This Day in History

[DanaC]

Party's over kids

[xoxoxoBruce]

Good Friday is not.
I laughed, I cried, I learned, and cursed the heavens.
But thank you for your service, tell them about the Meritorious Service Cross, and mention Undertoad's name, at the VA Hospital.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by DanaC

[BigV]

Thanks bro!

You finished up early, why don't you just take the rest of the weekend off, come in fresh on Monday. hm?

[sexobon]

Instead of deleting links in first posts, we should edit them to pron site urls.

[glatt]

Been away on vacation. Sorry 'bout that.

[BigV]

1970 was a good year. I approve!

[Gravdigr]

Anybody have any suggestions what to do differently? In addition to? Instead of? Add this? Get rid of that?

I mean, you can just re-read the thread for the same ol'...

[Gravdigr]

I'd prolly change the order up if I kept those new bits...

Anything?

Bueller?

[glatt]

That video of the fertilizer plant explosion gets me every time. It's the kid in the back, freaking out, saying "I can't hear. I can't hear."

I think it's the father in me. I would feel so bad if I drove my kids to a location that blew their eardrums out.

I wonder if the kid ever recovered?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I'd prolly change the order up if I kept those new bits...

Anything?

Bueller?

well, extensive as your lists of what happened may be, they're obviously not complete/exhaustive/comprehensive, etc.

btw, it *just now* occurs to me why you called it "a year", now you get to repeat stuff repeat stuff.

aaaanyhow. since you asked, why not pick one or more items from your own list, or what's happened in the intervening year and do a deeper dive on it. Since you don't have to fill the centuries, you can just fill one post with "hey, y'know, back in xyz, when that dude, did that thing... guess what came of it, detail, detail, unexpected consequence, internet meme spawned from, etc." of course, the possibilities are endless.

you have obviously put tremendous effort into compiling this stuff, I'm sure some of it snagged your attention, but you were focused on covering "this day in history" ... now you can indulge your focus and just say something about one thing on this day, or two or three.

hm?

[Gravdigr]

The only 'effort' I put into any of this is trying to not destroy the post. There's no effort involved, I'm copy/pasting shit stuff from Wikipedia.

I've never posted an IOTD because I hate details. When it's me providing them, anyway. That takes effort. I ain't all that much into effort. I live like I'm broke (<--actually, that takes quite a bit of effort) so that I can go as long as possible without expending any more effort, maybe ever again, if I'm lucky and die young(ish).

And I don't know what you mean when you say "pick one or more items from your own list". I don't have a lot of focus, and am easily bored.

[Gravdigr]

Today is April 18, Tax Day in the United States, so, if you haven't filed yet, you better be getting your shit together.

An International Day For Monuments and Sites is commemorated today.


Events

1775 – American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements. "One if by land, two if by sea;"

1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.

1923 – "The House that Ruth Built" opens.

1943 – In Operation Vengeance, in WWII, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.

1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News, Virginia. However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals.

1975 - Four Bay City Rollers fans were taken to hospital and 35 others required on site treatment after they attempted to swim across a lake to meet their heroes. The group were making an appearance at a BBC Radio 1 fun day at Mallory Park. This happened on a Friday, the day before S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night.

1983 – A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.

1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. It was in retaliation of damage to the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, which struck an Iranian mine in the Persian Gulf. By the end of the operation, U.S. air and surface units had sunk, or severely damaged, half of Iran's operational fleet.



1857 – Clarence Darrow (lawyer, defended Leopold & Loeb, defended John Scopes in The Scopes Monkey Trial, 1882 – Leopold Stokowski♪ ♫(conductor), 1918 – Clifton Hillegass (created CliffsNotes), 1922 – Barbara Hale ('Della Street' on Perry Mason), 1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown♪ ♫, 1946 – Hayley Mills, 1946 – Tommy Shannon(Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble), 1947 – James Woods ("Ooh, a piece o' candy."), 1949 – Geoff Bodine, 1953 – Rick Moranis, 1956 – Eric Roberts, 1961 – Jane Leeves ('Daphne' on Frasier, Hot In Cleveland), 1962 – Jeff Dunham ("...on a steek."), 1963 – Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), 1963 – Conan O'Brien (big, tall ginger), 1967 – Maria Bello, 1971 – David Tennant, 1976 – Melissa Joan Hart



1945 – Ernie Pyle (war correspondent, killed on Okinawa), 1955 – Albert Einstein (brainiac), 1986 – Marcel Dassault (founded Dassault Aviation), 1996 – Bernard Edwards(Chic), 2002 – Thor Heyerdahl (sailed the Kon-Tiki 5,000 miles from South America to the Tuamotu Islands), 2012 – Dick Clark (Perhaps you've heard of him?), 2013 – Cordell Mosson(Parliament-Funkadelic)

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

...if I'm lucky and die young(ish).

Too late.

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Today is April 18, Tax Day in the United States, so, if you haven't filed yet, you better be getting your shit together.

My shit's together, I mailed it way the hell back... on Friday.

[Gravdigr]

I am going to try to be a little more modern, and a little less deathy in my choice of events to relate.

I'd like to see more Dwellars chime in with stuff like this:

Originally Posted by Griff

April 10, 1976
I was in a muther-fucking school bus accident, as reminded by a schoolmate on bacefook.

I like Dwellar history.

I thought folks would post things that weren't covered in histories, like "On this day in 1974 President Lipschitz stumbled down the stairs of Air Force One. I know the date because I graduated high school that day.", or stuff like that.