Anything cool happen on your birthday?
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:11 am
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Anything cool happen on your birthday?
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 8:50 am
I checked, nope...
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:50 am
This happened on my BDRocketdork wrote:I checked, nope...
1961: U.S.-backed Cuban exiles land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to overthrow Premier Fidel Castro's government; the mission is thwarted and the invaders killed or captured.
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:56 am
The good...
1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.
1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
...and the crappy:
1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.
This from the guy with September 11th as a wedding anniversary.
1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.
1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
...and the crappy:
1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.
This from the guy with September 11th as a wedding anniversary.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:01 am
Some pretty cool people were born on the same day as me...
César Chávez and Renes Descarte
and this is pretty cool:
1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
César Chávez and Renes Descarte
and this is pretty cool:
1774: British Parliament responds to the Boston Tea Party by passing the Boston Port Act, which closes the port of Boston; Americans regard this as the first of the so-called "Intolerable Acts."
1870: Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:34 am
1807: The United States Congress abolishes the slave trade, effective January 1, 1808.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
1877: On the basis of its committee's recommendation, the United States Congress rewards all 20 disputed electoral votes in the previous December's presidential election to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:42 am
I am not sure that even today "TEXAS" recognizes the United States.AsaJay wrote:1836: Texas declares its independence from Mexico; the United States does not recognize the new Republic of Texas.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:53 pm
1985: The AIDS crisis gains widespread public attention following the death of American actor Rock Hudson, the first celebrity to publicly announce that he had AIDS.
1986: The U.S. Senate votes to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, overturning a presidential veto.
Yay... I get all the happy crap.
1986: The U.S. Senate votes to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, overturning a presidential veto.
Yay... I get all the happy crap.
Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 6:32 pm
I share a birthday with Tom Waits. 
1917: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. (Hello, WW1)
1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972: Apollo 17, the sixth and last of the Apollo landing missions, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1917: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. (Hello, WW1)
1941: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972: Apollo 17, the sixth and last of the Apollo landing missions, is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:00 am
1776: American forces under George Washington cross the Delaware River at night, and raid British Hessian mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton the next day.
1868: By presidential proclamation, President Andrew Johnson grants unqualified amnesty to all those who participated in the rebellion against the United States.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president, and Communist Russia ceases to exist.
1868: By presidential proclamation, President Andrew Johnson grants unqualified amnesty to all those who participated in the rebellion against the United States.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Soviet president, and Communist Russia ceases to exist.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:30 am
Like my kitty, Moxie and Meowgirl??? He is 12 weeks old now and harmless to females... except for his sisters which he tends to grab around the neck and pull upside down for a few fleeting seconds before he runs under the bed.
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:22 pm
what a cutie!
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:12 am
He has a Frenchmans nose *swoon*
Seriously, very regal & handsome!
Seriously, very regal & handsome!
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:16 am
He Does! and what about those ears?Moxie wrote:He has a Frenchmans nose *swoon*
Seriously, very regal & handsome!