Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[socalrappy700]

Ok, so I was late one day after getting back but I had an interview today.  Sorry Randy.  But here is the official today in history.

July 27 is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 157 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1214 – Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan.
1663 – The English Parliament passes the second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1689 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
1694 – A Royal Charter is granted to the Bank of England.
1720 – The second important victory of the Russian Navy – the Battle of Grengam.
1778 – American Revolution: First Battle of Ushant – British and French fleets fight to a standoff.
1789 – The first U.S. federal government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (later renamed Department of State).
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
1862 – Sailing from San Francisco to Panama, the SS Golden Gate catches fire and sinks off Manzanillo, Mexico, killing 231.
1866 – The Atlantic Cable is successfully completed, allowing transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time.
1880 – Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand – In a pyrrhic victory, Afghan forces led by Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
1914 – Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government.
1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
1921 – Researchers at the University of Toronto led by biochemist Frederick Banting announce the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.
1940 – The animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
1941 – Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
1949 – Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
1953 – Korean War ends: The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.
1964 – Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
1972 – The F-15 Eagle flies for the first time.
1974 – Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.
1981 – British television: On Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.
1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1987 – RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvaging of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Soviet Republic declares independence of Belarus from the Soviet Union. Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is transferred to June 3.
1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen stage a coup d'état attempt in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying Parliament and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet, as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.
1995 – The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
1996 – Centennial Olympic Park bombing: In Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. Alice Hawthorne is killed, and a cameraman suffers a heart attack fleeing the scene. 111 are injured.
1997 – Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
2002 – Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2005 – STS-114: NASA grounds the Space shuttle, pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam-shedding problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2007 – Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. This is the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

Births

1452 – Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1508)
1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1748)
1733 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician (d. 1839)
1768 – Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat who killed Jean-Paul Marat (d. 1793)
1773 – Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (d. 1844)
1777 – Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet (d. 1844)
1777 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (d. 1853)
1781 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (d. 1828)
1784 – Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
1812 – Thomas Clingman, American Confederate general (d. 1897)
1824 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (d. 1895)
1833 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (d. 1923)
1835 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1907)
1848 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (d. 1919)
1853 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (d. 1921)
1857 – José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican politician (d. 1921)
1866 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (d. 1929)
1867 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (d. 1916)
1870 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer (d. 1953)
1877 – Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer and conductor (d. 1960)
1879 – Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
1881 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)
1882 – Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (d. 1965)
1886 – Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
1889 – Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1972)
1896 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (d. 1969)
1903 – Nikolai Cherkasov, Russian actor (d. 1966)
1903 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (d. 2002)
1905 – Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
1906 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
1906 – Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish writer and activist (d. 2000)
1908 – Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
1910 – Julien Gracq, French writer (d. 2007)
1911 – Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1913 – Gérard Côté, Quebec marathon runner (d. 1993)
1913 – George L. Street III American Navy Submariner (d. 2000)
1915 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian singer (d. 1982)
1915 – Josef Priller, German fighter pilot (d. 1961)
1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
1917 – Bourvil, French actor (d. 1970)
1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist (d. 1984)
1921 – Émile Genest, Quebec actor (d. 2003)
1922 – Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (d. 1986)
1923 – Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924 – Vincent Canby, American film critic (d. 2000)
1927 – Sat Mahajan, Indian politician
1928 – Karloff Lagarde, Mexican lucha libre wrestler (d. 2007)
1929 – Jack Higgins, British novelist
1930 – Shirley Williams, British politician
1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor
1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian politician
1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer (d. 1995)
1933 – Nick Reynolds, American folk singer
1935 – Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American politician
1937 – Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
1938 – Isabelle Aubret, French singer
1938 – Gary Gygax, American role-playing game creator (d. 2008)
1939 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet
1940 – Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1941 – Christian Boesch, Austrian baritone
1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player
1942 – John Pleshette, American actor
1942 – Édith Butler, Canadian singer and songwriter
1944 – Tony Capstick, English comedian (d. 2003)
1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist
1944 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Rade Šerbedžija, Croatian actor
1947 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
1948 – Betty Thomas, American actor and film director
1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater
1949 – André Dupont, Quebec ice hockey player
1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer
1950 – Simon Jones, English actor
1952 – Hannu-Pekka Hänninen, Finnish sports commentator
1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian comedian
1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian politician
1954 – Philippe Alliot, French racecar driver
1955 – Cat Bauer, American novelist
1955 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer
1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress
1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian
1957 – Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
1958 – Christopher Dean, English figure skater
1959 – Hugh Green, American football player
1959 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1962 – Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum) (d. 2005)
1963 – Karrin Allyson, American Jazz musician & songstress
1963 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong film actor
1964 – Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera)
1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American musician
1967 – Sasha Mitchell, American actor
1967 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
1967 – Craig Wolanin, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Neil Smith, Former England cricketer
1968 – Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor
1968 – Tom Goodwin, American baseball player
1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor
1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian Formula One driver
1969 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress
1969 – Timo Maas, German electronica DJ
1969 – Triple H, American professional wrestler
1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
1970 – Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Danish actor
1972 – Jill Arrington, American sports reporter
1972 – Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress and comedian
1972 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, first Malaysian in space
1973 – Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones)
1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer
1973 – Erik Nijs, Belgian long jumper
1974 – Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
1974 – Pete Yorn, American musician
1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
1975 – Fred Mascherino, American musician
1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
1977 – Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Irish actor
1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean comic book artist
1978 – Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Cork Hurler
1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler
1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
1980 – Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
1980 – Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
1981 – Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
1983 – Alsou, Russian pop-star and actress
1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
1985 – Benedita Pereira, Portuguese actress
1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
1986 – Courtney Kupets, American gymnast
1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
1989 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
1990 – Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
1990 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress
1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
1994 – Ariel Moore, American singer (Clique Girlz)
2000 – Kali Rodriguez, American actress

