Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Monday, May 25, 2009   


* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain back from the Moors.
    * 1420 – Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
    * 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
    * 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
    * 1738 – A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
    * 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States. George Washington presides.
    * 1810 – In the May Revolution, citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
    * 1837 – The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
    * 1865 – In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
    * 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
    * 1895 – Playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
    * 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president.
    * 1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
    * 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
    * 1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
    * 1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    * 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
    * 1938 – Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
    * 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk begins.
    * 1946 – The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
    * 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
    * 1953 – The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
    * 1955 – In the United States, a night time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
    * 1955 – First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition.
    * 1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
    * 1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
    * 1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
    * 1966 – The first prominent DaZiBao during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
    * 1977 – Star Wars is released. It rapidly becomes a cult classic and is the start of a six-movie franchise.
    * 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
    * 1981 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
    * 1982 – HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
    * 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
    * 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
    * 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
    * 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
    * 2001 – 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
    * 2002 – China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.
    * 2002 – A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1048 – Emperor Shenzong of China (d. 1085)
    * 1334 – Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
    * 1458 – Mahmud Begada, Sultan of Gujarat (d. 1511)
    * 1606 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
    * 1661 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
    * 1713 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
    * 1725 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
    * 1783 – Philip Pendleton Barbour, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1841)
    * 1803 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist and playwright (d. 1873)
    * 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)
    * 1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (d. 1897)
    * 1845 – Lip Pike, American baseball player (d. 1883)
    * 1846 – Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
    * 1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and writer(d. 1900)
    * 1848 – Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher (d. 1924)
    * 1852 – William Muldoon, wrestler (d. 1933)
    * 1856 – Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, French general (d. 1942)
    * 1860 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (d. 1944)
    * 1865 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
    * 1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
    * 1877 – Billy Murray, American singer (d. 1954)
    * 1878 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American entertainer (d. 1949)
    * 1879 – Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born publisher (d. 1964)
    * 1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist (d. 1967)
    * 1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956)
    * 1886 – Philip Murray, U.S. (Scottish-born) labor leader (d. 1952)
    * 1886 – Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
    * 1887 – Pio of Pietrelcina, Catholic saint (d. 1968)
    * 1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor (d. 1969)
    * 1889 – Igor Sikorsky, Russian inventor (d. 1972)
    * 1892 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav resistance leader and later president (d. 1980)
    * 1897 – Gene Tunney, American heavyweight champion (d. 1978)
    * 1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher, TV personality (d. 1971)
    * 1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
    * 1900 – Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet (d. 1975)
    * 1903 – Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
    * 1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
    * 1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
    * 1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
    * 1909 – Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
    * 1912 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
    * 1913 – Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster (d. 1965)
    * 1917 – Theodore Hesburgh, American educator and theologian
    * 1917 – Steve Cochran, American actor (d. 1965)
    * 1918 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994)
    * 1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1921 – Hal David, American lyricist and songwriter
    * 1922 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
    * 1922 – Kitty Kallen, American big band singer
    * 1924 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
    * 1925 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (d. 1974)
    * 1925 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (d. 2003)
    * 1925 – Don Liddle, baseball player (d. 2000)
    * 1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
    * 1927 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (d. 2001)
    * 1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (d. 2007)
    * 1929 – Warren Frost, American actor
    * 1931 – Georgi Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
    * 1931 – Aili Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
    * 1931 – Irwin Winkler, American film producer and director
    * 1932 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
    * 1932 – K.C. Jones, Former professional basketball player and coach
    * 1932 – W. P. Kinsella, Canadian writer
    * 1933 – Ray Spencer, English footballer
    * 1933 – Basdeo Panday, 5th Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago
    * 1935 – Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
    * 1935 – Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
    * 1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
    * 1938 – Raymond Carver, American writer (d. 1988)
    * 1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress
    * 1939 – Ian McKellen, English actor
    * 1941 – Vladimir Voronin, President of Moldova
    * 1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer
    * 1943 – John "Poli" Palmer, British rock musician (Family)
    * 1944 – Frank Oz, English-born puppeteer and director
    * 1944 – Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
    * 1944 – John Bunnell, former Sheriff of Multnomah County, Oregon and TV personality
    * 1944 – Robert MacPherson, American mathematician
    * 1946 – David A. Hargrave, RPG designer
    * 1948 – Sgt. Slaughter, American professional wrestler
    * 1948 – Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions)
    * 1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-born novelist
    * 1951 – Bob Gale, American screenwriter
    * 1952 – Al Sarrantonio, American writer
    * 1952 – Gordon Smith, American politician and U.S Senator from Oregon
    * 1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American media executive
    * 1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright
    * 1953 – Daniel Passarella, Argentine footballer
    * 1953 – Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
    * 1955 – Alistair Burt, British politician
    * 1956 – Sugar Minott, Jamaican singer
    * 1956 – David P. Sartor, American music composer
    * 1956 – Tatsutoshi Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
    * 1957 – Edward Lee, American writer
    * 1957 – Robert Picard, French Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1958 – Carrie Newcomer, American folksinger
    * 1958 – Paul Weller, British musician
    * 1959 – Manolis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician
    * 1959 – Rick Wamsley, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1959 – Julian Clary, British television personality
    * 1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American politician and U.S Senator from Minnesota
    * 1960 – Anthea Turner, British television personality
    * 1962 – Rick Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1963 – Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian
    * 1963 – Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
    * 1964 – Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut
    * 1964 – David Shaw, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1965 – George Hickenlooper, American documentary film-maker
    * 1966 – Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
    * 1967 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
    * 1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player
    * 1969 – Anne Heche, American actress
    * 1969 – Stacy London, American fashion consultant
    * 1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitar player (Megadeth)
    * 1970 – Joey Eischen, American baseball player
    * 1970 – Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
    * 1970 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor
    * 1970 – Satsuki Yukino, Seiyuu
    * 1971 – Marco Cappato, Italian politician
    * 1971 – Justin Henry, American actor
    * 1972 – Octavia Spencer, American actress
    * 1973 – Demetri Martin, American comedian
    * 1973 – Molly Sims, American model and actress
    * 1973 – Daz Dillinger, American hip-hop performer
    * 1974 – Frank Klepacki, American musician
    * 1974 – Miguel Tejada, Dominican baseball player
    * 1975 – Lauryn Hill, American singer
    * 1976 – Tarik Glenn, American football player
    * 1976 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
    * 1976 – Ethan Suplee, American actor
    * 1976 – Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes)
    * 1977 – Giel Beelen, Dutch radio DJ
    * 1978 – Brian Urlacher, American football player
    * 1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American footballer
    * 1979 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby player
    * 1979 – Caroline Ouellette, French Canadian ice-hockey player
    * 1979 – Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
    * 1980 – Jae Hee, South Korean actor
    * 1980 – David Navarro, Spanish footballer
    * 1980 – Joe King Co-founder and guitarist for The Fray
    * 1982 – Luke Webster, Australian rules footballer
    * 1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer
    * 1982 – Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
    * 1982 – Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder
    * 1983 – Kunal Khemu, Indian actor
    * 1984 – Marion Raven, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
    * 1984 – Luke Ball, Australian rules footballer
    * 1984 – Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, 2005 Miss World
    * 1984 – Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
    * 1984 – Shawne Merriman, American football player
    * 1984 – Kostas Martakis, Greek singer
    * 1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
    * 1986 – Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
    * 1986 – Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
    * 1986 – Lauren Crace, English Actress
    * 1986 – Juri Ueno, Japanese actress
    * 1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
    * 1987 – Yves De Winter, Belgian goalkeeper
    * 1990 – Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
    * 1993 – Dilley sextuplets, American sextuplets

