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Pacifier · 04-23-2008, 07:21 AM

23 April 1962, the Ranger 4 lunar probe was launched. The first NASA Probe that reached the moon. Contact was lost soon after the start. the probe crashed on the moon 3 days later

ottopilot · 04-23-2008, 04:07 PM

Playwrite William Shakespear was born and died today ...

born April 23, 1564
died April 23, 1616

uncle phil · 04-23-2008, 04:14 PM

jeebus, i can't get 'em all...

On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life in prison...

uncle phil · 04-24-2008, 02:08 AM

On April 24, 1948, the Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city...

Tully Mars · 04-24-2008, 04:51 AM

On this day in 1934 Shirley MacLaine was born... again? What's that make it? 12,000 times?

uncle phil · 04-25-2008, 02:23 AM

On April 25, 1953, Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA...

lotsofmagnets · 04-25-2008, 02:35 AM

i have to be australian here. on april 25th 1915 australian and new zealand troops (among other allies) landed at gallipoli witht he intention of capturing istanbul. they met with fierce resistance and eventually withdrew. this day is celebrated in australia as anzac day and curiously enough i´m under the impression that australia is the only day in the world that celebrates, even has a public holiday for what was a military defeat.

uncle phil · 04-25-2008, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets

i have to be australian here. on april 25th 1915 australian and new zealand troops (among other allies) landed at gallipoli witht he intention of capturing istanbul. they met with fierce resistance and eventually withdrew. this day is celebrated in australia as anzac day and curiously enough i´m under the impression that australia is the only day in the world that celebrates, even has a public holiday for what was a military defeat.

could be a reminder of the folly of armed conflict...

Geo · 04-25-2008, 03:26 AM

On this day 1599 - The Birth of English statesman, Oliver Cromwell.

uncle phil · 04-26-2008, 02:23 AM

On April 26, 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial average broke the 1,200 mark for the first time...

uncle phil · 04-27-2008, 01:55 AM

On April 27, 1899, the Western Golf Association was founded in Chicago, IL...

uncle phil · 04-28-2008, 02:24 AM

On April 28, 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean...

uncle phil · 04-29-2008, 02:21 AM

On April 29, 1952, IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine...

uncle phil · 04-30-2008, 02:23 AM

On April 30, 1964, the FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels...

uncle phil · 05-01-2008, 02:25 AM

On May 1, 1912, in London's Kensington Gardens, a statue of Peter Pan was erected...

uncle phil · 05-02-2008, 02:25 AM

On May 2, 1974, former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals...

uncle phil · 05-03-2008, 02:06 AM

On May 3, 1988, the White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities...

grumpyolddude · 05-03-2008, 10:09 AM

Phil, you have been, and continue to be, a forum treasure! Keep it up, buddy!

May 3, 2008, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!!! (it ain't exactly history, but in a way, it's historical!)
Check your local comic book store to see if they are participating. Don't believe me? Check it out: http://freecomicbookday.com/

uncle phil · 05-04-2008, 02:35 AM

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded...

YouTube - Ohio

uncle phil · 05-05-2008, 02:32 AM

On May 5, 1925, John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution...

Cynthetiq · 05-05-2008, 07:31 AM

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View: May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots the First-Person Shooter Into Stardom
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May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots the First-Person Shooter Into Stardom
1992: Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, and it launches a huge computer-game category.

Wolfenstein 3-D may not have been the very first "first-person shooter," as the genre came to be known, but it was by far the most successful. Technically the genre goes back to the '70s, but no one really paid any attention to it. Even id released an earlier FPS called Catacombs 3D, but again, it wasn't nearly as good as Wolfenstein.

But through massive online dissemination of the game's shareware version, Wolfenstein 3D (the hyphen was later dropped from the name) introduced millions to an immersive world in which the action seemed to be happening from the player's perspective.

"It was an incredible sensation, really unlike anything gamers had seen before," said Jamie Madigan, who helps operate the GameSpy Network's 3D Action website. "You could move smoothly in 360 degrees. You felt like you were there."

