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• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Sep 18 2014 5:53 AM

  jeudi heureux !

  September 18

      53 - Trajan ~ Roman Emperor

  1344 - Marie Valois ~ Princess of France

  1733 - George Read ~ a Judge and signer of the Declaration of Independence

  1859 - Lincoln Loy McCandless ~ American Cattle Rancher <> Big Time

  1905 - Eddie Anderson ~ "Rochester" to Jack Benny

  1905 - Greta Garbo

  1926 - Bob Toski

  1927 - Gerlando Alberti ~ Sicilian Mafioso

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1180 ~ Philip Augustus becomes King of France

  1679 ~ New Hampshire becomes a count

  1755 ~ Fort Ticonderoga opens in NY

  1793 ~ George Washington lays the cornerstone of Capitol Building

  1809 ~ Royal Opera House opens in London

  1851 ~ New York Times starts publishing at 2 cents a copy

  1906 ~ >>>TYPHOON>>>TSUNAMI -->Hong Kong waves bye bye to 10,000

  1976 ~ Mao Zedong does his funeral...many cry, many cheer

  ~ une etreinte chaleureuse ! ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Sep 20 2014 10:26 AM

  ~ Hello ~

  September 20

  1486 - Arthur ~ Prince of Wales <> House of Tudor <> son of King Henry VII

  1599 - Christian the Younger ~ German military leader

  1744 - Thomas Grosvenor ~ American Revolutionary War Hero

  1878 - Upton Sinclair ~ Writer of great books such as "The Jungle" & "OIL!"

  ~ By the Bye ~

    451 ~ Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun

    622 ~ Prophet Mohammed (real name; Abu Bakr) arrives in Jathrib (Medina)....and now for the good news..... ;-}

  1187 ~ Seladin, the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria begins the siege of Jerusalem :-{

  1519 ~ Magellan starts 1st circumcision..whoops...circumnavigation of the World...it was a success

  1664 ~ Maryland passes a law to stop the marriage of English Women & Negro Men

  1814 ~ "Star Spangled Banner" published in song

  1870 ~ Mayor William "Boss" Tweed is accused of robbing NY Treasury

  1913 ~ Francis Quimet fires a 304 at The Country Club in Mass. to win the 19th US Open

  1927 ~ Babe Ruth hits Home Run # 60 - the pitcher was Tom Zachry

  1961 ~ Roger Maris hits Home Run # 59 - getting closer....

  1968 ~ Mickey Mantle hits his last Home Run...ever

  ~ Ayons le diner et le celebrer ! ~

   

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sun, Sep 21 2014 8:41 AM

  ~ Guten Morgan ! ~

  September 21

  1051 - Bartha of Savoy ~ German Queen

  1411 - Richard Plantagenet <> House of Plantagenet <> 3rd Duke of York

  1415 - Frederick III ~ German Emperor

  1788 - Margaret Smith Taylor ~ 1st Lady <> wife of Zachary

  1849 - Maurice Barrymore ~ Patriarch of the Barrymore acting family

  1866 - H G Wells ~ writer

  1947 - Stephen King

  1950 - Bill Murray

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1192 ~ King Richard I <> The Crusader King <> House of Plantagenet <> is captured by Leopold V of Austria

  1776 ~ 5 days after British take NY, a huge fire wipes out 25% of the city

  1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gives the fateful traitor plans to British Major John Andre...it will cost Andre his life and Arnold his career in America

  1838 ~ Charles Tiffany starts his store <> Swanky store, Swanky address (Fifth Avenue & 57th Street in Manhattan) Swanky Diamonds and such, Very Swanky price points <>

  1897 ~ NY Sun runs the famous "Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus" editorial

  1970 ~ "Monday Night Football" premieres ***

  ~ Bis spater ! ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Sep 22 2014 8:17 AM

  0h my...we have spent 265 days, but we have 100 more ;-|

  To Siggip ~ tak sa meget

  September 22

  1290 - Bilbo Baggins ~ in Shire Reconning

  1515 - Anne of Cleves ~ Queen of England as fourth wife of Henry VIII <> House of Tudor

  1601 - Anna von Oostenrijk ~ Queen of France and daughter of Phillip III

  1694 - Lord Chesterfield ~ letter writer who introduced the Gregorian Calender in 1752

