Today In History

In 622 Mohammed's Hegira.

In 1519 Magellan starts the first successful circumnavigation of the world.

In 1565 the Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Fla. and massacre the French.

In 1792 the French defeat the Prussians at Valmy.

In 1797 the U.S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) is launched in Boston.

in 1850 the slave trade is abolished in Washington, D.C., but allowed to continue elsewhere.

In 1854 the British and French defeat the Russians at Alma, in the Crimea.

In 1859 the first patent for the electric range is issued.

In 1881 Chester A. Aurthur is sworn in as President, succeeding Garfield.

In 1945 the first German rocket engineers begin work in the U.S.

In 2000 Fienddance sweeps the nation; all other dances outlawed, new laws are drafted to make it compulsitorily taught in all U.S. schools.

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The Word of the Day is Ombrosaigia (n.) - Pain felt during rainy weather.

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I knew that cloning thing as a bad idea.

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In 1951 the first North Pole crossing by a jet is completed.

In 1954 the first FORTRAN computer program is run.

In 1958 Martin Luther King is stabbed in the chest by a deranged black woman in NYC.

In 1960 the UN admits 13 African countries and Cyprus, making 96 nations belonging to it.

In 1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Mississippi University as its first black student.

In 1968 Mickey Mantle hits his final career homer, for a total of 536.

In 1972 police find cannabis growing on Paul and Linda McCartney's farm.

In 1973 singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash.

In 1973 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match.

In 1976 a playboy interview reveals that Jimmy Carter lusts for women.

In 1984 a suicide car bomb attacks the U.S. Embassy in Beiruit.

In 1990 both East and West Germany ratify reunification.

In 2000, it is revealed that the group with baseball bats looking to get Stormydoctor are really bird lovers after him because he was the man in the Stile video screwing a turkey.

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The Word of the Day is Ombrosaigia (n.) - Pain felt during rainy weather.

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I thought today felt a little hollow.

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No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.

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so Billge, did today hurt as much on your side of the cascades as it did on this side?

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Just slightly. It hardly rained at all. For all the reputation the Northwest has for rain, is has been one hell of a dry summer.


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The Word of the Day is Ombrosaigia (n.) - Pain felt during rainy weather.



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