Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Flynbyu]

Am I banned from the shout box? I keep getting some weird message when I hit enter to post in the shout box.

no, you are just to lame. Shout box has it's limits. 

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Muahahahaha!

~Brian

[Krandall]

hahahahahahaha

I'm headed out suckas. Have a great evening!!!

[Flynbyu]

hahahahahahaha

I'm headed out suckas. Have a great evening!!!

If you want to score some quick loot, check the Mafia Wars thread. Cash cow!

~Brian

[Peelz]

ta-ta nuccas! ducking outta this beyotch early.

[Flynbyu]

ta-ta nuccas! ducking outta this beyotch early.

I'm so ronrey.....

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 14

    * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
    * 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
    * 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
    * 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
    * 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
    * 1610 – Assassination of Henri IV of France, bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
    * 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
    * 1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
    * 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
    * 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
    * 1811 – Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
    * 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco were signed in Velasco, Texas.
    * 1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
    * 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
    * 1868 – Japanese Boshin War: end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
    * 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
    * 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrive in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
    * 1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
    * 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
    * 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
    * 1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
    * 1927 – The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
    * 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
    * 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
    * 1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
    * 1935 – Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
    * 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
    * 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
    * 1940 – World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
    * 1943 – Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
    * 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
    * 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
    * 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
    * 1961 – Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.
    * 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.



Launch of the Saturn INT-21, carrying the Skylab space station.

    * 1973 – Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
    * 1978 – First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
    * 1986 – Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
    * 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
    * 1998 – The final episode of Seinfeld airs on NBC.
    * 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
    * 2005 – The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.



    Birthdays today...

    * 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
    * 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
    * 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
    * 1666 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
    * 1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
    * 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
    * 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
    * 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
    * 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
    * 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
    * 1737 – George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
    * 1752 – Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
    * 1752 – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
    * 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
    * 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
    * 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
    * 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
    * 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
    * 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
    * 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
    * 1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
    * 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
    * 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
    * 1881 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)
    * 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
    * 1890 – Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
    * 1893 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
    * 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
    * 1897 – Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
    * 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
    * 1899 – Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
    * 1900 – Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
    * 1900 – Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
    * 1900 – Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
    * 1900 – Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
    * 1901 – Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
    * 1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
    * 1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
    * 1904 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
    * 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
    * 1905 – Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
    * 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
    * 1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
    * 1907 – Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
    * 1916 – Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
    * 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
    * 1916 – Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 200´1)
    * 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
    * 1919 – Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
    * 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
    * 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
    * 1921 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
    * 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
    * 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
    * 1923 – Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
    * 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano
    * 1925 – Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
    * 1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
    * 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
    * 1928 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
    * 1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
    * 1929 – Henry McGee, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
    * 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
    * 1929 – Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
    * 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
    * 1932 – Robert Bechtle, American painter
    * 1933 – Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
    * 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
    * 1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
    * 1935 – Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004)
    * 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
    * 1936 – Charlie Gracie, American singer
    * 1936 – Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
    * 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
    * 1940 – 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
    * 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
    * 1942 – Byron Dorgan, American politician
    * 1942 – Prentis Hancock, British actor
    * 1942 – Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
    * 1942 – Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
    * 1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)
    * 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
    * 1943 – Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
    * 1943 – Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
    * 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
    * 1945 – Francesca Annis, British actress
    * 1945 – George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer
    * 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
    * 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
    * 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
    * 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
    * 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
    * 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
    * 1952 – Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
    * 1952 – Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
    * 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
    * 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
    * 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
    * 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
    * 1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
    * 1955 – Peter Kirsten, former South African cricketer
    * 1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
    * 1958 – Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
    * 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
    * 1959 – Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
    * 1959 – Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
    * 1960 – Steve Williams, American wrestler
    * 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
    * 1961 – Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian singer and songwriter
    * 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
    * 1961 – Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
    * 1962 – Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
    * 1962 – C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
    * 1963 – Pat Borders, American baseball player
    * 1964 – James M. Kelly, American astronaut
    * 1964 – Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament)
    * 1964 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
    * 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
    * 1966 – Marianne Denicourt, French actress
    * 1966 – Mike Inez, American bassist
    * 1966 – Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli)
    * 1966 – Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
    * 1967 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
    * 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
    * 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
    * 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
    * 1971 – Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
    * 1972 – Gabriel Mann, American actor
    * 1972 – Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
    * 1973 – Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
    * 1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
    * 1973 – Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
    * 1973 – Julian White, English rugby union footballer
    * 1973 – Shanice, American singer
    * 1974 – Jennifer Allan, American model
    * 1974 – Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter
    * 1975 – Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
    * 1975 – Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
    * 1976 – Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
    * 1976 – Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
    * 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress
    * 1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
    * 1977 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
    * 1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
    * 1978 – Eddie House, American basketball player
    * 1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
    * 1978 – André Macanga, Angolan footballer
    * 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
    * 1979 – Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
    * 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
    * 1980 – Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
    * 1980 – Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
    * 1980 – Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
    * 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
    * 1981 – Sarbel, Greek-born singer
    * 1982 – BeardyMan, English beatboxer
    * 1982 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
    * 1983 – Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
    * 1983 – Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
    * 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
    * 1983 – Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
    * 1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
    * 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
    * 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
    * 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur
    * 1985 – Sally Martin, American actress
    * 1986 – Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
    * 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
    * 1987 – Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
    * 1990 – Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
    * 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

