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2009-05-09

Posted by Fred 2009-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#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|| 2009-05-09 03:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-05-09 04:33|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-05-09 18:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Hurray, [I'm a dishpit!]

Posted by morShaffrof 2009-05-09 18:45|| 2009-05-09 18:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Hurray, [I'm a stupid spammer!]

Posted by vienniand 2009-05-09 18:45|| 2009-05-09 18:45|| Front Page Top

#6 #4,5: but apparently your schizophrenia is acting up?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-05-09 19:03|| 2009-05-09 19:03|| Front Page Top

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