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• duffer19 3,670 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 11:38 AM

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• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 12:05 PM

  

   

  On this day:

  1647 - Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony

  1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.

  1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned king of Italy

  1857 - US slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow 3 months after US courts ruled against them

  1868 - President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote

  1896 - James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.

  1907 - Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game

  1911 - 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run

  1923 - 1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance is run

  1932 - Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo

  1937 - San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

  1943 - Edwin Barclay of Liberia becomes first president of a black country to visit US

  1945 - US drop fire bombs on Tokyo

  1955 - Conservatives win British parliamentary election

  1961 - Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta

  1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

  1969 - Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth

  1978 - 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

  1981 - Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14

  1989 - Danish parliament allows same-sex marriage

  1993 - Olympique Marseille win the 38th European Cup final. (The year the competition was rebranded as the Champions League)

  1996 - Indianapolis 500: Buddy Lazier wins in 3:22:45.753 (238.112 km/h)

  1998 - Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs President Clinton

  2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.

  2004 - The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the build up to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

  2004 - The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

  2006 - The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

  2012 - Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents

  Sorry to say I'm not related to, nor have I had dinner with, any of the people mentioned above.

   

  :O)

• duffer19 3,670 Posts

  Mon, May 26 2014 12:46 PM

  thanks for that Wiger

  :)  

  I dig

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 5:57 AM

  duffer19:

  in 1967 - duffer19 was born :)

  Happy 47 duffer...nice cake from WT

  May 27

  1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt ~ B&O Railroad & maker of large money

  1818 - Amelia Bloomer ~ Known mostly for her pantaloons

  1819 - Julia Howe ~ Known for The Battle Hymn of the Republic

  1820 - Mathilde Bonaparte ~ French Princess, and a much better $ocialite

  1836 - Jay Gould ~ Railroad dude - Ruthless - Huge Money...oh, and crooked

  1837 - "Wild Bill" Hickok ~ The one and only

  1850 - Thomas Cream ~ Glasgow serial killer

  and then there was....

  in 1529, 30 Jews of Posing, Hungary are roasted at the stake

  in 1679, Habeaus Corpus Act passes in England - Yippee

  in 1692, The Court of Oyer is established to hear accussations of  >W!tcHCraFt<  in Massachusetts

  in 1703, St Petersburg is founded by, who else?, Peter the Great, who was, what else?, Tsar...how convenient

  in 1849, The Great Hall of Euston Station in London opens

  in 1896, a Tornado hits St Louis and successfully kills 255 & leaves 1,000's homeless in the "show me" state

  ~ Arvoir ~

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 9:59 AM

  With regards to "Ale", SP ... it's only in the US where they distinguish a beer with an alcoholic content greater than 4.99 Ale ... 

  To my European friends ... if you order a pint of Guinness ... do you refer to it as "Ale" or "Beer"?

  27 May,

  Today's tributes:

  • Pianist Ramsey Lewis is 79
  • Singer/Songwriter Don Williams is 75

  Notables:

  • Politician Henry Kissinger is 91
  • Singer Cilla Black is 71

  Actors/Actresses:

  • Chris Colfer is 24
  • Christopher Lee is 92
  • Louis Gossett Jr. is 78
  • Todd Bridges is 49
  • Vincent Price (1911 - 1993)
  • Peri Gilpin is 53
  • Adam Corolla is 50
  • Paul Bettany is 43
  • Lewis Collins is 68

  Tribute Videos:

  First off ... Ramsey Lewis 

  And now, Don Williams ...

  Have a wonderful Tuesday, everyone (east of the International Date Line)!

• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 10:59 AM

  SweetiePie:

  in 1896, a Tornado hits St Louis and successfully kills 255 & leaves 1,000's homeless

  Oooft.... Residents of St. Louis not on your Xmas card list then?

   

  DaddysKat:

  To my European friends ... if you order a pint of Guinness ... do you refer to it as "Ale" or "Beer"?

  Quite simply;  'A pint of Guinness, barman, please.'

  If I asked for a beer or an ale I would then be asked by the person serving "any particular brand?"

  After about 4/5  hours the normal response to requests for more alcohol usually brings that ole refrain;

  "Get oot -yer barred!"

  To my mind Guinness is a stout.

  Others from different parts of Europe may well have their own opinions.

  Have a nice day y'all!

   

   

• ISH47 1,963 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 11:01 AM

  Drummer Sean Kinney of Alice In Chains is 48 today...  so am I.  \m/

• duffer19 3,670 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 12:44 PM

  happy b day ish - ya ole fart lol. ya got me by 366 :) hope it's a good one

• ISH47 1,963 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 1:18 PM

  duffer19:

  happy b day ish - ya ole fart lol. ya got me by 366 :) hope it's a good one

   

  Thanks brother.. Belated wishes to you as well..  \m/

• duffer19 3,670 Posts

  Tue, May 27 2014 1:58 PM

  ISH47:

  duffer19:

  happy b day ish - ya ole fart lol. ya got me by 366 :) hope it's a good one

   

  Thanks brother.. Belated wishes to you as well..  \m/

  thanks - and just goes to show why my shots keep going long - my math is sucky lol - 364 and not a day more :)  cheers