Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

June 6, 2009

    * 1508 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year truce and cede several territories to Venice.
    * 1513 – Italian Wars: Battle of Novara. Swiss troops defeat the French under Louis de la Tremoille, forcing the French to abandon Milan. Duke Massimiliano Sforza is restored.
    * 1523 – Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.
    * 1644 – The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established.
    * 1654 – Charles X succeeds his abdicated cousin Queen Christina to the Swedish throne.
    * 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire was coronated.
    * 1683 – The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
    * 1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.
    * 1808 – Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain.
    * 1809 – Sweden promulgates a new Constitution, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after 20 years of Enlightened absolutism.
    * 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force three times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.
    * 1832 – The June Rebellion of Paris is put down by the National Guard.
    * 1833 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride a train.
    * 1844 – The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
    * 1857 – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway.
    * 1859 – Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales (Queensland Day).
    * 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
    * 1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.
    * 1882 – The Shewan forces of Menelik defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and heir victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
    * 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.
    * 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike.
    * 1906 – Paris Métro Line 5 is inaugurated with a first section from Place d'Italie to the Gare d'Orléans (today known as Gare d'Austerlitz).
    * 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
    * 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
    * 1919 – The Republic of Prekmurje ends.
    * 1921 – The Southwark Bridge in London, is opened for traffic by King George V and Queen Mary.
    * 1925 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
    * 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
    * 1933 – The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States.
    * 1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
    * 1939 – German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War.
    * 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater is declared legally dead.
    * 1942 – World War II: Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma.
    * 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.
    * 1944 – Alaska Airlines commences operations.
    * 1946 – The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City.
    * 1946 – Soviet Union established diplomatic relations with Argentina.
    * 1950 – Turkey: The Adhan in Arabic is legalized.
    * 1956 – David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.
    * 1964 – Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
    * 1966 – James Meredith, civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across Mississippi.
    * 1968 – Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws his record 58th consecutive scoreless inning, a major league record until 1988.
    * 1968 – Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night.
    * 1971 – Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches.
    * 1971 – A midair collision between a Hughes Airwest Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a United States Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II jet fighter near Duarte, California claims 50 lives.
    * 1974 – A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
    * 1981 – A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.
    * 1982 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
    * 1984 – The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 6,000.
    * 1984 – Tetris was released.
    * 1985 – The grave of "Wolfgang Gerhard" is exhumed in Embu, Brazil; the remains found are later proven to be those of Josef Mengele, Auschwitz's "Angel of Death". Mengele is thought to have drowned while swimming in February, 1979.
    * 1990 – U.S. District court judge Jose Gonzales rules that the rap album As Nasty As They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew violates Florida's obscenity law; he declares that the predominant subject matter of the record is "directed to the 'dirty' thoughts and the loins, not to the intellect and the mind."
    * 1993 – Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
    * 1999 – In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry and which had stood since 1937.
    * 1999 – At the Putim maximum security prison in Brazil, 345 prisoners run from the main gate in the largest jailbreak in Brazilian history, marking the 10th escape for the three-year-old facility. In the ensuing manhunt, two fugitives are killed and five innocent bystanders are accidentally jailed.
    * 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 metres diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
    * 2004 – Tamil is established as a Classical language by the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in a joint sitting of the two houses of the Indian Parliament.
    * 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning marijuana, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.
    * 2007 – A German man jumps on to the Popemobile in Vatican City, Rome. It was a possible attempt to injure or kill Pope Benedict XVI. The Pope was not injured and Bodyguards wrestled the man to the ground.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1236 – Wen Tianxiang, Chinese prime minister (d. 1283)
    * 1296 – Władysław of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (d. 1352)
    * 1436 – Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476)
    * 1502 – King John III of Portugal (d. 1557)
    * 1519 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher and botanist (d. 1603)
    * 1542 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (d. 1591)
    * 1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
    * 1580 – Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
    * 1599 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
    * 1606 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
    * 1622 – Claude-Jean Allouez, French missionary and explorer (d. 1857)
    * 1714 – King Joseph I of Portugal (d. 1777)
    * 1755 – Nathan Hale, American writer and patriot (d. 1776)
    * 1756 – John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
    * 1772 – Maria Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1807)
    * 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet (d. 1837)
    * 1810 – Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German classical scholar (d. 1856)
