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Gravdigr · 04-11-2017, 03:26 PM

April 11

Believe it or don't, but, today is International Louie Louie Day. Yeah, no, what the, I don't even.

Also observed worldwide today is World Parkinson's Day. Paralysis agitans was first described by James Parkinson 200 years ago, in 1817.

Events

1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. Was Britain just plain short on names back in those days, or what?

1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, in Leipzig.

1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.

1913 – The Nevill Ground pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.

1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.

1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

1966 - Buffalo Springfield made their live debut at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.

1976 – The Apple I is created.

1977 - Alice Cooper played to an audience of 40,000 in Sydney, Australia, the largest crowd to attend a rock concert in the country's history. After the show Cooper was placed under house arrest at his hotel until he posted a bond for $59,632. That amount was the sum that a promoter claimed to have paid Cooper for a 1975 Australia tour he never made. The two settled when it was found that the promoter did not fulfill his part of the agreement either.

1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

1981 - Eddie Van Halen married actress Valerie Bertinelli, co-star of the 1980's television hit, One Day at a Time. The two had met eight months earlier when Bertinelli's brother took her to a Van Halen concert in Shreveport, Louisiana.

1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.

1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the now popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.

1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.

2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.

Births

145 – Septimius Severus, 1374 – Roger Mortimer, 1755 – James Parkinson (Parkinson's Disease), 1893 – Dean Acheson, 1913 – Oleg Cassini, 1917 – David Westheimer (wrote the novel Von Ryan's Express), 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, 1930 – Anton LaVey

, 1932 – Joel Grey, 1935 – Richard Berry♪ ♫(wrote Louie, Louie), 1939 – Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), 1943 – Harley Race (pro wrestler), 1944 – John Milius, 1947 – Peter Riegert, 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, The Grand Tour), 1961 – Vincent Gallo, 1961 – Doug Hopkins♪ ♫(The Gin Blossoms), 1973 – Jennifer Esposito, 1987 – Joss Stone♪ ♫

Deaths

1890 – Joseph Merrick ('the elephant man'), 1926 – Luther Burbank, 1983 – Dolores del Río, 1987 – Erskine Caldwell (author Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre), 1992 – James Brown (not the Godfather of Soul, this one starred in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), 1999 – William H. Armstrong (author of Sounder), 2003 – Cecil Howard Green (founded Texas Instruments), 2006 – June Pointer♪ ♫(youngest of The Pointer Sisters), 2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, 2013 – Jonathan Winters

, 2014 – Jesse Winchester♪ ♫, 2016 – Ed Snider (Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Eagles)

04-11-2017, 03:26 PM	#717
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	April 11 Believe it or don't, but, today is International Louie Louie Day. Yeah, no, what the, I don't even. Also observed worldwide today is World Parkinson's Day. Paralysis agitans was first described by James Parkinson 200 years ago, in 1817. Events 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain. Was Britain just plain short on names back in those days, or what? 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, in Leipzig. 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized. 1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women. 1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded. 1913 – The Nevill Ground pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes. 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem. 1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people. 1966 - Buffalo Springfield made their live debut at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California. 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched. 1976 – The Apple I is created. 1977 - Alice Cooper played to an audience of 40,000 in Sydney, Australia, the largest crowd to attend a rock concert in the country's history. After the show Cooper was placed under house arrest at his hotel until he posted a bond for $59,632. That amount was the sum that a promoter claimed to have paid Cooper for a 1975 Australia tour he never made. The two settled when it was found that the promoter did not fulfill his part of the agreement either. 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed. 1981 - Eddie Van Halen married actress Valerie Bertinelli, co-star of the 1980's television hit, One Day at a Time. The two had met eight months earlier when Bertinelli's brother took her to a Van Halen concert in Shreveport, Louisiana. 1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries. 1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the now popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed. 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq. 1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released. 2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed. Births 145 – Septimius Severus, 1374 – Roger Mortimer, 1755 – James Parkinson (Parkinson's Disease), 1893 – Dean Acheson, 1913 – Oleg Cassini, 1917 – David Westheimer (wrote the novel Von Ryan's Express), 1928 – Ethel Kennedy, 1930 – Anton LaVey, 1932 – Joel Grey, 1935 – Richard Berry♪ ♫(wrote Louie, Louie), 1939 – Louise Lasser (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), 1943 – Harley Race (pro wrestler), 1944 – John Milius, 1947 – Peter Riegert, 1960 – Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, The Grand Tour), 1961 – Vincent Gallo, 1961 – Doug Hopkins♪ ♫(The Gin Blossoms), 1973 – Jennifer Esposito, 1987 – Joss Stone♪ ♫ Deaths 1890 – Joseph Merrick ('the elephant man'), 1926 – Luther Burbank, 1983 – Dolores del Río, 1987 – Erskine Caldwell (author Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre), 1992 – James Brown (not the Godfather of Soul, this one starred in The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), 1999 – William H. Armstrong (author of Sounder), 2003 – Cecil Howard Green (founded Texas Instruments), 2006 – June Pointer♪ ♫(youngest of The Pointer Sisters), 2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, 2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, 2013 – Jonathan Winters, 2014 – Jesse Winchester♪ ♫, 2016 – Ed Snider (Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers, Philadelphia Eagles) __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.