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Rambo123UK

Beware the Ides of March

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(15/03/09 23:22:54)

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15th March

44BC. Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Senate House by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. He was stabbed to death on the floor of the senate, and according to Shakespeare his final words were "Et tu, Brute." ("You too, Brutus"). It was not of course the first time Brutus had betrayed him, having fought against him in the civil war (and been pardoned and welcomed back into the fold by his old friend Caesar).

The miurder of Caesar was ostensibly to restore the republic of Rome, but instead plunged it into yet aother civil war and produced the first Emperor - Octavian, Caesar's adopted heir.

Also on this day:

1493 - Columbus returns to Spain from his voyage that discovered the Americas.

1869 - The first ever professional baseball team, the Cincinatti Red Stockings, played their first game

1877 - The first Test Match took place, between Ausralia and England. Australia won by 45 runs.

1917 - Nicholas II , last Tsar of Russia, abdicated

1937 - The first ever Blood Bank was set up in Cook County Hospital, Chicago

1990 - Farzad Bazoft, British-based journalist for the Observer was executed in Iraq

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Rambo123UK

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(16/03/09 21:24:42)

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16th March

St Urho's Day. Urho is a Finnish Saint who, so the story goes, drove the grasshoppers out of Finland, and so saved the grape crop. This festival was created in 1956 (along with the Saint) as a parody of St Patrick, who of course is sad to have driven serpents out of Ireland (there never were any snakes in Ireland, but when have christians ever let the facts get in the way of a good miracle?). Urho is Finnish for "hero" and a statue of him (complete with grasshopper impaled on pitchfork) stands in Menhaga, Minnesota. The festival is now celebrated widely throughout the USA.

Bad day for massacres - we have two:

In 1190, in York, England, the entire Jewish population of the city (150 or more) committed suicide or were slain by a mob of townspeople. They had taken refuge in Clifford's Tower.

In Vietnam in 1968, US soldiers murdered 500 or so unarmed villagers of Mai Lai and razed it to the ground. Only one person was ever convicted over this war crime, and he spent minimal time incarcerated over the mass murder.

Also on this day...

1660 - The English "Long Parliament" that had sat intermittently since November 1640, was finally dissolved

1802 - The United States Military Academy at West Point was established

1827 - The first black-owned and black-ru newspaper, Freedom's Journal, was founded in NY City

1872 - The first ever FA Cup final took place at the Kennington Oval. Wanderers beat the Royal Egineers 1-0

1926 - US physicist and rocket engineer Dr Robert H Goddard fired the first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1935 - Hitler reintroduced military conscription in Germany, in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles

1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge after the old one had been sold to a stupid and obscenely rich American in 1968

1976 - Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain

1978 - Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigade. His body was later found. having been murdered; the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of Brittany and leaked 200,000 gallons of crude oil

2000 - US Independent Counsel Robert Ray found that here was "no substantial and credible evidence" that Hilary Clinton, then First Lady, was involved in the case of the missing FBI files on senior Republicans

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Freeborn61

It's Jerry Lewis Day too....

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(16/03/09 22:19:12)

Monday, March 16, 2009
LE ROI DU CRAZY DAY

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Who could have known that Joseph Levitch, the baby boy born on this day in 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, would someday wear the crown of the 'King of Crazy'! Maybe his father had a clue when he introduced his five year old on stage at Brown's Hotel in Loch Sheldrake, NY. Little Joey sang, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime. Today, that theatre bears the name of this actor, singer, dancer, musician, comedian, producer, professor, and humanitarian. Maybe you've been to the Jerry Lewis Theatre in the borscht belt in upstate New York. Certainly, you've seen Jerry Lewis perform.
Maybe your first experience was seeing him in his role as the goofy partner of the suave, romantic Dean Martin. From 1946, when the two performed together for the first time in Atlantic City's 500 Club, till a decade later when the partners split; we were entertained with club appearances and no less than a dozen movies. The first, My Friend Irma, premiered at New York's Paramount Theatre. The opening stage act starred Martin and Lewis in person.

Jerry Lewis' mugging skills became the central force behind many of the movies the two made. Films like That's My Boy and The Caddy catapulted him into stardom. From 1951 through 1959, Jerry's name appeared in the top ten of box-office stars (6 years with his partner and 3 solo). In fact, in 1959, Paramount signed him to a fourteen-film contract for ten million dollars -- probably the most expensive contract signed with a performer at the time. He was back in the top ten from 1961 through 1964 and had received acclaim as Best Director for The Nutty Professor from the French.

