This Day in History

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While driving, I heard on the radio that today is International Amateur Radio Day and Lola Bunny came to mind. I hope she had a good one.

[Gravdigr]

Today is April 19, the 109th day of 2017.

Tripsters will be celebrating Bicycle Day today, commemorating the day that Albert Hofman intentionally ingested 0.25 milligrams of lysergic acid diethylamide, and had to be escorted home by his lab assistant. Since the use of cars was prohibited by wartime restrictions, they rode bicycles.

Today is also Dutch-American Friendship Day, as well as Primrose Day in the U.K., commemorating the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Disraeli.


Events

1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%E...Bianca_murders.

1980 - 32 year old English singer Brian Johnson joined Australian group AC/DC, replacing Bon Scott who had died after a drinks binge in February 1980.

1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.

1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.

1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.

1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.

1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168.

1997 – The 1997 Red River flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.

2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.

2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.



1787 – Deaf Smith, 1877 – Ole Evinrude, 1903 – Eliot Ness, 1930 – Dick Sargent, 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, 1935 – Dudley Moore, 1942 – Jack Roush (founded Roush Fenway Racing), 1946 – Tim Curry, 1954 – Bob Rock♪ ♫(producer), 1957 – Tony Martin♪ ♫, 1962 – Al Unser Jr., 1965 – Suge Knight♪ ♫, 1968 – Ashley Judd, 1978 – James Franco, 1979 – Kate Hudson



1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, 1906 – Pierre Curie, 1955 – Jim Corbett, 1993 – David Koresh, 2004 – Norris McWhirter, 2005 – Ruth Hussey, 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, 2012 – Levon Helm, 2013 – Allan Arbus, 2013 – Al Neuharth (founded USA Today), 2017 – Aaron Hernandez

[xoxoxoBruce]

1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Yeah, these brothers caused quite a stir in Springfield with their 4hp machine, but they scared the horses. They were bicycle builders like the Wright Brothers, the first on the road, won the first automobile race in Chicago beating 3 Benz cars. They became the largest car maker in the country by building 16 cars in a year, and went to England and won the London to Brighton race by 75 minutes. One of their cars in NYC also had the county's first traffic accident.

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Today is April 20.

Yes, today is 4/20, ergo:

Gonna sit down in the kitchen
And fix me something good to eat
And make my head a little high
And make my whole day complete
'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

Well pass it to me baby
Pass it to me slow
Take time out to smile a little
Before we let it go
'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

Well there ain't nothin' to do
And there's always room for more
Fill it, light it, shut up
And close the door
'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

We gonna sit around the kitchen
Fix us somethin' good to eat
And make ourselves a little high
And make our whole day complete
'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on
'Cause we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

And I just might have gotten a head start on ya.


1818 – In England, the case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.

1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.

This is a (modified) Secchi Disk:



1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. No, Snoopy did not shoot down the Red Baron.

1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.

1999 – Columbine High School massacre: 13 people are killed, and 24 others are injured at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.

2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.



1889 – Adolf Hitler, 1893 – Harold Lloyd, 1904 – Bruce Cabot, 1908 – Lionel Hampton, 1923 – Mother Angelica, 1923 – Tito Puente, 1924 – Nina Foch, 1925 – Elena Verdugo, 1937 – George Takei ("Oh, my!"), 1940 – James Gammon, 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, 1949 – Jessica Lange, 1951 – Luther Vandross♪ ♫, 1962 – Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, 1964 – Andy Serkis ('Smeagol/Gollum' in TLOTR, Planet of the Apes movie series, Star Wars:TFA, Star Wars:The Last Jedi, 'Baloo' in Jungle Book (2018)), 1967 – Mike Portnoy(Dream Theater), 1970 – Shemar Moore, 1972 – Carmen Electra, 1976 – Joey Lawrence



1769 – Chief Pontiac, 1912 – Bram Stoker, 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, 1991 – Steve Marriott♪ ♫(Small Faces, Humble Pie), 1991 – Don Siege (director, Dirty Harry, Escape From Alcatraz, The Shootist, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), 1992 – Benny Hill, 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne (basis for 'Christopher Robin' in Winnie The Pooh), 1999 – Rick Rude, 2014 – Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter(subject of the Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the Denzel Washington movie The Hurricane), 2016 – Chyna (wrestler), 2016 – Victoria Wood

[xoxoxoBruce]

...aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.

You goofball, you did get a head start dincha. Happy 4-20