Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Krandall]

he lives in an alternat realty?

many homes for sale?

[Peelz]

I say peels takes over the "today in history" 

okay You sure that is a good idear? 

You have to keep it to the facts.  None of that alternate realty you live in.

where is the fun in that?

and:

+1 Krandall. Ninja nods his head in approval.

[disco]

alternate realty for alternate lifestyles  

[socalrappy700]

I say peels takes over the "today in history" 

okay You sure that is a good idear? 

You have to keep it to the facts.  None of that alternate realty you live in.

where is the fun in that?

and:

+1 Krandall. Ninja nods his head in approval.

Sorry, typing too fast and not checking what I'm typing. 

[Peelz]

Outta here slackas. Have a great and safe holiday weekend.

[Krandall]

Jk, have a great weekend peelz.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history....

Late edition (I worked my ass off outside today!!!!)

May 21st

    * 878 – Syracuse, Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
    * 879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.
    * 996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
    * 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova.
    * 1554 – A royal Charter is granted to Derby School in Derby, England.
    * 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
    * 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
    * 1758 – Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War.
    * 1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
    * 1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
    * 1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
    * 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.
    * 1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
    * 1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
    * 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
    * 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
    * 1881 – The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
    * 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
    * 1894 – 22-year-old French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by guillotine.
    * 1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
    * 1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
    * 1924 – University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
    * 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
    * 1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
    * 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
    * 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
    * 1937 – A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
    * 1941 – World War II: 950 miles off the coast of Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first American ship sunk by a German U-boat.
    * 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.
    * 1958 – United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, subscriber trunk dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.
    * 1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
    * 1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
    * 1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
    * 1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
    * 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
    * 1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
    * 1991 – Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
    * 1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
    * 1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the Republic of Yemen.
    * 1996 – The MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000.
    * 1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
    * 1998 – In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
    * 1998 – Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
    * 2001 – French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
    * 2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
    * 2004 – Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
    * 2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
    * 2006 – The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
    * 2007 – The clipper  Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, England.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1471 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter (d. 1528)
    * 1527 – King Philip II of Spain (d. 1598)
    * 1653 – Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria, queen consort of Poland and Lithuania (d. 1697)
    * 1664 – Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal (d. 1754)
    * 1688 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744)
    * 1755 – Alfred Moore, American judge (d. 1810)
    * 1763 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman (d. 1820)
    * 1775 – Lucien Bonaparte, French politician, soldier and academic (d. 1840)
    * 1780 – Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer (d. 1845)
    * 1792 – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, French scientist (d. 1843)
    * 1827 – William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (d. 1899)
    * 1832 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
    * 1835 – František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
    * 1843 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician (d. 1914)
    * 1844 – Henri Rousseau, French artist (d. 1910)
    * 1850 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (d. 1914)
    * 1851 – Léon Bourgeois, French statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1925)
    * 1853 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (d. 1905)
    * 1860 – Willem Einthoven, Dutch inventor, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
    * 1863 – Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1954)
    * 1864 – Princess Stephanie of Belgium (d. 1945)
    * 1873 – Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941)
    * 1878 – Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer (d. 1930)
    * 1880 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (d. 1967)
    * 1884 – Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (d. 1920)
