This Day in History

[ctthuhuong]

And just because I think it bears repeating:

1964 - During their first ever US tour The Rolling Stones were booed off stage at a gig in San Antonio, Texas. Some performing monkeys, who had been the act before the Stones, were brought back on stage for another performance.

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July 8

There are 169 days until Christmas.

Events

1730 – An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.

1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith,



killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.

1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

1994 – Kim Jong-il



begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis



is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

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July 17

1902 – Willis Carrier [may God bless and keep him] creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

1918 – The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five [5] lives are lost.

1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.

1955 – Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1996 – TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

[xoxoxoBruce]

1902 – Willis Carrier [may God bless and keep him] creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.

Wat chu chillin bout, Willis? He should be at least canonized, patron saint of fat people. Given a posthumous medal of freedom. Toasted at the beginning and end of every bottle of booze.

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Today is August 1.

There are 152 days remaining in 2017.

There are 145 days until Christmas.

Today is World Scout Scarf Day, so wear it if ya got it.



The year was 1983.

The number one movie this week in 1983 was National Lampoon's Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid (before the Star Whackers got after him), and Christie Brinkley:



The number one single was "Every Breath You Take" by The Police:



1983

Ronald Reagan was POTUS.

January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).

January 3 – Kīlauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2016.

January 19 – High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

January 30 – Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII.

February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.

February 20 – Cale Yarborough Wins the 25th running of the Daytona 500.

February 23 - The automatic shut-down fails at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA.

February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, setting a record for most watched television episode and reaching a total audience estimated at 125 million.

March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".

March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, during which Michael Jackson performs "Billie Jean" and introduces the moonwalk.

April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.

April 25 – Manchester, Maine, US, schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May 25 – Return of the Jedi opens in theatres.

June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority.

June 18 - Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.

July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).

July 23 - Gimli Glider: Out of fuel, Air Canada Flight 143 glides in to land in Gimli, Manitoba.

August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.

August 24 – The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.

September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

September 4 – Six men walk underwater across Sydney Harbour – 82.9 km in 48 hours.

September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

September 16 – President Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.

September 17 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

September 18 – U.S. heavy metal band Kiss officially appears in public without makeup for the first time on MTV.

September 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, in the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.

September 26 - 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.

September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

October 4 – The first Hooters opened in Clearwater, Florida.

October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

October 25 – Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.

November 2 - Chrysler introduces the Dodge Caravan, the first "minivan".

November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.

November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in England amid protests from peace campaigners.

November 18 – A Christmas Story is released.

November 26 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.

December 2 – Michael Jackson's Thriller video is aired on MTV for the first time.

December 4 - Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.

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We are a living, breathing Idiocracy.

[Flint]

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.

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

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

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

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I'd believe them.

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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



is first published.

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



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.

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

[xoxoxoBruce]

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.