Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Flynbyu]

Here's our first 2010 Camaro......



This is a 2LT RS 2LT= Leather

RS= 304 hp V6

I left my camera at home, so this picture is from my friend's iPhone.

Very sweet car. Love the interior and the exterior halo lights.




~Brian

[dragonz]

Today in history...

May 9 1950

L. Ron Hubbard publishes the first edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This follows on the heels of a feature article in the pulp sci-fi magazine Astounding Science Fiction. A book review in the The New Republic describes the work as "a bold and immodest mixture of complete nonsense and perfectly reasonable common sense, taken from long-acknowledged findings and disguised and distorted by a crazy, newly invented terminology." The subsequent movement goes on to become one of the scariest, most powerful pseudo-religious cults in modern history.


Anyone who follows this assholes teaching is a complete ferkterd!!!
Great money making scheme designed to fleece the gullable, & you gotta be damn gullable to swallow any of what this freek wrote

[Peelz]

Happy scientology day.

"man is not an animal!"

yes dragonz, superdouche right there.

[dragonz]

Happy scientology day.

"man is not an animal!"

yes dragonz, superdouche right there.

More like "some men are worse than animals"
Ever read any of his books, crappiest low grade sci-fi sh!t you could ever waste your time reading

[Peelz]

Happy scientology day.

"man is not an animal!"

yes dragonz, superdouche right there.

More like "some men are worse than animals"
Ever read any of his books, crappiest low grade sci-fi sh!t you could ever waste your time reading

read the footnotes. No further comment needed. Still don't understand why anyone would follow it as a type of religious philosophy. And, I used to be a big scifi follower.  I just remember the cheap commercials from the 90's.   

[dragonz]

Happy scientology day.

"man is not an animal!"

yes dragonz, superdouche right there.

More like "some men are worse than animals"
Ever read any of his books, crappiest low grade sci-fi sh!t you could ever waste your time reading

read the footnotes. No further comment needed. Still don't understand why anyone would follow it as a type of religious philosophy. And, I used to be a big scifi follower.  I just remember the cheap commercials from the 90's.   

Wasn't even good sci-fi ................

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 10 1924

In perhaps the single worst mistake in the history of crime fighting, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone selects J. Edgar Hoover to head the Bureau of Investigation, later known as the FBI. He will remain at the post until his death 48 years later.

May 10 1933

Joseph Göbbels presides over a public book burning in Berlin, which destroys more than 20,000 volumes. The collection includes books by Einstein and Freud. During the bibliocaust, Goebbels declares: "We have directed our dealings against the un-German spirit; consign everything un-German to the fire."

May 10 1941

Running out of fuel and unable to find a suitable spot to land his Messerschmitt, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess bails out over Scotland. When Hess claims to have made the trip in order to negotiate a peace treaty with England, the Nazis declare that he was a psychotic who "lived in a state of hallucination." After the war, Hess is confined to Spandau Prison until his apparent suicide in 1987.

May 10 1969

The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.

May 10 1977

Joan Crawford succumbs to stomach cancer at the age of 73. In the early days of her career, Crawford had performed in several stag films, and later spent a considerable sum buying back the prints to destroy them.

May 10 1993

In the worst manufacturing plant fire in history, 188 employees, most of them young women, burn to death in a doll factory in Bangkok, Thailand. The management had locked the doors, so the workers could produce their Bart Simpson dolls without any distractions.

May 10 1994

Former building contractor, children's party clown, and jailhouse artist John Wayne Gacy is executed by lethal injection. Police found 28 shallow graves in the crawlspace beneath Gacy's house in 1978. After a dinner which included fried chicken, fried shrimp, and french fries, Gacy is strapped to a gurney. When asked if he has any last words, the serial killer obliges with: "Kiss my ass."

May 10 1994

300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.

     Birthdays today...

