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2009-05-01

Posted by Fred 2009-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Happy Birthday: May 1st.

Calamity Jane - died 1903 (51) "Martha Jane Cannary "

Gen. Mark Wayne Clark - died 1984 (97) "Monte Cassino - Capture of Rome"

Kate Smith - died 1986 (79) "God Bless America"

Glenn Ford - died 2006 (90) "Marine WWII - USNR 50s - Westerns"

Danielle Darrieux - 92 "One of France's great movie stars, spanning 8 decades" (Now)

Scott Carpenter - 84 "Mercury Seven astronaut" (Now)

Judy Collins - 70 "Both Sides Now" (Now)

Joanna Lumley - 63 "The New Avengers - Bond Girl - Absolutely Fabulous " (Now)

On this day in history: May 1st.
1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
1869 The Folies Bergère opens in Paris.
1898 The Battle of Manila Bay the United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
1927 The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1941 German forces launch Operation Mercury the largest airborne invasion to date in their bid to capture Crete.
1948 The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as president.
1956 The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1960 Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961 The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1971 Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) is formed to take over U.S. passenger rail service.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-01 00:35|| 2009-05-01 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Various Sennettorial Committees.

Oversight Committee

Lining up Committee votes.

Finance Committee checking the bottom line.

Proposing Leg-is-lation (Daily Gam Shot)

Lyres reside in the Sennett.

Look, here comes Sennettor Byrd.

World Affairs Committee

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-01 01:40|| 2009-05-01 01:40|| Front Page Top

Posted by MagicOPromotion">MagicOPromotion 2009-05-01 04:10|| 2009-05-01 04:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not sure how you got from 'Sennett' to 'Senate' (and I'm not sure I want to know) but that's funny ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-05-01 09:03|| 2009-05-01 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 My computer won't display the pictures. Saya I'm notauthorized to view the page.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-05-01 09:39|| 2009-05-01 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Same here, no pics but one.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-05-01 11:58|| 2009-05-01 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 gettyimages doesn't like to be linked from outside. You can copy/paste the url.

Posted by ed 2009-05-01 12:12|| 2009-05-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#8 They always work fine on my computers. Must be something in the pop-up or virus filter settings I'm using that's different. I have ok'ed Rantburg Pop-ups.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-01 12:25|| 2009-05-01 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 I can see all the pix....

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-05-01 16:07|| 2009-05-01 16:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Gen Clark was Dad's favorite general. Apparently he served under him either in North Africa or Sicily.

I had my first Salk vaccine in 1953, as part of the school test group in Louisiana. That was a good place to test, since polio usually crippled a hundred or more kids every year there. We had two polio victims in our graduating class, and several others before that. Polio is so rare today that 99% of school-age children have never seen anyone who had polio, even among adults.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-05-01 17:08|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-05-01 17:08|| Front Page Top

#11 That's the same year I had my first polio vaccine, OP. In Enid, Oklahoma.
Weird, I can see all the pictures now.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2009-05-01 17:43|| 2009-05-01 17:43|| Front Page Top

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