     Famous deaths...

    *  615 – Pope Boniface IV
    *  709 – Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (b. c. 639)
    *  735 – Bede, English historian and monk
    *  967 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
    *  992 – Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans (b. c. 935)
    * 1085 – Pope Gregory VII
    * 1261 – Pope Alexander IV
    * 1452 – John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
    * 1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (b. 1508)
    * 1555 – Henry II of Navarre (b. 1503)
    * 1595 – Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
    * 1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
    * 1667 – Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (b. 1620)
    * 1681 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (b. 1600)
    * 1693 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (b. 1634)
    * 1741 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
    * 1786 – Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal (b. 1717)
    * 1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist (b. 1751)
    * 1797 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
    * 1805 – William Paley, English philosopher (b. 1743)
    * 1848 – Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
    * 1849 – Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
    * 1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
    * 1912 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
    * 1917 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (b. 1891)
    * 1919 – Madame C. J. Walker, American philanthropist and tycoon (b. 1867)
    * 1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (b. 1889)
    * 1926 – Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1879)
    * 1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman (b. 1876)
    * 1930 – Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1848)
    * 1934 – Gustav Holst, English composer (b. 1874)
    * 1935 – Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
    * 1940 – Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
    * 1942 – Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American Cellist (b. 1902)
    * 1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter (b. 1888)
    * 1951 – Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer (b. 1887)
    * 1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)
    * 1965 – Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1899)
    * 1968 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (b. 1881)
    * 1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (b. 1904)
    * 1979 – John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
    * 1981 – Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
    * 1983 – Idris I, Libyan King (b. 1889)
    * 1983 – Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1925)
    * 1983 – Black Jack Stewart, Canadian NHL hockey player (b. 1917)
    * 1986 – Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)
    * 1988 – Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
    * 1994 – Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (b. 1940)
    * 1995 – Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927)
    * 1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (b. 1929)
    * 1996 – Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime) (b. 1968)
    * 2000 – Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
    * 2002 – Pat Coombs, English actress (b. 1926)
    * 2003 – Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta) (b. 1976)
    * 2004 – Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher (b. 1917)
    * 2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (b. 1929)
    * 2005 – Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (b. 1938)
    * 2005 – Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality (b. 1934)
    * 2005 – Ruth Laredo, American pianist (b. 1937)
    * 2005 – Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (b. 1965)
    * 2006 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1941)
    * 2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host (b. 1931)
    * 2008 – J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)