    Famous deaths...

    *  964 – Pope John XII
    * 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
    * 1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
    * 1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
    * 1610 – Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
    * 1643 – Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
    * 1649 – Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian (b. 1600)
    * 1669 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
    * 1688 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
    * 1754 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
    * 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
    * 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
    * 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
    * 1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
    * 1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
    * 1878 – Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
    * 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
    * 1889 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
    * 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
    * 1906 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
    * 1912 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
    * 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
    * 1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
    * 1919 – Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
    * 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
    * 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
    * 1931 – David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
    * 1931 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
    * 1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
    * 1936 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
    * 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
    * 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
    * 1945 – Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
    * 1954 – Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
    * 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
    * 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
    * 1962 – Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
    * 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
    * 1969 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
    * 1970 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
    * 1973 – Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
    * 1976 – Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
    * 1978 – Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
    * 1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
    * 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
    * 1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
    * 1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
    * 1984 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
    * 1985 – Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
    * 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
    * 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
    * 1991 – Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
    * 1992 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
    * 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
    * 1993 – Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
    * 1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
    * 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
    * 1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
    * 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
    * 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
    * 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
    * 2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
    * 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
    * 2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
    * 2004 – Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
    * 2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
    * 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
    * 2006 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
    * 2007 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
    * 2007 – Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)

     Holidays and observances...

    * Liberia: National Unification Day
    * Malawi: Hastings Banda's Birthday

Have a great Thursday.

~Brian

[dragonz]

"Launch of the Saturn INT-21, carrying the Skylab space station."

What goes up, must come down..............
all over Australia whats more

[Colorado700R]

The english sent their trash down their for years, we're just upstanding tradition.

[dragonz]

The english sent their trash down their for years, we're just upstanding tradition.

Recent Immigrant when going through Immigration at an Australian Airport
"Criminal Convictions, no sorry, I didn't realise they were still manditory"

[Peelz]

The english sent their trash down their for years, we're just upstanding tradition.

Genius post 

[dragonz]

The english sent their trash down their for years, we're just upstanding tradition.

Genius post 

So when are you getting "despatched"

