Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Peelz]

happy zimbabwean independence day B.

[Flynbyu]

It's a part today in Zimbabwe.

Holla!

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 19 1910

Halley's comet reappears, last seen in 1835. The Earth passes safely through the comet's tail with no perceptible effect, not counting the death of Mark Twain.

Apr 19 1943

During an early-morning operation to exterminate the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi troops experience heavy casualties and are forced to retreat before nightfall. Jewish resistance fighters, armed with rifles and Molotov cocktails, manage to kill or wound at least 200. The battle will rage on for another three weeks.

Apr 19 1989

47 crewmen aboard the battleship USS Iowa are killed when a gun turret explodes during a training exercise in the Atlantic. Navy investigators later rule out all accidental causes, and conclude that someone manning the gun, "most probably" one Clayton Hartwig, had sabotaged its operation as a suicide attempt. The Navy ignored the fact that the propellant bags were 44 years old and proven to be chemically unstable.

Apr 19 1993

More than 80 Branch Davidians burn to death in Waco, Texas as the FBI stages a disastrous final assault on their compound. This brings a sudden end to the 51-day siege.

Apr 19 1995

Timothy McVeigh kills 168 Oklahomans when his truck bomb detonates in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building.

Apr 19 1995

Singer Bobby Brown is arrested at Disneyworld for beating a man and tearing off his ear. Neil Kelly, the man with the reattached ear, later sues Brown for $6.6 million but eventually settles out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Birthdays today...
    * 1603 – Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
    * 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
    * 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
    * 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
    * 1721 – Roger Sherman, signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
    * 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
    * 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
    * 1793 – Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
    * 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
    * 1832 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
    * 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
    * 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (d. 1934)
    * 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (d. 1954)
    * 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
    * 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
    * 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
    * 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
    * 1897 – Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
    * 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
    * 1900 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
    * 1900 – Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
    * 1903 – Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
    * 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
    * 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
    * 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor
    * 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
    * 1930 – Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
    * 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor
    * 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
    * 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
    * 1933 – Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
    * 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
    * 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
    * 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
    * 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
    * 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress
    * 1937 – Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
    * 1940 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
    * 1940 – Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
    * 1941 – Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
    * 1941 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
    * 1941 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
    * 1942 – Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975).
    * 1942 – Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
    * 1943 – Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
    * 1944 – James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
    * 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (P Funk)
    * 1944 – Keith Erickson, American basketball player
    * 1946 – Tim Curry, British actor
    * 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
    * 1947 – Murray Perahia, American pianist
    * 1947 – Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles)
    * 1948 – Rick Miller, American baseball player
    * 1949 – Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
    * 1949 – Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (d. 1993)
    * 1951 – Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
    * 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
    * 1952 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer
    * 1953 – Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
    * 1953 – Ruby Wax, British television personality
    * 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer
    * 1954 – Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
    * 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
    * 1960 – Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
    * 1960 – John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
    * 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player
    * 1961 – Spike Owen, American baseball player
    * 1962 – Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
    * 1963 – Valerie Plame Wilson, American former C.I.A. agent
    * 1965 – Natalie Dessay, French soprano
    * 1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer
    * 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano
    * 1966 – Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer
    * 1966 – David La Haye, Canadian actor
    * 1966 – Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1967 – Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
    * 1967 – Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
    * 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
    * 1968 – Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer
    * 1968 – Mswati III, King of Swaziland
    * 1968 – Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
    * 1968 – Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
    * 1969 – Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
    * 1969 – Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
    * 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete
    * 1970 – Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer
    * 1972 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
    * 1972 – Jeff Wilkins, American Football Player
    * 1974 – Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
    * 1975 – Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
    * 1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
    * 1976 – Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
    * 1976 – Scott Padgett, American basketball player
    * 1977 – Joe Beimel, American baseball player
    * 1977 – Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
    * 1977 – Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
    * 1978 – James Franco, American actor
    * 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
    * 1978 – Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
    * 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
    * 1980 – Alexis Thorpe, American actress
    * 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
    * 1981 – Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
    * 1981 – Kasie Head, American actress and model
    * 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player
    * 1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
    * 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
    * 1983 – Zack Duke, American baseball player
    * 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
    * 1983 – Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
    * 1984 – Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
    * 1985 – Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
    * 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
    * 1987 – Joe Hart, English Under-21 footballer
    * 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Professional Tennis Player
    * 1987 – Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
    * 1987 – Courtland Mead, American actor

    * 1989 – Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
    * 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress


     Famous deaths...