    * 213/214 – Claudius Gothicus, Roman emperor (d. 270)
    * 1265 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (d. 1317)
    * 1604 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
    * 1641 – Dudley North, English economist (d. 1691)
    * 1727 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (d. 1781)
    * 1746 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (d. 1818)
    * 1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German poet (d. 1826)
    * 1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise) (d. 1836)
    * 1770 – Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal (d. 1823)
    * 1775 – Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (d. 1809)
    * 1775 – Robert Gray, Sea Captain (d. 1806)
    * 1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (d. 1827)
    * 1788 – Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819)
    * 1810 – Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, British lexicographer (d. 1897)
    * 1813 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (d. 1883)
    * 1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
    * 1840 – Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian revolutionist (d. 1868)
    * 1841 – James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
    * 1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (d. 1920)
    * 1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923)
    * 1863 – Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (d. 1915)
    * 1866 – Léon Bakst, Russian artist (d. 1924)
    * 1868 – Ed Barrow, American baseball manager (d. 1953)
    * 1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (d. 1950)
    * 1874 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
    * 1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian writer (d. 1918)
    * 1878 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1929)
    * 1879 – Symon Petlura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926)
    * 1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian (d. 1968)
    * 1886 – Olaf Stapledon, British author and philosopher (d. 1950)
    * 1886 – Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
    * 1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian composer (d. 1971)
    * 1889 – Mae Murray, American actress (d. 1965)
    * 1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
    * 1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)
    * 1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
    * 1899 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
    * 1899 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
    * 1901 – J.D. Bernal, British crystallographer (d. 1971)
    * 1902 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
    * 1902 – David O. Selznick, American film producer (d. 1965)
    * 1903 – Otto Bradfisch, Nazi leader (d. 1994)
    * 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris, Greek rebetiko musician and songwriter (d. 1972)
    * 1909 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
    * 1911 – Bel Kaufman, American author
    * 1915 – Denis Thatcher, British businessman and husband of Margaret Thatcher (d. 2003)
    * 1916 – Milton Babbitt, American composer
    * 1918 – George Welch, American pilot (d. 1954)
    * 1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress (d. 1992)
    * 1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Ex-President and Leader of Azerbaijan Republic (d. 2003)
    * 1923 – Clifford Wilson, Australian archaeologist, educator, academician, author
    * 1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (d. 2002)
    * 1927 – Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
    * 1928 – Arnold Rüütel, Estonian president
    * 1929 – Antonine Maillet, French Canadian novelist and playwright
    * 1930 – Pat Summerall, American football player and broadcaster
    * 1930 – Scott Muni, American radio DJ (d. 2004)
    * 1931 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter
    * 1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
    * 1934 – Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
    * 1934 – Jeanine Basinger, American film scholar
    * 1935 – Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (d. 1980)
    * 1936 – Gary Owens, American actor and announcer
    * 1937 – Tamara Press, Soviet athlete
    * 1937 – Jim Hickman, American baseball player
    * 1938 – Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter and actor
    * 1938 – Marina Vlady, French actress
    * 1940 – Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general
    * 1942 – Jim Calhoun, American men's college basketball coach for the University of Connecticut Huskies
    * 1942 – Youssouf Sambo Bâ, Burkinabé politician