    Holidays and observances...

    * African Union: Africa Day
    * Various African countries: African Liberation Day
    * Argentina: May Revolution Day/National Day
    * Jordan: Independence Day
    * Lebanon: Liberation Day
    * Palmerston Island: Palmerston Gospel Day
    * United States: National Missing Children's Day
    * Geek Pride Day (Randy is partying like a mofo!!!)
    * Douglas Adams fans: Towel Day
    * Scientology: Integrity Day

[dragonz]

 Douglas Adams fans: Towel Day
great books, movies never quite measured up, but lot of fun all the same

[Peelz]

happy lebanese liberation day my bruthas! 

[dragonz]

happy lebanese liberation day my bruthas! 

so you're a happily "liberated" lebanese then, that explains a lot

[Krandall]

Guten Morgen


I'm freakin sore. Rocked Sand Volleyball last night for 4 hours straight.

[Peelz]

Guten Morgen


I'm freakin sore. Rocked Sand Volleyball last night for 4 hours straight.

sore here as well

Crashed rappy first time, not bad, rolled on side after bailing from blind jump.  Then, rode a track for about an hour Sunday. Good time

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Tuesday May 26th

    * 451 – The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
    * 1293 – An earthquake strikes Kamakura, Japan, killing about 30,000.
    * 1328 – William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
    * 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
    * 1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under German Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
    * 1647 – Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
    * 1670 – In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
    * 1736 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
    * 1770 – The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
    * 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day is held in Trumbull, Connecticut to celebrate the end of the American Revolution.
    * 1805 – Napoléon Bonaparte assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.
    * 1828 – Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
    * 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
    * 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
    * 1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.
    * 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
    * 1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends, with Johnson being found not guilty by one vote.
    * 1869 – Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
    * 1879 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
    * 1889 – Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
    * 1894 – Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
    * 1896 – Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
    * 1896 – James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
    * 1906 – Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
    * 1908 – At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
    * 1917 – A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 people and injuring 689. It was the world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
    * 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
    * 1918 – The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
    * 1928 – The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
    * 1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke for 10 hours.
    * 1938 – The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
    * 1940 – World War II: Battle of Dunkirk – In France, Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from Dunkirk, France.
    * 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bir Hakeim takes place.
    * 1948 – The U.S. Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as an auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
    * 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
    * 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
    * 1970 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
    * 1972 – Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
    * 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
    * 1972 – The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
    * 1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
    * 1981 – The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
    * 1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed.
    * 1986 – The European Community adopts the European flag.
    * 1991 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
    * 1991 – Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
    * 1992 – Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. is kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
    * 1998 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
    * 1999 – Manchester United become the first club in English football to win The Treble.
    * 2002 – Álvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
    * 2003 – Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
    * 2004 – The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
    * 2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
    * 2006 – The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1264 – Prince Koreyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1326)
    * 1478 – Pope Clement VII (d. 1534)
    * 1566 – Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1603)
    * 1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
    * 1650 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, British general (d. 1722)
    * 1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (d. 1754)
    * 1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (d. 1722)
    * 1689 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)
    * 1700 – Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (d. 1760)
    * 1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
    * 1799 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian author (d. 1837)
    * 1822 – Edmond de Goncourt, French writer (d. 1896)
    * 1863 – Robert Fitzsimmons, Boxing champion (d. 1917)
    * 1865 – Robert W. Chambers, American artist (d. 1933)
    * 1867 – Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
    * 1873 – Olaf Gulbransson, Norwegian artist (d. 1958)
    * 1883 – Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
    * 1886 – Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
    * 1893 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (d. 1957)
    * 1893 – Eugène Aynsley Goossens, English conductor and composer (d. 1962)
    * 1895 – Dorothea Lange, American photographer (d. 1965)
