
1945 - Ron Jones, British TV director (d. 1995)
1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1946 - Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean politician
1946 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1947 - Tony Dell, Former Australian cricketer
1949 - Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1949 - Alan Campbell, Northern Irish clergyman
1949 - Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu
1950 - Dorian Harewood, American actor
1951 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
1951 - Catherine Hicks, American actress
1952 - Vinnie Vincent, American musician (ex-Kiss)
1953 - Iqbal Qasim, Former Pakistani cricketer
1954 - Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
1957 - Jim McGreevey, American politician
1957 - Bob Horner, American baseball player
1962 - Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress
1962 - Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
1963 - Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker
1964 - Moosie Drier, American actor and director
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1965 - David Robinson, American basketball player
1965 - Mark Speight, British television presenter (d. 2008)
1965 - Juliane Köhler, German actress
1965 - Vincent Wells, Former England cricketer
1967 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko)
1967 - Mike Greenberg, American sportscaster
1967 - Julie Snyder, Quebec talk show host and producer
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1969 - Simon Doull, Former New Zealand cricketer
1970 - M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-born American film director
1970 - Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist
1971 - Merrin Dungey, American actress
1971 - Scott Minto, English footballer
1971 - Piyal Wijetunge, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1972 - Geri Halliwell, British singer (Spice Girls)
1973 - Vera Farmiga, American actress
1973 - Max Kellerman, American sportscaster
1973 - Stuart O'Grady, Australian cyclist
1974 - Luis Vizcaino, Dominican baseball player
1975 - Victor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 - Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1975 - Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
1976 - Melissa George, Australian actress
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
1977 - Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
1977 - Jennifer Lyons, American actress
1977 - Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer
1977 - Luciano Zavagno, Argentine footballer
1978 - Marisa Miller, American supermodel
1980 - Danny Collins, Welsh footballer
1980 - Wilber Pan, American-born Taiwanese singer
1982 - Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
1982 - Justin Germano, American Major League Baseball Player
1982 - Karl Davies, British actor
1982 - Ryan Sypek, American actor
1982 - Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
1983 - Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
1990 - Jon Benet Ramsey, Murdered child model (d. 1996)
1993 - Yakir Forman, International Bible Contest contestant

Famous deaths...
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 - Saint Pope Hormisdas
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria (b. 1129)
1221 - Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans (b. 1170)
1272 - King Stephen V of Hungary
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife) (b. 1556)
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (b. 1599)
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1694 - Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1945 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1920)
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1959 - Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
1964 - Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893)
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1973 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and de facto leader (b. 1901)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
1978 - Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1986 - Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
1987 - Ira Eaker, American Air Force leader (b. 1896)
1990 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (b. 1912)
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, Former Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris (b. 1915)
1991 - Harry Reasoner, American television reporter (b. 1923)
1993 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances...
Bolivia - Independence Day.
Jamaica - Independence Day.
United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.
Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Have a great Wednesday.

~Brian

[preddy08]

Mornin Hos!

[Colorado700R]

"At 9:15am, Col. Paul Tibbets releases "Little Boy" over Hiroshima and executes a hard, 159-degree turn. 40 seconds later, the Atomic  bo  mb  detonates, yielding a 12.5 kiloton explosion and a huge, black mushroom cloud. About 45,000 people are killed immediately, and another 200,000 are killed in later years by leukemia and other radiation illnesses. "

And probably saved over a million lives that would have been lost in an invasion.  Why do they always seem to leave that part out 

[BRAD]

whats happenin guys?

[Peelz]

beunos dias chicas!

[Flynbyu]

"At 9:15am, Col. Paul Tibbets releases "Little Boy" over Hiroshima and executes a hard, 159-degree turn. 40 seconds later, the Atomic  bo  mb  detonates, yielding a 12.5 kiloton explosion and a huge, black mushroom cloud. About 45,000 people are killed immediately, and another 200,000 are killed in later years by leukemia and other radiation illnesses. "

And probably saved over a million lives that would have been lost in an invasion.  Why do they always seem to leave that part out 

I don't think we would have been invaded, but it did stop Japan from further attacks. Our Navy was crippled after the Pearl Harbor attack, and had we not had this technology, the war would have continued.

~Brian

[exentix]

beunos dias chicas!

what did you call me?! 

[Peelz]

"At 9:15am, Col. Paul Tibbets releases "Little Boy" over Hiroshima and executes a hard, 159-degree turn. 40 seconds later, the Atomic  bo  mb  detonates, yielding a 12.5 kiloton explosion and a huge, black mushroom cloud. About 45,000 people are killed immediately, and another 200,000 are killed in later years by leukemia and other radiation illnesses. "

And probably saved over a million lives that would have been lost in an invasion.  Why do they always seem to leave that part out 

I don't think we would have been invaded, but it did stop Japan from further attacks. Our Navy was crippled after the Pearl Harbor attack, and had we not had this technology, the war would have continued.

~Brian

I agree. Sometimes "posturing" or a show of force is necessary. Terrible, to be sure, but Scared them enough to back off!

[Colorado700R]

"At 9:15am, Col. Paul Tibbets releases "Little Boy" over Hiroshima and executes a hard, 159-degree turn. 40 seconds later, the Atomic  bo  mb  detonates, yielding a 12.5 kiloton explosion and a huge, black mushroom cloud. About 45,000 people are killed immediately, and another 200,000 are killed in later years by leukemia and other radiation illnesses. "

And probably saved over a million lives that would have been lost in an invasion.  Why do they always seem to leave that part out 

I don't think we would have been invaded, but it did stop Japan from further attacks. Our Navy was crippled after the Pearl Harbor attack, and had we not had this technology, the war would have continued.

~Brian

We would not have been invaded, Japan would have by us and our allies, and the common thoughts are that it would have been nearly a million lives lost (Combined losses from Allies & Japan) to take the japanese homeland. 
Whe the Bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Our Navy was at it's stongest (4 years after Pearl Harbor) and theirs was crippled along with the airpower severely limited do to the lack of airfields throughout the pacific under Japanese control.

Aaron

[Colorado700R]

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Way to go Scott 

[BRAD]

whats up guys? hows life treatin you today?

[Colorado700R]

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B-rad being B-ad  :grin_nod:

[NaturalRaptor]

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B-rad being B-ad  :grin_nod:

That is a great idea! 

[webb429]

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B-rad being B-ad  :grin_nod:

That is a great idea! 

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[webb429]

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