This Day in History

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

...spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone.

Perfectly good target for character assassination, though.

[Big Sarge]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

February 7, 2013

The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

We believe in taking our time down here and not rushing into things.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

We believe in taking our time down here and not rushing into things.

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February 16, 2006

The last M*A*S*H unit is decommissioned by the US Army.

[sexobon]

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March 3, 1991

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

[Big Sarge]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

March 3, 1991

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

Damn video cameras! See the problems they cause, especially now with everyone walking around with one.

[Gravdigr]

God created all men...

...on this date in 1836 Samuel Colt made 'em equal.

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John Adam Belushi

Jan 24, 1949 - March 5, 1982

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March 6, 1836



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1975 - The Zapruder Film is shown to the American public.

[Gravdigr]

Not only is the Earth not flat, it's wrinkly.

Needs to be ironed, frankly.

[BigV]

*sigh*

Too clever by half.

I was invoking the Val Kilmer usage of the term, from Tombstone.

Let me try again.

Do you have someone in the US you can depend on to send you desirable plates?

[Carruthers]

It did occur to me that there was a cultural reference there, but not having the first idea of what it was I played a straight bat.


I haven't bought any plates for a while, but I have found a dealer in Massachusetts to be very reliable and I've had good transactions with a couple of eBay sellers.

[Gravdigr]

April 18, 1943



Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.


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1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.

1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.

2011 – Fidel Castro resigns.

[Carruthers]

More than 600 US sailors and soldiers died in the April 1944 rehearsal for D-day.

Families of American sailors and soldiers who lost their lives in a disastrous second world war exercise off the British coast will this weekend join veterans, dignitaries and local people to mark the 75th anniversary of the tragedy.

More than 600 personnel lost their lives in Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for D-day, on 28 April 1944, but the botched operation was covered up for decades and only came to light 40 years later when a hotelier located a Sherman tank lost in the exercise on the seabed and hauled it to shore.

On Sunday, 29 relatives of the Americans who died will gather around the tank at Slapton Sands in Devon alongside military officials, politicians, diplomats and residents, including some who remember having to leave their homes so that the exercise could be conducted in secrecy.

It is the biggest commemoration of the Exercise Tiger disaster, which is still not well known in the UK or the US.

Dean Small, whose late father Ken recovered the tank, said it was vital the tragedy was remembered. “One of the main reasons my dad wanted to set up the tank on the beach was to create a tangible memorial, somewhere for people to gather.”

Small said his father had been intrigued when he moved to the area and found bits of shrapnel, bullets and tunic buttons on the beach. A fisherman told him a strange object was lying on the seabed three-quarters of a mile offshore. Ken Small persuaded the fisherman to dive to the object, and they were shocked to discover it was a tank.

Small researched how it had come to rest on the seabed and the hidden story of Exercise Tiger emerged. “It troubled dad that the story and the sacrifice so many had made had been covered up,” said his son.

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