Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Peelz]

Having a case of the Mondays on a Friday. Can you come burn some people Aaron? thanks.

[Krandall]

double that order for me aaron. ---^

[Flynbyu]

I'm ready for it to be Sunday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Flaming idiots inbound, and I don't mean Preddy this time

[Peelz]

Flaming idiots inbound, and I don't mean Preddy this time

Not exactly what I had in mind, but that'll do.

[Krandall]

World Sand Sculpture Competition.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/04/photos-world-sand-sculpture-festival-2009/

[Flynbyu]

World Sand Sculpture Competition.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/04/photos-world-sand-sculpture-festival-2009/

That's amazing.....Very talented people.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Peels....

Meth  Just for fun: Try injecting your meth up your urethra.



~Brian

[dragonz]

Finally got some friggn powder!!
Yay, hate waiting round endlessly for the bastards to get their Milk Powder driers going, just another hour, just another hour, ...First thing in the morning,....................................................................We will be running this afternoon................................
We broke something, come back tomorrow...................................................................

& they can play this game for days, but don't you dare go holding them up, F**K they get shitty then,
How long till you can start, are you ready to run, how long will you be, can we start yet.....................

Anyway, 1.30am & we finally got to stack a few bags today, so something achieved for the day I guess.

Heres a pic of the system

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 25 1599

Oliver Cromwell -- who will later become the Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland -- is born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Apr 25 1792

French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is beheaded by the guillotine, making him its first victim.

Apr 25 1974

Jim Morrison's widow Pamela dies of a heroin overdose.

Apr 25 1994

Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz (King Adrock) is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for battering a TV cameraman during the memorial service for actor River Phoenix.

   
    Birthdays today...

    * 32 – Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
    * 1214 – King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
    * 1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
    * 1284 – King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
    * 1287 – Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
    * 1502 – Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574)
    * 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
    * 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
    * 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
    * 1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
    * 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
    * 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
    * 1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
    * 1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
    * 1775 – Charlotte of Spain, Spanish Infanta and queen of Portugal (d. 1830)
    * 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
    * 1843 – Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
    * 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
    * 1851 – Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, a.k.a. "Clarín", Spanish novelist (d. 1901)
    * 1868 – John Bevins Moisant, American aviator (d. 1910)
    * 1873 – Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
    * 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
    * 1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
    * 1898 – Fred Haney, baseball player (d. 1977)
    * 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
    * 1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
    * 1903 – Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
    * 1905 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1986)
    * 1906 – William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
    * 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
    * 1909 – William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
    * 1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
    * 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
    * 1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
    * 1918 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (d. 2006)
    * 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
    * 1923 – Melissa Hayden, American ballerina (d. 2006)
    * 1923 – Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
    * 1925 – Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
    * 1925 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
    * 1926 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
    * 1927 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
    * 1927 – Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
    * 1929 – Yvette Williams First New Zealander to go to Olympics
    * 1930 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
    * 1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
    * 1932 – William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
    * 1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
    * 1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer
    * 1934 – Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
    * 1935 – April Ashley, English model
    * 1938 – Ton Schulten, Dutch artist
    * 1939 – Ted Kooser, American poet and US Poet Laureate
    * 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
    * 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
    * 1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein, of Jordan
    * 1942 – Jon Kyl, American politician, junior senator of Arizona
    * 1942 – Katsuji Adachi, Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
    * 1945 – Stu Cook, American rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
    * 1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
    * 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
    * 1947 – Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer
    * 1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
    * 1948 – Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan
    * 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
    * 1949 – Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
    * 1949 – James Fenton, British poet
    * 1950 – Steve Ferrone, British drummer
    * 1950 – Peter Jurasik, American actor
    * 1951 – Ian McCartney, British Member of Parliament
    * 1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
    * 1952 – Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet ice hockey player
    * 1953 – Ron Clements, American animation director
    * 1955 – Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor
    * 1955 – Américo Gallego, Argentine footballer
    * 1955 – Christopher Tyng, American composer
    * 1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress
    * 1958 – Fish, Scottish singer and lyricist (ex-Marillion)
    * 1959 – Dominique Blanc, French actress
    * 1960 – Bruce Redman, Australian film producer
    * 1961 – Dinesh D'Souza, American author
    * 1963 – David Moyes, Everton Football Club, Manager
    * 1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor
    * 1964 – Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
    * 1964 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
    * 1965 – Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
    * 1965 – Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
    * 1966 – James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
    * 1969 – Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
    * 1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
    * 1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player
    * 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress
    * 1970 – Jason Lee, American actor
    * 1970 – Jason Wiles, American actor
    * 1971 – Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
    * 1972 – Sara Baras, Spanish ballerina
    * 1973 – Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
    * 1974 – Dean Phoenix American Gay Pornographic Actor
    * 1975 – Emily Bergl, English-American actress
    * 1975 – Jacque Jones, American baseball player
    * 1975 – Chris Lilley, Australian actor, comedian, and writer
    * 1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
    * 1976 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
    * 1976 – Gilberto, Brazilian footballer
    * 1977 – Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
    * 1977 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress
    * 1977 – Matthew West, American Christian singer
    * 1977 – Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
    * 1977 – Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish musician
    * 1977 – Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer
    * 1978 – Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model
    * 1978 – Matt Walker, British Paralympic swimmer
    * 1980 – Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
    * 1980 – Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
    * 1980 – Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
    * 1981 – Dwone Hicks, American football player
    * 1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian Formula One driver
    * 1981 – John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
    * 1981 – Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
    * 1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
    * 1982 – Brian Barton, American baseball player
    * 1983 – DeAngelo Williams, American football player
    * 1983 – J.P. Howell, American baseball player
    * 1983 – Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
    * 1984 – Robert Andino, American baseball player
    * 1984 – Melonie Diaz, American Actress
    * 1984 – Andre' Woodson, American football player
    * 1985 – Giedo van der Garde, Dutch racing driver
    * 1987 – Johann Smith, American soccer player
    * 1988 – Sara Paxton, American actress
    * 1988 – James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
    * 1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress

    Famous deaths...

    * 68 – Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
    * 1185 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
    * 1265 – Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
    * 1295 – King Sancho IV of Castile
    * 1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
    * 1516 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
    * 1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
    * 1566 – Louise Labé, French poet
    * 1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
    * 1605 – Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
    * 1644 – Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
    * 1660 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
    * 1690 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
    * 1740 – Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
    * 1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
    * 1770 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
    * 1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
    * 1840 – Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
    * 1878 – Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
    * 1891 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
    * 1892 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
    * 1911 – Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
    * 1915 – Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
    * 1923 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
    * 1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
    * 1937 – Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
    * 1943 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
    * 1944 – Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
    * 1968 – John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
    * 1972 – George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
    * 1975 – Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
    * 1976 – Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
    * 1978 – Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
    * 1980 – Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
    * 1982 – John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
    * 1988 – Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
    * 1990 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
    * 1992 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
    * 1995 – Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
    * 1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
    * 1996 – Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
    * 1998 – Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
    * 1999 – Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
    * 1999 – Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
    * 1999 – Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
    * 2000 – David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
    * 2000 – Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
    * 2001 – Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
    * 2002 – Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
    * 2002 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
    * 2002 – Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
    * 2003 – Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
    * 2004 – Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)
    * 2005 – Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
    * 2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
    * 2007 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
    * 2007 – Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
    * 2007 – Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
    * 2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)

     Holidays and observances...

    * ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand) – Main day of remembrance for soldiers who died in war.
    * Faroe Islands – National Flag Day.
    * Official Red Hat Society day.
    * Portugal – Freedom Day
    * Roman Empire – Robigalia in honor of Robigus.
    * Saint Mark the Evangelist
    * Saint Anianus
    * Egypt - Sinai's Liberation Day.
    * Liberation from Nazism of Italy (1945)
    * DNA Day – commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick's article on the structure of DNA was published.
    * Malaria Awareness Day

Have a great Saturday.

~Brian

[dragonz]

Today in history...

     Holidays and observances...

    * ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand) – Main day of remembrance for soldiers who died in war.