    * 1885 – Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, wife of Prince William of Wied (d. 1936)
    * 1898 – Armand Hammer, American physician (d. 1990)
    * 1898 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and President of the European Court of Justice (d. 1967)
    * 1901 – Horace Heidt, American band leader (d. 1986)
    * 1901 – Sam Jaffe, American film producer (d. 2000)
    * 1901 – Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (d. 1992)
    * 1902 – Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)
    * 1902 – Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hungarian-born architect (d. 1981)
    * 1903 – Manly Wade Wellman, American author (d. 1986)
    * 1904 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (d. 1981)
    * 1904 – Fats Waller, American pianist (d. 1943)
    * 1909 – François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
    * 1912 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
    * 1912 – Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
    * 1913 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (d. 1976)
    * 1916 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
    * 1916 – Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
    * 1917 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (d. 1993)
    * 1918 – Dennis Day, American singer and comedian (d. 1988)
    * 1920 – Anthony Steel, British actor (d. 2001)
    * 1921 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989)
    * 1923 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (d. 2003)
    * 1923 – Ara Parseghian, American football coach
    * 1924 – Peggy Cass, American actress (d. 1999)
    * 1926 – Robert Creeley, American poet (d. 2005)
    * 1928 – Tom Donahue, American disc jockey (freeform radio) (d. 1975)
    * 1930 – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician
    * 1933 – Maurice André, French trumpeter
    * 1934 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate
    * 1936 – Günter Blobel, German biologist, Nobel laureate
    * 1939 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss musician
    * 1941 – Martin Carthy, English musician
    * 1941 – Ronald Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
    * 1941 – Bobby Cox, Manager of the Atlanta Braves (MLB)
    * 1942 – Danny Ongais, American race car driver
    * 1943 – Hilton Valentine, British guitarist (The Animals)
    * 1944 – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
    * 1944 – Marcie Blane, American singer
    * 1945 – Ernst Messerschmid, German astronaut
    * 1947 – Bill Champlin, American singer
    * 1947 – Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
    * 1948 – Leo Sayer, English musician
    * 1951 – Al Franken, American comedian
    * 1952 – Mr. T, American actor
    * 1954 – Marc Ribot, American musician
    * 1955 – Paul Barber, British field hockey player
    * 1955 – Stan Lynch, American drummer
    * 1956 – Sean Kelly, Irish cyclist
    * 1957 – Bruce Buffer, American Mixed Martial Arts Announcer
    * 1957 – Nadine Dorries, British politician
    * 1957 – Judge Reinhold, American actor
    * 1957 – Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
    * 1958 – Jefery Levy, American television director
    * 1959 – Nick Cassavetes, American actor and director
    * 1960 – Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (d. 1994)
    * 1960 – Kent Hrbek, American baseball player
    * 1960 – Mohanlal, Indian actor
    * 1963 – Richard Appel, American writer
    * 1963 – Kevin Shields, Musician (My Bloody Valentine)
    * 1964 – Danny Bailey, English footballer
    * 1964 – Danny Lee Clark, American football player and American Gladiator "Nitro"
    * 1964 – Nancy Daus, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
    * 1964 – Carolyn Lawrence, American actress
    * 1966 – Lisa Edelstein, American actress
    * 1967 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
    * 1968 – Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (d. 1985)
    * 1968 – Matthias Ungemach, German rower
    * 1969 – Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
    * 1969 – Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
    * 1969 – Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian/Georgian journalist
    * 1970 – Dorsey Levens, former American football player
    * 1970 – Carl Veart, Australian former footballer
    * 1972 – Adriano Cintra, Brazilian musician (CSS)
    * 1972 – The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (d. 1997)
    * 1972 – Alesha Oreskovich, American model
    * 1973 – Noel Fielding, British comedian
    * 1974 – Fairuza Balk, American actress
    * 1974 – Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
    * 1975 – Lee Gaze, Welsh guitarist
    * 1976 – Deron Miller, American rock musician
    * 1976 – Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper
    * 1977 – Quinton Fortune, South African footballer
    * 1977 – Ricky Williams, American football player
    * 1978 – Briana Banks, German/American pornographic actress
    * 1978 – Adam Gontier, Canadian singer (Three Days Grace)
    * 1978 – Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player
    * 1979 – Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
    * 1979 – Jesse Capelli, Canadian pornographic actress
    * 1979 – Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician
    * 1979 – James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
    * 1979 – Scott Smith, American mixed martial arts fighter
    * 1980 – Chris Raab, American television personality
    * 1981 – Belladonna, American pornographic actress
    * 1981 – Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
    * 1981 – Maximilian Mutzke, German singer
    * 1984 – Lorena Ayala, Dutch/Spanish model
    * 1984 – Brandon Fields, American football player
    * 1985 – Mutya Buena, English singer (Sugababes)
    * 1985 – Marco Carta, Italian singer
    * 1985 – Kano, British rapper
    * 1985 – Andrew Miller, American baseball player
    * 1986 – Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer
    * 1986 – Myra, American singer
    * 1987 – Ashlie Brillault, American actress
    * 1988 – Jonathan Howson, English footballer
    * 1991 – Sarah Ramos, American actress
    * 1992 – Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
    * 1994 – Tom Daley, English diver

     Famous deaths...

