Here's a new thread for history buffs. We can post interesting events that occured in the past for any given date.

I'll start things off with February 5.


1881 Phoenix, Ariz., was incorporated.


1887 Verdi's opera "Otello" premiered at La Scala in Milan, Italy.


1897 The Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of pi. (The bill died in the state Senate.)

You know what's funny is I go on Wikipedia just about everyday, find the most interesting topic in either the "What happened on this date," or the "did you know" sections on the frontpage, and just click and read about it. And it never fails that I end up clicking stuff in the articles, and clicking stuff in those articles, and I spend a friggin hour or two just reading about all kinds of stuff branching off from the beginning topic. Good times, lol.

* 1862 – Domnitor Alexander John Cuza (pictured) merged his two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia, to form the United Principalities (now Romania).
* 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium established the Congo Free State as his personal possession in Africa through his organization Association Internationale Africaine and his private army, the Force Publique.
* 1924 – Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC.
* 1958 – A hydrogen bomb now known as the Tybee Bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.
* 2004 – The Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front captured Gonaïves, Haiti, starting the 2004 Haitian rebellion against the government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Here is the "On this day" for the 5th from Wiki.

Interesting that King Leopold established the Congo as his own personal property. .......now THAT is imperialism.

1901: Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel

1904: American occupation of Cuba ends

1917: Mexican constitution proclaimed

1922: The very first 'Readers Digest' appears on the shelves

1971: The US Apollo 14 (Shepard and Mitchell onboard) lands on the Moon

1988: Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

1901: Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel



1922: The very first 'Readers Digest' appears on the shelves



Ah, Reader's Digest!
I've always been fond of that little magazine. There were always copies lying around at Grandma's house and I enjoyed reading "Life in These United States" and doing the vocabulary test.

Also, interesting about US Steel. I think I can safely say that if it weren't for J. Pierpont, I wouldn't be typing away here at this very moment, thrilling you all with my deathless prose. Judge Elbert Gary, bigwig of US Steel, decided to specifically found a city for the sole purpose of making steel, in 1905. That city was Gary,Indiana and every ambitious farm boy or just out of college schoolteacher went to the brand new city to make their fortune. Not to mention many many immigrants from Poland and Eastern Europe--Romania, Bulgaria, etc. My grandma and grandpa also went there, late 1910's decade, met, and were married there. And several decades later, I was born there, in sight of the massive plants of US Steel, Gary Works.

Thanks J. Pierpont--you're OK in my book.

edited for typos, misspelled Judge Gary's name--for shame!

Don't tell me you're from Gary, Indiana, one of the uglies cities in the entire known universe. I used to pass through Gary on my way to Chicago and always marveled at how one single city could encompass so much ugliness.

If you want to read a good, factual book about the Belgian Congo read, King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild.

A great, fictional account of the same area is, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.

Back in the day, Gary used to be nice. It was a planned city with Broadway running north/south, and all streets parallel to Broadway to the east named for presidents; all streets parallel to the west named for states.

IOW, it's impossible to get lost there and also had one of the finest school systems in the country, (My Grandma taught at Lew Wallace High for over 40 years) and lovely parks and beaches on the shores of Lake Michigan, and a large, fashionable, thriving downtown.

So it ain't so nice now. The steel industry in general has fallen on hard times. It'll come back. The spirit of the city is strong. Ya can't keep a good steelworker down.

PS. Ugly steel mills?
When I see them, I don't see ugly. I see money and GOOD PAYING JOBS.

I like Reader's Digest too.

1994: A mortar bomb explodes in the market in Sarajaevo killing 68 and wounding 200, it was the worst single atrocity of the 22 month conflict.

1974: Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in
Berkeley California.
The kidnapping was carried out by a little known Revolutionary Group,
The Symbionese Liberation Army-SLA.
Hearst was brainwashed and 2 months later was caught on CCTV helping the SLA rob a bank.
She went on the run but was caught and sentenced to 7 years in prison, but was released after 3.
Patty Hearst married her Police Guard and now lives a normal life.

PS. Ugly steel mills?
When I see them, I don't see ugly. I see money and GOOD PAYING JOBS.

I think they're fascinating to look at as I'm crashing over the Skyway potholes. It smells down there, though.

For all the royalists out there:


February 6, 1952

Elizabeth becomes queen

On this day in 1952, after a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham, thus making his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, Queen.

