What happened in History on this date

[Hippie Bowman]

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Snugs McMasters wrote:

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Irene Muni wrote:

I always

wake up with

that oratorio

on Easter Sunday

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Irene, I always wake up with Maddy. Care to trade?

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LOL Snugs!

 

Peace!

[Irene Muni]

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Snugs McMasters wrote:

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Irene Muni wrote:

I always

wake up with

that oratorio

on Easter Sunday

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Irene, I always wake up with Maddy. Care to trade?

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LOL

No problem.

In any case, I am able to wake up with Handel while I have my head on someone's chest

[Madelaine McMasters]

It's Friday the 13th, Kids!

4-13-2012     Snugs McMasters offers to trade his ego for Irene's oratorio and is sent to sleep on the sofa.

4-13-2018     While preparing to celebrate the conclusion of her seventh blissfully uneventful year since breaking the mirror behind the bar at Wolski's Tavern on April 14, 2011, Lia "Lucky" Abbot dons the pair of stilletto's she threw at bartender Madelaine McMasters that night and prances a victory lap around her bedroom. Seven years older, and out of practice, Lia stumbles and falls into her dresser, breaking the makeup mirror Madelaine had given her to apologize for washing her glasses in Lia's tumbler of gin.

4-13-2029     The off Broadway play "Black Cats on Ladders" closes on opening night.

4-13-2035     Usaki "兔" Kaninchen, owner of "Usaki's Lucky Keychains" is nibbled to death by a warren of hopless rabbits.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

It's Friday the 13th, Kids!

4-13-2012

    Snugs McMasters offers to trade his ego for Irene's oratorio and is sent to sleep on the sofa.

4-13-2018

    While preparing to celebrate the conclusion of her seventh blissfully uneventful year since breaking the mirror behind the bar at

Wolski's Tavern

on April 14, 2011, Lia "Lucky" Abbot dons the pair of stilletto's she threw at bartender Madelaine McMasters that night and prances a victory lap around her bedroom. Seven years older, and out of practice, Lia stumbles and falls into her dresser, breaking the makeup mirror Madelaine had given her to apologize for washing her glasses in Lia's tumbler of gin.

4-13-2029

    The off Broadway play "Black Cats on Ladders" closes on opening night.

4-13-2035

    Usaki "兔" Kaninchen, owner of "Usaki's Lucky Keychains" is nibbled to death by a warren of hopless rabbits.

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LOL and LOL Maddy!  HEHEH!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning all!  Today is the 14th of April!  Here is todays history lesson.

April 14
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor, was permitted upstairs at Ford’s Theatre. Thus, he gained access to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s private theatre box as Lincoln watched the performance of Our American Cousin. It was just after 10 p.m. when Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincolnin the head. After shooting the President, Booth leaped to the stage below, shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus always to tyrants!”, the state motto of Virginia.) He broke his leg in the fall but managed to escape the theatre (which was in Washington, D.C.), mount a horse, and flee to Virginia. Booth was hunted down and shot as he hid in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. the next day.

1894 - The kinetoscope was demonstrated by its inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, in New York City. A viewer that held 50 feet of film -- about 13 seconds worth -- showed images of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. The demonstration was actually called the first peep show, as one had to peep into the device to see what was on the film. Movies were not projected on a screen at that time.

1902 - J.C. (James Cash) Penney opened his first store -- in Kemmerer Wyoming. In partnership with Thomas M. Callahan and William Guy Johnson, Penney named the store Golden Rule. The dry goods and clothing store had a first-year profit of $8,514.36 on sales of $28,898.11.

1910 - The Philadelphia Athletics, under manager Connie Mack, played the Washington Senators in what became a most historic game. This game was not only the season opener; but also, the first time a United States President had thrown out the first ball. The president was William Howard Taft. The game was held in Washington, DC and appropriately, The Senators won 3-0. And so began a baseball tradition. Play ball!

1912 - “Up in the crows nest, Frederick Fleet was staring into the darkness. It was around 11:30 p.m. on a very odd calm moonless night when he noticed a black object immediately in their path, he knew it was ice!” The Royal Mail Steamship Titanic of the White Star Line struck an iceberg at approximately 11:40 p.m. The great ship, on its maiden voyage, sank just under three hours later. 1,517 passengers were lost at sea. (See TWtD, April 15.)

1912 - Frederick Rodman Law was a stunt man and became the first man to intentionally jump from the Brooklyn Bridge in New York without intending to take his own life. He was OK after the leap.