    * 1943 – David Clennon, American actor
    * 1943 – Richard Darman, American economist
    * 1944 – Jim Abrahams, American film director
    * 1944 – Maureen Lipman, English actress
    * 1944 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress
    * 1946 – Donovan Leitch, Scottish musician
    * 1946 – Graham Gouldman, British musician and songwriter (10cc)
    * 1946 – Dave Mason, English musician (Traffic)
    * 1946 – Diderik Wagenaar, Dutch composer and musical theorist
    * 1947 – Caroline Cooney, American author
    * 1947 – Jay Ferguson, American musician and composer
    * 1947 – Thomas Tessier, American author
    * 1952 – Manuel Mora Morales, Spanish director and writer
    * 1952 – Kikki Danielsson, Swedish singer
    * 1953 – John Diamond, English journalist (d. 2001)
    * 1953 – Tito Santana, Mexican-American professional wrestler
    * 1954 – F. Charles Brunicardi, American surgeon
    * 1955 – Chris Berman, American sportscaster
    * 1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer of John Lennon
    * 1956 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian television anchor and journalist (d. 1995)
    * 1957 – Sid Vicious, English bassist (The Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
    * 1958 – Rick Santorum, U.S. Senator
    * 1958 – Yu Suzuki, Japanese creator of Virtua Fighter series
    * 1958 – Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater
    * 1959 – Victoria Rowell, American actress
    * 1959 – Danny Schayes, American basketball player
    * 1960 – Bono, Irish singer (U2)
    * 1961 – Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
    * 1961 – Johanna ter Steege, Dutch actress
    * 1962 – Brad Soderberg, American college basketball head coach
    * 1963 – Lisa Nowak, American astronaut
    * 1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian supermodel
    * 1966 – Jonathan Edwards, English athlete
    * 1967 – Scott Brison, Canadian politician
    * 1967 – Jon Ronson, British journalist and author
    * 1967 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
    * 1967 – Young MC, American rapper
    * 1968 – Erik Palladino, American actor
    * 1968 – Ed Sanders, British actor and television personality
    * 1968 – Al Murray, British comedian
    * 1968 – Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler
    * 1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
    * 1969 – John Scalzi, American writer
    * 1970 – Perry Blake, Irish singer/songwriter
    * 1970 – Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan pianist
    * 1970 – Dallas Roberts, American actor
    * 1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer
    * 1971 – Craig Mack, American rapper
    * 1971 – Adriano Giannini, Italian actor
    * 1971 – Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
    * 1972 – Radosław Majdan, Polish footballer
    * 1973 – Jerome Williams, American basketball player
    * 1973 – Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player
    * 1973 – Aviv Geffen, Israeli singer/songwriter (Blackfield)
    * 1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
    * 1975 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
    * 1975 – Adam Deadmarsh, American ice hockey player
    * 1975 – Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer
    * 1976 – Stuart Braithwaite, Scottish musician (Mogwai)
    * 1976 – Rob Malda, American internet writer/editor (Slashdot)
    * 1976 – Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
    * 1976 – Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi, Greek javelin thrower
    * 1977 – Henri Camara, Senegalese footballer
    * 1977 – Nick Heidfeld, German Formula 1 driver
    * 1977 – Denise Ho, Hong Kong singer
    * 1977 – Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
    * 1977 – Keith Murray, American singer (We Are Scientists)
    * 1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor
    * 1979 – Lee Hyori, South Korean singer
    * 1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
    * 1981 – Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
    * 1982 – Despina Caldis, Greek-Australian actress
    * 1982 – Jeremy Gable, American playwright
    * 1982 – Daniel Harris, Australian rules footballer
    * 1983 – Gustav Fridolin, Swedish politician
    * 1983 – Natalia Zabala, Miss Spain 2007
    * 1984 – Edward Mujica. Venezuelan baseball player
    * 1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1987 – Anej Lovrečič, Slovenian football (soccer) player
    * 1989 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
    * 1992 – Charice Pempengco, Filipino singer
    * 1993 – Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
    * 2000 – Shyann McClure, American actress and model