"Everything that's followed in [its] footsteps has just been a modification of that basic style," id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead said in 2001.

Players in the game assume the role of an American commando battling Nazis and their supernatural servants. It was banned in Germany because of its use of Nazi symbols, like the swastika, and music, like the "Horst Wessel Lied."

Wolfenstein 3D did more than define a genre. It also launched a company, id Software of Mesquite, Texas, which leveraged Wolfenstein 3D's success into a franchise of wildly successful first-person shooters, including the seminal Doom and Quake series.

These games, in turn, begat a slew of sequels, imitators and adaptations, from Half-Life to Max Payne.

Wired.com Game|Life blogger Earnest Cavalli added, "The key to the whole Wolfenstein thing is that its success -- which was massive -- paved the way for ... thousands of games that mimicked them, transforming the PC into a gaming system best known for FPS titles. Plus, who doesn't like killing Nazis?"

good times.... good times...

uncle phil · 05-06-2008, 02:27 AM

On May 6, 1981, a jury of international architects and sculptors unanimously selected Maya Ying Lin's entry for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...

uncle phil · 05-07-2008, 02:27 AM

On May 7, 1912, the first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD...

uncle phil · 05-08-2008, 02:17 AM

On May 8, 1794, Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen...

uncle phil · 05-09-2008, 02:28 AM

On May 9, 1785, Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle...

uncle phil · 05-10-2008, 02:17 AM

On May 10, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency...

uncle phil · 05-11-2008, 02:12 AM

On May 11, 1967, the siege of Khe Sanh ended...

uncle phil · 05-12-2008, 02:17 AM

On May 12, 1970, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run...

uncle phil · 05-13-2008, 02:15 AM

On May 13, 1968, peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris...

uncle phil · 05-14-2008, 02:10 AM

On May 14, 1878, the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough...

uncle phil · 05-15-2008, 02:45 AM

On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot...

Tully Mars · 05-15-2008, 02:53 AM

On this day in 1942 the US began gasoline rationing. Limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.

uncle phil · 05-16-2008, 02:08 AM

On May 16, 1888, the first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner...

uncle phil · 05-17-2008, 02:16 AM

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal...

uncle phil · 05-18-2008, 02:34 AM

On May 18, 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped...

Shauk · 05-18-2008, 10:03 AM

On May 18th 1979, I was born
On May 18th 1980, Mt. St Helens Blew up.
On May 18th 2008, It was a nice day out, and Shauk went out for a day on the lake. Later

Tully Mars · 05-18-2008, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Shauk

On May 18th 1980, Mt. St Helens Blew up.

Yep! I was in Salem Oregon that morning flipping burgers for a living. We felt it and not long later saw the plume. A lady I worked with was freaking out, thought it was a nuclear bomb. I was 17 and wasn't completely sure she was wrong. Then a customer came in and said "So, St., Helen's finally blew." Umm, yeah that does make more sense.

We shoveled ash for a few days then the winds changed more easterly.

My guess is since you were one you don't remember much of it.

uncle phil · 05-19-2008, 02:57 AM

On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden...

Martian · 05-19-2008, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tully Mars

My guess is since you were one you don't remember much of it.

I remember it.

...from history class.

Tully Mars · 05-19-2008, 06:34 AM

On this day in 1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry the 8th second wife, lost her head.

04-23-2008, 07:21 AM	#441 (permalink)
Pacifier undead Location: Duisburg, Germany	23 April 1962, the Ranger 4 lunar probe was launched. The first NASA Probe that reached the moon. Contact was lost soon after the start. the probe crashed on the moon 3 days later __________________ "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death — Albert Einstein

04-23-2008, 04:07 PM	#442 (permalink)
ottopilot let me be clear Location: Waddy Peytona	Playwrite William Shakespear was born and died today ... born April 23, 1564 died April 23, 1616 __________________ "It rubs the lotion on Buffy, Jodi and Mr. French's skin" - Uncle Bill from Buffalo

