death tribble Posted December 18, 2020 Report Share Posted December 18, 2020 December 18th 218 BC. Battle of Trebia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Trebia December 18th 1916. End of the Battle of Verdun as the second French offensive pushes the Germans back several kilometres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Verdun December 18th 1980 a day that will live in infamy. Christina Aguilera is born. She is now 40. The Abyss help us all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Aguilera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 19, 2020 Report Share Posted December 19, 2020 December 19th 1981 The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster. This is my part of the world so it hits home especially close to Christmas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster December 19th 1983. The original Jules Rimet trophy is stolen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Jules_Rimet_Trophy December 19th 1980 Jake Gyllenhaal is born and is thus is a date that will live in some sort of notoriety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Gyllenhaal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 It is the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Ibrox disaster. 66 people die in a crush on a stair well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Ibrox_disaster Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested 1981 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 In this day in history was officially my last day of being able to work at a paying job: 15 years ago. Still thankful that I managed to drive myself home from work without an accident. (I say "officially" because my workplace lost the paperwork of my exact last day and the Social Security Administration said to call it January 2nd. The actual date was sometime at the beginning of January. I nearly killed myself trying to drag myself to work when I wasn't really able to drive, couldn't do the work after I got there, and had to leave early to drive myself home in a harrowing experience...for several days in a row before I finally had to give up and admit that I wasn't capable of physically or mentally doing my job anymore.) GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 On this date 125 years ago--January 4th, 1896--Utah became the 45th State in the Union. (My great-grandmother was born in Utah eight days later.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 5, 2021 Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 29 minutes ago, Pariah said: On this date 125 years ago--January 4th, 1896--Utah became the 45th State in the Union. (My great-grandmother was born in Utah eight days later.) Very cool. May your beehives be healthy and your honey harvest undiminished, forever and ever. Amen. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 5, 2021 Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 Ah, Uttah is a myth. So are all the states, really, except for Minnesota. And Delaware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted January 5, 2021 Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 8 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: Ah, Uttah is a myth. So are all the states, really, except for Minnesota. And Delaware. I think Minnesota is a myth. When I went up there and tried to order one, they told me I could have a large cola or an extra large. But no Minne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2021 Report Share Posted January 5, 2021 Me, I live in the place where we have to repeatedly say, "No, the other Washington." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 11, 2021 Report Share Posted January 11, 2021 On this date in 1987: The Drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 17, 2021 Report Share Posted January 17, 2021 Operation: Desert Storm - I was there and I remember that first night like it was yesterday. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted January 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2021 1958- The Battle of Hayes Pond or Maxton Riot was an armed confrontation between members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Lumbee Native Americans at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the night of January 18, 1958. Grand Dragon James W. "Catfish" Cole was the organizer of the Klan rally. Wikipedia Location: Maxton, NC Resulted in: Lumbee victory; Klan ceases activity in area Arrested: 1 Klansman arrested by police https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbee#/media/File%3ALumbee_Tribe_of_North_Carolina_logo.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 19, 2021 Report Share Posted January 19, 2021 75 years ago, Dolly Parton was born. Dolly Parton turns 75! Here are 8 reasons she's a national treasure tkdguy and GhostDancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 January 28th, 1986. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 I remember that day well. It was my final year in grad school. My funding had been cut off (there was a rule giving a maximum period that a grad student could be supported that had long been on the books; it was ignored all across campus because the two different offices who needed to communicate in order to enforce it ... couldn't; the two finally got the technological wherewithal to do that enforcement and a number of us were caught in that), so I was living on a student loan, had literally no other responsibilities, and was in a monomaniacal six-month sprint to get done before that money ran out. In early January I had settled into a routine where I woke up about noon, went to campus in time to do whatever interactions with other humans were necessary. (As an example: this was back in the days of campus mainframe computers, on which you had an account and importantly it had account limits, and once you spent all the fake money in your account you had to genuflect to the proper office in order to get more. This happened to me every few weeks. There were other annoying bits of paper that would come in that required signing, committee members from whom you needed a statement about their preferences, etc.) Then I'd go back to my cave about 5:00PM, have my big meal of the day, then go back to campus, park my butt in the department's terminal room, and work solid until 3 or 4 AM, then back home and sleep. Repeat until the depression caught up with me, then stay home, go through my music-aided routine to go as far down as I could and come back up and get back to work in a minimum amount of time, because once every ten or twelve days I could take afford to one day off but I couldn't take two. So that day I woke up and walked to the bus stop. It was a gloriously, no, a preternaturally nice day in Austin: not a cloud in the sky, no wind to speak of, temperature in the 70s (January, remember), and nothing like the Gulf air humidity that rules in central Texas from March through October. Got on the bus (and it was just me, two other riders, and the driver), and the radio was on. Almost as if he was talking to me personally, between songs the DJ made the comment, "In case you've heard no news today, the Shuttle exploded during launch this morning," and cued up the next song. While I was even then acquainted with a couple of astronauts, none of the ones I knew were on Challenger, which was about the only mercy I had about the event. I was working at the astronomy department of course, and the seminar room had CNN going so when I got there I had only a few minutes to wait before I saw the launch sequence again, and I didn't need to listen to the talking heads once that replay was over. What CNN didn't say but everyone in the department knew was that all shuttle launches would have to be halted until they figured out what went wrong; that the Hubble Space Telescope launch (and some other science, of course) was thereby also indefinitely on hold; and all this came on top of the passage of the Gramm-Rudman Act some six weeks earlier. That last was the first of the horizontal federal budget reduction chainsaw measures, which had caused the National Science Foundation and entities it funded (including the national observatories) to put their postdoctoral fellowship programs on hold, because this being the first of these horizontal cut measures, no one knew what it meant in terms of money. That all by itself had removed a big chunk of possible post-graduation jobs from what would be available for me when I got done that summer. With HST suddenly at least on hold for who knows how long, it was a major compounding the uncertainty I had to contend with as I needed to focus on getting the thesis done. The presidential commission did their work on the disaster over very nearly the same interval as I did on my thesis; I defended on the last Tuesday in May, while they submitted their report in early June. I confess I didn't watch much of the TV coverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 February 3rd, 1959: A small plane crashed in an Iowa cornfield, claiming the lives of J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 On this day in 1943, SS Dorchester went down, and the Four Chaplains made their sacrifice for others. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 28, 2021 Report Share Posted February 28, 2021 On this day in 1986, Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, was assassinated. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 On this day in history, Brutus and Caesar met with the Roman Senate. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 60 years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 12, 2021 Report Share Posted April 12, 2021 The American Civil War begins with Confederate forces bombarding Fort Sumter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 26, 2021 Report Share Posted April 26, 2021 35 years ago today, the No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl suffered a catastrophic failure due to faulty design, poor construction, mismanagement, and general incompetence. GhostDancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2021 Not all heroes wear capes. On this date in 1842, Danish botanist Emil Christian Hansen was born. He developed new sanitary methods to culture yeast and refused to patent the method, but instead made it available for free to other brewers. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted May 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 On this day in 1908, Nicholas Kurti was born. This Hungarian-born British physicist, who loved cooking, advocated applying scientific knowledge to the kitchen and coined the term "molecular gastronomy." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 14, 2021 Report Share Posted May 14, 2021 May 14th, 1984. If you were there, you understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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