Comedian, film star and director was never enough for the zany, talented Lewis. He had a top-ten hit in 1956, Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody; his own TV variety show from 1965 to 1974 and he continued to make movies, work the club circuit, and teach film at USC. His devotion to supporting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is known world wide. There are few who have never seen the annual Labor Day Telethon for MDA hosted by the untiring Jerry Lewis. Undaunted by protesters he continues the quest to raise money to help those stricken with neuromuscular diseases.

And, undaunted by the fact that his talents have never been truly recognized by his fellow Americans, Jerry Lewis continues to entertain us. A cult hero to the French, he remains 'Le Roi du Crazy'.

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WordClock

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(17/03/09 00:35:44)

You know, you could just get the yuku "History of the day" widget and you wouldn't have to type it all out.

Of course that wouldn't be as fun.

UnDebunked

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Rambo123UK

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(17/03/09 12:55:22)

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No, it wouldn't be as much fun.

Had any green beer yet today?

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Freeborn61

No, it wouldn't be as much fun and then we couldn't comment if we wanted to.

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(18/03/09 22:07:12)

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
PENNY LANE DAY

The Beatles went gold this day in 1967 -- receiving a gold record for the hit single, Penny Lane. This was not an unusual event for The Beatles. However, the recording of Penny Lane has left us with some interesting trivia.
According to Paul McCartney, Penny Lane is a bus roundabout in Liverpool; and there is a barber's shop showing photographs of every head he's had the pleasure to know -- no that's not true, they're just photos of hairstyles, but all the people who come and go stop and say hello. "It's part fact, part nostalgia for a place which is a great place, blue suburban skies as we remember it, and it's still there."

There were at least two different endings to the song. Radio stations were furnished with a 45 rpm version that featured a trumpet solo of seven notes, sustaining on the final note into Ringo's cymbal conclusion. Record buyers, on the other hand, heard the words "Penny Lane" at the end of the song, which then went into a sustaining note under Ringo's cymbal. There was no trumpet fanfare.

The original version shows up on the Rarities album on Capitol Records. Those having the original 'Promotional Copy' of the song have quite a valuable find. Penny Lane is also included on the American release of the Magical Mystery Tour album, but not the British EP version. While a number one song in America, Penny Lane made it to number two in England, causing some to wonder "if The Beatles were beginning to slip," according to The Beatles -- An Illustrated Record.

The 'B' side of gold record was the popular Strawberry Fields Forever.

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Rambo123UK

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(19/03/09 11:25:23)

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19th March

BORN

1813 - Scots missionary and explorer Sir David Livingstone
1821 - Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, linguist and diplomat
1848- Wyatt Earp, legendary US lawman

DIED

1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US author, writer of (among other things) the Tarzan books

EVENTS

721BC - The recorded eclipse, viewed in ancient Babylon

1920 - The US Senate voted against joining the League of Nations

1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge was officially opened - work had begun in December 1926

1958 - Madame Tussauds opened the UK's first planetarium, in London

1970 - West Germany and East Germany's leaders met for the first time since the partition of Germany

1976 - Princess Margaret's separation from Lord Snowdon was announced

1986 - Andrew, Prince of York, became engaged to Sarah Fergusson. On the same day in 1992 they announced their separation.

1988 - Two British soldiers were murdered by a Catholic mob in Northern Ireland

P.S. Today is the Feast of St Joseph, Jesus' adopted daddy. He is the patron saint of carpenters, working men, fathers - and pastrycooks. Pastrycooks...?

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Hawker Hurricane

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(19/03/09 12:53:02)

"P.S. Today is the Feast of St Joseph, Jesus' adopted daddy. He is the patron saint of carpenters, working men, fathers - and pastrycooks. Pastrycooks...? "

Everyone needs a hobby.

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Freeborn61

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(20/03/09 22:22:02)

Friday, March 20, 2009
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN DAY

It was on this day in 1852 that Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic book was published. Uncle Tom's Cabin, subtitled Life Among the Lowly became an instant success, selling 300,000 copies in its first year. It has since been translated into twenty languages and performed as a play the world over.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was even spotlighted in the Broadway musical and film, The King and I. Maybe you remember the haunting chant from the show, "Run Eliza, Run!" Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel remains a must-read for school children -- and a reminder to all of us of an ugly time in the history of the United States.

The antislavery novel and the adapted plays all feature the elderly, kind slave, Uncle Tom; the slave child, Topsy; Little Eva, the daughter of Tom's owner; Eliza, a young mulatto woman and the cruel, northern-born overseer who beat Tom to death, Simon LeGree.