Feb 6

1983: War criminal and Gestapo Commandant Klaus Barbie arrived in France
to stand trial for war crimes commited in 1944.

The 69 yo known as 'The Butcher of Lyon', was believed to be behind the
deaths of more than 4000 Jews, many of them women and children, he was also suspected of sending 7,500 people to Death Camps.

One of the most prominent people Barbie was suspected of killing was
Jean Moulin, head of the French Resistance.

What happened to Barbie, paul?

Here's another highlite of today--on this date, Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice -President, was born in Newark, New Jersey, a city my ggggggg-grandpa, Jasper Crane, founded.

Let's call a person out we don't like and challenge them to a duel in honor of the great Mr Burr.

3 July 1987 Klaus Barbie was found guilty of 341 seperate charges and sentenced to life in prison.

He died in prison in Lyon 25 September 1991

Klaus Barbie.

Thanks, I guess I coulda looked that up myself, but too lazy. I feel like crap today and still have painting to do when I get home. Almost done tho.

Ah well, nap time here now. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Klaus Barbie.

Blech. Looks like a twit to me. Sometimes the cruelest guys are the most ordinary-looking.

Yeah look at Himmler-a geeky wee shit.

I think they're fascinating to look at as I'm crashing over the Skyway potholes. It smells down there, though.
it smells like money:D

Ah well, nap time here now. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
that's why libraries are kept quiet!:lolhit:

Hesh, mike, can't you see I'm trying to SLEEP?????

On this date, Feb 7, 1609, Captain John Smith and 105 Cavaliers on 3 ships landed on the Virginia coast, starting the first permanent settlement in the New World at Jamestown.

(side note--my husband claims descent from one of these cavaliers--however, he's never been able to find good documentation. It's probably harder to get into the Jamestown Society than it any other hereditary genealogical society in the US, next to the Society of the Cincinnatti).

Feb 7, 1964

The Beatles arrive in New York. Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!!!

Yo sleepy-Yalta.

Grandma used to say that FDR "sold us down the river" at Yalta.

It's true that he was in poor health and not really a mental match for Stalin when they met there. You needed ALL your wits when you were dealing with THAT nogoodnik.

OK OK. I understand your not going to bother with it.

You really are tired today :(

You ok girl.

I feel a bit better than FDR did I guess. :)

WHY GRANDMA SAID FDR SOLD AMERICANS DOWN THE RIVER

Roosevelt met Stalin's price hoping the USSR could be dealt via the United Nations. Later, many Americans considered the agreements of the Yalta Conference were a 'sellout', encouraging Soviet expansion of influence to Japan and Asia, and because Stalin eventually violated the agreements in forming the Soviet bloc. Furthermore the Soviets had agreed to join the United Nations, given the secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, thus ensuring that each country could block unwanted decisions. It is possible that Roosevelt's failing health (Yalta was his last major conference before dying of cerebral hemorrhage) was partially to blame for such poor judgment. At the time the Red Army had occupied and held much of Eastern Europe with military three times greater than Allied forces in the West.

(Yes, but we had the industry)


from wikipedia.

Given the massive force and inertia of the Red Army in 1945, I don't think anything agreed to at Yalta or Potsdam was going to make much of a difference about the make-up of post-war Europe. The Soviet Union was going to occupy Eastern Europe no matter what. As for Japan, Roosevelt desperately wanted Soviet assistance. An invasion was projected to cost at least a million Allied casualties and he didn't like the idea of all those being American.

Feb 8

1952: Elizabeth is crowned Queen and head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith.

The new Monarch read an offical Proclamation declaring her reign as
'Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second'.

1692: A doctor in Salem village Massachusetts Bay Colony accuses two girls of bewitchment-leading to the Salem Witch Trials.

Aaron Burr has always been made the villain of the duel above the Palisades in Wehawken but new evidence indicates Hamilton was the real villain.

Hamilton was using a pistol with a hair trigger that would fire with about a half pound of pressure applied to the trigger. Burr was using a conventional pistol that needed much greater pressure against the trigger to fire.

It is conjectured that Hamilton felt he could get off his shot before Burr and kill him. Sadly for him he fired earlier than he expected and his shot went above Burr's head. Burr then shot and fatally wounded him.

Aaron Burr has always been made the villain of the duel above the Palisades in Wehawken but new evidence indicates Hamilton was the real villain.

Hamilton was using a pistol with a hair trigger that would fire with about a half pound of pressure applied to the trigger. Burr was using a conventional pistol that needed much greater pressure against the trigger to fire.