     Famous deaths...

    * 1034 – Mieszko II of Poland (b. 990)
    * 1290 – Duke Rudolph II of Austria (b. 1271)
    * 1424 – Go-Kameyama, Emperor of Japan
    * 1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
    * 1493 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician
    * 1521 – Sebastian Brant, Alsatian humanist (b. 1457)
    * 1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist (b. 1501)
    * 1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (b. 1596)
    * 1657 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (b. 1592)
    * 1691 – Colonel John Birch, English soldier (b. 1615)
    * 1696 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (b. 1645)
    * 1717 – John Hathorne, American magistrate (b. 1641)
    * 1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (b. 1670)
    * 1733 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
    * 1737 – Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)
    * 1774 – King Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
    * 1787 – William Watson, English physician and scientist (b. 1715)
    * 1792 – John Stevens, American delegate to the Continental Congress
    * 1807 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b. 1725)
    * 1818 – Paul Revere, American patriot (b. 1735)
    * 1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
    * 1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
    * 1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate general (b. 1824)
    * 1868 – Henry Bennett, American politician (b. 1808)
    * 1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist (b. 1826)
    * 1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino revolutionary leader (b. 1863)
    * 1904 – Andrei Ryabushkin, Russian painter (b. 1861)
    * 1937 – William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (b. 1876)
    * 1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
    * 1945 – Konrad Henlein, pro-Nazi Czechoslovakian politician (b. 1898)
    * 1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, librarian, bibliographer, archivist (b. 1883)
    * 1955 – Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer (b. 1881)
    * 1955 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (b. 1865)
    * 1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (b. 1899)
    * 1963 – Gene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb, American football player (b. 1931)
    * 1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (b. 1881)
    * 1967 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver, (b. 1935)
    * 1968 – Scotty Beckett, American child actor (b. 1929)
    * 1974 – Hal Mohr, Cinematographer, Husband of Evelyn Venable (b. 1894)
    * 1976 – Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1888)
    * 1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1905)
    * 1982 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist (b. 1916)
    * 1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
    * 1989 – Woody Shaw, American jazz musician (b. 1944)
    * 1990 – Walker Percy, American author (b. 1916)
    * 1990 – Susan Oliver, American actress (b. 1922)
    * 1992 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
    * 1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942)
    * 1997 – Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1935)
    * 1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer (b. 1930)
    * 2000 – Dédé Fortin, Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
    * 2000 – Jules Deschênes, Quebec superior court judge (b. 1923)
    * 2001 – Deborah Walley, American actress (b. 1943)
    * 2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
    * 2002 – Lynda Lyon Block, convicted murderer (b. 1948)
    * 2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1920)
    * 2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
    * 2005 – David Wayne, American singer (Metal Church) (b. 1958)
    * 2006 – Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
    * 2006 – A. M. Rosenthal, American newspaper editor (b. 1922)
    * 2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer (b. 1969)
    * 2006 – Val Guest, British film director (b. 1911)
    * 2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
    * 2008 – Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)

    Holidays and observances...

    * Confederate Memorial Day in North Carolina and South Carolina.
    * Constitution Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.
    * Mother's Day in much of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

May 10 1994

300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.

Thank you Bill "f@cktard" Clinton .  For even considering using military personnel to "disarm" US citizens

[dragonz]

May 10 1994

300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.

Thank you Bill "f@cktard" Clinton .  For even considering using military personnel to "disarm" US citizens

From a non-Americam perspective, you guys are fixated with guns!

[Krandall]

guten morgen fellow whores

[Peelz]

May 10 1994

300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.

Thank you Bill "f@cktard" Clinton .  For even considering using military personnel to "disarm" US citizens

From a non-Americam perspective, you guys are fixated with guns!

yes we are. 

[Flynbyu]

May 10 1994

300 active-duty Marines stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms receive a 46-question, multiple-choice survey. Given a hypothetical situation, more than a quarter of respondents indicate their willingness to "fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." On the positive side, almost two-thirds recognize that the order would be patently unconstitutional.

Thank you Bill "f@cktard" Clinton .  For even considering using military personnel to "disarm" US citizens

From a non-Americam perspective, you guys are fixated with guns!

Not all of us are.

I would be the exception to the rule.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 11 1820

Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.

May 11 1858

Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

May 11 1924

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

May 11 1943

American troops invade Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.

May 11 1987

In Baltimore, Maryland, The first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz, of Stanford University School of Medicine.

May 11 1996

After taking-off from Miami, Florida, a fire started by improperly handled oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.

May 11 1996

The 1996 Everest disaster: on a single day eight people die on Mount Everest during summit attempts.