  1829 - Tu Duc ~ Emperor of Vietnam

  1885 - Erich von Stroheim ~ early film director/actor

  1903 - Joseph Valachi ~ gangster

  1927 - Tommy Lasorda ~ "Go Dodger Blue"

  ~ By the Bye ~

      66 ~ Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica

  1499 ~ Switzerland becomes an independent state

  1665 ~ Molieres "L'amour Medecin" premieres in Paris

  1692 ~ The last 8 are hanged for wITchCRafT in Salem, Mass, bringing the grand sum total to an even 20

  1735 ~ Robert Walpole is 1st British PM to live at famed 10 Downing Street

  1761 ~ The Coronation of George III <> House of Hanover <> United Kingdom

  1776 ~ Lover of America and Freedom, Capt. Nathan Hale is hanged in NY by British

  1817 ~ John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State by President Monroe

  1905 ~ Willie Anderson fires a 314 at Myopia (Hunt?) Club in Mass to win the 11th US Open

  1913 ~ coalmine EXPLOSION!! in Dawson, New Mexico blows up 263 miners

  1914 ~ 1 German sub sinks 3 British ironclads and 1,459 sailors go too

  1927 ~ Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey in 10 in the famous "long count" fight

  1934 ~ EXPLOSION #2 !!! at Gresford Colliery in Wales does the job on 266 folk

  1950 ~ Omar Bradley Becomes 5 Star General *****

  ~ Peace & Grace ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Tue, Sep 23 2014 8:23 AM

  ~ Howdy...Sister Kat (DaddysKat) is having some surgery performed today. Her spirit is a bit melancholy, so leave a cheery note on her wall ~ Please

  September 23

  480bc - Euripides ~ Greek playwright

  63bc - Augustus Caesar ~ Founder of the Roman Empire <> 1st Emperor of Rome <> Julius Caesar was his maternal great-uncle <> his birth name was Gaius Octavius

  1215 - Kublai Khan of Mongol Empire

  1712 - Ferdinand VI, the wise ~ King of Spain

  1920 - Mickey Rooney

  1930 - Ray Charles

  1947 - Mary Kay Place ~ Actress from Tulsa and schoolgirl chum of my Grandmother

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1459 ~ Battle of Blore Heath ~ 1st biggie of the War of the Roses

  1642 ~ Harvard College has 1st commencement

  1780 ~ British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnolds's plot to betray West Point

  1806 ~ Lewis & Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest

  1862 ~ Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

  1877 ~ HURRICANE!!! strikes Curacao & Bonaire and wipes out 200....Ah yes, Bonaire....." There once was a man from Bonaire, who was doing his wife on a stair, but the banister broke so he doubled his stroke and finished her off in mid-air "

  ~ see ya ~

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Sep 24 2014 7:56 AM

  September 24

      15 - Vitellius ~ The rotund/fat Roman Emperor that lasted only 8 months at the job

  1513 - Catherine Saxe-Lauenburg ~ Queen of Sweden

  1717 - Horace Walpole ~ England writer

  1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness ~ Irish Brewer....still tasty

  1755 - John Marshall ~ Supreme Court Justice...not too loved by Jefferson

  1894 - Tommy Armour

  1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald ~ "The Great Gatsby"

  1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini ~ The legendary towell headed, camel jockey who became Iran's Top Banana in the revolution of 1979. Quite the Champion of womens rights. A devout lover of fine camel-flesh and an acclaimed "camel whisperer". He secretly had an affection to tobacco, but preferred 'Lucky Strike' over 'Camel'.