    *  987 – King Louis V of France (b. 967)
    * 1254 – Conrad IV of Germany (b. 1228)
    * 1481 – King Christian I of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1426)
    * 1512 – Pandolfo Petrucci, ruler of Siena (b. 1452)
    * 1524 – Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier (b. 1443)
    * 1542 – Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer
    * 1607 – John Rainolds, English scholar (b. 1549)
    * 1639 – Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian (b. 1568)
    * 1647 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet (b. 1581)
    * 1650 – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish royalist (b. 1612)
    * 1664 – Elizabeth Poole, Puritan businesswoman (b. 1588)
    * 1670 – Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer (b. 1586)
    * 1686 – (N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602)
    * 1690 – John Eliot, English Puritan missionary (b. 1604)
    * 1719 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic (b. 1646)
    * 1724 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)
    * 1742 – Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (b. 1664)
    * 1771 – Christopher Smart, English poet (b. 1722)
    * 1786 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (b. 1742)
    * 1790 – Thomas Warton, English poet (b. 1728)
    * 1844 – Giuseppe Baini, Italian composer (b. 1775)
    * 1862 – John Drew, Irish-born American actor (b. 1827)
    * 1879 – Arturo Prat, Chilean naval officer (b. 1848)
    * 1894 – Emile Henry, French anarchist (b. 1872)
    * 1894 – August Kundt, German physicist (b. 1839)
    * 1895 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
    * 1911 – Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (b. 1857)
    * 1915 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (b. 1875)
    * 1919 – Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1853)
    * 1920 – Venustiano Carranza, 54th President of Mexico (b. 1859)
    * 1929 – Archibald Primrose, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
    * 1935 – Jane Addams, American social worker, Nobel laureate (b. 1860)
    * 1949 – Klaus Mann, German writer (b. 1906)
    * 1952 – John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
    * 1957 – Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
    * 1964 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
    * 1965 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
    * 1970 – E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
    * 1973 – Vaughn Monroe, American musician (b. 1911)
    * 1981 – Patsy O'Hara, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
    * 1981 – Raymond Mccreesh, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
    * 1983 – Kenneth Clark, English art historian (b. 1903)
    * 1984 – Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
    * 1988 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
    * 1991 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944)
    * 1995 – Les Aspin, American politician (b. 1938)
    * 1996 – Paul Delph, American musician and producer (b. 1957)
    * 1996 – Lash LaRue, American actor (b. 1917)
    * 1999 – Karnail "Bugz" Pitts, American rapper (D12) (b. 1979)
    * 2000 – Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
    * 2000 – Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
    * 2000 – Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (b. 1956)
    * 2002 – Niki de Saint Phalle, French artist (b. 1930)
    * 2003 – Frank D. White, American politician (b. 1933)
    * 2003 – Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentine-Italian racing driver and car manufacturer (b. 1928)
    * 2005 – Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (b. 1919)
    * 2006 – Spencer Clark, American racecar driver (b. 1987)
    * 2006 – Katherine Dunham, American dancer (b. 1909)
    * 2006 – Cherd Songsri, Thai film director (b. 1931)
    * 2006 – Billy Walker, American singer (b. 1929)

    Holidays and observances...

    * World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
    * Saint Helena: Saint Helena Day (to celebrate its discovery in 1502)
    * Cameroon: Sheep Festival
    * Chile: Navy Day (Día de las Glorias Navales)
    * Colombia: Afro-Colombian Day (marks the abolition of slavery)
    * Montenegro: Independence Day (2006)
    * Circassian Day of Mourning: Memorial Day to mourn the losses in the Russian-Circassian War and the Circassian Genocide.

Hope you had a great Thursday...

~Brian

[dragonz]

Colorado's favourite day
"Cameroon: Sheep Festival"
He doesn't live there, but it doesn't that doesn't let that stop him celebrating

[Flynbyu]

Today in history....

May 22nd

    * 334 BC – The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.
    * 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
    * 1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
    * 1455 – Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
    * 1762 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
    * 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
    * 1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
    * 1809 – On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.
    * 1819 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.
    * 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage, carrying Charles Darwin.
    * 1840 – The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
    * 1842 – Farmers Lester Howe and Henry Wetsel discover Howe Caverns when they stumble upon a large hole in the ground.
    * 1843 – Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.
    * 1844 – Persian Prophet The Báb announces his revelation, founding Bábism. He announces to the world the coming of "He whom GERD shall make manifest". He is considered the forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
    * 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
    * 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas").
    * 1871 – The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
    * 1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
    * 1897 – The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
    * 1903 – Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.
    * 1906 – The 1906 Summer Olympics, not now recognized as part of the official Olympic Games, open in Athens.
    * 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
    * 1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.
    * 1915 – Five trains collide in the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246; the accident is found to be the result of non-standard operating practices during a shift change at a busy junction.
    * 1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
    * 1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
    * 1942 – Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
    * 1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.
    * 1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.
    * 1947 – Cold War: in an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
    * 1958 – Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1958, this riot was a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils.
    * 1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
    * 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
    * 1963 – Assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Gregoris Lambrakis, who will die five days afterwards.
    * 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an "end to poverty and racial injustice" in America.
    * 1967 – The L'Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium, burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
    * 1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
    * 1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
    * 1972 – Ceylon adopts a new constitution, thus becoming a Republic, changes its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
    * 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential video game Pacman.
    * 1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
    * 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.
    * 1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.