& I worked all day, no time out to comemorate :-(

    * DNA Day – commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick's article on the structure of DNA was published.

Didn't they experiment on people from Arkansas?
Large group of people with very little (if any) significant DNA variations

[Mad Dog]

Dragonz, have they renamed the Islands yet?  Can one of them be called "Raptor Island" 

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 26 1865

Discovered hiding in a farmer's tobacco shed, John Wilkes Booth is shot in the neck by a complete lunatic. Dying and paralyzed from the neck down, he whispers: "Tell my mother I did it for my country." As his hands are held up to his face, Booth mutters "useless... useless..." They are his last words.

Apr 26 1933

Hermann Goering founds the Geheime Staatspolizei, otherwise known as the Gestapo. The original purpose of this "Secret State Police" is to disrupt and harass opponents of National Socialism, but it will later come to adopt many additional responsibilities.

Apr 26 1969

Paul McCartney denies rumors of his recent death. Eventually, most people come to believe him.

Apr 26 1986

44 seconds into a late-night experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four sustains two large explosions. A plume of dangerous radioactivity looms three kilometers high, making it the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power. The Soviet news agency TASS holds off reporting the incident for almost 48 hours.

Apr 26 1991

In a telephone interview, Michigan judge Francis Bourisseau explains that he would never grant an abortion to a minor, except perhaps for white girls raped by blacks. For some reason, this statement manages to attract wide attention.

Apr 26 2006

Snoop Dogg and his entourage arrested in London's Heathrow Airport for creating a disturbance when British Airways wouldn't allow the group into a first class lounge. After being escorted outside, there was a fight and seven police officers were injured. After a night in jail, the group is freed but Big Snoop Dogg has been banned from the U.K. and British Airways as a result of the melee.

    Birthdays today...