    * 1012 – Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
    * 1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
    * 1390 – King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
    * 1560 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
    * 1567 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
    * 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
    * 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)
    * 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
    * 1618 – Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist
    * 1627 – John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
    * 1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
    * 1684 – Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
    * 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
    * 1689 – Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
    * 1733 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
    * 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
    * 1751 – Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
    * 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
    * 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
    * 1813 – Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
    * 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
    * 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
    * 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
    * 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
    * 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
    * 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
    * 1892 – Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
    * 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
    * 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
    * 1906 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
    * 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
    * 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
    * 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
    * 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
    * 1937 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
    * 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
    * 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
    * 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
    * 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
    * 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
    * 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
    * 1991 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
    * 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian (b. 1917)
    * 1992 – Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
    * 1993 – David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
    * 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
    * 1997 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
    * 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
    * 1999 – David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
    * 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
    * 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
    * 2002 – Layne Staley, Alice in Chains (b. 1967)
    * 2004 – Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
    * 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
    * 2005 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
    * 2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
    * 2005 – George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
    * 2005 – Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
    * 2006 – Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
    * 2006 – Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
    * 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
    * 2007 – Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
    * 2008 – John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
    * 2008 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
    * 2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)

     Holidays and observances...

    * Bicycle Day.
    * Declaration of Independence Day (Venezuela).
    * Dutch-American Friendship Day
    * Easter Sunday 1908, 1981, 1987, 1992.
    * Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
          o Saint Emma
          o George of Antioch
          o Expeditus
          o Alphege
    * Feast of the Divine Mercy in the Roman Catholic Church 2009
    * King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland).
    * Landing of the 33 (Uruguay).
    * Patriots' Day (Traditional) (Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin, USA).
    * Primrose Day (United Kingdom) – primroses are placed on the statue of Benjamin Disraeli in Parliament Square, London on the anniversary of his death (1881).
    * The Roman holiday of Cerealia ends.

         Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[BLU700R]

LOL bicycle day?

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 20

It's 4/20. If your kid cuts school today or a co-worker leaves early , he or she just might have a chemical dependency. That's all I'm gonna say.

Apr 20 1233

Pope Gregory IX places the Inquisition, in existence since 1227, under the aegis of the Dominican Order. Torture is apparently sometimes necessary to save souls, and the office continues to exist today as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Apr 20 1889

In Braunau, Austria, Klara Hitler gives birth to a bouncing baby boy named Adolf.

Apr 20 1914

Attempting to put down a coal miner strike, the Colorado National Guard machine-guns its way into a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, and sets it on fire. Twenty people are killed, among them twelve children trapped in an underground cellar. The massacre sparks ten days of open revolt, ended by the imposition of federal troops.

Apr 20 1979

President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a Killer Swamp Rabbit, while on vacation in Plains GA. The rabbit swam menacingly towards him, and he had to repel the ferocious creature with a paddle. There were no injuries. Press Secretary Jody Powell leaked the story to the press, and the White House had a lot of explaining to do.

Apr 20 1992

Alone in his apartment watching TV, British comedic legend Benny Hill suffers a fatal heart attack. His body goes undiscovered for four days.

Apr 20 1993

Latoya Jackson's husband and manager, Jack Gordon, is arrested after allegedly beating her with a dining room chair in their New York apartment.

Apr 20 1999

After their homemade timebombs fail to detonate in the school cafeteria, the heavily-armed duo of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decide to prowl through Columbine High School, indiscriminately gunning down classmates. A total of 15 are killed in their shooting spree. Contrary to news reports, their selection of victims is apparently random; they aren't hunting for jocks or blacks. Nor do they execute that Christian girl -- Valeen Schnurr in fact manages to crawl away and live to tell her story. They are not goths, they aren't gay, nor were they ever members of that dorky clique calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia." They don't even listen to Marilyn Manson. Harris and Klebold are just a couple of extremely pissed-off kids with an arsenal.

    Birthdays today...

    * 702 – Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765)
    * 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
    * 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
    * 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
    * 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
    * 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
    * 1668 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
    * 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
    * 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781)
    * 1727 – Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
    * 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
    * 1808 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (d. 1873)
    * 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
    * 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
    * 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
    * 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
    * 1870 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar (d. 1961)
    * 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
    * 1882 – Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
    * 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
    * 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and activist (d. 1996)
    * 1889 – Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor (d. 1945)
    * 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec (d. 1959)
    * 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
    * 1893 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (d. 2008)
    * 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
    * 1895 – Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
    * 1896 – Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
    * 1896 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
    * 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
    * 1904 – George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
    * 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)
    * 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
    * 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
    * 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
    * 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
    * 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
    * 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American jurist
    * 1920 – Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
    * 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
    * 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
    * 1923 – Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
    * 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
    * 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
    * 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
    * 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
    * 1928 – Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
    * 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
    * 1937 – George Takei, American actor
    * 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author
    * 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
    * 1939 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer
    * 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
    * 1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
    * 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
    * 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
    * 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
    * 1946 – Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
    * 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
    * 1946 – Mel Winkler, American voice actor
    * 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
    * 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
    * 1947 – David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
    * 1948 – Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
    * 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
    * 1948 – Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
    * 1949 – Massimo D'Alema, Prime Minister of Italy
    * 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, American actress
    * 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
    * 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
    * 1950 – Steve Erickson, American novelist
    * 1950 – Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
    * 1950 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
    * 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
    * 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
    * 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
    * 1954 – Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
    * 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-born Canadian actor
    * 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
    * 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
    * 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player
    * 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
    * 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host, writer, and musician
    * 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
    * 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
    * 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor
    * 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
    * 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
    * 1965 – Ralph Cirella, American radio personality
    * 1965 – Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
    * 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
    * 1965 – April March, American Musician
    * 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
    * 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
    * 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)
    * 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress
    * 1968 – J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
    * 1969 – Chris Jarvis, English TV personality
    * 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
    * 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
    * 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
    * 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
    * 1971 – Tina Cousins, English singer
    * 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress
    * 1972 – Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
    * 1972 – Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
    * 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
    * 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
    * 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
    * 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
    * 1977 – Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, professional wrestler
    * 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
    * 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer
    * 1981 – Matus Valent, male fitness model
    * 1983 – Terrence J, American television host
    * 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
    * 1985 – Greg Lutzka, American Skateboarder
    * 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
    * 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
    * 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor


    Famous deaths...

    * 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
    * 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
    * 1521 – Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
    * 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
    * 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
    * 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
    * 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
    * 1765 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
    * 1769 – Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa
    * 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
    * 1873 – William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
    * 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
    * 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
    * 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
    * 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
    * 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
    * 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
    * 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
    * 1947 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
    * 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
    * 1964 – Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899)
    * 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
    * 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
    * 1984 – Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
    * 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
    * 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
    * 1991 – Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
    * 1991 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
    * 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
    * 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
    * 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)
    * 1999 – Dylan Bennet Klebold, Columbine Highschool Perpetrator (b. 1981)
    * 1999 – Eric David Harris, Columbine Highschool Perpetrator (b. 1981)
    * 1999 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
    * 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
    * 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
    * 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
    * 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
    * 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
    * 2003 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
    * 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
    * 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
    * 2006 – Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
    * 2007 – Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
    * 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
    * 2008 – VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
    * 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)

    Holidays and observances...

    * Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith).
    * Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
    * Saint Theotimus (d. 407)
    * Blessed Oda (d. 1158)
    * 420 (cannabis culture)
    * Patriots' Day

     Have a great Monday.

     ~Brian

[Peelz]

A: Happy 4-20. I see bloodshot eyes and slurred speech in alot of your futures.

B:

Apr 20 1889

In Braunau, Austria, Klara Hitler gives birth to a bouncing baby boy named Adolf.


The world is grateful on this marked occasion. 

[Krandall]

Apr 20 1999

After their homemade timebombs fail to detonate in the school cafeteria, the heavily-armed duo of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decide to prowl through Columbine High School, indiscriminately gunning down classmates. A total of 15 are killed in their shooting spree. Contrary to news reports, their selection of victims is apparently random; they aren't hunting for jocks or blacks. Nor do they execute that Christian girl -- Valeen Schnurr in fact manages to crawl away and live to tell her story. They are not goths, they aren't gay, nor were they ever members of that dorky clique calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia." They don't even listen to Marilyn Manson. Harris and Klebold are just a couple of extremely pissed-off kids with an arsenal.



I watched Bowling for Columbine.... By Michael Moore.. It's pretty interesting, they show a lot of the school cams of the guys shooting and starting fires ect.... they even do an interview w/ Marilyn Manson... The guy although dresses a "bit" different. Is VERY inteligent.

[Krandall]

http://digg.com/politics/High_School_Cheerleader_Coach_Fired_for_Porn_Photoshots_NSFW?FC=PRCS1

[Flynbyu]

Apr 20 1999

After their homemade timebombs fail to detonate in the school cafeteria, the heavily-armed duo of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold decide to prowl through Columbine High School, indiscriminately gunning down classmates. A total of 15 are killed in their shooting spree. Contrary to news reports, their selection of victims is apparently random; they aren't hunting for jocks or blacks. Nor do they execute that Christian girl -- Valeen Schnurr in fact manages to crawl away and live to tell her story. They are not goths, they aren't gay, nor were they ever members of that dorky clique calling themselves the "Trenchcoat Mafia." They don't even listen to Marilyn Manson. Harris and Klebold are just a couple of extremely pissed-off kids with an arsenal.



I watched Bowling for Columbine.... By Michael Moore.. It's pretty interesting, they show a lot of the school cams of the guys shooting and starting fires ect.... they even do an interview w/ Marilyn Manson... The guy although dresses a "bit" different. Is VERY inteligent.

Pretty good film. Charleton Heston was an asshole.

+1 on the cheerleading coach.


~Brian

[Krandall]

She's a smokin hottie!

maybe a good "NGOTD" Naked girl o' the day

[Flynbyu]

Sure.

I'll get her up when I get home.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

Sure.

I'll get it up when I get home.

~Brian

Viva Viagra

[Peelz]

Sure.

I'll get it up when I get home.

~Brian

Viva Viagra

That....and Pictures of Krandall naked.

[Krandall]

How'd brian get those?

[Peelz]

How'd brian get those?

Aaron sent them.