Tornado striking Kansas during the late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence.

    * 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
    * 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
    * 2002 – In Washington, D.C., the remains of the missing Chandra Levy are found in Rock Creek Park.
    * 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
    * 2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.
    * 2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado (part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.
    * 2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between 22 May and 31 May 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.

      Birthdays today...

    * 1381 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian Saint (d. 1457)
    * 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (d. 1698)
    * 1715 – François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1794)
    * 1724 – Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (d. 1772)
    * 1770 – Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
    * 1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer (d. 1833)
    * 1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (d. 1850)
    * 1808 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (d. 1855)
    * 1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883)
    * 1823 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (d. 1889)
    * 1823 – Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
    * 1841 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
    * 1844 – Mary Cassatt, American artist (d. 1926)
    * 1849 – Louis Perrier, Swiss politician (d. 1913)
    * 1859 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer (d. 1930)
    * 1874 – Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
    * 1879 – Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (d. 1947)
    * 1879 – Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
    * 1885 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian politician (d. 1924)
    * 1885 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
    * 1891 – Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (d. 1963)
    * 1900 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (d. 1979)
    * 1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, 56th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1953)
    * 1902 – Al Simmons, American baseball player (d. 1956)
    * 1903 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (d. 1992)
    * 1904 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (d. 1962)
    * 1907 – Hergé, Belgian comic-book creator (d. 1983)
    * 1907 – Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
    * 1908 – Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (d. 1970)
    * 1908 – Horton Smith. American golfer (d. 1963)
    * 1910 – Johnny Olson, American game-show announcer (d. 1985)
    * 1911 – Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born mathematical psychologist and pianist (d. 2007)
    * 1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
    * 1914 – Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
    * 1914 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
    * 1914 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (d. 1994)
    * 1917 – Georg Tintner, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1999)
    * 1917 – Nathan Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
    * 1917 – Daniel Nagrin, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 2008)
    * 1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian astrophysicist (d. 2004)
    * 1922 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
    * 1924 – Charles Aznavour, Armenian-French singer, actor, and composer
    * 1925 – James King, American tenor (d. 2005)
    * 1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss artist (d. 1991)
    * 1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born chemist, Nobel laureate
    * 1927 – Michael Constantine, American actor
    * 1927 – Phil Tucker, American director
    * 1928 – T. Boone Pickens, Jr., American businessman
    * 1930 – John Barth, American writer
    * 1930 – Harvey Milk, American politician and civil rights activist (d. 1978)
    * 1930 – Kenny Ball, British musician.
    * 1934 – Peter Nero, American musician
    * 1934 – Arne Harris, American television sports director (d. 2001)
    * 1935 – Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
    * 1936 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
    * 1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor
    * 1938 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999)
    * 1940 – Bernard Shaw, American television journalist
    * 1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
    * 1941 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
    * 1941 – Sir Menzies Campbell, British politician
    * 1941 – Martha Langbein, German athlete
    * 1942 – Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist
    * 1942 – Calvin Simon, American musician (P Funk)
    * 1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
    * 1943 – Tommy John, American baseball player
    * 1943 – Betty Williams, Northern Irish political activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
    * 1943 – Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor
    * 1946 – Howard Kendall, English footballer and football manager
    * 1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2005)
    * 1948 – Richard Baker, American politician
    * 1950 – Alekos Alavanos, Greek politician
    * 1950 – Bernie Taupin, English songwriter
    * 1952 – Bernhard Brinkmann, German politician
    * 1953 – Doris Barnett, German politician
    * 1953 – Cha Bum-Kun, Korean footballer
    * 1955 – Jimmy Lyon, American guitarist (Eddie Money)
    * 1955 – Dale Winton, British radio DJ and television presenter
    * 1955 – Jerry Dammers, English musician (The Specials)
    * 1955 – Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American jazz guitarist (d. 2008)
    * 1956 – Al Corley, American actor and producer
    * 1956 – Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician
    * 1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American politician
    * 1957 – Gary Sweet, Australian actor
    * 1958 – Denise Welch, English actress and presenter
    * 1959 – Steven Morrissey, English singer
    * 1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
    * 1961 – Ann Cusack, American actress
    * 1962 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
    * 1964 – Ashley Renee, American fetish model
    * 1966 – Kenny Hickey, American guitarist (Type O Negative)
    * 1966 – Jose Mesa, Dominican baseball player
    * 1967 – Brooke Smith, American actress
    * 1967 – John Vanderslice, American musician
    * 1968 – Kevin Carolan, American actor and comedian
    * 1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model and actress
    * 1970 – Pedro Diniz, Brazilian Formula One driver
    * 1971 – Manuel Ortiz, Mexican professional wrestler
    * 1972 – Anna Belknap, American actress
    * 1972 – Annabel Chong, Singapore actress
    * 1972 – Alison Eastwood, American actress and model
    * 1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
    * 1973 – Julián Tavárez, Dominican baseball player
    * 1973 – Danny Tiatto, Australian footballer
    * 1974 – John Bale, American baseball player
    * 1974 – Sean Gunn, American actor
    * 1974 – A. J. Langer, American actress
    * 1975 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish ice-hockey player
    * 1975 – Tracy Brookshaw, American professional wrestler and valet
    * 1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer.
    * 1977 – Alastair Ralphs, Canadian professional wrestler
    * 1977 – Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Irish hurler
    * 1977 – Dre Bly, American football player
    * 1977 – Vinnie Potestivo, American TV Producer
    * 1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
    * 1978 – Katie Price, British model
    * 1979 – Nadia Khan, TV Presenter
    * 1979 – Maggie Q, American actress
    * 1980 – Rhett Fisher, actor/musician
    * 1980 – Steven Baker, Australian rules footballer
    * 1980 – Chad Tracy, American baseball player
    * 1981 – Bryan Danielson, American professional wrestler
    * 1981 – Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
    * 1982 – Apolo Anton Ohno, American short track speed skater
    * 1982 – John Bobek, American actor
    * 1983 – John Hopkins, Anglo-American motorcycling racer
    * 1984 – Joe Lauzon, American martial artist
    * 1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
    * 1985 – CariDee English, American model
    * 1985 – Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice-hockey player
    * 1985 – Graham Harrell, American football player
    * 1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player