Deaths

1101 – Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (b. 1074)
1276 – King James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
1365 – Duke Rudolf IV of Austria (b. 1339)
1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593)
1675 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France (b. 1611)
1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician (b. 1698)
1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author (b. 1814)
1844 – John Dalton, English physicist and chemist (b. 1776)
1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American Confederate leader (b. 1813)
1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-American religious leader (b. 1811)
1883 – Montgomery Blair, American politician (b. 1813)
1917 – Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Nobel laureate (b. 1841)
1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist (b. 1866)
1931 – Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
1934 – Hubert Lyautey, French army general and marshal (b. 1854)
1941 – Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand artist (b. 1858)
1946 – Gertrude Stein, American writer (b. 1874)
1948 – Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1958 – Claire Chennault, American military leader (b. 1893)
1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet (b. 1892)
1962 – James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1895)
1965 – Henri Daniel-Rops, French writer and historian (b. 1901)
1968 – Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)
1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese statesman (b. 1889)
1971 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1907)
1980 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
1981 – William Wyler, French-born film director (b. 1902)
1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1987 – Travis Jackson, baseball player (b. 1903)
1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
1990 – Bobby Day, American singer (b. 1928)
1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911)
1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
1994 – Kevin Carter, Photographer (b. 1960)
1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1907)
1998 – Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
1999 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1915)
2000 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
2001 – Rhonda Singh, professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2003 – Vance Hartke, American politician (b. 1919)
2003 – Bob Hope, English-born entertainer (b. 1903)
2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer (b. 1912)
2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American politician (b. 1925)
2007 – Lucky Grills, Australian actor (b. 1928)
2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
2008 – Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances

Puerto Rico – José Celso Barbosa Day
Finland – National Sleepy Head Day
North Korea – Victory Day

[Colorado700R]

North Korea – Victory Day




"we were victorious in not getting slaughtered, and now we starve for a psychopathic dictator......YEAH!!!"  

[Krandall]

1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.


Ahhhh Austria.... G'day Mate!

[Colorado700R]

lets put another shrimp on the lederhosen

[Peelz]

1955 – The Allied occupation of Austria stemming from World War II, ends.


Ahhhh Austria.... G'day Mate!

?    Austria...or australia?   

[socalrappy700]

July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1364 – Battle of Cascina
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1609 – Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1865 – Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so were to be immediately executed.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
1958 – Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
1959 - On this day our very own RaptorRandy was born.  Happy birthday bro.
1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1996 – Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1997 – Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.

