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JStrider · 06-17-2003, 08:15 AM

Feb 8

1984 JStrider was born

1985 Jaguar’s Founder Dies

1936 General Motors founder, William Durant, filed for personal bankruptcy

1964 The Iraqi National Oil Company was incorporated in Baghdad

1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina

1949 Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the highest Catholic official in Hungary, is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court

1692 Abigail Williams and Betty Parris are declared by a doctor to be "under an evil hand," precipitating a series of sensational accusations in the town of Salem, Massachusetts

1915 Birth of A Nation debuts

1924 Coast-to-coast radio

1953 Walt Disney appears on Toast of the Town

1915 D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles

1911 Elizabeth Bishop is born

1887 In a well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempt to assimilate Native Americans, President Grover Cleveland signs an act to end tribal control of reservations and divide their land into individual holdings

1996 President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which instituted sweeping changes over the country's telecommunications law

1957 John Von Neumann dies

1924 First coast-to-coast radio broadcast

1928 a short-wave station in Hartsdale, New York, received a radio signal conveying a television image. John Logie Baird, a key developer of early television, sent the picture, a still image of a woman.
(first porn on tv?)

1962 MACV established

1895 U.S. Gold Supply Running Dry

1943 Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma

06-17-2003, 08:15 AM	#26 (permalink)
JStrider Poo-tee-weet? Location: The Woodlands, TX	Feb 8 1984 JStrider was born 1985 Jaguar’s Founder Dies 1936 General Motors founder, William Durant, filed for personal bankruptcy 1964 The Iraqi National Oil Company was incorporated in Baghdad 1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside scores a major victory when he captures Roanoke Island in North Carolina 1949 Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, the highest Catholic official in Hungary, is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court 1692 Abigail Williams and Betty Parris are declared by a doctor to be "under an evil hand," precipitating a series of sensational accusations in the town of Salem, Massachusetts 1915 Birth of A Nation debuts 1924 Coast-to-coast radio 1953 Walt Disney appears on Toast of the Town 1915 D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, a landmark film in the history of cinema, premieres at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles 1911 Elizabeth Bishop is born 1887 In a well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempt to assimilate Native Americans, President Grover Cleveland signs an act to end tribal control of reservations and divide their land into individual holdings 1996 President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which instituted sweeping changes over the country's telecommunications law 1957 John Von Neumann dies 1924 First coast-to-coast radio broadcast 1928 a short-wave station in Hartsdale, New York, received a radio signal conveying a television image. John Logie Baird, a key developer of early television, sent the picture, a still image of a woman. (first porn on tv?) 1962 MACV established 1895 U.S. Gold Supply Running Dry 1943 Britain's Indian Brigade begins guerrilla operations in Burma __________________ -=JStrider=- ~Clatto Verata Nicto