May 11 1997

IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

Birthdays today...
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
1720 – Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797)
1722 – Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
1733 – Victoire of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1799)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1763 – János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (d. 1845)
1799 – John Lowell, American philanthropist (d. 1836)
1801 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (d. 1875)
1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins (d. 1874)
1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)
1817 – Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer (d. 1909)
1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1835 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
1838 – Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912)
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, 26th United States Vice President (d. 1918)
1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
1861 – Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international scouting movement (d. 1947)
1871 – Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (d. 1928)
1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
1875 – Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-born Cuban baseball player (d. 1964)
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
1888 – Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
1890 – Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer (d. 1955)
1897 – Kurt Gerron, German director (d. 1944)
1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1899 – Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
1907 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1909 – Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (d. 2001)
1909 – Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952)
1911 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1912 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
1913 – Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1914 – Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998)
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
1922 – Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992)
1922 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1924 – Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1925 – Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian comedian and political commentator
1927 – Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928 – Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1930 – Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 – Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American Black Muslim leader
1934 – Jim Jeffords, former American politician
1935 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)
1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
1936 – Carla Bley, American musician and composer
1939 – Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician
1939 – Dante Tinga, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 – Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 – Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player
1942 – Rachel Billington, British author
1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian alpine skier
1943 – Juliet Harmer, English actress
1946 – Robert Jarvik, American physician and inventor
1946 – Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician
1947 – Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band)
1948 – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician
1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1950 – Dane Iorg, American baseball player
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author
1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 – Frances Fisher, English-born actress
1952 – Mike Lupica, American sports journalist
1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
1952 – Warren Littlefield, American television executive
1953 – David Gest, American television producer
1953 – Céline Lomez, Quebec singer and actress
1954 – John Gregory, English football manager
1954 – Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
1955 – John DeStefano, Jr., American politician
1956 – Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
1956 – Alex Lester, British broadcaster
1957 – Peter North, Canadian porn star
1958 – Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (d. 2008)
1958 – Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player
1958 – Walt Terrell, American baseball player
1959 – Martha Quinn, American television personality
1963 – Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
1963 – Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
1963 – Natasha Richardson, English-born actress (d. 2009)
1963 – Roark Critchlow, actor
1964 – John Parrott, English snooker player
1964 – Katie Wagner, American television reporter
1964 – Floyd Youmans, American baseball player
1965 – Greg Dulli, American musician
1965 – Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1968 – Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1970 – Nicky Katt, American actor
1970 – Glenn Hugill, British television presenter and producer
1972 – Anita Hegh, Australian actress
1972 – Daniel Ornellas, Zimbabwean musician
1973 – James Haven, American actor
1974 – Kevin Brown, English-born Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer
1974 – Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
1974 – Benoît Magimel, French actor
1974 – Darren Ward, Welsh footballer
1975 – Francisco Cordero, Dominican baseball player
1977 – Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1977 – Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1977 – Pablo García, Uruguayan footballer
1977 – Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer
1977 – Matthew Newton, Australian actor
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
1978 – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1979 – Erin Lang, Canadian musician
1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981 – Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player
1981 – Austin O'Brien, American actor
1982 – Jonathan Jackson, American actor
1982 – Andrew Walter, American football player
1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian-born actress and singer
1983 – Frédéric Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete
1984 – Gerald Clayton, Dutch-American jazz pianist
1984 – Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player
1985 – sifow, Japanese pop star and business woman
1985 – Matt Giraud, American singer
1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
1986 – Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Manuel Schenkhuizen, Dutch gamer
1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer
1987 – Justin King, American football player
1987 – Louis Murphy, American football player
1987 – Monica Roşu, Romanian gymnast
1989 – Giovani Dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 – Ace Hood, American rapper

Famous deaths...
912 – Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor (b. 866)
1304 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (b. 1271)
1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552)
1672 – Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)
1708 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (b. 1646)
1723 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (b. 1656)
1777 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (b. 1719)
1778 – William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1812 – Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 – Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
1871 – John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
1887 – Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1891 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
1916 – Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1920 – William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (b. 1864)
1934 – Blaise Diagne, Sengalese politician (b. 1872)
1934 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
1939 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1960 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist (b. 1874)
1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 – Johnny Hodges, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
1979 – Lester Flatt, American bluegrass musician (b. 1914)
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1986 – Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (b. 1910)
1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player (b. 1894)
1988 – Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor (b. 1928)
1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (b. 1922)
1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
1998 – Oreste Kirkop, Maltese tenor and actor
2000 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
2002 – Renaude Lapointe, French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912)
2003 – Noel Redding, English bassist (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1945)
2004 – Mick Doyle, Irish rugby union footballer and coach
2004 – John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
2005 – Michalis Genitsaris, Greek rebetiko singer and composer (b. 1917)
2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
2006 – Frankie Thomas, American actor (b. 1921)
2006 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer (b. 1932)
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
2007 – Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918)
2008 – Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b. 1953)
2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances...
Holiday of the City of Miskolc (since 1992).
National Day of Celebration in the Philippines.

Have a great Monday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

May 11 1858

Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state.

Wow, that much history, butstill they can't decide on a governor? 

[Krandall]

May 11 1997

IBM Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

A sad day for chess nerds.