September 13

Today is National Chocolate Day.:celebrat:Like I need a reason to eat chocolate.


1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage

2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage

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survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.<--Interesting read.

2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

YOUR FACE

Holy crap. I work in a Radiology department, I'm gonna ask our radiation safety officer of they've ever heard of this.

Ask them to check your badge while you're at it.

They said I'm off the charts, probably experiencing mental derangement.

I'd believe them.

September 17

The Netherlands remembers Operation Market Garden on this date.


Events

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".

1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history, with 22,717 total casualties.

1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

1925 – Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up art.

1954 – The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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is first published.

1961 – The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena

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opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.

1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

September 22

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1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.

1979 – A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined. Referred to as The Vela Incident.

September 27

Today is Google's (official) Birthday, Nat'l Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and World Tourism Day.


Events

1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes the capital of the United States, for one day after the Second Continental Congress evacuates Philadelphia to avoid invading British forces.

1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.

1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1968 – The stage musical Hair

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opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973. [They brought the house down!]

1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

1998 – The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.

September 28

1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory,

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discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1941 – Ted Williams, playing for the Boston Red Sox

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in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies on the final day of the season, gets six hits in eight appearances at the plate, resulting in .406 batting average for the year, and became the last major league player to bat .400 in a season.

September 30

Í dag er alþjóðleg þýðingardagur, þannig að þýða eitthvað.


Events

1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1927 – Babe Ruth

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becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

1949 – The Berlin Airlift ends.

1968 – The Boeing 747

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is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.

1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache

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makes its first flight. Eight years later, the first production model rolled out of the assembly line.

1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.

October 2

1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

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suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Josemaría Escrivá.

1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

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is first published.

1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.

2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin,

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extending over three weeks.

Fuck those guys. Mostly the one who was executed. Fuck him.

I feel ya.

Map of Interest, perhaps:

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Beltway sniper attacks, btw...

13 is off by about 3 or 4 miles. She was in the parking lot of the Home Depot I shop at in Falls Church.

[/pedant]

October 5

Today is World Teachers' Day, so, learn somebody something.


Events

1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had reportedly been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.

1877 – Chief Joseph ["From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."] surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.

1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1962 – The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.

1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

October 10

1871 - Mrs. O'Leary's cow tips over a lantern.

1913 - Woodrow Wilson blows a dyke.

1971 - London Bridge opens to traffic, in an arid zona.

That's a lie, she was framed, they always blame the corpse. :mad:

Cowrpse?

October 11

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1975 - Saturday Night Live debuts on NBC.

1976 - George Washington is posthumously appointed to the rank of General of the Armies.

2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

October 12

1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss

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is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.


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1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,

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the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

October 17

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1989 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were killed.

October 19

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2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

I remember that day well. I missed the whole fucking thing!

At the time, I was living in San Leandro (just a few miles north of the ^^ that ^^). About an hour before the earthquake, I boarded a plane to Chicago for a long-deserved vacation.

As we were reaching altitude, the pilot made an announcement:

Ladies and gentlemen, you're all probably wondering about the score at Candlestick Park right now. I do not have that information, but we have just received word that a massive earthquake has hit the Bay Area. The only confirmed report of damage we have at this time is that the Bay Bridge has collapsed.

:eek:

October 24

1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.

1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of Earth from outer space.

1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters

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is laid.

2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.

2003 – Concorde

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makes its last commercial flight.

2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

2015 – A driver, arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI), crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, killing four people and injuring 34.

Worst Assassin Ever
 

November 5

1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.

November 10


Shine yer buttons, Stimpy!! We got a ball to go to!!!

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1775 - From the halls of Montezuma...

1871 - "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

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1975 - Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

~The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

December 12

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1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

December 14

Today is Forty-Seven Ronin Remembrance Day.<---Extremely interesting read.

557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.

1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

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Born on this date, 1923, to Joseph & Nancy Hayes, a son, Ira Hamilton.

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Wikipedia goes online on this date, 2001.

:cheerldr::celebrat:

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Also on this date, 2009, the Miracle On The Hudson occurs.

I remember that vividly. I was looking after several horses at the time and as I drove into the yard for the last check of the evening the first news report of the ditching was on the radio.
My first thoughts were that it was going to be an accident similar to the Air Florida flight that ended up in the Potomac in 1982.
Thankfully, as we know, everyone survived.
Still can't believe it was nine years ago, though.

Yeah, it's still fairly fresh in the mind.

Sullenberger, though, that guy strikes ya as being cooler than a cucumber don't he? Unflappable, even.

:devil:

He said he did what pilots are trained to do. I think he was surprised how well the landing went and was kind of in a trance during the evacuation, doing all the right things. :notworthy

I understand that he was also an experienced glider pilot.
Quite handy under the circumstances.

That's a little over three years before I joined the Cellar.

Today, the Berlin wall has been down for as long as it was up.

Tomorrow, it will have been down for longer than it was up.

Cool.

Interesting observation.

And very cool.

February 14

Today is Valentine's Day, so, go check the mail, Charlie Brown!!!

Today is also Statehood Day for Arizona, and Oregon.:cheerldr::f207:


Events

1990 – The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth

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that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker

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enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

2005 – YouTube

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is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.

February 15

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2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

They seem to get more of them than anywhere else. Of course they have a shitload of land area and most any falling at that latitude in the southern hemisphere would hit water. But I can't help wondering if the meteor gods hate commies. :eyebrow:

We can hope.

I assumed it's the combination of big sky and dash cam prevalence.

Gotta have dash cam where the cops are crooked.

And insurance scams are big business.

Bow wowsers!

Today begins the Year of the Dog.

Lift a leg.

That would be something for the This Day In The Present thread.

I figured you'd know the difference between history and the present. You know everything else.

Shit. I did the same thing with that "Today is What-The-Fuck-Ever-Day" shit, didn't I?

Dammit, even when I get the chance, I can't Zing! worth a damn!!!

I don't know shit.

Ima shut up for a while.

It's both since the year of the dog has been happening every 12 years.

March 3

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

March 6

Today is The Day Of The Dude,

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celebrated by adherents of Dudeism.

1836 - Remember the Alamo? I mean, Remember the Alamo!

1975 - 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film

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of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.

I have that sweater.

If I didn't hate sweaters, I'd have one, too.:)

See this cable car? Well, what's left of this cable car...

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There were 44 people in that cable car when it fell 660 feet down a mountainside, then skidded another 330 feet before finally coming to a stop. Sometime during that fall, a 6,000 pound carriage assembly fell on top of the car, crushing it.

Of those 44 people, the only survivor was a 14 year old girl from Milan.

Cavalese cable car disaster (1976)

March 17

1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea, the DSV Alvin

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finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.

1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah,

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over 6,000 sheep are found dead.

1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy

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is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

1985 – The "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.