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| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 #4,5: but apparently your schizophrenia is acting up? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-09 19:03 |
| #5 Hurray, [I'm a stupid spammer!] |
| Posted by: vienniand 2009-05-09 18:45 |
| #4 Hurray, [I'm a dishpit!] |
| Posted by: morShaffrof 2009-05-09 18:45 |
| #3 Kilo bravo and I will be doing volunteer work at the West Point Inn On Mt. Tamalpais this weekend so no Posts tomorrow. We have drawn Mess Duty (KP)for their annual Mother's Day Pancake Breakfast. Rounding out June June Stovenour - June Haver June Lockhart Gisela Goetten - June Marlowe June McCall June Palmer June Preisser June Dorothea Grabiner - June Travis Happy Birthday: May 10th. Fred Astaire - died 1987 (88) On this day in history: May 10th. 1775 – Fort Ticonderoga is captured by a small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold. 1801 – The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America. 1837 – New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels. 1863 – Confederate General Stonewall Jackson dies eight days after he is accidentally shot by his own troops during the American Civil War. 1865 – Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky, who lingers until his death on June 6. 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike. 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. 1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia. 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed the Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation, and remains so until his death in 1972. 1940 – The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent. 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1946 – First successful launch of a V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground. 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. 1969 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill. 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-09 18:07 |
#2 Gladys Georgianna Greene Daily Gam Shot Watching Roosevelt's Fireside chat on TV? Jean looked up to the Duke. John bought me the outfit and taught me to say "Pilgrim". The idea for Spanky and Our Gang? Nightie Night  |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-09 04:33 |
| #1 Happy Birthday: May 9th. Henry J. Kaiser - died 1967 (85) "Kaiser Shipyard which built over 2700 Liberty ships during World War II" Hank Snow - died 1999 (85) "Let Me Go, Lover" Mike Wallace - 91 "CBS' 60 Minutes" (Now) Albert Finney - 73 "Tom Jones" (Now) Glenda Jackson - 73 "'A Touch of Class' - Labour Member of Parliament" (Now) Candice Bergen - 63 "Murphy Brown" (Now) Alley Mills - 58 "The Wonder Years" (Now - left) On this day in history: May 9th. 1502 – Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final journey to the New World. 1868 – The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded. 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London. 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5. 1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. 1942 – Belgrade becomes the first Axis-conquered city to murder or eliminate its Jewish population. 1945 – World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. 1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union. 1955 – Cold War: West Germany joins NATO. 1955 – Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets. 1960 – The FDA announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill. 1974 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-05-09 03:36 |