Births

1347 – Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1659 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1750 – Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1857 – Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 – Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
1879 – Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
1891 – Ron Oxenham, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
1901 – Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
1909 – Aenne Burda German publisher and founder of Hubert Burda Media(d. 2005)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 – David Brown, American film producer
1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer (d. 2008)
1924 – C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1925 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1930 – Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
1931 – Johnny Martin, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American author
1933 – Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 – Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
1935 – Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1937 – Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1940 – Philip Proctor, American comedian
1941 – Susan Roces, Filipino actress
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1948 – Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player
1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 – Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and head coach
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 – Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
1954 – Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist
1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1961 – Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer
1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender
1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 – Dana White, UFC President
1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 – Paul Strang, Former Zimbabwian cricketer
1971 – Stephen Lynch, American musician
1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 – Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1978 – Jacob Oram, New Zealand Cricketer
1979 – Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1979 – James Piotr Montague, British Writer
1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 – Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 – Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 – Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 – Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 – DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 – Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 – Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 – Shana Swash, English actress
1990 – Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper
1992 – George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland
1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress

Deaths

450 – Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
1057 – Pope Victor II
1128 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 – Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1878 – George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1934 – Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1957 – Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 – Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 – Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 – Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
1998 – Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2006 – Patrick Allen, British actor and voice actor (b. 1927)
2007 – Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka Eve
Peru – Independence Day

[Colorado700R]

addition for history thread


Births:

Raptor Randy- 1959

[socalrappy700]

Wasn't that 1859?

And I'll make sure to add it.

[NaturalRaptor]

Happy Birthday Raptor Randy! Cheers to you with glass of Crown Royal! 

[Lady4Fiddy]

      Happy Birthday Raptor Randy!   

[Peelz]

Raptor Randy is 50?

Wouldn't have guessed a day over 49.

[socalrappy700]

July 29 is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1014 – Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack several months later, on October 6.
1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad – King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.
1565 – The widowed Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen – France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.
1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 – Abdication of Charles X of France.
1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1847 – Cumberland School of Law founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States. At the end of 1847 only 15 law schools exist in the United States.
1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt – in Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC.
1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1901 – The Socialist Party of America founded.
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1937 – Tongzhou Incident
1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 – Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.
1967 – Vietnam War: off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1976 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1981 – Marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues.
1993 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 – The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.

Births

1166 – Henry II of Champagne (d. 1197)
1605 – Simon Dach, German poet (d. 1659)
1763 – Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (d. 1845)
1797 – Daniel Drew, American financier (d. 1879)
1801 – George Bradshaw, English publisher (d. 1853)
1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and political scientist (d. 1859)
1846 – Isabel of Brazil
1843 – Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901)
1849 – Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923)
1869 – Booth Tarkington, American author (d. 1946)
1872 – Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (d. 1957)
1874 – James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born actress (d. 1949)
1878 – Don Marquis, American author (d. 1937)
1883 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer (d. 1942)
1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (d. 1945)
1884 – Ralph A. Bard, U.S. Navy Undersecretary (d. 1975)
1885 – Theda Bara, American film actress (d. 1955)
1887 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951)
1892 – William Powell, American actor (d. 1984)
1897 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1899 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1976)
1900 – Don Redman, American musician (d. 1964)
1904 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1993)
1905 – Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish 2nd UN Secretary-General, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1905 – Thelma Todd, American actress (d. 1935)
1905 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (d. 2006)
1906 – Diana Vreeland, French-born fashion editor (d. 1989)
1907 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
1911 – Foster Furcolo, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1995)
1911 – Iakovos, Archbishop of America (d. 2005)
1913 – Erich Priebke, Nazi war criminal
1914 – Irwin Corey, American stand-up comedian
1915 – Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985)
1915 – Francis W. Sargent, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1998)
1916 – Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1916 – Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
1918 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1968)
1920 – Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (d. 1974)
1920 – Neville Jeffress, Australian founder of Media Monitors Australia (d. 2007)
1921 – Richard Egan, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 – Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
1923 – Gordon Mitchell, American actor (d. 2003)
1924 – Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
1924 – Robert Horton, American actor
1924 – Elizabeth Short, victim in the Black Dahlia case (d. 1947)
1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
1925 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian hockey player
1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author
1929 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher
1930 – Paul Taylor, American dancer and choreographer
1932 – Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
1933 – Lou Albano, American pro wrestling manager
1933 – Colin Davis, British racing driver
1933 – Robert Fuller, American actor
1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor
1936 – Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
1937 – Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born journalist (d. 2005)
1938 – Jean Rochon, Quebec politician
1941 – Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
1941 – David Warner, English actor
1942 – Tony Sirico, American actor
1943 – David Taylor, English snooker player
1945 – Mircea Lucescu, Romanian football manager
1946 – Ximena Armas, Chilean painter
1946 – Neal Doughty, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
1946 – Diane Keen, English actress
1947 – Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (d. 2006)
1949 – Leslie Easterbrook, American actress
1951 – Dan Driessen, American baseball player
1951 – Dean Pitchford, American songwriter, filmmaker and novelist
1953 – Ken Burns, American producer and director
1953 – Geddy Lee, Canadian bassist and singer (Rush)
1953 – Patti Scialfa, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1953 – Tim Gunn, American television personality
1955 – Dave Stevens, American illustrator
1955 – Jean-Hugues Anglade, French actor
1956 – Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
1956 – Ronnie Musgrove, Former Governor of Mississippi
1957 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
1957 – Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 – Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
1959 – Ruud Janssen, Dutch writer and artist
1959 – Dave LaPoint, American baseball player
1959 – John Sykes, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Tygers of Pan Tang)
1962 – Vincent Rousseau, Belgian athlete
1962 – Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
1963 – Graham Poll, English football referee
1963 – Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
1963 – Alexandra Paul, American actress
1965 – Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author
1965 – Luis Alicea, baseball coach
1965 – Dean Haglund, Canadian actor
1966 – Martina McBride, American singer
1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American comic voiceactor
1968 – Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist (Apocalyptica)
1970 – John Rennie, Former Zimbabwean cricketer
1970 – Andi Peters, British TV presenter
1971 – Monica Calhoun, American actress
1971 – Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
1972 – Wil Wheaton, American actor
1973 – Stephen Dorff, American actor
1973 – Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor
1974 – Afroman, American rapper
1975 – Corrado Grabbi, Italian footballer
1975 – Lanka de Silva, Former Sri Lankan cricketer
1977 – Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, American songwriter and record producer
1979 – Karim Essediri, Tunisian footballer
1979 – Ronald Murray, American basketball player
1980 – Ryan Braun, Canadian baseball player
1980 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
1980 – Rachel Miner, American actress
1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
1981 – Andrés Madrid, Argentine footballer
1981 – Troy Perkins, American soccer player
1982 – Janez Aljančič, Slovenian footballer
1982 – Jônatas Domingos, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Allison Mack, American actress
1983 – Alexei Kaigorodov, Russian hockey player
1984 – Chad Billingsley, American baseball player
1985 – Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
1987 – Sabra Johnson, American dancer
1991 – Miki Ishikawa, American actress

