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Doppler shift's still easier than a 4 on the floor.
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Four on the floor ... all with bloodshot eyes? Must have been quite a party.  |
01-08-2010, 09:41 PM
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It was a blast.
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01-09-2010, 07:28 AM
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January 9th
1793 ~ Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the U.S.
1839 ~ The Daguerreotype photography process publicly demonstrated.
1861 ~ The "Star of the West" was fired upon as it attempted to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This was the "Casus belli" of the American Civil War.
1861 ~ Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union.
1903 ~ Hallam Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, became the second Governor-General of Australia.
1913 ~ Birthday of Richard Nixon, U.S. President.
1941 ~ Birthday of Joan Baez, Singer & Activist.
1951 ~ United Nations headquarters officially opened.
1968 ~ The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon,.
2005 ~ Mahmoud Abbas won the election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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01-09-2010, 02:46 PM
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01-09-2010, 07:05 PM
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Wiki has the completion date as 1950 and 1952.
1951 seems a compromise.
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01-09-2010, 08:40 PM
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If you can't trust an internet tourist agency, who can you trust?
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01-09-2010, 09:11 PM
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01-10-2010, 07:31 AM
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1810 - Napoleon divorced Josephine to give himself a chance of an heir.
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January 11th
1693 ~ Eruption of Mt. Etna.
1787 ~ William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus, Titania & Oberon.
1801 ~ Death of Domenico Cimarosa, Italian Composer.
1843 ~ Death of Francis Scott Key, Lawyer.
1935 ~ Amelia Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
1938 ~ Birthday of Arthur Scargill, Union Leader.
1962 ~ An avalanche in Peru killed some 4,000 people.
1973 ~ American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis.
1980 ~ Nigel Short became the youngest chess player, at 14 years old, to be awarded the degree of International Master.
2008 ~ Death of Sir Edmund Hillary, the 1st man to climb Mount Everest.
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January 12th
1665 ~ Death of Pierre de Fermat, Mathematician.
1893 ~ Birthday of Hermann Göring, Nazi official.
1915 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives defeated a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1969 ~ On a day that will be long remembered in infamy, Joe Namath and the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III, and became the first team from the American Football League to win American Football's championship.
1976 ~ Death of Agatha Christie, Mystery Writer.
1991 ~ U.S. Congress authorized the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
1992 ~ In the film ”2001: A Space Odyssey”, the computer HAL 9000 was activated on this date.
2003 ~ Death of Maurice Gibb, Bee Gee.
2003 ~ Death of Leopoldo Galtieri, Dictator of Argentina.
2006 ~ A stampede broke out during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, killing 363 people.
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January 14th
1784 ~ The Continental Congress ratified the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the American War of Independence.
1857 ~ Birthday of Albert Schweitzer, Christian Missionary & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
1898 ~ Death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - who wrote ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Writer & Mathematician.
1943 ~ President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.
1954 ~ Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
1957 ~ Death of Humphrey Bogart, Actor.
1978 ~ Death of Kurt Gödel, Mathematician.
1993 ~ Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Clinton at the White House about the gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees.
2005 ~ The Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
2009 ~ Death of Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor.
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January 17th
1893 ~ Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate.
1899 ~ Birthday of Nevil Shute, Author.
1929 ~ Popeye the Sailor Man first appeared in the "Thimble Theatre" comic strip.
1942 ~ Birthday of Muhammad Ali, the world's greatest heavyweight Boxer.
1964 ~ Death of T.H. White, author.
1977 ~ Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.
1995 ~ A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the city of Kobe, Japan; more than 6,000 people were killed.
1997 ~ Death of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto.
2001 ~ Faced with an electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people.
2008 ~ Death of Bobby Fischer, chess player extraordinaire.
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