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1493 ~ Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World

  1657 ~ 1st autopsy recorded in Maryland

  1683 ~ Louis XIV ( The Sun King ) expels all Jews from French possessions in America

  1742 ~ Faneuil Hall opens to the public in Boston

  1789 ~ George Washington nominates John Jay 1st Chief Justice

  ~ so long ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Sep 25 2014 7:46 AM

  September 25

  1613 - Claude Parrault ~ Paris architect who did the east facade of the Louvre

  1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ~ designed & built the 1st automobile

  1744 - Frederick Willem II ~ King of Prussia

  1764 - Fletcher Christian ~ English Bounty mutineer

  1766 - duc de Richelieu ~ French PM

  1780 - Jason Fairbanks ~ American murderer who wouldn't take no to an answer from his girlfriend, stabbed her 11 times, claimed it was a suicide attempt, was found guilty, escaped, caught, and hanged at age 20 in front of 10,000 people in a town of 2,000 in Mass. .......Bye Jason ;-}

  1897 - William Faulkner ~ Author

  1927 - Barbara Walters

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1066 ~ The Battle of Stamford Bridge : King Herold Godwinson <> House of Wessex <> beats invading Norwegians

  1513 ~ Vasco de Balboa is 1st European to see the Pacific

  1639 ~ 1st printing press in America

  1775 ~ Ethan Allen is captured

  1777 ~ British General William Howe conquers Philadelphia

  1780 ~ Benedict Arnold joins the British

  1890 ~ US Congress establishes Yosemite National Park

  1926 ~ At Salisbury GC in NY, Walter Hagen claims the 9th PGA...is Salisbury still there?

  1926 ~ Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5 day work week

  ~ it's a good day to do good  ~

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Sep 26 2014 8:26 AM

                                                   ~ RYDER CUP ~

                                                                :-}

  September 26

  1181 - Saint Francis of Assisi ~ Founder of the Franciscan Order

  1329 - Anna of Bavaria ~ Queen of the Romans

  1774 - John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed" ~ Frontier Nurseryman

  1870 - Christian X ~ King of Denmark

  1875 - Edmund Gwenn ~ Actor of note

  1888 - TS Eliot ~ Poet, Author, *Nobel*

  1897 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini) ""

  1902 - Albert Anastasia (Unberto Anastasio) ~ American Gangster - Murder Inc

  ~ By the Bye ~

  1396 ~ Sultan Bajezid I beheads 100's of Crusaders....still popular

  1580 ~ Francis Drake completes circumcision circumnavigation of the World

  1771 ~ Denis Diderot's "Le Fils Naturel" premieres in Paris

  1789 ~ Thomas Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State

  1861 ~ At Prestwick Club, Tom Morris Sr (Old Tom) shoots 163 to win the 2nd British Open

  1925 ~ 8th PGA is won by Walter Hagen at Olympic Fields CC

  ~ Enjoy the Class of the "Ryder Cup" ~ 

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Sep 27 2014 9:15 AM

  0h My...we have spent 270 days but have a paltry 95 left to go

  September 27

  1389 - Cosimo de Medici ~ Ruler of Florence

  1601 - Louis XIII ~ King of France

  1722 - Samuel Adams ~ US Revolutionary...pretty darn good brew, too, but not Top Shelf

  1772 - Martha Jefferson-Randolph ~ Daughter of Thomas Jefferson ~ Tom called her 'Patsy'

  ~ By the Bye ~

      70 ~ The walls of the upper city of Jerusalem are battered down by the Roman Army

  1290 ~ eARthqUAkE !!! in China does the number on 100,000 peasants

  1864 ~ Jesse James & gang attack a train and dispatch 150 folk

  1930 ~ Bobby Jones takes the 34th US Amateur

  ~ Peace and Grace ~

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sun, Sep 28 2014 8:26 AM

  September 28

  551 BC - Confucius ~ Confucius say " Yankee go home ! Heat in kitchen too hot "

  58 BC - Livia Drusilla ~ wife of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus

  1820 - Freidrich Engels ~ German Philosopher

  1861 - Amelie of Orleans ~ Queen of Portugal

  1901 - Ed Sullivan

  1905 - Max Schmeling ~ Germany

  1909 - Al Capp

  1935 - Bruce Crampton ~ Aussie Golf Great

  ~ By the Bye ~

  48 BC ~ Pompey the Great is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy

  1066 ~ William the Conquerer invades England

  1448 ~ Christian I is crowned King of Denmark

  1701 ~ Divorce legalized in Maryland :-{

  1921 ~ At Inwood CC in NY, Walter Hagen takes the 4th PGA

  1941 ~ Ted Williams ends baseball season with a .406 batting average

  1960 ~ Ted Williams hits his last Home Run....forever

  ~ Well done, Team Europe ! ~