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

May 15    


* 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
   * 1514 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
   * 1525 – The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
   * 1536 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on false charges of treason, adultery, incest and witchcraft. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
   * 1567 – Mary Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
   * 1602 – Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
   * 1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
   * 1701 – The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
   * 1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
   * 1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.
   * 1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
   * 1791 – Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
   * 1792 – War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
   * 1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
   * 1796 – First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
   * 1800 – George III survives two assassination attempts in one day.
   * 1811 – Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
   * 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
   * 1836 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
   * 1849 – Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
   * 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
   * 1858 – Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
   * 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. it is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
   * 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
   * 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
   * 1869 – Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
   * 1891 – Rerum Novarum, the first document of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition, is published by Pope Leo XIII.
   * 1897 – The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
   * 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
   * 1910 – The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
   * 1911 – The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
   * 1911 – The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
   * 1914 – Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
   * 1918 – The Finnish Civil War ends.
   * 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
   * 1919 – Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. The responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fires the first shot of the Turkish War of Independence.
   * 1920 – Council of Lithuania adjourns as the newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania meets for the first time in Kaunas.
   * 1928 – Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
   * 1929 – A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
   * 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
   * 1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
   * 1935 – The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
   * 1936 – Amy Johnson arrives back in England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town
   * 1940 – USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
   * 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
   * 1940 – McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
   * 1941 – Baseball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
   * 1942 – World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
   * 1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
   * 1945 – World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
   * 1948 – Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel.
   * 1951 – The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
   * 1955 – The Austrian Independence Treaty is signed.
   * 1955 – The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
   * 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
   * 1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
   * 1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
   * 1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
   * 1970 – President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
   * 1970 – Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
   * 1972 – The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
   * 1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President.
   * 1974 – Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchidren.
   * 1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
   * 1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
   * 1990 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
   * 1991 – Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
   * 1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
   * 2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

    Birthdays today...

   * 1567 – (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
   * 1608 – René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
   * 1720 – Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
   * 1749 – Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)
   * 1770 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (d. 1843)
   * 1773 – Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
   * 1786 – General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
   * 1817 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
   * 1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
   * 1856 – L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)
   * 1856 – Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917)
   * 1857 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
   * 1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
   * 1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
   * 1890 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
   * 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
   * 1891 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (d. 1971)
   * 1892 – Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
   * 1895 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
   * 1898 – Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
   * 1899 – Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
   * 1901 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
   * 1901 – Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
   * 1902 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
   * 1903 – Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
   * 1905 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
   * 1907 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
   * 1909 – James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
   * 1910 – Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005)
   * 1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
   * 1911 – Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
   * 1912 – Arthur Berger, American composer (d. 2003)
   * 1914 – Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
   * 1914 – Tenzing Norgay, (adopted birthdate) Nepalese Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest (d. 1986)
   * 1915 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
   * 1915 – Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
   * 1915 – Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
   * 1915 – Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
   * 1916 – Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress
   * 1918 – Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (d. 2008)
   * 1918 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor
   * 1922 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
   * 1923 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
   * 1923 – John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
   * 1923 – Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
   * 1924 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
   * 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
   * 1926 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright
   * 1930 – Jasper Johns, American painter
   * 1931 – Ken Venturi, American golfer
   * 1935 – Utah Phillips, American labor organizer and folk singer
   * 1936 – Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
   * 1936 – Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
   * 1936 – Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
   * 1936 – Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
   * 1937 – Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
   * 1937 – Trini López, American musician
   * 1938 – Mireille Darc, French actress
   * 1938 – Diane Nash, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader
   * 1938 – Lenny Welch, American singer
   * 1939 – Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
   * 1940 – Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
   * 1940 – Roger Ailes, American businessman
   * 1940 – Don Nelson, American basketball coach, currently of the Golden State Warriors
   * 1941 – K.T. Oslin, American musician
   * 1942 – Jusuf Kalla, vice- president of Indonesia and Chairman of the Golkar Party.
   * 1942 – Doug Lowe, 35th Premier of Tasmania
   * 1944 – Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
   * 1944 – Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
   * 1945 – Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
   * 1945 – Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
   * 1947 – Graeham Goble, Australian musician, singer/songwriter, and record producer (co-founding member of Little River Band)
   * 1948 – Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
   * 1948 – Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
   * 1948 – Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
   * 1950 – Nicholas Hammond, American actor
   * 1951 – Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
   * 1952 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director
   * 1953 – George Brett, American baseball player
   * 1953 – Mike Oldfield, English composer
   * 1954 – Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
   * 1955 – Lee Horsley, American actor
   * 1956 – Dan Patrick, American sportscaster
   * 1957 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
   * 1957 – Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
   * 1958 – Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
   * 1959 – Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
   * 1959 – Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
   * 1959 – Luis Perez-Sala, Spanish racing driver
   * 1960 – Rob Bowman, American film director
   * 1960 – Rhonda Burchmore, Australian Entertainer
   * 1961 – Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
   * 1961 – Melle Mel, American musician
   * 1962 – Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian Ironwoman
   * 1965 – Raí, Brazilian footballer
   * 1966 – Pete Wiggs, English musician (Saint Etienne)
   * 1967 – Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
   * 1967 – John Smoltz, baseball player
   * 1968 – Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
   * 1968 – Seth Putnam, American musician
   * 1969 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
   * 1969 – Emmitt Smith, American football player
   * 1969 – Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
   * 1970 – Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
   * 1970 – Frank de Boer, Dutch football player
   * 1970 – Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player
   * 1970 – Desmond Howard, American football player
   * 1970 – Rod Smith, American football player
   * 1971 – Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
   * 1972 – David Charvet, French actor
   * 1974 – Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player
   * 1974 – Ahmet Zappa, American musician
   * 1974 – Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
   * 1975 – Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician
   * 1975 – Ray Lewis, American football player
   * 1976 – Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
   * 1976 – Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
   * 1976 – Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
   * 1976 – Ryan Leaf, American football player
   * 1976 – Tyler Walker, baseball player
   * 1978 – Amy Chow, American gymnast
   * 1978 – Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
   * 1978 – Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
   * 1978 – Edu, Brazilian footballer
   * 1978 – David Krumholtz, American actor
   * 1978 – Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)
   * 1980 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player
   * 1980 – Rocky Marquette, American actor
   * 1981 – Patrice Evra, French footballer
   * 1981 – Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
   * 1981 – Zara Phillips, British royal and eventer
   * 1981 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
   * 1982 – Alex Breckenridge, American actress
   * 1982 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
   * 1982 – Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
   * 1982 – Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
   * 1982 – Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
   * 1982 – Chandan Khaira, Professional bhangra dancer
   * 1983 – Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
   * 1984 – Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
   * 1985 – Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
   * 1986 – Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
   * 1986 – Adam Moffat, Scottish football player
   * 1986 – Kyle Loza,Freestyle Motocross Rider
   * 1987 – Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player
   * 1987 – Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
   * 1987 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
   * 1990 – Joe Mattock, English football player
   * 1995 – Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer

To be continued.....

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

     Famous deaths.....


    * 913 – Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
    * 1036 – Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
    * 1157 – Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
    * 1174 – Nur ad-Din, ruler of Syria (b. 1118)
    * 1381 – Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
    * 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
    * 1585 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
    * 1591 – Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
    * 1609 – Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
    * 1634 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
    * 1698 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
    * 1699 – Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
    * 1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (b. 1628)
    * 1714 – Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
    * 1740 – Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
    * 1760 – Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
    * 1773 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
    * 1782 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
    * 1845 – Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State (b. 1800)
    * 1879 – Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
    * 1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
    * 1924 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
    * 1935 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
    * 1937 – Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
    * 1940 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
    * 1945 – Charles Williams, British writer (b. 1886)
    * 1948 – Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
    * 1954 – William March, American writer (b. 1893)
    * 1956 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician (b. 1886)
    * 1964 – Vladko Maček, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
    * 1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
    * 1971 – Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
    * 1978 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
    * 1982 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
    * 1984 – Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
    * 1986 – Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)
    * 1986 – Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
    * 1989 – Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
    * 1991 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
    * 1991 – Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian writer (b. c. 1900)
    * 1991 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935)
    * 1992 – Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
    * 1993 – Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
    * 1994 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1905)
    * 1995 – Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)
    * 1996 – Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
    * 1998 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
    * 2003 – June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
    * 2003 – George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
    * 2005 – Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
    * 2007 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
    * 2007 – Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
    * 2008 – Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
    * 2008 – Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
    * 2008 – Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
    * 2009 – Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor.

    Holidays and observances...

    * Peace Officers Memorial Day
    * International Day of Families
    * International Conscientious Objectors' Day
    * Paraguay – Independence Day. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.
    * Roman Empire – Mercuralia in honor of Mercury held.
    * Slovenia – Day of Slovenian armed forces.
    * Teacher's Day in Mexico (Día del Maestro) and South Korea (스승의 날).
    * Nakba Day in Palestinian communities.

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

partying like a mofo in Paraguay! 

[disco]

    * International Conscientious Objectors' Day

I thought everyday was a holiday for them.