The book brought much sympathy from around the world toward the American "peculiar institution" of slavery. In fact, Abraham Lincoln told Harriet Beecher Stowe she was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war," referring of course, to the Civil War.

'Til this day, we refer to an employer or any other with slave-driving tendencies as a 'Simon LeGree'.

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Freeborn61

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(21/03/09 22:14:19)

Saturday, March 21, 2009
GOD BLESS AMERICA DAY

God Bless America, written by Irving Berlin back in 1918 as a tribute by a successful immigrant to his adopted country, was recorded by Kate Smith for Victor Records on this day in 1939.
Ms. Smith first introduced the song on her Thursday, November 10, 1938 radio show (aired live the day before Armistice Day). God Bless America was a fitting tribute to its composer, who gave all royalties from the very popular and emotional song to the Boy Scouts. The song became Kate Smith's second signature after When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain; and the second national anthem of the United States of America.

On several occasions, it has even been suggested that the U.S. Congress enact a bill changing the national anthem to God Bless America.

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Freeborn61

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(22/03/09 22:17:39)

Rambo, you might like this one....

Sunday, March 22, 2009
STANLEY CUP DAY

In 1894, play-off competition for the coveted hockey award known as Lord Stanley's Cup began. Montreal and Ottawa played for the first championship honors on this day. Montreal took home the trophy.
The original trophy cost $48.67 and was purchased the previous year by Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston. He then donated it to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The inaugural champion was the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association.

From 1894 on, the winner of the Stanley Cup has had to win a series of playoff games first. In 1926, the playoff format took the order that remains in place today. The National Hockey League has been the permanent forum.

The teams with the most Stanley Cup titles since 1927 include the Detroit Red Wings (9) and Toronto Maple Leafs (11), with the Montreal Canadiens outdistancing the rest of the NHL (24 championship trophies). Larry Robinson holds the record for playing in the most Stanley Cup games (203 for Montreal and 24 for the LA Kings).

The Stanley Cup competition remains the oldest in professional sports in North America.

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Rambo123UK

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(22/03/09 22:44:50)

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Sorry, I've been a bit busy and missed a couple of days. There's always next year, I guess.

22nd March

1312 - Pope Clement V abolished the order of the Knights Templar

1765 - The Stamp Act was passed.

1888 - The Football League was founded at a meeting in Anderton's Hotel , Fleet Street, London

1895 - The first public showing of a celluloid cinematograph film

1942 - Morse news broadcasts began on the BBC for the French resistance

1945 - The League of Arab states was founded in Cairo

1956 - Martin Luther King Jnr was convicted of organizing a boycott of buses in Montgomery Alabama, after the arrest of Rosa Parks

1960 - The Laser was patented by Arthur L Schawlow and Charles H Townes

1995 - Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov returned to Earth after 442 days in space aboard the Mir space station

2000 - Cormac Murphy-O'Connor was installed as 10th Arcbishop of Westminster

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Freeborn61

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(23/03/09 22:21:17)

Yes, that's right! lol

Monday, March 23, 2009
MONKEY DAY

An evolution law, enacted this day in the great State of Tennessee in the year 1925, made it a crime for a teacher in any state-supported public school or college to teach any theory that contradicted the Bible's account of man's creation. Tennessee's Governor Austin Peay said, "The very integrity of the Bible in its statement of man's divine creation is denied by any theory that man descended or has ascended from any lower order of animals." Opponents planned to challenge the law, denouncing it as a violation of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.
Within two months, a Dayton, Tennessee high school science teacher, John T. Scopes was indicted, and later convicted, in the famous 'Monkey Trial' for teaching his students the theory of evolution; that man descended from a lower order of animals ... or monkeys. Scopes was fined $100. Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow stated that this was "the first case of its kind since we stopped trying people for witchcraft."

Remember this the next time you think about swinging from a tree ... especially while eating a banana and singing, "Yaba daba daba."

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Rambo123UK

25th March

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(25/03/09 14:56:37)

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Cricket World Cup Final 1992 - Imran Khan's last match.

Imran Khan returned from retirement to pull together a self-destructing Pakistan side that were not expected to progress far in the tournament. Instead they went on to beat the England by 22 runs in the final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia.