    * 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (d. 180)
    * 570 – Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect. Other sources suggest April 20.
    * 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
    * 1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright (baptism) (d. 1616)
    * 1573 – Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
    * 1648 – King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
    * 1662 – Maria Luisa of Orleans, queen consort of Spain (d. 1689)
    * 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (d. 1796)
    * 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
    * 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (d. 1802)
    * 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
    * 1782 – Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, queen of France (d. 1866)
    * 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator (d. 1851)
    * 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet (d. 1862)
    * 1798 – James Beckwourth, American explorer (d. 1867)
    * 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
    * 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat (d. 1889)
    * 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
    * 1812 – Alfred Krupp, German industrialist (d. 1887)
    * 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (d. 1903)
    * 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
    * 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American Civil War General (d. 1872)
    * 1856 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
    * 1878 – Saint Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican Catholic bishop
    * 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
    * 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
    * 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
    * 1888 – Anita Loos, American writer (d. 1981)
    * 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951)
    * 1893 – Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian WWII hero and war criminal (d. 1946)
    * 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (d. 1987)
    * 1896 – Ernst Udet, WWI pilot and film actor, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1941)
    * 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (d. 1967)
    * 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (d. 1987)
    * 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1984)
    * 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish filmmaker (d. 1972)
    * 1900 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist (d. 1985)
    * 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
    * 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Quebec cardinal and archbishop (d. 1991)
    * 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
    * 1911 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
    * 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
    * 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
    * 1914 – James W. Rouse, American investor (d. 1996)
    * 1916 – Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
    * 1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
    * 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
    * 1917 – I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
    * 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (d. 2004)
    * 1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
    * 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician (d. 1993)
    * 1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
    * 1926 – David Coleman, British TV sports broadcaster
    * 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
    * 1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
    * 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002)
    * 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete
    * 1932 – Francis Lai, French film music composer
    * 1932 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
    * 1933 – Carol Burnett, American comedian
    * 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
    * 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (d. 2005)
    * 1938 – Duane Eddy, American musician
    * 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian composer
    * 1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league footballer
    * 1941 – Claudine Clark, American R&B singer-composer
    * 1941 – John Mitchell, American composer
    * 1942 – Claudine Auger, French actress
    * 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
    * 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer
    * 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer
    * 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect
    * 1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
    * 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Quebec politician
    * 1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor
    * 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer
    * 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
    * 1949 – Dominic Sena, American film director
    * 1954 – Alan Hinkes, British mountaineer
    * 1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
    * 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress
    * 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute
    * 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor
    * 1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American mental health counselor
    * 1959 – John Corabi, American Musician
    * 1959 – Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer and songwriter
    * 1960 – Roger Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran)
    * 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player
    * 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-born actress
    * 1961 – Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
    * 1961 – Chris Mars, American rock drummer (The Replacements)
    * 1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
    * 1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
    * 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
    * 1963 – Li Lianjie/Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor
    * 1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-born American football player
    * 1965 – Kevin James, American comedian
    * 1966 – Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
    * 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Academy Award nominated British actress
    * 1967 – Glenn Jacobs, American professional wrestler
    * 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian model
    * 1970 – Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer (TLC)
    * 1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bassist (Rascal Flatts)
    * 1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
    * 1972 – Kiko Narváez, Spanish footballer
    * 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli Footballer
    * 1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
    * 1974 – Ivana Milicevic, Croatian-American actress
    * 1974 – Adil Ray, English radio presenter (BBC Asian Network)
    * 1975 – Nathan "Joey" Jordison, American musician (Slipknot)
    * 1975 – Nerina Pallot, British singer
    * 1976 – Vaclav Varada, Czech ice hockey player
    * 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
    * 1977 – Chris Johnston, Irish rugby player
    * 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
    * 1978 – Avant, American singer
    * 1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
    * 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
    * 1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Quebec singer and songwriter
    * 1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
    * 1980 – Jordana Brewster, American actress
    * 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
    * 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor
    * 1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress, famous YouTube star LG15: The Resistance
    * 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
    * 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English musician
    * 1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
    * 1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
    * 1982 – Jon Lee, British singer (S Club)
    * 1982 – Cooper Wallace, National Football League tight end
    * 1983 – José María López, Argentine racing driver
    * 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American P.O.W.
    * 1984 – Mija Martina, Bosnian singer
    * 1985 – John Isner, American Tennis player
    * 1985 – Nam Gyu-Ri, Korean singer (See Ya)
    * 1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15


    Famous deaths...

    * 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
    * 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
    * 1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b. 1453)
    * 1478 – Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
    * 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
    * 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
    * 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
    * 1789 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
    * 1852 – Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (b. 25 december 1771)
    * 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
    * 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
    * 1892 – Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
    * 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
    * 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
    * 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
    * 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
    * 1938 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
    * 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
    * 1944 – Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
    * 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
    * 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
    * 1946 – Jim White, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
    * 1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
    * 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
    * 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
    * 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
    * 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
    * 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
    * 1970 – Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
    * 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
    * 1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
    * 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
    * 1976 – Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
    * 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
    * 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
    * 1984 – Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
    * 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
    * 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
    * 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
    * 1987 – John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
    * 1987 – Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
    * 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
    * 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
    * 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
    * 1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
    * 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
    * 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
    * 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
    * 1999 – Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
    * 1999 – Jill Dando, British television presenter (b. 1961)
    * 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b. 1983)
    * 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
    * 2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
    * 2003 – Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
    * 2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
    * 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
    * 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
    * 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
    * 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

    Holidays and observances...

    * Tanzania – Union Day.
    * Florida and Georgia, USA – Confederate Memorial Day.
    * World Intellectual Property Day (since 2001).

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

Apr 26 1986

44 seconds into a late-night experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four sustains two large explosions. A plume of dangerous radioactivity looms three kilometers high, making it the worst catastrophe in the history of nuclear power. The Soviet news agency TASS holds off reporting the incident for almost 48 hours.


I'd love to be able to go there for a vacation to look around. They have opened up some places for tours. You can't pick anything up, you can't lay in the grass... a lot of things you cant do due to the radiation.

[BLU700R]

I would love to ride through some of those abandoned towns that would be awesome or play paintball!