It is conjectured that Hamilton felt he could get off his shot before Burr and kill him. Sadly for him he fired earlier than he expected and his shot went above Burr's head. Burr then shot and fatally wounded him.
who supplied the pistols and who chose first?

Glock are the best

Glock are the best
depends on what you're looking for...revolvers never jam. a .357 will break an engine. a .45 ACP will stagger a horse.

Aaron Burr has always been made the villain of the duel above the Palisades in Wehawken but new evidence indicates Hamilton was the real villain.

Hamilton was using a pistol with a hair trigger that would fire with about a half pound of pressure applied to the trigger. Burr was using a conventional pistol that needed much greater pressure against the trigger to fire.

It is conjectured that Hamilton felt he could get off his shot before Burr and kill him. Sadly for him he fired earlier than he expected and his shot went above Burr's head. Burr then shot and fatally wounded him.

Hamilton was the villain long before the duel was fought. He spread the disgusting rumor that Burr had an incestous relationship with his own daughter Theodosia, who Burr was very close to. Hamilton also claimed that Burr was the father of Martin Van Buren. (There may be some truth to THAT particular story as Burr was a well-known ladies' man).

Their differences were MUCH more than political. Hamilton, always the butt-kissing social climber, was just jealous of Burr and and his prominent family--his grandpa had founded Princeton University.

I taake Burr's side in this. Also my ggggg grandpa, Ephraim Kibbe, was one of the men who sailed down the Ohio with Burr when he supposedly tried to "overthrow" the US Government. Ha--if he was going to do that, he'd take more than 50 or so men. Jefferson and the Virginia junta were ALWAYS out to get him.

On this date, Feb 11, 1847 Thomas Alva Edison was born.
This man ranked Number One on Life Magazine's Special Men of the Millenium edition, going up against such notables as Jefferson, Magellan, Einstein, Martin Luther, Pasteur and Newton. When he died, cities across America dimmed their lights in honor of the man who brought light to darkness.

Here's a nice obituary for the great inventor.



OBITUARY
Human Qualities of the Inventor and Varied Aspects of His Busy Life Recalled
By BRUCE RAE

Thomas Alva Edison made the world a better place in which to live and brought comparative luxury into the life of the workingman. No one in the long roll of those who have benefited humanity has done more to make existence easy and comfortable. Through his invention of electric light he gave the world a new brilliance; when the cylinder of his first phonograph recorded sound he put the great music of the ages within reach of every one; when he invented the motion picture it was a gift to mankind of a new theatre, a new form of amusement. His inventions gave work as well as light and recreation to millions.

His inventive genius brooded over a world which at nightfall was engulfed in darkness, pierced only by the feeble beams of kerosene lamps, by gas lights or, in some of the larger cities, by the uncertainties of the old-time arc lights. To Edison, with the dream of the incandescent lamp in his mind, it seemed that people still lived in the Dark Ages. But his ferreting fingers groped in the darkness until they evoked the glow that told him the incandescent lamp was a success, and that light for all had been achieved. That significant moment occurred more than fifty years ago- -on Oct. 21, 1879.

The Miracles of Menlo Park

A blustering wind beat gustily on the unpainted boards of a small laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. A tall, lean figure stooped over a shaky table, his steel-blue eyes filled with the impassioned light of discovery. Beside him was a thin, nervous assistant. The dull golden glow of kerosene lamps, puffing off an oily odor, cast grotesque shadows on the walls, as every chance gust of air down the lamp chimneys twisted the erratic flame.

Straining weary eyes in the dim and uneven light, the assistant fluttered the pages of a notebook- -jottings on a miracle about to be performed. The corners of the laboratory were deep in shadow and the outside world was a waste of darkness, shot by occasional rifts of light. A few miles away was New York, with gas light in some of its homes, but table lamps still a household necessity. The hoofbeats of its leisurely traffic passed along streets brightened only by the pale yellow pools of light that circled the wide-spaced lamp posts. On Broadway the fabled midnight supper of the Victorian era was served under crystal chandeliers and gas globes; there was no spotlight in the theatres and the footlights were feeble gestures at illumination.