    * 1829 – Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
    * 1841 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910)
    * 1844 – Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
    * 1850 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1918)
    * 1857 – Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician (d. 1918)
    * 1862 – Henry John Newbolt, English author (d. 1938)
    * 1867 – David Abercrombie, American entrepreneur (d. 1931)
    * 1868 – Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912)
    * 1872 – Tsarina Alexandra of Russia (d. 1918)
    * 1875 – Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)
    * 1878 – Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (d. 1956)
    * 1890 – Ted Lewis, American bandleader (d. 1971)
    * 1892 – Donald F. Duncan Sr., American entrepreneur (d. 1971)
    * 1896 – Henry Allingham, English first world war veteran
    * 1898 – Ninette de Valois, Irish dancer (d. 2001)
    * 1898 – Walter Abel, American actor (d. 1987)
    * 1900 – Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (d. 1957)
    * 1901 – Sukarno, first President of Indonesia (d. 1970)
    * 1902 – Jimmie Lunceford, American bandleader (d. 1947)
    * 1903 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (d. 1978)
    * 1906 – Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
    * 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993)
    * 1913 – Carlo L. Golino, American scholar (d. 1991)
    * 1915 – Vincent Persichetti, American composer (d. 1987)
    * 1916 – Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
    * 1917 – Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman
    * 1918 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist, Nobel laureate
    * 1923 – V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986)
    * 1924 – Jinyong, Chinese novelist
    * 1926 – Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (d. 2009)
    * 1926 – Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (d. 1998)
    * 1929 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician (d. 2005)
    * 1932 – David Scott, American astronaut
    * 1933 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate
    * 1934 – King Albert II of Belgium
    * 1934 – Roy Innis, American civil rights activist
    * 1936 – Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops)
    * 1936 – A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
    * 1938 – Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne
    * 1939 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
    * 1939 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician
    * 1939 – Gary U.S. Bonds, American musician
    * 1939 – Ed Giacomin, Canadian hockey player
    * 1940 – Larry Lujack, American disc jockey
    * 1941 – Alexander Cockburn, Scottish-born American journalist
    * 1943 – Ken Hatfield, American football coach
    * 1943 – Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel laureate
    * 1944 – David Penhaligon, British politician
    * 1944 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, Nobel laureate
    * 1945 – David E. Bonior, American politician
    * 1945 – David Dukes, American actor (d. 2000)
    * 1947 – David Blunkett, English politician
    * 1947 – Ada Kok, Dutch swimmer
    * 1948 – Tony Levin, American bassist (King Crimson)
    * 1948 – Richard Sinclair, English musician (Caravan)
    * 1949 – Robert Englund, American actor
    * 1949 – Holly Near, American folksinger
    * 1950 – Chantal Akerman, Belgian film director
    * 1951 – Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
    * 1952 – Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
    * 1952 – Harvey Fierstein, American actor
    * 1952 – Jean Hamel, Canadian hockey player
    * 1953 – Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greek politician
    * 1954 – Cynthia Rylant, American author
    * 1955 – Sandra Bernhard, American actress and comedian
    * 1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player
    * 1956 – Bubbi Morthens, Icelandic singer and songwriter
    * 1957 – Mike Gatting, English cricketer
    * 1958 – Danny Webb, English actor
    * 1959 – Jimmy Jam, American record producer
    * 1959 – Colin Quinn, American comedian
    * 1959 – David Schultz, American wrestler (d. 1996)
    * 1959 – Georgios Voulgarakis, Greek politician
    * 1960 – Gary Graham, American actor
    * 1960 – Lola Forner, Spanish actress
    * 1960 – Jozef Pribilinec, Slovak athlete
    * 1960 – Steve Vai, American musician
    * 1961 – Bill Bates, American football player
    * 1961 – Tom Araya, Chilean musician (Slayer)
    * 1961 – Nir Brand, Israeli composer
    * 1961 – Aldo Costa, Italian engineer
    * 1963 – Eric Cantor, American politician, US House minority whip
    * 1963 – Wolfgang Drechsler, German social scientist
    * 1963 – Jason Isaacs, English actor
    * 1964 – Konnan, Mexican wrestler
    * 1965 – Cam Neely, Canadian hockey player
    * 1966 – Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer
    * 1966 – Sean Yseult, American musician (White Zombie)
    * 1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
    * 1967 – Max Casella, American actor
    * 1968 – François Avard, Canadian writer and scenarist
    * 1968 – Alan Licht, American guitarist, composer and journalist
    * 1970 – Eugeni Berzin, Russian cyclist
    * 1970 – Sarah Dessen, American author
    * 1970 – Albert Ferrer, Spanish footballer
    * 1970 – Anthony Norris, American wrestler
    * 1970 – James Shaffer, American rock musician (Korn)
    * 1972 – Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer (Lacuna Coil)
    * 1973 – Kat Swift, American politician
    * 1974 – Danny Strong, American actor
    * 1974 – Sonya Walger, British actress
    * 1974 – Uncle Kracker, American musician
    * 1975 – Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
    * 1975 – Nina Kaczorowski, American actress
    * 1975 – Staci Keanan, American actress
    * 1975 – Niklas Sundström, Swedish hockey player
    * 1976 – aKido, Canadian musician
    * 1976 – Geoff Rowley, British skateboarder
    * 1976 – Z-Ro, American rapper
    * 1977 – David Connolly, Irish footballer
    * 1977 – Bryn Williams, Welsh chef
    * 1978 – Carl Barât, English musician
    * 1978 – Judith Barsi, American actress (d. 1988)
    * 1978 – Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
    * 1978 – Andrew Reynolds, American professional skater
    * 1980 – Matt Belisle, American baseball player
    * 1980 – Martin Devaney, English footballer
    * 1981 – Johnny Pacar, American film actor
    * 1981 – Philip McGinley, English Actor
    * 1983 – Gemma Bissix, British actress
    * 1983 – Gianna Michaels, American porn actress
    * 1983 – Joe Rokocoko, Fijian rugby player
    * 1984 – Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer
    * 1984 – Shannon Stewart, American model
    * 1985 – Drew Galloway, Scottish wrestler
    * 1986 – Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
    * 1986 – Kim Hyun Joong, Korean singer (SS501)
    * 1987 – Kyle Falconer, Scottish musician
    * 1987 – Daniel Logan, New Zealand actor
    * 1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer

     Famous deaths...

    * 1393 – Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan (b. 1359)
    * 1480 – Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
    * 1548 – João de Castro, Portuguese noble and explorer (b. 1500)
    * 1563 – Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
    * 1583 – Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
    * 1730 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (b. 1646)
    * 1740 – Alexander Spotswood, British Crown Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
    * 1784 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (b. 1741)
    * 1799 – Patrick Henry, American revolutionary (b. 1736)
    * 1813 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
    * 1815 – Samuel Whitbread, English Politician
    * 1832 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
    * 1840 – Marcellin Champagnat, French priest (b. 1789)
    * 1843 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
    * 1861 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
    * 1865 – William Quantrill, American confederate raider (b. 1837)
    * 1878 – Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
    * 1881 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (b. 1820)
    * 1891 – John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1815)
    * 1916 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
    * 1922 – Lillian Russell, American actress (b. 1860)
    * 1934 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
    * 1935 – Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
    * 1941 – Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer (b. 1878)
    * 1946 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
    * 1948 – Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer (b. 1864)
    * 1951 – Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
    * 1955 – Max Meldrum, Scottish-born painter (b. 1875)
    * 1961 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
    * 1962 – Yves Klein, French artist (b. 1928)
    * 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, 64th United States Attorney General & former U.S. Senator from New York (b. 1925)
    * 1968 – Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911)
    * 1974 – Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
    * 1975 – Larry Blyden, American actor (b. 1925)
    * 1976 – J. Paul Getty, American industrialist (b. 1892)
    * 1976 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
    * 1979 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1898)
    * 1981 – Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
    * 1982 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (b. 1905)
    * 1984 – A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912)
    * 1991 – Stan Getz, American musician (b. 1927)
    * 1992 – Larry Riley, American actor (b. 1952)
    * 1994 – Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
    * 1994 – Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
    * 1996 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
    * 1999 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
    * 2000 – Frédéric Dard, French writer (b. 1921)
    * 2002 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (b. 1959)
    * 2003 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (b. 1944)
    * 2003 – Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals) (b. 1940)
    * 2005 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
    * 2005 – Dana Elcar, American actor (b. 1927)
    * 2006 – Billy Preston, American musician (b. 1946)
    * 2006 – Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (b. 1952)
    * 2006 – Arnold Newman, American photographer (b. 1918)

     Holidays and observances...

    * Queensland: Queensland Day
    * South Korea: Memorial Day
    * Sweden: National Day
    * United States: National Huntington's Disease Awareness Day

Have a good Saturday.