1935 - Babe Ruth played his first game for the National League in Fenway Park in Boston, MA. This time, he was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old Red Sox. Ruth was in his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this, his last season, Ruth played only 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before hanging up his spikes for good.

1941 - Hildegarde recorded the standard Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup on Decca Records. Hildegarde was the elegant singer with the long white gloves who was accompanied by the Harry Sosnik Orchestra. It took another 14 years, but Nat ‘King’ Cole turned the song into an even bigger hit, landing at number 7 on the pop music charts.

1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA demonstrated the first commercial magnetic tape recorder for sound and picture. The videotape machine had a price tag of $75,000. These early Ampex units were too large to fit in a small room. That’s back when bigger was better.

1958 - Pianist Van Cliburn was presented on national TV for the first time on Steve Allen’s NBC-TV show.

1958 - Laurie London reached the top spot on the music charts with He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, knocking Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star down a peg or two.

1960 - The musical Bye Bye Birdie opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. Chita Rivera and Dick Van **bleep** starred in the Broadway show which ran for 607 performances.

1967 - Herman’s Hermits, featuring lead singer Peter Noone, went gold with the single, There’s a Kind of Hush. It was a two-sided hit, with the flip-side, No Milk Today, also receiving considerable play. Hush, however, was a top-five song, while the ‘B’ side just made it into the top 40 at number 35.

1968 - Bob Goalby won the Masters Golf Tournament after Roberto DeVicenzo signed an incorrect scorecard. DeVicenzo signed for a score higher than his actual score on the 17th hole (a par 4 when he actually made a birdie 3). The rules say that you have to stick to the higher score, once you sign for it. The lower score would have pitted DeVicenzo against Goalby in a playoff match and who knows what might have happened? Ouch! On top of this, it was DeVicenzo’s 45th birthday, as well!

1969 - This was a night of firsts at the 41st Annual Academy Awards ceremony. For the first time, the happenings at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles were beamed to TV audiences worldwide. Appropriately, a foreign (British) film was honored as Best Picture: Oliver! (John Woolf, producer), which also won for Best Director (Carol Reed); Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (John Box, Terence Marsh, Vernon Dixon, Ken Muggleston); Best Sound (Shepperton SSD); Best Music/Score of a Musical Picture/Original or Adaptation (Johnny Green). And, for the first time, there was a tie for Best Actress. Barbra Streisand picked up her statuette for her starring role in Funny Girl, and for the second year in a row, Katharine Hepburn was honored as Best Actress, this time for her performance in The Lion in Winter. Other veteran actors received their first Oscars this night: Cliff Robertson for his Best Actor role in Charly; Jack Albertson for his Best Supporting Actor role in The Subject Was Roses and Ruth Gordon for her Best Supporting Actress role in Rosemary’s Baby. Even the Best Music/Song award was presented for the first time to Michel Legrand (music) and Alan and Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from the The Thomas Crown Affair. Other great 1968 films that were Oscar-winners or nominees: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; For Love of Ivy; Planet of the Apes; Bullitt; The Odd Couple; Romeo and Juliet; The Producers; Rachel, Rachel.

1980 - Stan Mikita retired after 21 years with the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL. His #21 jersey became the first Blackhawks number to be retired.

1980 - Kramer vs. Norma, Apocalypse vs. Jazz. That’s how the honors were divided at the 52nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Johnny Carson was hosting quite a contest! But the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to Melvyn Douglas for his performance in Being There. Was it going to be an upset? Being There was a long shot to win Best Picture and this was its first award all evening. All That Jazz had already won four of the golden statuettes and Apocalypse Now, two. Next, it was Meryl Streep who picked up the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Dustin Hoffman, Best Actor, for their roles in Kramer vs. Kramer, making it a trio of Oscars for Kramer, so far. Then Norma Rae picked up two awards: Best Music/Song, It Goes like It Goes, David Shire (music), Norman Gimbel (lyrics) and Best Actress, Sally Field. But it was in the cards for Kramer vs. Kramer as it won for Best Director (Robert Benton), and then, Best Picture (Stanley R. Jaffe, producer). Going into the evening, All That Jazz and Kramer vs. Kramer each had nine Oscar nominations, Apocalypse Now had eight, and Norma Rae, four.

1985 - Bernhard Langer shot a 282 and won the Masters golf tournament. It was the West German’s first official year as a member of the PGA Tour.

 

Peace!

[Irene Muni]

1890 - Birth of the International Union of the American countries, called OEA since 1948.