The two men in the laboratory were looking from a dim present into a dazzling future, from darkness to Broadway's brightest display. Gravely Francis Jehl told Mr. Edison that the lamp on the table had a good vacuum. An organ pump in a corner was started to force the air from the lamp. A minute or two went by in breathless silence. Then the inventor tested the vacuum. It was right, and he told Jehl to seal the lamp. The great moment was at hand. They moved to the dynamo and started it. Light sprang from the lamp like a newly created world to the watching men. Edison put on more power. He thought the makeshift filament would burst. Instead it grew bright. More power and more light. At last it broke. But the incandescent lamp had been invented.

Tribute of a World Aglow

Fifty years later the fruition of that night's work was dramatized in the golden anniversary of the electric light. Broadway, Piccadilly, the Champs Elysees, Unter den Linden flashed in golden brilliance. Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Peiping, Bangkok, Melbourne, Moscow--cities the world over, blazed an unconscious tribute, and at Dearborn, Mich., Edison feebly re-lived that memorable night in the history of scientific progress. In a reconstructed Menlo Park, with President Hoover and Henry Ford looking on, he and his faithful aide re-enacted the discovery of a half a century before, but with a different climax. The original scene at Menlo Park had been faithfully reproduced and every light extinguished, except the oil burners in the laboratory itself. At the second that the filament burned and Mr. Edison turned with a smile to the President, the dim yellow flame of the oil lamps leaped to a golden spray of amperes as a Ford foreman pulled a master switch. Dearborn leaped from the darkness, and powerful lights turned the night into noontime. Buildings emerged in twinkling frames, and airplanes, with their wings and fuselage outlined in electric lights, dipped and circled as the inventor, now grown feeble and silver-haired, returned to the dining hall to hear the President hail him as the benefactor of all mankind. He counted this the best of his gifts to humanity.

The Magic Release of Music

Then, in 1877, Edison invented the cylinder phonograph, a crude affair which was not perfected until 1890, and which was still undergoing refinement when World War broke out in 1914. The average parlor music up to that time was provided by the harmonium, or the piano on which some musical maid practiced her scales or laboriously picked out tunes like "Hearts and Flowers." There was a monotony and a tameness to the household melody, even in the cities, and the fiddle held undisputed sway in rural districts. Then came the phonograph--at first a novelty, then a luxury and, finally, a commonplace. It brought the great arias of opera into the tenements. Caruso's voice soared for flat-faced Tibetans in the hill villages near Darjeeling. Traders saw to it that the spear-carrying natives of Central Africa had a chance to hear crack orchestras from Broadway and Piccadilly grind out jazz, with a faintly reminiscent note. And, fifty years from now, the voice of Caruso and all his contemporaries will be heard by those not yet born.

Edison had a hand even in the perfection of the radio, that invention which has given his phonograph a back seat in the march of progress. In 1876 he perfected the carbon telephone transmitter, which, in turn, helped in the evolution of the microphone. To complete his contribution to radio, it should be pointed out that in 1883, while studying the flow of current, he evolved what is known as the Edison Effect. This, in principle, is the basis for the De Forest radio lamp or tube.

Stilled Images Brought to Life

He first produced a motion picture camera in 1887, but it was not until 1891 that he perfected it. Curiously enough, this historic machine did not interest him to any great extent. He failed utterly to envision Hollywood and the huge industry that his genius made possible. To Edison a succession of flashes thrown on a screen so rapidly that they made a continuous picture had possibilities only as peep shows in penny arcades. When some one suggested that the pictures be shown in theatres he demurred, on the ground that to do so would interfere with the arcades. He did harbor the idea, however, that the pictures might be synchronized with the phonograph. This he never worked out, because of the failure of his early attempt to link conversation to moving pictures.

Thus he permitted others to carry on his pioneering in this fertile field, but it is because of his early discoveries that America leads the world in screen effects, and that the penny arcade, with its shooting gallery and knockout fight films, has yielded to the cathedrals of the screen. Also, because of Edison, it is possible for the natives of Kamchatka to sit impassively, row upon row, and see how the high school champion diving team of Rural Centre, Ill., put on a water carnival and raised money to pay the church mortgage. And vice versa, for the students of Rural Centre to see what the well-controlled native of Bengal does when a hungry tiger charges him. Edison did more than light the lamp at Menlo Park.








--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company

Also :)

On this day 1990 Nelson Mandela was freed from prison after serving 27 years.

Must have been a few boring days there,either that or Rendova is sleeping at work again,lets see what I can dig up for today.

Feb 14:
1945 US and British bombers dropped hundreds of thousands of explosives on the city of Dresden.
It is still seen as a controversial decision to this day.