     Famous deaths...

    *  337 – Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor (b. 272)
    *  748 – Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 680)
    * 1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
    * 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
    * 1455 – Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (killed in battle) (b. 1406)
    * 1457 – Saint Rita of Cascia, Italian saint (b. 1381)
    * 1538 – John Forrest, English Franciscan friar (martyred) (b. 1471)
    * 1540 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian (b. 1483)
    * 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608)
    * 1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
    * 1745 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
    * 1746 – Thomas Southerne, Irish dramatist (b. 1660)
    * 1760 – Israel ben Eliezer, Polish-born mystical rabbi (b. 1700)
    * 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
    * 1795 – Ewald Friedrich, Count von Hertzberg, Prussian statesman (b. 1725)
    * 1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (b. 1755)
    * 1859 – King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
    * 1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
    * 1885 – Victor Hugo, French author (b. 1802)
    * 1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1869)
    * 1910 – Jules Renard, French author (b. 1864)
    * 1932 – Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
    * 1939 – Ernst Toller, German author (b. 1893)
    * 1939 – Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882)
    * 1965 – Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
    * 1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
    * 1967 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
    * 1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet and writer (b. 1904)
    * 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
    * 1975 – Lefty Grove, American Baseball Player (b. 1900)
    * 1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
    * 1988 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
    * 1989 – Steven DeGroote, South African classical pianist (b. 1953)
    * 1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
    * 1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist (b. 1909)
    * 1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1908)
    * 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor (b. 1930)
    * 1998 – José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (b. 1910)
    * 2003 – Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim
    * 2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
    * 2004 – Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
    * 2005 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
    * 2005 – Julia Randall, American poet (b. 1924)
    * 2005 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
    * 2006 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
    * 2006 – Heather Crowe, Canadian activist (b. 1945)
    * 2008 – Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)

     Holidays and observances...

    * International Day for Biological Diversity
    * Haiti: National Sovereignty Day
    * Israel: Yom Yerushalayim
    * Martinique: Abolition Day, celebrating the abolition of slavery
    * Sri Lanka: Republic Day
    * United States: National Maritime Day
    * Yemen: Unity Day/National Day

Have a great Friday.

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Errors are back.   

[Flynbyu]

Errors on the forum?

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

yup, they were bad the other day, looks like they are back.

[Krandall]

I must be missing them.

[Flynbyu]

I must be missing them.

Likewise.

I am not getting any.

~Brian

[BRAD]

whats up gents?