That was the last time the men's England cricket team got to the world cup final, though the women's team just won the WC last week.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Freeborn61

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(26/03/09 22:41:56)

Thursday, March 26, 2009
TELESCOPE DAY

On this day in 1936, the first telescope with a 200-inch-diameter, reflecting mirror was shipped -- very, very carefully -- from Corning, New York to Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The lens of the Hale telescope weighed 20 tons. It was dedicated at Mt. Palomar in 1948.
It is a far cry from the first telescope invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey of the Netherlands. Hans made eye glasses and one day, while holding a lens in each hand, he looked through both lenses at one time. What he saw was an enlarged image at the end of the two lined-up lenses. Lippershey carried his accidental discovery one step further, mounting a lens at either end of a tube, creating the first telescope. Many experiments had been made with lenses magnifying objects, with documentation as far back as the 1200s. But, Lippershey has been given the credit, if not the patent. Galileo heard of Lippershey's invention and built his own telescope in 1609. Its magnification power was a mere 33X about the same as that of opera glasses.

The Hale telescope at Mt. Palomar remains one of the most widely-used scientific telescopes on the planet -- as it looks at other planets and beyond. Galileo would be amazed!

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Rambo123UK

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(27/03/09 00:59:26)

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26th March

1484 - William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.

1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

1917 - World War I: First Battle of Gaza - British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.

1934 - The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.

1942 - World War II: In Poland, Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.

1945 - World War II: In Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima secure.

1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.

1971 - East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Liberation War begins.

1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.

1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.

1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.

1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world; A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.

2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.

Today's Big Birthday is Richard Dawkins.

Dawkins was born on tis day in 1941. Dawkins has become possibly the world's most famous atheist.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Rambo123UK

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(27/03/09 12:36:19)

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27th of March - good day for becoming the leader of a country:

196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.

1306 - Robert The Bruce crowned King of Scotland at Scone.

1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

1642 - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.

1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

Bad day for disasters:

1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.

1910 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312

1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage

1977 - Tenerife disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am) and 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.

1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1986 - A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.

1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.

2000 - A Phillps Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.

2002 - Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.

Popes flexed their muscles:

1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.

1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.

oh, and in 1555, William Hunter was burned to death for refusing to renounce his protestantism

Lots of stuff for the Americas:

1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León sights North America (specifically Florida) for the first time, mistaking it for another island.

1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texans at Goliad, Texas; Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.

1851 - First reported case of Europeans seeing Yosemite Valley.

1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.

1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.

Impotent men got a lift in 1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States

A few aviation events of note other than disasters, too:

1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.

1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.

1999 - An F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth Fighter" (not actually a fighter at all) is shot down during the Kosovo War.

In Europe and the rest of the world:

1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.

1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.

1871 - The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.

1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.

1938 - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.

1963 - Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.

1969 - Mariner 7 is launched.

1993 - Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.

2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.

2006 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

WWII

1941 - Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.

1943 - Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.

1945 - Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins

Among others born on this day is Wilhelm Rontgen, the discoverer of X-Rays born in 1845

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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Rambo123UK

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(27/03/09 12:38:55)

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Also petrol heads might want to wish Cale Yarborough a Happy Birthday.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Sir Winston Churchill

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(27/03/09 22:23:31)

CORKSCREW DAY

It was on this day in 1860 that the device which, officially, is a "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" or, corkscrew, was patented by M. L. Byrn of New York City. Hooray for M. L.!
After all, if it wasn't for the invention of the corkscrew we'd be pulling corks out of those wine bottles with our teeth ... and what would the sommeliers use?

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(29/03/09 22:21:59)

Sunday, March 29, 2009
THE KING AND I DAY (and it's my Mom's birthday too)

The wonderful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on Margaret Langdon's novel, Anna and the King of Siam, opened this night in 1951 on Broadway. The King and I starred Yul Brynner in the role of the King of Siam. The king who, along with his subjects, valued tradition above all else. From this day forward, the role of the King of Siam belonged to Yul Brynner and no other.
Brynner appeared in this part in more than 4,000 performances on both stage and screen (the Broadway show was adapted for Hollywood in 1956).

Anna, the English governess hired to teach the King's dozens of children, was portrayed by Gertrude Lawrence. Ms. Lawrence and Mr. Brynner acted, danced and sang their way into our hearts with such memorable tunes as Getting to Know You, Shall We Dance, Hello, Young Lovers, I Whistle a Happy Tune, We Kiss in a Shadow, I Have Dreamed, Something Wonderful, A Puzzlement and March of the Siamese Children.

The King and I ran for a total of 1,246 outstanding performances at New York's St. James Theatre.

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