1931 - Given the adverse outcome of the nominations monarchical in the municipal elections two days earlier, King Alfonso XIII left Spain and the people proclaim the Second Spanish Republic.Civil War broke out 5 years later.

1939 - Roosevelt sent a letter to Hitler and Mussolini offer and asking for 10 years of peace in Europe and the Middle East.

1986 - Death of Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and intellectual for his life and his works played an important role in the development of the feminist movement.

[Madelaine McMasters]

4-14-1929  JJ "Finetooth" McComb alarms hundreds of neighbors in his sleepy NJ hometown when, misunderstanding the label on his allergy medication, "Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery While Using This Medication", he forgets to unmoor his homemade lighter-than-air craft before taking it for a Sunday ride.

 

4-14-1951 Gladys Morgelson (nee Canbe) files for annulment one day after her groom Nelson's obssession with opossums crosses into the bizarre when he plays dead on their wedding night.

4-14-1996 The "Million Man March" is renamed after it is revealed that, to secure unearned community service credit for his high school civics class, Jamal Wilson dressed his sister in baggy pants, jean jacket and Dodgers baseball cap, handed her five dollars and told her she could shop all day at the National Mall. Wilson's ruse was discovered when his civics teacher spotted him two seats ahead of her at the Bijou, watching "The English Patient".

[Phil Deakins]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

1958

-

Laurie London reached

the

top spot

on the music charts

with

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

, knocking Perry Como’s

Catch a Falling Star

down a peg or two.

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That should be:-

1958 - 14 year old Laurie London reached the top spot on the music charts with He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands, knocking Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star down a peg or two.

 

The addition is in red.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Phil Deakins wrote:

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

1958

-

Laurie London reached

the

top spot

on the music charts

with

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

, knocking Perry Como’s

Catch a Falling Star

down a peg or two.

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That should be:-

1958

-

14 year old

Laurie London reached

the

top spot

on the music charts

with

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

, knocking Perry Como’s

Catch a Falling Star

down a peg or two.

 

The addition is in

red

.

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Noted Phil!  Woot!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-14-1929

 JJ "Finetooth" McComb alarms hundreds of neighbors in his sleepy NJ hometown when, misunderstanding the label on his allergy medication, "Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery While Using This Medication", he forgets to unmoor his homemade lighter-than-air craft before taking it for a Sunday ride.

 

4-14-1951

Gladys Morgelson (nee Canbe) files for annulment one day after her groom Nelson's obssession with opossums crosses into the bizarre when he plays dead on their wedding night.

4-14-1996

The "Million Man March" is renamed after it is revealed that, to secure unearned community service credit for his high school civics class, Jamal Wilson dressed his sister in baggy pants, jean jacket and Dodgers baseball cap, handed her five dollars and told her she could shop all day at the National Mall. Wilson's ruse was discovered when his civics teacher spotted him two seats ahead of her at the Bijou, watching "The English Patient".

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I love your kind of History Maddy! 

 

Peace!

[Irene Muni]

April 15, 1495 - In Valladolid (Spain) is signed the Convention of Tordesillas. Castilla and Portugal share the area of ​​influence in America from a meridian..

April 15, 1920 - Foundation of the Partido Comunista Español (Spanish Communist Party), which next year will join the Partido Comunista Obrero Español (Spanish Communist Workers' Party) to found the Partido Comunista de España (Communist Party of Spain).

[Hippie Bowman]

Thanks for the additions Irene!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good day everyone!  Here is today in History!