    * 1895 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor (d. 1971)
    * 1899 – Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
    * 1904 – George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
    * 1904 – Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
    * 1907 – Jean Bernard, French physician (d. 2006)
    * 1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
    * 1908 – Robert Morley, English actor (d. 1992)
    * 1908 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
    * 1909 – Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
    * 1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
    * 1909 – Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)
    * 1911 – Ben Alexander, American actor (d. 1969)
    * 1912 – János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989)
    * 1912 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
    * 1913 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
    * 1914 – Frankie Manning, American Lindy Hop dancer (d. 2009)
    * 1915 – Sam Edwards, American actor (d. 2004)
    * 1915 – Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003)
    * 1916 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
    * 1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
    * 1917 – Eva Szorenyi, Hungarian actress, freedom activist for Hungary
    * 1918 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (d. 1985)
    * 1920 – Peggy Lee, American singer (d. 2002)
    * 1923 – James Arness, American actor
    * 1923 – Roy Dotrice, British actor
    * 1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor
    * 1926 – Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (d. 1991)
    * 1926 – Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author
    * 1932 – Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
    * 1935 – Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
    * 1938 – William Bolcom, American composer
    * 1938 – Pauline Parker, New-Zealandic murderess
    * 1938 – Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
    * 1938 – Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano
    * 1939 – Merab Kostava, Georgian anti-Soviet leader
    * 1939 – Brent Musburger, American sports broadcaster
    * 1940 – Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, French Canadian politician
    * 1940 – Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
    * 1941 – Reg Bundy, British performer (d. 2003)
    * 1941 – Cliff Drysdale, South African tennis player
    * 1941 – John Kaufman, sculptor
    * 1942 – Ganapathi Sachchidananda, Spiritual Leader
    * 1943 – Erica Terpstra, President of the Dutch Olympic Committee
    * 1944 – Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author
    * 1945 – Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
    * 1946 – Neshka Robeva, Bulgarian Rhythmic gymnas and coach.
    * 1946 – Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
    * 1948 – Stevie Nicks, American songwriter
    * 1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor
    * 1949 – Pam Grier, American actress
    * 1949 – Philip Michael Thomas, American actor
    * 1949 – Joe Alaskey, American voice actor
    * 1949 – Hank Williams Jr., American singer
    * 1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut
    * 1951 – Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
    * 1952 – David Meece, Christian musician
    * 1953 – Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
    * 1953 – Michael Portillo, British politician
    * 1954 – Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
    * 1954 – Danny Rolling, American murderer (d. 2006)
    * 1955 – Masaharu Morimoto, Japanese chef
    * 1955 – Wesley Walker, American football player
    * 1956 – Frédéric Dutoit, French politician
    * 1957 – Margaret Colin, American actress
    * 1957 – François Legault, French Canadian politician
    * 1957 – Kristina Olsen, American musician
    * 1957 – Roberto Ravaglia, Italian racing driver
    * 1957 – Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
    * 1959 – Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
    * 1959 – Ole Bornedal, Danish film director, actor and producer
    * 1960 – Masahiro Matsunaga, Japanese racing driver
    * 1960 – Rob Murphy, American baseball player
    * 1961 – Tarsem Singh, Indian film director
    * 1962 – Genie Francis, American actress
    * 1962 – Bobcat Goldthwait, American actor
    * 1964 – Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American writer
    * 1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American musician
    * 1965 – Hazel Irvine, British television presenter
    * 1966 – Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
    * 1966 – Zola Budd, South African athlete
    * 1967 – Phil Doyle, Australian writer
    * 1967 – Kevin Moore, American musician (OSI)
    * 1968 – Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
    * 1968 – Pat Kenney, American professional wrestler
    * 1968 – Fernando León de Aranoa, Spanish film director
    * 1968 – Steve Sedgley, English footballer
    * 1969 – John Baird, Canadian politician
    * 1969 – Musetta Vander, South African actress
    * 1970 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
    * 1971 – Timothy Allen, British Photojournalist
    * 1971 – Matt Stone, American television producer
    * 1972 – Patsy Palmer, British actress
    * 1974 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
    * 1975 – Nicki Aycox, American actress
    * 1975 – Travis Lee, American baseball player
    * 1976 – Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
    * 1977 – Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
    * 1977 – Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
    * 1977 – Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist
    * 1977 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
    * 1978 – Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
    * 1979 – Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
    * 1979 – Mehmet Okur (Memo), Turkish basketball player
    * 1979 – Ashley Massaro, American model and professional wrestler
    * 1981 – Robert Copeland, Australian Rules Football
    * 1981 – Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
    * 1981 – Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
    * 1981 – Isaac Slade, American musician The Fray
    * 1982 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
    * 1982 – David Reed, British writer and comedian
    * 1984 – Andrea Smith, American artist/painter
    * 1988 – Joel Selwood, Australian footballer
    * 1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress

     Famous deaths...