1859: Oregon becomes 33rd state of the Union.
1912: Arizona becomes 48th state of the Union.
1929:Valentines Day Massacre. A victory for Capones gang over Morans.

Glock are the best
Glocks are good, sure - the Austrians make decent sidearms (and not to mention, excellent rifles), but my money's with the Germans. They make the best guns on the planet, period. I have a fair number of Sigs and HKs, and I'll swear by all of 'em.

Hamilton owned a fine pair of dueling pistols but elected to borrow a pair from his brother-in-law, John Church. Church owned a pair of dueling pistols with a hidden, hair trigger button. This button allowed a half cock which meant rather than the eight to twelve pounds of pressure needed to fire the gun only about a half pouind was needed. Both pistols had this hidden hair trigger button but only Hamilton knew about them. He would have been able to fire much more quickly than Burr. He in fact fired too quickly and missed Burr. Burr took his time and hit Hamilton.

Feb 17:

1992: Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life in prison by a court o Wisconson for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys.

1933: The Blaine Act end Prohibation.

1867: The first ship passes thru the Suez Canal

Jeffrey Dahmer---yet another example of a seemingly normal, glib, nice looking young man operating under the radar against society's throwaways. He was always one step ahead--a very organized, fantasy driven killer. Truly the stuff of which nightmares are made.

My kids used to ask if there were really such things as monsters.
My answer was---

"Yes."

19 Feb

1942: Executive Order 9066 is signed, allowing the internment of Japanese Americans.

1945: Battle of Iwo Jima begins with 30,000 Marines landing.

19 Feb

1942: Executive Order 9066 is signed, allowing the internment of Japanese Americans.
for better or worse, Germans and Italian nationals were interned too.

So Americans,Germans and Italians were all interned :)

Nothing happened today.

Absolutely nothing.

Ah c'mon, stop being grumpy cause ya wanna get home before the snow arrives, lets see.

21 Feb:
1965:Malcolm X was assassinated in Harlem NYC.
He had called for a black state in the US.

Malcolm X was a piece of shit; a two-bit thug, communist, and petty criminal - he got exactly what he deserved that day.

Malcolm X was a piece of shit; a two-bit thug, communist, and petty criminal - he got exactly what he deserved that day.

Jeez, next you're going to tell me you don't care for Che Guavara.

Jeez, next you're going to tell me you don't care for Che Guavara.
:lolhit:

In either scenario, if I could go back in time, I'd gladly pull the trigger myself (actually, come to think of it, I'd probably dump an entire clip into Che's torso, but whatever....what's done, is done).

1942 In order to make more weapons ready for war production, deliveries of all 12-gauge shotguns for sporting use are shut down by the U.S. government.

Honoring a Hoosier Hero:


February 25, 1779

British surrender Fort Sackville

On this day in 1779, Fort Sackville is surrendered, marking the beginning of the end of British domination in America’s western frontier.

Eighteen days earlier, George Rogers Clark departed Kaskaskia on the Mississippi River with a force of approximately 170 men, including Kentucky militia and French volunteers. The party traveled over 200 miles of land covered by deep and icy flood water until they reached Fort Sackville at Vincennes (Indiana) on February 23, 1779. Clark secured the surrender of the British garrison under Lieutenant-Governor Henry Hamilton at 10 a.m. on February 25.

Upon their arrival in Vincennes, French settlers, who had allied themselves with Hamilton when he took the fort in December, welcomed and provisioned Clark’s forces. Inside Fort Sackville, Hamilton had only 40 British soldiers and an equal number of mixed French volunteers—French settlers fought on both sides of the American Revolution--and militia from Detroit. The French portion of Hamilton’s force was reluctant to fight once they realized their compatriots had allied themselves with Clark.

Clark managed to make his 170 men seem more like 500 by unfurling flags suitable to a larger number of troops. The able woodsmen filling Clark’s ranks were able to fire at a rapid rate that reinforced Hamilton’s sense that he was surrounded by a substantial army. Meanwhile, Clark began tunneling under the fort with the intent of exploding the gunpowder stores within it. When an Indian raiding party attempted to return to the fort from the Ohio Valley, Clark’s men killed or captured all of them. The public tomahawk executions served upon five of the captives frightened the British as to their fate in Clark’s hands. Their subsequent surrender revealed British weakness to the area’s Indians.