Deaths

238 – Pupienus, Roman Emperor
238 – Balbinus, Roman Emperor
1030 – Olaf II of Norway (b. 995)
1095 – Saint Ladislaus I, a King of Hungary (b. c. 1040)
1099 – Pope Urban II (b. 1042)
1108 – Philip I of France (b. 1052)
1507 – Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459)
1573 – John Caius, English physician and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (b. 1510)
1612 – Jacques Bongars, French scholar and diplomat (b. 1554)
1644 – Pope Urban VIII (b. 1568)
1752 – Peter Warren, British admiral
1781 – Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1792 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France (b. 1714)
1813 – Jean-Andoche Junot, French general (b. 1771)
1833 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (b. 1759)
1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
1856 – Robert Schumann, German composer (b. 1810)
1857 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer (b. 1774)
1887 – Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1890 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853)
1900 – King Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
1913 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)
1918 – Ernest William Christmas, Australian painter (b. 1863)
1934 – Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)
1938 – Nikolai Krylenko, Russian/Soviet jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1950 – Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1954 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (b. 1879)
1964 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1970 – John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
1973 – Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
1973 – Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
1974 – Cass Elliot, American musician (b. 1941)
1974 – Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
1976 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913)
1979 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (b. 1898)
1979 – Bill Todman, American television producer (b. 1916)
1981 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)
1982 – Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor (b. 1920)
1982 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian physicist and inventor (b. 1889)
1983 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (b. 1900)
1983 – Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1983 – David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
1984 – Fred Waring, American band leader and inventor (b. 1900)
1987 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894)
1990 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b. 1911)
1992 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
1994 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1995 – Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
1996 – Ric Nordman, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
1996 – Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
1996 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
2001 – Wau Holland, German computer hacker (b. 1951)
2003 – Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean rebel leader (b. 1937)
2004 – Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
2007 – Mike Reid, English comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2007 – Michel Serrault, French actor (b. 1928)
2007 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (b. 1936)
2007 – Marvin Zindler, American television reporter (b. 1921)
2008 – Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances

Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
National Anthem Day in Romania.
Rain Day in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, United States

[Krandall]

1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

They just need one from N-America to England now!

[Peelz]

1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

They just need one from N-America to England now!

holy biscuits that would be a long tunnel

[Krandall]