April 15

1755		English lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson publishes his Dictionary of the English Language.
1784		The first balloon is flown in Ireland.
1813		U.S. troops under James Wilkinson siege the Spanish-held city of Mobile in future state of Alabama.
1858		At the Battle of Azimghur, the Mexicans defeat Spanish loyalists.
1871		'Wild Bill' Hickok becomes the marshal of Abilene, Kansas.
1861		President Lincoln mobilizes Federal army.
1865		Abraham Lincoln dies from John Wilkes Booth's assassination bullet.
1912		With her band playing on the deck, the ocean liner Titanic sinks at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic.
1917		British forces defeat the Germans at the battle of Arras.
1919		British troops kill 400 Indians at Amritsar, India.
1923		Insulin becomes generally available for people suffering with diabetics.
1923		The first sound films shown to a paying audience are exhibited at the Rialto Theater in New York City.
1940		French and British troops land at Narvik, Norway.
1945		President Franklin D. Roosevelt is buried on the grounds of his Hyde Park home.
1948		Arab forces are defeated in battle with Israeli forces.
1952		President Harry Truman signs the official Japanese peace treaty.
1955		Ray Kroc starts the McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants.
1959		Cuban leader Fidel Castro begins a U.S. goodwill tour.
1960		The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizes at Shaw University.
1971		North Vietnamese troops ambush a company of Delta Raiders from the 101st Airborne Division near Fire Support Base Bastogne in Vietnam. The American troops were on a rescue mission.
1986		U.S. warplanes attack Libya.
Born on April 15
1452		Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary
1684		Catherine I, empress of Russia
1741		Charles Wilson Peale, portrait painter and inventor
1800		Sir James Clark Ross, Scottish explorer who located the Magnetic North Pole.
1832		Wilhelm Busch, German painter and poet, created the precursor to the comic strip.
1843		Henry James, writer and critic.
1874		George Harrison Shull, American botanist, developer of hybrid corn.
1874		Johannes Stark, Novel Prize-winning German physicist.
1880		Max Wertheimer, Czech-born psychologist.
1889		Thomas Hart Benton, painter, muralist.
1889		Asa Phillip Randolph, American labor leader and Civil Rights advocate.
1898		Bessie Smith, American blues singer.
1904		Arshile Gorky, abstract painter.
1922		Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago
1922		Neville Mariner, conductor.
1932		Eva Figes, British novelist.
1940		Jeffrey Archer, English novelist and politician (Kane and Abel, Honor Among Thieves).     Peace!

[Madelaine McMasters]

April 15, 1582 - Bassist Julian Calendar is arrested for smuggling his diminutive date, Amanda Lynn, into the Sistine Chapel by hiding her inside his bass. His plan is foiled when, during his performance of Jelly Roll Morton's "Tank Town Bump" for Pope Gregory XIII, his petite paramour sneezes. The apologetic Calendar is released on his own recognizance and immediately flees the country with Amanda before astute musical scholars realize that Jelly Roll Morton will not be born for another 303 years.

April 15, 1961 - Ben Franklin's famous quote "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." is cast further into doubt when probate judge Barbara Dahl reveals that the recently deceased Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger willed his entire estate to his cat.

April 15, 2012 - SL Resident Boone Steerpike is highly embarassed when Snugs McMasters misinterprets Hippie Bowman's Sunday morning breakfast invite "Breakfast at Boones. Come on out and enjoy each other!" as announcing an orgy.

[PudgyPaddy]

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Hippie Bowman wrote:

Good day everyone!  Here is today in History!

Born on April 15
1452		Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary

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On April 15th, 1453, Leonardo da Vinci celebrated his 1st birthday.  

[Hippie Bowman]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

April 15, 1582

 - Bassist Julian Calendar is arrested for smuggling his diminutive date, Amanda Lynn, into the Sistine Chapel by hiding her inside his bass. His plan is foiled when, during his performance of Jelly Roll Morton's "Tank Down Bump" for Pope Gregory XIII, his petite paramour sneezes. The apologetic Calendar is released on his own recognizance and immediately flees the country with Amanda before astute musical scholars realize that Jelly Roll Morton will not be born for another 303 years.

April 15, 1961 

- Ben Franklin's famous quote "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." is cast further into doubt when probate judge Barbara Dahl reveals that the recently deceased Nobel physicist Erwin Schrödinger willed his entire estate to his cat.

April 15, 2012

 - SL Resident Boone Steerpike is highly embarassed when Snugs McMasters misinterprets Hippie Bowman's Sunday morning breakfast invite

"Breakfast at Boones. Come on out and enjoy each other!"

as announcing an orgy.

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HAHA!  Did you Maddy?   OMG!  Love it!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

LOL!

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

On the 16 April:

Year      What happened
1521     Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines.
1849     James E Smith is born. He became father at the age of 100 with woman 64 years younger.  :smileysurprised:
1926    Jerry Lewis was born (U.S. actor, director, and producer).
1926     Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket, goes 184 feet (56 metres).
1943     Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered.
1952     1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record).
1975     U.S. Mariner 10 makes third and final fly-by of planet Mercury.
1978     Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast.

 

[Perrie Juran]

In 1947 Jackie Robinson made his debut appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/robinson-hed-article-1.1061347

[Hippie Bowman]

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Coby Foden wrote:

On the

16 April:

Year      What happened

1521     Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines.