****************************************

Side note:

George Rogers Clark was the brother of William Clark of Expedition fame.

Good for Clark.

February 26, 1972

Dam collapses in West Virginia
A dam collapses in West Virginia on this day in 1972, flooding a valley and killing 118 people. Another 4,000 people were left homeless.


Coal mining was the chief industry in Logan County, West Virginia, in the 1970s. Such mining poses many environmental complications and first among them is safe disposal of the byproduct, known as tailings. If the tailings are dumped on hills, they can cause landslides. If placed in valleys, they can block streams and cause flooding.


In West Virginia’s Buffalo Creek Valley, tailings from area coal mines were used to dam Buffalo Creek. Tailings can however be unstable, especially in heavy rain. In February 1972, three days of rain exacerbated two small dam breaks that had occurred several years earlier. On February 26 at 8:01 a.m., the dam burst, unleashing a 20-foot wall of water that roared into the valley.


About 4,000 people were living in 17 towns and villages in Buffalo Creek Valley at the time. Hundreds of homes and buildings were swept away by the powerful flood. Though estimates of the death toll vary, it is believed that at least 118 people lost their lives. The Buffalo Mining Company, which was responsible for the tailings, was forced to pay $30 million in damages.

Samething happened at Aberfan, South Wales.
144 killed, 116 children when the school collapsed.

Very sad.

If that's the same thing I'm thinking of, paul, there was a really bizarre side story to that terrible event.

A woman who had kids in the school dreamed of the disaster happening and told neighbors, friends, school officials and her husband of her visions--but no one did anything.

Hours after her dream, the school disappeared in the deluge.

Really, really bizarre. I read about this in Arthur C. Clarke's Strange World--and it can be a VERY strange world sometimes.

Yeah, I think it left a permanent mark on the small village. :(

God love 'em. :(

Feb. 27, 1864~~~

Federal prisoners begin arriving at Andersonville.

It's also the birthday of Constantine I.

:drinktoth

It's also Elizabeth Taylor's birthday... she's 76. Gotta give the ole gal credit... she's an original!

Feb 29:

We do this one only every fourth year so make the most of it.

If its yer birthday today-Im sorry :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7269816.stm

1770
The Boston Massacre, a pre-Revolutionary incident that grew out of anger towards British troops, occurred. Five anti-British rioters were killed.

1933
In the last free elections in Germany until after World War II, the Nazi Party received 44% of the vote.

1946
Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron curtain speech, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."

1953
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin died at age 73, after 29 years in power.

1963
Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hankshaw Hawkins were killed in a plane crash

March 7, 1897: First Morning of the Corn Flake (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0307#)



http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9973/cornflakesll6.png (http://www.allforums.net/)


And breakfast changed.

Hooray for corn flakes!
Or better yet--Sugar Frosted Flakes!
Or, best of all, sugar coated Raisin Bran!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love corn flakes, frosted flakes, and raisin bran.

i have yet to find sugar coated raisin bran, and i've been looking!

they must be hogging it all down there:mad:

Corn Flakes with Craisins!

Frosted Flakes is the cereal of the gods.

Frosted Flakes is the cereal of the gods.

Agreed.

Frosted Flakes is the cereal of the gods.
how can you say that with Fruit Loops still on the market?
http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t33/texrose752/eek2.gif

Captain Crunch... FTW!

how can you say that with Fruit Loops still on the market?

Another good choice. I also like Lucky Charms, although they're getting too high in marshmallow content.

Another good choice. I also like Lucky Charms, although they're getting too high in marshmallow content.
:eek: you take that back! if there was a marshmallow only cereal, i'd buy it!

I like Lucky Charms sometimes... Froot Loops are much better though. One cereal I ate when I was little that I don't eat anymore is Count Chocula. I get the feeling that I wouldn't enjoy it as much as I used to. :p

Nothing beats plain old Cheerios.

I like Cheerios too.

Never liked Cheerios or Lucky Charms. I like Honey Bunches of Oats preferably with strawberries.

Honey Smacks are good, but they have a disturbing side effect. When I use the restroom, I can smell the cereal again.

On this date in 1948,the landmark U.S.Supreme court decision, McCollum v Board of Education,barring religious instruction in public schools,was handed down,with a vote of 8 to 1. The case was filed by Vashti McCollum,a mother in Champaign,Ill on behalf of her son,Jim. He was punished by teachers and teased by students for not taking part in religious instruction illegally taught in his public school. She lost the case twice before taking it to the Supreme Court. She is now in her 90's.