~Brian

[dragonz]

You got the Famous Birthdays, what about the "Shameless Birthdays"
Todays Pornstar Birthdays:
6 June
Caroline Cage
Gianna Michaels
Rikki Roxx
Stoya

[Ranger]

I am now officially pissed off at TRF...Not only did they take 2 weeks to ship an intake, they sent it using the slowest and cheapest method possible and won't get here for another week...What the F.U.C.K? I am definitely NOT using them for any more business anytime soon...I can understand the circumstances surrounding the delay (whatshisface got sick) but they're supposed to be a COMPANY and companies should have more than 1 person shipping crap...And to add insult to injury they want to cheap out on the shipping after I'd already been waiting 2 weeks? Very bad call TRF, I don't give a shit how vaunted you are here, you screw with me like that and you will not be getting any more business from me.

[dabigbratj]

I am now officially pissed off at TRF...Not only did they take 2 weeks to ship an intake, they sent it using the slowest and cheapest method possible and won't get here for another week...What the F.U.C.K? I am definitely NOT using them for any more business anytime soon...I can understand the circumstances surrounding the delay (whatshisface got sick) but they're supposed to be a COMPANY and companies should have more than 1 person shipping crap...And to add insult to injury they want to cheap out on the shipping after I'd already been waiting 2 weeks? Very bad call TRF, I don't give a shit how vaunted you are here, you screw with me like that and you will not be getting any more business from me.

that is bull man.i believe they have done that type of thing in the past

[Ranger]

I can't say that this is the norm and I know it's just a simple intake but still I don't like how it went down and I got other crap I'm waiting on too...I know they're in NV too but I've shipped crap to California that took only 3 days and only cost like 12 bucks...So YMMV with them but I just wanted to rant somewhere...

[Krandall]

bummer, I haven't used them for quite a while. Actually. that's where I got my barkers at. They did a group buy on them. but it was posted UPS.

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

June 8, 2009

    * 68 – The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba.
    * 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
    * 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
    * 1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
    * 1690 – Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
    * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
    * 1783 – The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
    * 1789 – James Madison introduces 12 proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the United States House of Representatives; 10 of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights
    * 1856 – The community of Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the Morayshire at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
    * 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
    * 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys – Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
    * 1887 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
    * 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
    * 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
    * 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing.
    * 1941 – World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
    * 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
    * 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
    * 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
    * 1950 – Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Austrailian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
    * 1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives.
    * 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
    * 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
    * 1966 – One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross were both killed.
    * 1966 – Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
    * 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
    * 1968 – James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    * 1968 – The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
    * 1974 – An F4 tornado strikes Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
    * 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales
    * 1986 – Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is elected president of Austria.
    * 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
    * 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    * 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
    * 1995 – The first release of the PHP programming language is released by Rasmus Lerdorf.
    * 2001 – Mamoru Takuma stabs 8 elementary school pupils to death during the Osaka school massacre.
    * 2007 – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
    * 2008 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowded pedestrianised area before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife, killing seven and injuring ten.

     Birthdays today...