1849     James E Smith is born. He

became father at the age of 100

with woman 64 years younger.  :smileysurprised:

1926    Jerry Lewis was born (U.S. actor, director, and producer).

1926     Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket, goes 184 feet (56 metres).

1943     Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered.

1952     1870 mm rain in Cilaos, Reunion (world record).

1975     U.S. Mariner 10 makes third and final fly-by of planet Mercury.

1978     Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast.

 

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Thanks for sharing this Coby!  Far out!

 

Peace!

 

[Hippie Bowman]

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Perrie Juran wrote:

In 1947 Jackie Robinson made his debut appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/robinson-hed-article-1.1061347

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Yay Perrie!

 

Peace!

[Coby Foden]

More happenings on the 16 April:

Year           What happened
1178 BC - A solar eclipse occurs.
1178 BC - The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.

Year     What happened
1818 - The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1867 - Wilbur Wright was born. American inventor and aviator, who with his brother Orville,
             invented the first powered airplane, Flyer, capable of sustained, controlled flight.
1889 - Charles Chaplin was born. An English comic actor, film director and composer.
1905 - British King Edward arrives in Algiers for an official royal visit.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1972 - Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

[Hippie Bowman]

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Coby Foden wrote:

More happenings on the

16 April:

Year           What happened

1178 BC - A solar eclipse occurs.

1178 BC - The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.

 

Year     What happened

1818 - The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.

1867 - Wilbur Wright was born. American inventor and aviator, who with his brother Orville,

             invented the first powered airplane, Flyer, capable of sustained, controlled flight.

1889 - Charles Chaplin was born. An English comic actor, film director and composer.

1905 - British King Edward arrives in Algiers for an official royal visit.

1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

1972 - Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Good stuff Coby!  THANK YOU!

 

Peace!

[Hippie Bowman]

Good morning everyone!  I hope all had a great weekend.  Here is today in history.

 

1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1346 - King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
1346 - The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans.
1395 - Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1509 - French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 - Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1632 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 - 1st Easter observed (OS=Apr 9)
1746 - Battle at Culloden: Troops of George II of Great Britain defeat Charles Stuart
1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits

 

 

Famous birthdays

  778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
1495 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
1628 - Cornelis Evertsen de Young, vice admiral of Zealand
1635 - Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter
1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
1648 - John Luyken, poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre)
1652 - Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40)
1660 - Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum)
1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
1673 - Francesco Feroci, composer
1682 - John Hadley, mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)
1693 - Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
1697 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1703 - Caffarelli, [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castra singer/duke

 

 

Famous deaths

 

69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1115 - Svjatopolk II, great monarch of Kiev, dies [or 1113]
1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies
1496 - David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69
1529 - Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1619 - Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, [Dionisio Fiamingo], Flemish painter, dies
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 - George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59
1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1743 - Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69

 

Peace!

 

 

 

[emmettcullen93]

1.This was the first, and undoubtedly the last expedition that will see this useless place.

This sentence was uttered by Lieutenant Joseph Ives after the expedition to the Grand Canyon 1861st .Today, five million people every year visit this “useless place.”

 

2.HIV Is Not the Cause of AIDS By Peter H. Duesberg.

Peter Duesberg said this, unfortunately, completely wrong statement 1988th.

3.”People will never make a bigger  plane.”

This was once said by a Boeing engineer, after the first flight of Boeing 247, which could accommodate 10 passengers.

4.”It’s better for you to become secretary or get married than to do this”

This advice was given to Marilyn Monroe by the photo models Agency 1944th .What a mistake!

5. ”You are crazy if you think that we are looking for oil”

Associates of Edwin Drake’s voyage were completely confused by this “stupid idea” Edwin Drake’s voyage, the first man who began making oil drilling in the U.S. 1859th

6.”We do not like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out of fashion.”

Probably the biggest mistake by the publishing house  Grandpa Recording made in 1962. refused the famous Beatles.

7.”The phone has too many flaws to be seriously considered as a means of communication.

Western Union statement in 1876th . Estimates Wrong.

8.”I think there is a world market for maybe five computers..”

This was  said by Thomas Watson, Chairman IBM, 1943.  This is actually true in the next 10 years.  After that, complete crap.

9.”Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at…”

Incredibly stupid, statements regarding the future of their own field … Lee deForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1957

10.“There is no reason why someone would want a computer in their home.”

This was  the opinion given by  Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Ekvipment.  And not so long ago, 1977.

 

these are the top 10 most stupidist quotes in history not this day perhaps. coming up 5 most shortest wars!