I LOVE Honey Bunches of Oats.

Captain Crunch... FTW!
ABSOLUTELY!

Honey Smacks are good, but they have a disturbing side effect. When I use the restroom, I can smell the cereal again.
LOL - Captain Crunch with crunch berries has a similar effect, and not only in the smell dept. :eek: Gotta love chemicals and high concentrations of food coloring.

I like Lucky Charms sometimes... Froot Loops are much better though. One cereal I ate when I was little that I don't eat anymore is Count Chocula. I get the feeling that I wouldn't enjoy it as much as I used to. :p


Fruit Loops are nasty....any fruity cereal like that smells awful.


Frosted Mini Wheats never last long between myself and my daughters nor do Honey Grahams

I've had a few ideas on some new cereals...

Honey Branches of Oaks

Frosted Flukes

Frosted Mini-Whelks

Cinnamon Roach Crunch

Scrapple Jacks

Raisin Brain

Fruit Lues

Count Upchuckula

Alfalfa-Bits


Any suggestions?

Frosted Flukes

http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/smile/386.gif

Grapefruit Nuts???

Lucky Charm-bracelets??

Malt-O Mush?? YUMMY!!!!



Bad, I know.

11 March:

2004-The Madrid Train Bombing.
170 dead and 500 injured.

This attack was AQs response to Spanish military involvement in the ME.

As a result, the then pro-Bush government fell and Spanin pulled its troops out of the region.

That was a terrible thing.

Also on this date, March 11--

1861--The Confederate Constitution was adopted

1918--first case of the deadly influenza epidemic reported

1941--FDR signs Lend-Lease

1942--McArthur leaves Corregidor

This attack was AQs response to Spanish military involvement in the ME.

As a result, the then pro-Bush government fell and Spanin pulled its troops out of the region.
"Mission Accomplished"...

1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.

Nothing like an ice cold coke straight from the bottle. Sure beats that canned stuff hands down.

Is it just in Ireland that bottles of coke have shrunk over the years ?

You can buy teeny tiny bottles here, and regular-size too. The little bottles are cute.

When I lived in Texas you could buy gigantic bottles of pop. We'd buy them by the truckload. It was so refreshing getting up at night, your mouth dry as cotton, and chugging the ice cold stuff straight from the bottle---then let out a burp and head to bed to sleep like a baby.

Yeah but Texans have big mouths-as youve noticed.

You probably remember Coke as better because it was made with real sugar instead of corn syrup. A lot of people think it was the glass bottles, but it's not... In Costa Rica the soda was AMAZING.

(although paul, I think they still make it with sugar in Ireland. Not sure. It was good there anyways.)

When I lived in Texas you could buy gigantic bottles of pop.No, you couldn't.

You could buy gigantic bottles of 'coke'. :)

No, you couldn't.

You could buy gigantic bottles of 'coke'. :)
That's true.

BTW - What's "pop"? I thought "pop" was the sound youren tars made when you run over them there sheruff boys spike strips. (followed by a rapid "flap flap flap flap")

Related... I'll share this also, since I'm being a thread-derailer/goof troll...

This week, a high speed multi-county car chase occurred here in my neck of the woods. The State Patrol was in pursuit of a vehicle and had called the local boys to assist. After the suspect ran through 2 different road blocks... the patrolman got a bit pissed and said "stop this guy, don't let him through again". The local fellows then put out their spike strips ahead of the chased car and got him! (unfortunately, in their excitement, they forgot to retrieve the spike strips... much to the chagrin of the following two cars that traveled that stretch. I guess our county tax dollars will be going for some new "tars" this month).

:)

Smokey and the Bandit lives.

Come to think of it, it WAS only Coca-Cola that was sold in the great big bottles--not any other kind of pop like Dr. Pepper , Pepsi, or Faygo.

But then again, it was a long time ago and I don't really remember for sure--it's been 20 years ago, when I was 5.

Come to think of it, it WAS only Coca-Cola that was sold in the great big bottles--not any other kind of pop like Dr. Pepper , Pepsi, or Faygo.

But then again, it was a long time ago and I don't really remember for sure--it's been 20 years ago, when I was 5.
i remember getting Mt. Dew in 3-liter bottles somewhere down there about 6-10 years ago.

they where perfect! wide-mouth and a tapered neck! just what a thirsty mover needed:D