    * 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist (d. 1712)
    * 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751)
    * 1717 – John Collins, American politician (d. 1795)
    * 1724 – John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794)
    * 1743 – Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795)
    * 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
    * 1757 – Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
    * 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
    * 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917)
    * 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
    * 1847 – Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907)
    * 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940)
    * 1854 – Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921)
    * 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
    * 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940)
    * 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
    * 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
    * 1885 – Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957)
    * 1897 – John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
    * 1901 – Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945)
    * 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996)
    * 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987)
    * 1910 – John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971)
    * 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003)
    * 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986)
    * 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
    * 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, French Canadian politician (d. 1989)
    * 1916 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
    * 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
    * 1917 – Byron White, American athlete and Supreme Court Justice (d. 2002)
    * 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987)
    * 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist
    * 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995)
    * 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter
    * 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993)
    * 1921 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
    * 1923 – Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author
    * 1924 – Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006)
    * 1925 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States
    * 1925 – Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961)
    * 1925 – Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996)
    * 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor
    * 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate
    * 1930 – Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (d. 1993)
    * 1931 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress
    * 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian and author
    * 1934 – Millicent Martin, English singer and actress
    * 1936 – James Darren, American actor and singer
    * 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
    * 1939 – Bernie Casey, American football player and actor
    * 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
    * 1940 – Jim Wickwire, American mountaineer
    * 1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981)
    * 1941 – Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk)
    * 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
    * 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night)
    * 1943 – Colin Baker, British actor
    * 1943 – William Calley, American war criminal
    * 1943 – Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002)
    * 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
    * 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City
    * 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter
    * 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    * 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist
    * 1949 – Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986)
    * 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
    * 1950 – Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress
    * 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist
    * 1951 – Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist
    * 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
    * 1953 – Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist
    * 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister
    * 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer
    * 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor
    * 1955 – Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag)
    * 1957 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist
    * 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player
    * 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director
    * 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red)
    * 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish hockey player
    * 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran)
    * 1962 – Kristine W, American musician
    * 1963 – Keti Garbi, Greek singer
    * 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American former 400m runner
    * 1965 – Kevin Farley, American actor
    * 1965 – Rob Pilatus, German-American singer and dancer (d. 1998)
    * 1965 – Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler
    * 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
    * 1966 – Doris Pearson, singer, Five Star
    * 1968 – Rob Ray, American hockey player
    * 1969 – J.P. Manoux, American actor
    * 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director
    * 1969 – David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor
    * 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American politician
    * 1970 – Teresa Strasser, American Morning Radio Host
    * 1970 – Seu Jorge, Brazilian musician and actor
    * 1970 – Kelli Williams, American actress
    * 1970 – Troy Vincent, American footballer
    * 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor
    * 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
    * 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
    * 1973 – Lucija Šerbedžija, Croatian actress
    * 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian hockey player
    * 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress
    * 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
    * 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
    * 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper
    * 1978 – Maria Menounos, American actress and television host
    * 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
    * 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist
    * 1979 – Luis Ernesto Michel, Mexican football player
    * 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
    * 1981 – Alex Band, American singer (The Calling)
    * 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver
    * 1981 – Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor
    * 1981 – Sara Watkins, American fiddle player
    * 1981 – Jess Weixler, American actress
    * 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
    * 1982 – Irina Lazareanu, Romanian-Canadian model
    * 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
    * 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
    * 1983 – Lee Harding, Australian punk-rock singer
    * 1983 – Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
    * 1984 – Andrea Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
    * 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer
    * 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver
    * 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player

     Famous deaths...

    *  218 – Macrinus, Roman Emperor (b. 165)
    *  632 – Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)
    * 1042 – Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)
    * 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
    * 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)
    * 1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
    * 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
    * 1505 – Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)
    * 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
    * 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
    * 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)
    * 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
    * 1714 – Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)
    * 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
    * 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663)
    * 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
    * 1771 – George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
    * 1795 – King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
    * 1809 – Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
    * 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
    * 1845 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
    * 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
    * 1874 – Cochise, Apache leader
    * 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
    * 1885 – Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)
    * 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(b. 1844)
    * 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (b. 1902)
    * 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (b. 1886)
    * 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
    * 1945 – Karl Hanke, Nazi official (b. 1903)
    * 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
    * 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
    * 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)
    * 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
    * 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
    * 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
    * 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer
    * 1980 – Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
    * 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
    * 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
    * 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (b. 1945)
    * 1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
    * 1998 – Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
    * 1998 – Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
    * 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)
    * 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
    * 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
    * 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
    * 2006 – Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
    * 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (b. 1977)
    * 2007 – Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (b. 1931)
    * 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)

     Holidays and observances...

    * World Brain Tumor Day
    * World Oceans Day
    * Germanic Neopaganism: Lindisfarne Day, commemorating the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793
    * Norfolk Island: Bounty Day
    * Temotu Province: Province Day

Have a good Monday.

~Brian

[Peelz]

there you are punkin.

* 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australia state of New South Wales

Also, same day strangely, Dragonz decides he would like to move there.

[Krandall]

1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle

what did the aussies do to the japs?

[Flynbyu]

Japan was pissed at everyone that had anything to do with cutting the supply routes of oil to Japan.

~Brian

[Krandall]

The aussies just sit on their porch sippin Fosters watchin Kangaroo's hop by... damn japs.

[Peelz]

1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle

what did the aussies do to the japs?

they talk weird, and they pick up their footballs with their hands.

[Flynbyu]

1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle

what did the aussies do to the japs?

they talk weird, and they pick up their footballs with their hands.

They don't call a huddle after a tackle.....They get too many downs per play.....They are all the offspring of prisoners of England.



~Brian

[Krandall]

can I bring back the winter thread?

It's fookin cold out..

high of 57 today and rain..

[Ranger]

It's about 85 here right now...And rainy but not til 4 or 5.