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This Day in History
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The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere. 1928 Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. 1944 The Republic of Iceland was established. 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. 1972 Burglary of Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC, started the Watergate political scandal. 1994 O. J. Simpson's slow-speed chase by the police, watched by millions on TV, ended in his arrest. 2002 Australian scientists announced that they had "teleported" a laser beam—breaking it up and reconstructing it in another location. I find this last one very interesting. |
06-17-2007, 02:21 PM | #2 |
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Actually they transported a single photon.
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06-17-2007, 02:45 PM | #3 |
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1966 my sister was born
Not big in the grand scheme of things, but pretty cool for me.
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06-19-2007, 01:43 PM | #4 |
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06-19-2007, 08:58 PM | #5 |
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Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories. 1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well. 2002 Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in. |
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March 14, 1910
Lakeview Oil Company was drilling for oil in Kern County, California, expecting natural gas and a bit of oil. At 2440 feet pressurized oil blew through the well casing. And continued to do so for 544 days. The gusher was finally brought under control in September of 1911. Initial flow was 18,800 barrels per day, peaking at 90,000 per day. Total = 9,400,000 barrels (1,200,000 tons), of which less than half was recovered. The event is known as The Lakeview Gusher.
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April 10, 837
Halley's Comet comes to within 3.2 million miles of Earth. 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time, one day after surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General U.S. Grant. 1925 "The Great Gatsby" is published. 1970 Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, announces he is leaving the band. 1992 Sam Kinison is killed in a head-on crash near Needles, California.
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April 10, 1976
I was in a muther-fucking school bus accident, as reminded by a schoolmate on bacefook.
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Damn. Did you make it?
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April 11, 1965
Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak - 47 tornadoes strike the states of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa, killing 271 people, and injuring 1,500. 137 of those dead, and 1,200 of those injured were in Indiana. 1970 "Houston, we've had a problem." - The Apollo 13 Accident
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Yeah, some of the kids were pretty busted up though. You know those old buses metal seats and all. She did 7 weeks in the hospital.
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Well, that don't sound fun at all.
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April 14, 1828
Noah Webster copyrights his American Dictionary of the English Language. 1846 The Donner Party departs Springfield, Illinois headed for California. Some of them got hungry. Damn hungry. 1860 The first Pony Express (founded (in part) by my homeboy Alexander Majors) rider reached San Francisco. 1865 Abe Lincoln takes in a show. 1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurs in El Paso, Texas. 1912 The RMS Titanic, touted as unsinkable, proves otherwise. 1956 Videotape is first demonstrated. 1999 The costliest Australian natural disaster, a hailstorm, strikes Sydney, dishing out A$2.3 billion in insured damages. Births Christiaan Huygens-1629; Anne Sullivan-1866; John Gielgud-1904; Rod Steiger-1925; Loretta Lynn-1932; Pete Rose-1941; Ritchie Blackmore-1945; Deaths John Singer Sargent-1925; Richard Hickock (of 'In Cold Blood' infamy)-1965; Burl Ives-1995; Don Ho-2007; Percy Sledge-2015
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