    *  604 – Augustine of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
    *  818 – Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (b. 766)
    *  946 – King Edmund I of England (b. 921)
    * 1055 – Margrave Adalbert of Austria
    * 1421 – Mehmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1389)
    * 1512 – Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan
    * 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet
    * 1595 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
    * 1647 – Alse Young, American "witch"
    * 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
    * 1653 – Robert Filmer, English writer (b. 1588)
    * 1679 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1636)
    * 1685 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (b. 1651)
    * 1703 – Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
    * 1742 – Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
    * 1762 – Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
    * 1799 – James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge (b. 1714)
    * 1818 – Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian military commander (b. 1761)
    * 1824 – Capel Lofft, English writer (b. 1751)
    * 1831 – Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
    * 1840 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
    * 1881 – Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824)
    * 1883 – Abd al-Qadir, Algerian political and military leader (b. 1808)
    * 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer (b. 1788)
    * 1902 – Almon Strowger, American inventor (b. 1839)
    * 1904 – Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French neurologist (b. 1857)
    * 1907 – Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
    * 1908 – Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
    * 1924 – Victor Herbert, Irish composer (b. 1859)
    * 1933 – Horatio Bottomley, British financier and politician (b. 1860)
    * 1933 – Jimmie Rodgers, American singer (b. 1897)
    * 1939 – Charles Horace Mayo, American medical practitioner (Mayo Clinic) (b. 1865)
    * 1943 – Edsel Ford, American automobile executive (b. 1893)
    * 1943 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (b. 1864)
    * 1944 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp (b. 1885)
    * 1948 – Theodore Morell, Hitler's personal physician (b. 1886)
    * 1951 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (b. 1880)
    * 1954 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian athlete (b. 1900)
    * 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1918)
    * 1968 – Little Willie John, American singer (b. 1937)
    * 1969 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
    * 1969 – Allan H. Loughead, American aviation pioneer (Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
    * 1974 – Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
    * 1976 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
    * 1976 – Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
    * 1977 – William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
    * 1978 – Cybele, Greek actress (b. 1887)
    * 1979 – George Brent, British actor (b. 1899)
    * 1989 – Don Revie, Former footballer and England and Leeds United Manager (b. 1927)
    * 1999 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
    * 1999 – Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898)
    * 2001 – Vittorio Brambilla, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
    * 2001 – Anne Haney, American actress (b. 1934)
    * 2001 – Moven Enock Mahachi, Defence Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952)
    * 2002 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932)
    * 2003 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (b. 1919)
    * 2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
    * 2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer (b. 1934)
    * 2005 – Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
    * 2005 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1928)
    * 2006 – Édouard Michelin, CEO of Michelin (b. 1963)
    * 2006 – Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (b. 1919)
    * 2007 – J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
    * 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)

     Holidays and observances...

    * Australia: National Sorry Day <----- Harden the f*ck up Australia
    * Denmark: Crown Prince's Birthday
    * Georgia: Independence Day
    * Guyana: Independence Day
    * Poland: Mother's Day

Have a great Tuesday.

~Brian

[Krandall]

1864 – Montana is organized as a United States territory.

montana.... woooo f*ckin hoooooo 

[Flynbyu]

Wanna make a run for a snowmobile?



~Brian

[Peelz]

Georgian Independence day?

Partying in Atlanta?

[Flynbyu]

+1

I don't see any tanks...am I in danger?

~Brian

[Peelz]

+1

I don't see any tanks...am I in danger?

~Brian

That was hilarious!

[Flynbyu]

Love Yahoo answers.

There are some real idiots out there.



~Brian

[Peelz]

Hey Brian...how many cars did you sell yesterday gangsta? 

j/k

[Flynbyu]

Hey Brian...how many cars did you sell yesterday gangsta? 

j/k

One special finance deal I didn't have to touch.

It cost us more to open the doors than what we made yesterday.

~Brian