04-23-2008, 04:14 PM	#443 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	jeebus, i can't get 'em all... On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life in prison... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-24-2008, 02:08 AM	#444 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 24, 1948, the Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-24-2008, 04:51 AM	#445 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On this day in 1934 Shirley MacLaine was born... again? What's that make it? 12,000 times? __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

04-25-2008, 02:23 AM	#446 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 25, 1953, Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-25-2008, 02:35 AM	#447 (permalink)
lotsofmagnets Upright Location: reykjavík, iceland	i have to be australian here. on april 25th 1915 australian and new zealand troops (among other allies) landed at gallipoli witht he intention of capturing istanbul. they met with fierce resistance and eventually withdrew. this day is celebrated in australia as anzac day and curiously enough i´m under the impression that australia is the only day in the world that celebrates, even has a public holiday for what was a military defeat. __________________ mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor. she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron. physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

04-25-2008, 03:26 AM	#449 (permalink)
Geo Upright	On this day 1599 - The Birth of English statesman, Oliver Cromwell. __________________ "what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger"

04-26-2008, 02:23 AM	#450 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 26, 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial average broke the 1,200 mark for the first time... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-27-2008, 01:55 AM	#451 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 27, 1899, the Western Golf Association was founded in Chicago, IL... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-28-2008, 02:24 AM	#452 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 28, 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-29-2008, 02:21 AM	#453 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 29, 1952, IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

04-30-2008, 02:23 AM	#454 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On April 30, 1964, the FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-01-2008, 02:25 AM	#455 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 1, 1912, in London's Kensington Gardens, a statue of Peter Pan was erected... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-02-2008, 02:25 AM	#456 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 2, 1974, former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-03-2008, 02:06 AM	#457 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 3, 1988, the White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-03-2008, 10:09 AM	#458 (permalink)
grumpyolddude Deliberately unfocused Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby	Phil, you have been, and continue to be, a forum treasure! Keep it up, buddy! May 3, 2008, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!!! (it ain't exactly history, but in a way, it's historical!) Check your local comic book store to see if they are participating. Don't believe me? Check it out: http://freecomicbookday.com/ __________________ "Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard

05-05-2008, 02:32 AM	#460 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 5, 1925, John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-06-2008, 02:27 AM	#462 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 6, 1981, a jury of international architects and sculptors unanimously selected Maya Ying Lin's entry for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-07-2008, 02:27 AM	#463 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 7, 1912, the first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-08-2008, 02:17 AM	#464 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 8, 1794, Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-09-2008, 02:28 AM	#465 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 9, 1785, Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-10-2008, 02:17 AM	#466 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 10, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-11-2008, 02:12 AM	#467 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 11, 1967, the siege of Khe Sanh ended... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-12-2008, 02:17 AM	#468 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 12, 1970, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-13-2008, 02:15 AM	#469 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 13, 1968, peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-14-2008, 02:10 AM	#470 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 14, 1878, the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-15-2008, 02:45 AM	#471 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-15-2008, 02:53 AM	#472 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On this day in 1942 the US began gasoline rationing. Limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club

05-16-2008, 02:08 AM	#473 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 16, 1888, the first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-17-2008, 02:16 AM	#474 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-18-2008, 02:34 AM	#475 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 18, 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-18-2008, 10:03 AM	#476 (permalink)
Shauk Confused Adult Location: Spokane, WA	On May 18th 1979, I was born On May 18th 1980, Mt. St Helens Blew up. On May 18th 2008, It was a nice day out, and Shauk went out for a day on the lake. Later

05-19-2008, 02:57 AM	#478 (permalink)
uncle phil comfortably numb... Super Moderator Location: upstate	On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden... __________________ "We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it.

05-19-2008, 06:34 AM	#480 (permalink)
Tully Mars Living in a Warmer Insanity Super Moderator Location: Yucatan, Mexico	On this day in 1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry the 8th second wife, lost her head. __________________ I used to drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned how to swim- Frida Kahlo Vice President Starkizzer Fan Club