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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: Sirgod on September 19, 2004, 12:08:57 pm
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I was Perusing the History Channel, and in the Upper Right hand side there's a Place you can Plug in you B-day. It's kinda Interesting and Thought I'd share It with you guys.
MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1619 First legislative assembly in America
1966 England wins World Cup
1974 Watergate affair approaches climax
AUTOMOTIVE
1985 Saturnine Workers
CIVIL WAR
1864 Battle of the Crater
COLD WAR
1975 Summit meeting in Helsinki begins
CRIME
1994 The death of a child spawns the birth of Megan's Law
ENTERTAINMENT
1936 Margaret Mitchell sells film rights to Gone With the Wind
LITERARY
1818 Emily Bronte's birthday
OLD WEST
1863 Chief Pocatello signs peace treaty
VIETNAM WAR
1964 South Vietnamese boats raid islands in the Tonkin Gulf
WALL STREET
1998 Hercules' Acquisitive Odyssey
WORLD WAR II
1943 Hitler gets news of Italy's imminent defection
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Stephen
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so who is at to do with your question ???
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Gotta link? or do I stumble through it while cooking Sunday dinner?
Mike :)
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Doh! That's only about the millionth Time I've done that.
http://www.historychannel.com/
Sorry Guys.
Stephen
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GENERAL INTEREST
1519 Magellan sets out
1565 First European battle on American soil
1946 First Cannes Film Festival
AUTOMOTIVE
1984 Vehicles Of Terror
CIVIL WAR
1863 Second day of the Battle of Chickamauga
COLD WAR
1963 Kennedy proposes joint mission to the moon
CRIME
1984 Marvin Gaye's father accepts a plea bargain
ENTERTAINMENT
1975 David Bowie's first chart-topper
LITERARY
1878 Upton Sinclair is born
OLD WEST
1806 The returning Lewis and Clark reach the first white settlement on the Missouri
VIETNAM WAR
1968 U.S. officials defend use of defoliants
WALL STREET
1995 AT&T Surprises the Street
WORLD WAR II
1943 British launch Operation Source
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1851 Fire ravages Library of Congress
1865 KKK founded
AUTOMOTIVE
1801 Steam Propels Carriage In Cornwall
CIVIL WAR
1864 Bombardment of Fort Fisher begins
COLD WAR
1952 McCarren-Walter Act goes into effect
CRIME
1994 Islamic terrorists hijack a French plane
ENTERTAINMENT
1922 Ava Gardner born
LITERARY
1881 Nobel Prize-winning poet Juan Ramn Jimınez is born
OLD WEST
1809 Kit Carson born in Kentucky
VIETNAM WAR
1972 Bob Hope gives his last show in Vietnam
WALL STREET
1905 Happy Birthday, Mr. Hughes
WORLD WAR II
1942 French Admiral Jean Darlan is assassinated
Guess that's what happens when you are born on Christmas Eve...24 Dec, 1955
Mike
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You know what's the most bothersome of these? Look a the very end under WWII.
1789 The first presidential inauguration
1939 New York World's Fair opens
AUTOMOTIVE
1948 Land Rover
CIVIL WAR
1864 Battle of Jenkin's Ferry, Arkansas
COLD WAR
1948 Organization of American States established
CRIME
1927 The first federal prison for women opens
ENTERTAINMENT
1997 Ellen comes out
LITERARY
1945 Annie Dillard is born
OLD WEST
1867 Arizona Ranger Burton Mossman is born
VIETNAM WAR
1975 South Vietnam surrenders
WALL STREET
1803 That Land Grab in Louisiana
WORLD WAR II
1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
And do you know why he chose that day? I'm sure no one knows for sure, but it DOES happen to land on a satanic holiday.
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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1701 Captain Kidd walks the plank
1900 Forgotten Civil War hero honored
1911 New York Public Library dedicated
AUTOMOTIVE
1934 Bonnie And Clyde
CIVIL WAR
1864 Fighting begins on the North Anna River, Virginia
COLD WAR
1949 Federal Republic of Germany is established
CRIME
1934 Bonnie and Clyde are killed by police
ENTERTAINMENT
1933 Joan Collins born
LITERARY
1810 Margaret Fuller is born
OLD WEST
1923 Curley is buried at Little Big Horn
VIETNAM WAR
1967 Congressman claims M-16 is defective
WALL STREET
1946 Rail Workers' Wage War
WORLD WAR II
1941 Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers
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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1888 The Blizzard of 1888
1930 Gandhi leads civil disobedience
1933 First "fireside chat"
1938 Germany annexes Austria
1993 Reno sworn in as attorney general
AUTOMOTIVE
1952 The Wings Of The Gull
CIVIL WAR
1864 Red River Campaign begins
COLD WAR
1947 The Truman Doctrine is announced
CRIME
1969 London police conduct drug raid on George Harrison's house
ENTERTAINMENT
1923 First movie with sound recorded on film
LITERARY
1922 Jack Kerouac is born
OLD WEST
1888 Chinese laborers excluded from U.S.
VIETNAM WAR
1968 McCarthy does well in the Democratic primary
WALL STREET
1901 Carnegie Hands Out More Money
WORLD WAR II
1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria
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MORE GENERAL INTEREST
1919 Prohibition takes effect
1991 The Persian Gulf War begins
AUTOMOTIVE
1953 And Now...The Corvette
CIVIL WAR
1861 Crittenden Compromise is killed in Senate
COLD WAR
1990 Soviets send troops into Azerbaijan
CRIME
1936 The "Moon Maniac"
ENTERTAINMENT
1963 Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens
LITERARY
1933 Susan Sontag is born
OLD WEST
1847 Fremont appointed Governor of California
VIETNAM WAR
1964 Johnson approves Oplan 34A
WALL STREET
1997 Raytheon Acquires Hughes Electronics
WORLD WAR II
1945 Hitler descends into his bunker
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Lol, this kind of reminds me of trumps. My Prohibition and Persian Gulf War should be good cards. :P
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Yeah, but I got the KKK...no wait, that's a real looser card....Ava Gardner and I share a birthday..whew...I knew something good happened :D
Mike
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September 20
General Interest
1946 First Cannes Film Festival
1565 First European battle on American soil
1519 Magellan sets out
Automotive
1984 Vehicles Of Terror
1979 The Chrysler Comeback Kid
1945 War Production Halts
Cold War
1963 Kennedy proposes joint mission to the moon
Entertainment
1975 David Bowie's first chart-topper
and....on this day from the BBC News Website
1999 UN force arrives in East Timor
1984 US Embassy Blast kills 20
1978 Police hunt Bridgewater killers
1967 Historic Cruise liner takes to the waves
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GENERAL INTEREST
1966 The world stopped being pointless history, and actually started to matter.
-S'Cipio