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02-16-2008, 11:58 PM
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I've always wondered if Chinese food ever makes Kim Jong Il...
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02-17-2008, 05:57 PM
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February 17th
1653 ~ Birthday of Arcangelo Corelli, Composer.
1801 ~ An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved when Jefferson was elected President and Burr Vice President by the House of Representatives.
1844 ~ Birthday of Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder.
1867 ~ The first ship passed through the Suez Canal.
1895 ~ Swan Lake, one of the more famous ballets, with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, was first completely performed in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1909 ~ Death of Geronimo, Apache leader.
1962 ~ Death of Bruno Walter, Conductor.
1972 ~ President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China.
1979 ~ China invaded Vietnam.
1992 ~ Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
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02-18-2008, 01:33 PM
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February 18th
1546 ~ Death of Martin Luther, religious reformer.
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published.
1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon.
1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry.
1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
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02-18-2008, 04:03 PM
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1998 ~ Death of Harry Caray, legendary baseball broadcaster.
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An optimist looks at the glass and says it's half full. A pessimist looks at the glass and says it's half empty. A Cubs fan looks at the glass and says, "When's it gonna spill?"
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02-19-2008, 12:25 PM
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02-20-2008, 01:30 PM
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02-21-2008, 01:20 PM
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February 21st
1875 ~ Birthday of Jeanne Calment. She lived for 122 years 164 days, the longest confirmed lifespan for any human being in history.
1893 ~ Birthday of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist.
1903 ~ Birthday of Anaïs Nin, Writer.
1907 ~ Birthday of W. H. Auden, Poet.
1916 ~ The Battle of Verdun began. French casualties during the battle were estimated at 550,000 with German losses set at 434,000, half of the total being fatalities.
1947 ~ Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1953 ~ Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule.
1965 ~ Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
1988 ~ TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty of an unspecified sin, and said he was leaving the pulpit temporarily. Reports linked Swaggart to a prostitute.
1995 ~ When he landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Steve Fossett became the first man to make a solo baloon flight across the Pacific Ocean.
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02-22-2008, 12:54 PM
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February 22nd
1632 ~ Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" was published.
1732 ~ Birthday of George Washington, 1st U.S. President.
1857 ~ Birthday of Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout of the World.
1879 ~ Frank Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.
1935 ~ Airplanes were no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
1946 ~ George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram - the "Long Telegram" - to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. Kennan's analysis provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's Cold War policy of containment.
1980 ~ In the Olympic competition, the U.S. Ice Hockey team defeated the Soviets 4–3 at Lake Placid, NY.
1987 ~ Death of Andy Warhol, Celebrity
1994 ~ Double agent Aldrich Ames was arrested.
1997 ~ Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced that a sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
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02-24-2008, 06:46 AM
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Subject: February 23rd
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1633 ~ Birthday of Samuel Pepys, Diarist.
1685 ~ Birthday of Georg Friederich Händel, Composer.
1836 ~ The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio , Texas.
1855 ~ Death of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician & Physicist.
1893 ~ Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine.
1915 ~ Birthday of Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay.
1927 ~ President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.
1945 ~ The Stars and Stripes raised over Iwo Jima . The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount Suribachi.
1954 ~ Lasting prevention of polio reported in vaccine tests.
1965 ~ Death of Stan Laurel, Actor & Comedian.
Sorry that this was late getting in. Spent all day yesterday in bed running 101.5 fever and genereally feeling like crap. Hopefully, the worst is over now.
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02-24-2008, 06:47 AM
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Subject: February 24th
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303 ~ The Roman Emperor Galerius published his edict that began the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.
1786 ~ Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, Philologist & Folklorist.
1803 ~ The U.S. Supreme Court, in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review.
1856 ~ Death of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician.
1868 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson.
1903 ~ The U.S. signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
1942 ~ Birthday of Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator.
1949 ~ At White Sands NM, "Project Bumper” a WAC CORPORAL attached to a German built V-2 rocket, reached a height of 250 miles above sea level, the first rocket to reach outer space. The entire trip took 6-1/2 minutes from firing.
1955 ~ Birthday of Steve Jobs, Computer Pioneer.
1981 ~ Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.
2001 ~ Death of Claude E. Shannon , "father of information theory".
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02-25-2008, 01:13 PM
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02-26-2008, 03:49 PM
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02-27-2008, 01:30 PM
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February 28th
1807 ~ Birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet ("Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", etc.).
1833 ~ Birthday of Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal.
1854 ~ The U.S. Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery.
1887 ~ Death of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist.
1901 ~ Birthday of Linus Pauling, double Nobel Prize winner: Chemistry 1954 and Peace 1962.
1953 ~ James Watson and Francis Crick announced that they had determined the chemical structure of DNA. The formal announcement followed in the April 25 publication of Nature. For those who would like to learn more about this interesting development. In Crick’s own words.
1979 ~ Death of "Mr. Ed", the talking horse.
1983 ~ The final episode of M*A*S*H was broadcast in the U.S.
1986 ~ Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot to death in central Stockholm.
1993 ~ Four Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) agents and six Branch Davidians were killed when the agents tried to serve warrants on the Davidians.
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